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COMMITTEE ACTION:
SF 2371 – Underground storage tanks program, replacement and remediation
SF 2371 would establish the Iowa Tanks Fund and Iowa Tanks Fund Financing Program to replace the existing Iowa Comprehensive Petroleum Underground Storage Tank (UST) Fund and the Iowa Comprehensive Petroleum Underground Storage Tank Board. The new fund and financing program would replace the existing UST fund and board that is responsible for underground storage tank replacement and contaminated site remediation with a process handled within the Department of Natural Resources (DNR). The current program has been in place for more than 30 years and has facilitated the closure and clean-up of more than one thousand leaking underground storage tank sites across the state. Fewer than 100 sites remain to be closed, though some sites that are classified as “no further action” (NFA) do re-enter the program when the site shows evidence of unmitigated contamination that threatens groundwater or drinking water supplies.
The committee adopted an amendment to ensure
five years of future funding for fuel quality testing by the Iowa Fuels
Laboratory at Iowa Central Community College though the Iowa Department of
Agriculture and Land Stewardship (IDALS). This program is currently paid out of
the same source of money that will become the new Iowa Tanks Fund. The bill
also clarifies that the fund can be used to pay for action at sites that have
been classified as no further action.
[2/20: 11-0 (Absent: Shipley,
Zumbach)]