California Health and Safety Code 79060 – Section 79055 does not apply, and money from the state account shall …
Section 79055 does not apply, and money from the state account shall be available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for removal or remedial actions, if any of the following conditions apply:
(a) The department, after a reasonable effort, is unable to identify a potentially responsible party for the hazardous substance release site.
Terms Used In California Health and Safety Code 79060
- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
- department: means State Department of Health Services. See California Health and Safety Code 20
- Director: means "State Director of Health Services. See California Health and Safety Code 21
- State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Health and Safety Code 23
(b) The department determines that immediate corrective action is necessary, as provided in Section 78875.
(c) The director determines that removal or remedial action at a site is necessary because there may be an imminent and substantial endangerment to the public health or welfare or to the environment, as provided in Section 78870.
(Added by Stats. 2022, Ch. 257, Sec. 2. (AB 2293) Effective January 1, 2023. Operative January 1, 2024, pursuant to Sec. 4 of Stats. 2022, Ch. 257.)