Text: HF00515 Text: HF00517 Text: HF00500 - HF00599 Text: HF Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
PAG LIN
1 1 HOUSE FILE 516
1 2
1 3 AN ACT
1 4 RELATING TO COMPOSITION AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE IOWA
1 5 COMPREHENSIVE PETROLEUM UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANK FUND BOARD.
1 6
1 7 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
1 8
1 9 Section 1. NEW SECTION. 424.19 FUTURE REPEAL.
1 10 This chapter is repealed effective June 30, 2014.
1 11 Sec. 2. Section 455G.4, subsection 1, Code 2003, is
1 12 amended by adding the following new paragraph after paragraph
1 13 d:
1 14 NEW PARAGRAPH. dd. Two owners or operators appointed by
1 15 the governor. One of the owners or operators appointed
1 16 pursuant to this paragraph shall have been a petroleum systems
1 17 insured through the underground storage tank insurance fund or
1 18 a successor to the underground storage tank insurance fund and
1 19 shall have been an insured through the insurance account of
1 20 the comprehensive petroleum underground storage tank fund on
1 21 or before October 26, 1990. One of the owners or operators
1 22 appointed pursuant to this paragraph shall be self-insured.
1 23 Sec. 3. Section 455G.4, subsection 1, unnumbered paragraph
1 24 2, Code 2003, is amended to read as follows:
1 25 A public member appointed pursuant to paragraph "d" shall
1 26 not have a conflict of interest. For purposes of this section
1 27 a "conflict of interest" means an affiliation, within the
1 28 twelve months before the member's appointment, with the
1 29 regulated tank community, or with a person or property and
1 30 casualty insurer offering competitive insurance or other means
1 31 of financial assurance or which previously offered
1 32 environmental hazard insurance for a member of the regulated
1 33 tank community.
1 34 Sec. 4. Section 455G.4, Code 2003, is amended by adding
1 35 the following new subsection:
2 1 NEW SUBSECTION. 6. REPORTING. Beginning July 2003, the
2 2 board shall submit a written report quarterly to the
2 3 legislative council, the chairperson and ranking member of the
2 4 committee on natural resources and environment in the senate,
2 5 and the chairperson and ranking member of the committee on
2 6 environmental protection in the house of representatives
2 7 regarding changes in the status of the program including, but
2 8 not limited to, the number of open claims by claim type; the
2 9 number of new claims submitted and the eligibility status of
2 10 each claim; a summary of the risk classification of open
2 11 claims; the status of all claims at high-risk sites including
2 12 the number of corrective action design reports submitted,
2 13 approved, and implemented during the reporting period; total
2 14 moneys reserved on open claims and total moneys paid on open
2 15 claims; and a summary of budgets approved and invoices paid
2 16 for high risk site activities including a breakdown by
2 17 corrective action design report, construction and equipment,
2 18 implementation, operation and maintenance, monitoring, over
2 19 excavation, free product recovery, site reclassification,
2 20 reporting and other expenses, or a similar breakdown. In each
2 21 report submitted by the board, the board shall include an
2 22 estimated timeline to complete corrective action at all
2 23 currently eligible high-risk sites where a corrective action
2 24 design report has been submitted by a claimant and approved
2 25 during the reporting period. The timeline shall include the
2 26 projected year when a no further action designation will be
2 27 obtained based upon the corrective action activities approved
2 28 or anticipated at each claimant site. The timeline shall be
2 29 broken down in annual increments with the number or percentage
2 30 of sites projected to be completed for each time period. The
2 31 report shall identify and report steps taken to expedite
2 32 corrective action and eliminate the state's liability for open
2 33 claims.
2 34 Sec. 5. Section 455G.6, Code 2003, is amended by adding
2 35 the following new subsection:
3 1 NEW SUBSECTION. 17. The board may adopt rules pursuant to
3 2 chapter 17A providing for the transfer of all or a portion of
3 3 the liabilities of the board under this chapter.
3 4 Notwithstanding other provisions to the contrary, the board,
3 5 upon such transfer, shall not maintain any duty to reimburse
3 6 claimants under this chapter for those liabilities
3 7 transferred.
3 8
3 9
3 10
3 11 CHRISTOPHER C. RANTS
3 12 Speaker of the House
3 13
3 14
3 15
3 16 MARY E. KRAMER
3 17 President of the Senate
3 18
3 19 I hereby certify that this bill originated in the House and
3 20 is known as House File 516, Eightieth General Assembly.
3 21
3 22
3 23
3 24 MARGARET THOMSON
3 25 Chief Clerk of the House
3 26 Approved , 2003
3 27
3 28
3 29
3 30 THOMAS J. VILSACK
3 31 Governor
Text: HF00515 Text: HF00517 Text: HF00500 - HF00599 Text: HF Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
© 2003 Cornell College and League of Women Voters of Iowa
Comments about this site or page?
webmaster@legis.iowa.gov.
Please remember that the person listed above does not vote on bills. Direct all comments concerning legislation to State Legislators.
Last update: Thu Jun 19 02:30:01 CDT 2003
URL: /DOCS/GA/80GA/Legislation/HF/00500/HF00516/030423.html
jhf