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Virginia Administrative Code
Title 9. Environment
Agency 25. State Water Control Board
Chapter 640. Aboveground Storage Tank and Pipeline Facility Financial Responsibility Requirements
11/21/2024

9VAC25-640-180. Drawing on financial assurance mechanisms.

A. The department may require the guarantor, surety, or institution issuing a letter of credit or certificate of deposit to pay to the department an amount up to the limit of funds provided by the financial assurance mechanism if:

1. a. The operator fails to establish alternate financial assurance within 60 days after receiving notice of cancellation of the guarantee, surety bond, letter of credit, certificate of deposit; and

b. The department determines or suspects that a discharge from an aboveground storage tank or pipeline covered by the mechanism has occurred and so notifies the operator, or the operator has notified the department pursuant to 9VAC25-91 of a discharge from an aboveground storage tank or pipeline covered by the mechanism; or

2. The conditions of subsection B of this section are satisfied.

B. The department shall deposit the financial assurance funds forfeited pursuant to subsection A of this section into the Virginia Petroleum Storage Tank Fund. The department may use the financial responsibility funds obtained pursuant to subsection A of this section to conduct containment and cleanup when it makes a final determination that a discharge has occurred and immediate or long-term containment and/or clean up for the discharge is needed, and the operator, after appropriate notice and opportunity to comply, has not conducted containment and clean up as required under 9VAC25-91.

Statutory Authority

§§ 62.1-44.15 and 62.1-44.34:16 of the Code of Virginia.

Historical Notes

Derived from Virginia Register Volume 17, Issue 10, eff. March 2, 2001; amended, Virginia Register Volume 25, Issue 2, eff. November 1, 2008; Volume 29, Issue 26, eff. October 10, 2013; Volume 39, Issue 5, eff. November 23, 2022.

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