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Senate panel approves directing petroleum cleanup fund to pay for preventive inspections and small repairs
Summary
The Senate Finance and Claims Committee approved Senate Bill 315 to allow the petroleum tank release cleanup fund to pay for preventive inspections and minor repairs, a change sponsors and agency staff say could reduce future contaminated-site cleanup costs; the fiscal note estimates about $874,000 per year for the new uses.
A Montana Senate committee voted to approve a bill that would let the state’s petroleum tank release cleanup fund pay for preventive inspections and limited repairs at fuel storage facilities.
Senate Bill 315, which the Senate Finance and Claims Committee approved by voice vote, would add “prevention” to the fund’s statutory uses. Sponsor testimony and the fiscal note estimate the change would cost about $874,000 a year, paid from the existing petroleum tank cleanup fund rather than from the general fund.
Sponsor testimony described the bill as expanding an existing statutory mechanism that allocates fuel-fee revenue to a cleanup fund so it can also support measures meant to prevent future releases. “What Senate Bill 315…
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