Payments made from the director for tank pulling and corrective action under the abandoned tank removal program may include:

(1) Tank pulling, as defined in this chapter, including the disposal of tank contents and specifically excluding the replacement of surface above the backfill area; and

Terms Used In South Dakota Codified Laws 34A-13-50

  • Release: is a ny unintentional spilling, leaking, emitting, discharging, escaping, leaching, or disposing of petroleum from a tank into the environment occurring in South Dakota, but does not include discharges or designed venting allowed under adopted rules or under federal or state law or discharges arising out of war, invasion, act of a foreign enemy, hostilities, revolution, earthquake, flood, or other catastrophic disaster occurring due to nature. See South Dakota Codified Laws 34A-13-1

(2) Removal of abandoned waste oil tanks and corrective action of a waste oil release located on an abandoned site.

Source: SL 2000, ch 175, § 2.