California Health and Safety Code

§ 25269

HSC § 25269 Effective Jan 1, 1997Div. 20 · Ch. 6.66

Statute text

The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following:

(a)To enhance cooperation between the department and the regulated community, and to reduce the state’s costs associated with the oversight of cleanup efforts, the costs of the associated cost recovery program and the corresponding costs to the responsible parties involved, the oversight program should be administered in an efficient, responsible, and accountable manner.

(b)According to information provided to the Legislature, the department has collected more than seventy-one million dollars ($71,000,000) since the cost recovery effort was begun in the early 1980s and there is approximately seventy million dollars ($70,000,000) to eighty million dollars ($80,000,000) in outstanding receivables for disputed site cleanup oversight costs. The information provided to the Legislature indicates that potentially responsible parties have complained that the department’s oversight costs have been unpredictable, unsubstantiated, and exceedingly high.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 1996, Ch. 576, Sec. 3. Effective January 1, 1997.