South Dakota Codified Laws 34A-13-52. Department responsible for tank removal and corrective actions under program–Director to make payments from fund
The Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources shall be responsible for the tank removal and corrective actions subject to §§ 34A-13-49 to 34A-13-54, inclusive. The department may contract directly with consultants, contractors, other service providers, state agencies, subdivisions of government, counties, cities, townships, and tribes to carry out the provisions of §§ 34A-13-49 to 34A-13-54, inclusive. After receiving itemized documentation of all actual costs from the department, the director of the petroleum release compensation fund shall make payment within thirty days of receipt. All tank removals, pollution assessments, and corrective actions taken under §§ 34A-13-49 to 34A-13-54, inclusive, shall comply with chapters 34A-2 and 34A-12 and the rules promulgated thereunder.
Terms Used In South Dakota Codified Laws 34A-13-52
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- 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
Source: SL 2000, ch 175, § 4; SL 2021, ch 1 (Ex. Ord. 21-3), § 53, eff. Apr. 19, 2021.