Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:2484 – A. Money in the fund may be disbursed for the following purposes and no others:
Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:2484
- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
- Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
- Discharge: means the placing, releasing, spilling, percolating, draining, pumping, leaking, seeping, emitting, or other escaping of pollutants into the air, waters, subsurface water, or ground as the result of a prior act or omission; or the placing of pollutants into pits, drums, barrels, or similar containers under conditions and circumstances that leaking, seeping, draining, or escaping of the pollutants can be reasonably anticipated. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:2004
A. Money in the fund may be disbursed for the following purposes and no others:
(1) Administrative and personnel expenses of the office of the coordinator, excluding those of the oil spill technical assistance program.
(2) Removal costs related to abatement and containment of actual or threatened unauthorized discharges of oil incidental to unauthorized discharges of hazardous substances.
(3) Removal costs and damages related to actual or threatened unauthorized discharges of oil as provided in this Chapter.
(4) Protection, assessment, restoration, rehabilitation, or replacement of or mitigation of damage to natural resources damaged by an unauthorized discharge of oil as provided in this Chapter.
(5) Grants, with the approval of the interagency council, for interagency contracts as provided in La. Rev. Stat. 30:2495, including grants specifically for the purposes of research, testing, and development of discharge and blowout prevention and training using full scale well service training.
(6) The Oil Spill Technical Assistance Program established in La. Rev. Stat. 30:2480(C)(4).
(7) Operating costs and contracts for response and prevention as provided in this Chapter.
(8) Other costs and damages authorized by this Chapter.
B. Any state agency or political subdivision seeking an appropriation from the fund or proposing expenditures utilizing money from the fund must notify the coordinator in writing before submitting the appropriation request to the legislature.
Acts 1991, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 7, §1, eff. April 23, 1991; Acts 1992, No. 426, §1; Acts 1995, No. 740, §1; Acts 1997, No. 882, §1; Acts 2000, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 103, §1; Acts 2001, No. 649, §1, eff. June 22, 2001; Acts 2003, No. 1082, §1, eff. July 2, 2003; Acts 2010, No. 962, §1, eff. July 6, 2010; Acts 2013, No. 394, §1, eff. July 1, 2014.