H.F. 3686 Summary

• Changes the definition of "owner or operator" for dry cleaning facilities to include only those who own or operate the facility itself, removing reference to real property owners.

• Replaces the spending limitation on the dry cleaner environmental response and reimbursement account from 20 percent of account balance to a fixed $100,000 per single facility per fiscal year.

• Transfers $743,000 from the general fund to the dry cleaner environmental response and reimbursement account in fiscal year 2017, conditional on legislation addressing account insolvency, with reimbursement limited to $10,000 per applicant.

• Requires the Pollution Control Agency to adopt rules establishing reasonable environmental response costs, application requirements, and vendor payment adjustment processes for the account, modeled after petroleum tank response cleanup fund rules.

• Repeals the previous definition of "owner or operator" that included owners of real property where dry cleaning facilities operated.