HB378 Alabama 2023 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Chip Brown Representative

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2023

Title

Relating to environmental protection; to amend Sections 22-30E-2, 22-30E-3, 22-30E-4, 22-30E-5, 22-30E-9, and 35-19-4, Code of Alabama 1975, to provide potentially responsible parties with limitations of liability with respect to a brownfield site; to create the Brownfield Remediation Reserve Fund; to add Sections 22-30E-14, 22-30E-15, and 22-30E-16 to the Code of Alabama 1975, to provide for the creation of brownfield redevelopment districts; and to make nonsubstantive, technical revisions to update the existing code language to current style

Description

Under existing law, non-responsible parties are released from certain liabilities related to a brownfield site if they participate in the voluntary cleanup program administered by the Alabama Department of Environmental Management.

This bill would allow potentially responsible parties to be released from liability related to a brownfield site if they participate in the voluntary cleanup program.

This bill would create the Brownfield Remediation Reserve Fund to assist in costs associated with remediating certain brownfields.

This bill would provide for the creation of brownfield redevelopment districts to further provide for the remediation and ultimate reuse of brownfields.

This bill would also make nonsubstantive, technical revisions to update the existing code language to current style.

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Subjects

Brownfields, to further provide for the voluntary cleanup program