House Study Bill 60
SENATE/HOUSE FILE
BY (PROPOSED DEPARTMENT OF
NATURAL RESOURCES BILL)
Passed Senate, Date Passed House, Date
Vote: Ayes Nays Vote: Ayes Nays
Approved
A BILL FOR
1 An Act relating to the collection and expenditure of storage tank
2 management fees.
3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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PAG LIN
1 1 Section 1. Section 455B.479, Code 2009, is amended to read
1 2 as follows:
1 3 455B.479 STORAGE TANK MANAGEMENT FEE.
1 4 An owner or operator of an underground storage tank shall
1 5 pay an annual storage tank management fee of sixty=five
1 6 dollars per tank of over one thousand one hundred gallons
1 7 capacity. Twenty=three percent of the The fees collected
1 8 shall be deposited in the storage tank management account of
1 9 the groundwater protection fund. Seventy=seven percent of the
1 10 fees collected shall be deposited in the Iowa comprehensive
1 11 petroleum underground storage tank fund created in chapter
1 12 455G.
1 13 Sec. 2. Section 455E.11, subsection 2, paragraph d, Code
1 14 2009, is amended to read as follows:
1 15 d. A storage tank management account. All fees collected
1 16 pursuant to section 455B.473, subsection 5, and section
1 17 455B.479, shall be deposited in the storage tank management
1 18 account, except those moneys deposited into the Iowa
1 19 comprehensive petroleum underground storage tank fund pursuant
1 20 to section 455B.479. Funds. Moneys deposited in the account
1 21 shall be expended for the following purposes:
1 22 (1) One thousand dollars is appropriated annually to the
1 23 Iowa department of public health to carry out departmental
1 24 duties under section 135.11, subsections 20 and 21, and
1 25 section 139A.21.
1 26 (2) Twenty=three percent of the proceeds of the fees
1 27 imposed pursuant to section 455B.473, subsection 5, and
1 28 section 455B.479 shall be deposited in the account annually,
1 29 up to a maximum of three hundred fifty thousand dollars. If
1 30 twenty=three percent of the proceeds exceeds three hundred
1 31 fifty thousand dollars, the excess shall be deposited into the
1 32 fund created in section 455G.3. Three hundred fifty thousand
1 33 dollars is The moneys remaining in the account after the
1 34 appropriation in subparagraph (1) are appropriated from the
1 35 storage tank management account to the department of natural
2 1 resources for the administration of a state storage tank
2 2 program pursuant to chapter 455B, division IV, part 8, and for
2 3 programs which reduce the potential for harm to the
2 4 environment and the public health from storage tanks.
2 5 (3) The remaining funds in the account are appropriated
2 6 annually to the Iowa comprehensive petroleum underground
2 7 storage tank fund.
2 8 Sec. 3. Section 455G.8, subsection 3, Code 2009, is
2 9 amended by striking the subsection.
2 10 EXPLANATION
2 11 This bill relates to the collection and expenditure of
2 12 storage tank management fees.
2 13 Currently, owners or operators of underground storage tanks
2 14 pay an annual storage tank management fee. Twenty=three
2 15 percent of each fee collected is deposited in the storage tank
2 16 management account of the groundwater protection fund and 77
2 17 percent is deposited in the Iowa comprehensive petroleum
2 18 underground storage tank fund.
2 19 The bill provides that 100 percent of each fee collected is
2 20 deposited in the storage tank management account of the
2 21 groundwater protection fund. The bill provides that, after an
2 22 annual standing appropriation of $1,000 to the department of
2 23 public health to carry out departmental duties, the remaining
2 24 moneys in the account are appropriated from the account to the
2 25 department of natural resources for the administration of a
2 26 state storage tank program and for programs which reduce the
2 27 potential for harm to the environment and the public health
2 28 from storage tanks. The bill eliminates the deposit of a
2 29 portion of the storage tank management fee in the Iowa
2 30 comprehensive petroleum underground storage tank fund.
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