(a) The commission, with the assistance of the advisory committee, shall adopt rules necessary to administer and enforce this chapter. Rules adopted under this section must be reasonably necessary:
(1) to preserve, protect, and maintain the water and other natural resources of this state; and
(2) to provide for prompt and appropriate corrective action of releases from dry cleaning facilities.
(b) The commission shall adopt rules that establish:
(1) performance standards for dry cleaning facilities;
(2) requirements for the removal of chlorinated dry cleaning solvents and wastes from dry cleaning facilities that are to be closed by the owner to prevent future releases;
(3) criteria to be used in setting priorities for the expenditure of money from the fund after consideration of:
(A) the benefit to be derived from corrective action compared to the cost of implementing the corrective action;
(B) the degree to which human health and the environment are affected by exposure to contamination;
(C) the present and reasonably foreseeable future uses of affected surface water or groundwater;
(D) the effect that interim or immediate remedial measures may have on future costs;
(E) the amount of money available for corrective action in the fund; and
(F) any additional factors the commission considers relevant; and
(4) criteria under which the commission may determine the level at which corrective action is considered to be complete.

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