Underground storage tanks: school districts.

Existing law allows a person required to perform corrective action in response to an unauthorized release of petroleum from an underground storage tank to apply to the State Water Resources Control Board for payment of specified portions of the costs of corrective action. Existing law establishes the Underground Storage Tank Cleanup Fund in the State Treasury and authorizes the money in the fund to be expended by the board, among other things, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to pay those claims, and requires, as a condition of eligibility for payment, that the claimant comply with the underground storage tank permit requirements. Existing law establishes until July 1, 2016, the School District Account in the Underground Storage Tank Cleanup Fund for the payment of claims filed by a school district that takes corrective action to clean up an unauthorized release from a petroleum underground storage tank. This bill would require the board to waive the underground storage tank permit requirement for claims reimbursed from that account if the superintendent of the school district receiving the reimbursement certifies to the board that petroleum was not delivered on or after January 1, 2003, to the tank that is the subject of the claim or the tank was removed before January 1, 2003.