The department shall cooperate in any action necessary to obtain federal funding to carry out the Petroleum Release Remedial Action Act.

Terms Used In Nebraska Statutes 66-1530

  • Action: shall include any proceeding in any court of this state. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
  • Department: shall mean the Department of Environment and Energy. See Nebraska Statutes 66-1504
  • Release: shall mean any spilling, leaking, emitting, discharging, escaping, leaching, or disposing of petroleum from a tank or any overfilling of a tank into ground water, surface water, surface soils, or subsurface soils whether occurring before, on, or after May 27, 1989. See Nebraska Statutes 66-1512
  • Remedial action: shall mean any immediate or long-term response to a release or suspected release in accordance with rules and regulations adopted and promulgated by the department or the State Fire Marshal, including tank testing only in conjunction with a release or suspected release, site investigation, site assessment, cleanup, restoration, mitigation, and any other action ordered by the department or the State Fire Marshal which is reasonable and necessary. See Nebraska Statutes 66-1513