ORS 465.510
Dry Cleaner Environmental Response Account

  • use
  • deductible amounts for expenditures

(1)

The Dry Cleaner Environmental Response Account is established separate and distinct from the General Fund in the State Treasury. All moneys collected under ORS 465.517 (Annual fee and gross revenue fee for dry cleaning facilities), 465.520 (Fee on sale or transfer of dry cleaning solvent) and 465.523 (Fee on use of dry cleaning solvent), all account expenditures recovered or otherwise received, penalties assessed under ORS 465.992 (Civil penalty for failure to pay fees) and all interest earned on moneys in the account shall be credited to the account.

(2)

All moneys in the Dry Cleaner Environmental Response Account are continuously appropriated to the Department of Environmental Quality and, except as provided under this section, may be expended solely for the following purposes:

(a)

Remedial action costs incurred by the department as a result of a release at or from a dry cleaning facility;

(b)

Preapproved remedial action costs incurred by a person performing removal or remedial action as a result of a release at or from a dry cleaning facility under a department order or agreement expressly authorizing reimbursement from the account;

(c)

The department’s costs of program development, administration, enforcement and cost recovery; and

(d)

The department’s indirect costs attributable to removal or remedial action due to a release at or from a dry cleaning facility.

(3)

The department may expend Dry Cleaner Environmental Response Account moneys only for those remedial action costs defined in ORS 465.200 (Definitions for ORS 465.200 to 465.545) (24) that are reasonable in the department’s judgment. The department shall consider at least the following factors, to the extent relevant information is available, in determining the order in which removals or remedial actions shall receive funding and the amount of funding:

(a)

The dry cleaning facility’s risk to public health and the environment. Each facility’s risk shall be evaluated relative to the risk posed by other facilities.

(b)

The need for removal or remedial action at the dry cleaning facility relative to account availability and the need for removal or remedial actions at other facilities.

(c)

The nature of the activities for which expenditures are necessary, in the following order of preference:

(A)

Direct cost of cleanup, provided that adequate technical investigation has been completed;

(B)

Direct cost of technical investigation and remedy evaluation;

(C)

Administrative and indirect costs; and

(D)

Enforcement, cost recovery and legal costs.

(4)

If the department takes action at a facility, location or area where hazardous substances have been released as a result of both dry cleaning operations and other activities, including but not limited to laundry operations, account moneys may be used only for that portion of the removal or remedial action determined by the department to be necessitated by the release of dry cleaning solvent by the dry cleaning facility.

(5)

Moneys in the account expended for remedial action costs may be expended solely for costs in excess of the following deductible amounts:

(a)

For a release from a dry cleaning facility employing five or fewer individuals at the time of release, including any dry cleaning owner, dry cleaning operator or full-time employee, $5,000;

(b)

For a release from a dry cleaning facility employing more than five individuals at the time of release, including any dry cleaning owner, dry cleaning operator or full-time employee, $1,000 per owner, operator or full-time employee up to $10,000; and

(c)

For a release from an inactive site, $10,000.

(6)

The dry cleaning owner or dry cleaning operator of the facility shall be responsible for:

(a)

Paying the deductible amount. The department may bring a civil action to recover any moneys expended from the account in payment of costs properly payable under this paragraph by the dry cleaning owner or dry cleaning operator.

(b)

Investigating whether an insurance policy provides coverage for the costs arising from a release or threatened release and obtaining payment for those costs. In order to receive an exemption from administrative action, judicial action or liability under ORS 465.503 (Exemption from administrative or judicial action to compel removal or remedial action), the dry cleaning owner or dry cleaning operator:

(A)

Must initiate all actions reasonably necessary to obtain coverage from an insurance policy that may be available to pay costs associated with a release or threatened release; and

(B)

May not take any action that may prejudice the owner’s or operator’s ability to obtain, under an insurance policy, coverage of or payment of costs associated with a release or threatened release.

(7)

The department may not expend moneys out of the Dry Cleaner Environmental Response Account:

(a)

For the payment of any claim or judgment against the state or its agencies for loss of business, damage or destruction of property or personal injury arising from removal or remedial action undertaken under ORS 465.260 (Removal or remedial action).

(b)

For remedial action and other costs under this section if the dry cleaning owner or dry cleaning operator failed to comply with the waste minimization requirements under ORS 465.505 (Waste minimization requirements for dry cleaning facilities), and the failure to comply with the requirements is determined by the department to be a contributing factor in the release. [1995 c.427 §7; 2001 c.495 §5; 2003 c.407 §4]

Source: Section 465.510 — Dry Cleaner Environmental Response Account; use; deductible amounts for expenditures, https://www.­oregonlegislature.­gov/bills_laws/ors/ors465.­html.

465.003
Definitions for ORS 465.003 to 465.034
465.006
Policy
465.009
Rules
465.012
Technical assistance to users and generators
465.015
Toxics use and hazardous waste reduction plan required
465.018
Notification of Department of Environmental Quality upon completion of plan or system
465.021
Review of plan or system
465.027
Contract for assistance with higher education institution
465.032
Form of implementation summary
465.034
Application of ORS 465.003 to 465.034
465.037
Short title
465.101
Definitions for ORS 465.101 to 465.131
465.104
Fees for petroleum product delivery or withdrawals
465.106
Amount of fee to be set by State Fire Marshal
465.111
Department of Revenue to collect fee
465.112
Amounts held in trust
465.114
Extension of time for paying fee
465.117
Records of petroleum products transactions
465.121
Rules
465.124
Application of ORS chapters 305 and 314 to fee collection
465.127
Disposition of fees
465.131
Fee imposed by ORS 465.104 in addition to fees established by local government
465.200
Definitions for ORS 465.200 to 465.545
465.205
Legislative findings
465.210
Authority of department for removal or remedial action
465.215
List of facilities with confirmed release
465.220
Comprehensive statewide identification program
465.225
Inventory of facilities needing environmental controls
465.230
Removal of facilities from inventory
465.235
Public inspection of inventory
465.240
Inventory listing not prerequisite to other remedial action
465.245
Preliminary assessment of potential facility
465.250
Accessibility of information about hazardous substances
465.255
Strict liability for remedial action costs for injury or destruction of natural resource
465.257
Right of contribution from other person liable for remedial action costs
465.260
Removal or remedial action
465.265
“Person” defined for ORS 465.265 to 465.310
465.270
Legislative findings and intent
465.275
Remedial action and financial assistance program
465.280
Rules
465.285
Requirements for financial assistance
465.290
Financial assistance agreement not General Fund obligation
465.295
Decision regarding financial assistance not subject to judicial review
465.300
Records and financial assistance applications exempt from disclosure as public record
465.305
Application fees
465.310
Accounting procedure for financial assistance moneys
465.315
Standards for degree of cleanup required
465.320
Notice of proposed remedial action or release from liability
465.325
Agreement to perform removal or remedial action
465.327
Agreement to release party from potential liability to facilitate cleanup and reuse of property
465.330
State remedial action costs
465.333
Recovery of costs of program development, rulemaking and administrative actions as remedial action costs
465.335
Costs, penalties and damages as lien
465.340
Contractor liability
465.375
Monthly fee of operators
465.376
Special hazardous waste management fees
465.378
Department to work with other states to avoid disruption of waste flows
465.381
Hazardous Substance Remedial Action Fund
465.386
Commission authorized to increase fees
465.391
Effect of certain laws on liability of person
465.400
Rules
465.405
Rules
465.410
Ranking of inventory according to risk
465.420
Remedial Action Advisory Committee
465.425
“Security interest holder” defined for ORS 465.430 to 465.455
465.430
Legislative findings
465.435
Rules relating to exemption from liability for security interest holder
465.440
Rules relating to exemption from liability for fiduciary
465.445
Advisory committee
465.450
Limitation on commission’s discretion to adopt rules
465.455
Construction of ORS 465.425 to 465.455
465.475
Definitions for ORS 465.475 to 465.484
465.478
Legislative findings
465.479
Lost policies
465.480
Insurance for environmental claims
465.481
General liability insurance policies
465.483
General liability insurance policies
465.484
Unfair environmental claims settlement practices
465.485
Short title
465.500
Purpose
465.503
Exemption from administrative or judicial action to compel removal or remedial action
465.505
Waste minimization requirements for dry cleaning facilities
465.507
Dry cleaning advisory group
465.510
Dry Cleaner Environmental Response Account
465.517
Annual fee and gross revenue fee for dry cleaning facilities
465.520
Fee on sale or transfer of dry cleaning solvent
465.523
Fee on use of dry cleaning solvent
465.525
Calculation of fee for partial gallons
465.527
Reporting of fees
465.531
Department of Environmental Quality may contract for collection of fees
465.536
Late charges
465.545
Suspension of dry cleaning fees
465.550
Definitions for ORS 465.550 and 465.555
465.555
County assessment of effects of major recovery or remedial action at storage or disposal site for chemical agents
465.600
Definitions for ORS 465.600 to 465.621
465.603
Procedure to create public authority
465.606
Board of directors
465.609
General powers
465.612
Obligations of authority not obligations of local government
465.615
Exemption from taxation
465.618
Remedial action costs
465.621
Dissolution
465.900
Civil penalties for violation of removal or remedial actions
465.992
Civil penalty for failure to pay fees
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