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Senate Finance and Claims approves using tank-cleanup fund for preventive petroleum-tank work
Summary
The committee voted to give Senate Bill 315 a do-pass recommendation, allowing the petroleum tank cleanup fund to pay for preventive measures such as sump replacement; the fiscal note estimates about $874,000 a year for the program and the bill sets a $2,000 per-facility reimbursement cap in its initial design.
Senate Bill 315, which would let the Petroleum Tank Release Compensation Board use money from the petroleum tank cleanup fund to pay for preventive work at fuel-storage facilities, received a do-pass recommendation from the Senate Finance and Claims committee.
Sponsor Senator Asper opened the hearing saying the bill would add prevention as an authorized use of the cleanup fund and noted roughly $8,000,000 flows into the fund annually while the fiscal note estimates prevention uses would cost about $874,000 per year. Industry and agency witnesses told the committee they support the change.
Brad Longcake, representing the Montana Petroleum Marketers and Convenience Store Association, said stakeholders—including DEQ and fund administrators—worked over the interim to…
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