FARNSWORTH FLOOR AMENDMENT
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AMENDMENTS TO S.B. 1314
(Reference to Ugenti substitute floor amendment)
Page 4, between lines 13 and 14, insert:
"Sec. 13. Laws 2014, chapter 14, section 12 is amended to read:
Sec. 12. Legislative intent; underground storage tank assurance account
It is the intent of the legislature that the monies in the underground storage tank assurance account established by section 49‑1015, Arizona Revised Statutes, be used to fund a new and revised underground storage tank corrective action program and implement both the new corrective action program and the existing underground storage tank leak prevention program. The new program must require the department of environmental quality to use assurance account monies to conduct a baseline assessment of all existing underground storage tanks to determine whether they are leaking and to perform any corrective action necessary in consultation with the owner and operator. As an alternative to the baseline assessment or the standard policy, the new program must allow an owner or operator to demonstrate to the department of environmental quality that the financial responsibility requirements in state and federal law are already being met. The department of environmental quality shall use assurance account monies to remove underground storage tanks at the request of the owner or operator. The new program must include a requirement that all owners and operators of underground storage tanks who use private insurance to meet financial responsibility requirements obtain a standard policy to be developed by the department of environmental quality in cooperation with the department of insurance and insurance carriers. The new program also shall provide the department of environmental quality with the authority to prohibit delivery of fuel to any underground storage tank system that fails to meet the requirements of the new program and to establish reasonable deductibles to be paid by owners and operators to defray the costs for the baseline assessments, corrective actions and tank removals."
Amend title to conform
Edwin W. Farnsworth |