House Bill 6835

To revise the nonresidential underground storage tank systems program to, among other things, establish inspection requirements for such systems, to establish a program to authorize persons to perform such inspections, to require an owner or operator of a system to pump out the contents of a system or to prohibit deliveries to a system where the owner or operator is not in compliance with certain requirements for the systems, to revise the fees relating to such systems, to revise the definition of a responsible party to include a person or entity who has ever owned or operated an underground storage tank or underground storage tank system from which there is or has been a release, to allow the Commissioner of Environmental Protection to make payments to assignees from the underground storage tank petroleum clean-up account, to prohibit payment or reimbursement from such account for diminution in property value, to revise the dollar amounts for which a party must bear in response to a release or suspected release, to establish a maximum payment or reimbursement from the account to third parties, to establish a maximum payment or reimbursement from the account for attorneys' fees, to establish a "pay for performance sub-account" within the account, to establish deadlines for submissions of multiple applications relating to a subject release or suspected release, to add provisions regarding payment or reimbursement to a party from a source other than the account, to provide the commissioner with authority to establish a schedule for the maximum amount to be paid from the account for labor, equipment, materials, services or other costs, to require written approval by an environmental professional or the commissioner, depending on the dollar amount, prior to the board ordering or the commissioner making payment from the account, to allow an environmental professional's fees to be included in an application or request for payment or reimbursement from the account, to revise the requirement for payment or reimbursement from the account regarding demonstration of the lack of compliance with the general statutes and regulations governing underground storage tank systems as a proximate cause of the subject release or suspected release, to require an applicant to submit audits regarding current compliance of existing underground storage tank systems, to allow the board to reduce the payment or amount to be reimbursed to an applicant due to noncompliance with certain regulations and statutes regarding underground storage tank systems, to define a new entity that is eligible for payment or reimbursement from the account, to limit and reduce the number of subsequent applications for payment or reimbursement from the account, to allow expedited payment or reimbursement from the account at a reduced percentage based on the average amount previously paid for a particular activity, costs or expense, to establish a response milestone requirement prior to payment o

In the House of Representatives

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In the House of Representatives Mar 2 – Apr 19

1. Mar 2Introduced and sent to Environment Committee
2. Mar 3Heard in Environment Committee
3. Apr 1Environment Committee recommended a substitute for it
4. Apr 19Sent to Appropriations Committee