Cleanup fund eligibility

Definition

Whether a state fund pays for the solvent under the plant, or the buyer does.

Why It Matters

Facility registration is the paperwork and this is what the paperwork is a ticket to. There is no federal closure duty to inherit: the air rule retires the machine and says nothing about taking it out, and the chemical rule says nothing either. What decides the money is a state cleanup fund, and Florida's has a door that shut. Eligibility there requires the operator to have registered, paid the taxes, given the department access, not concealed a discharge, and reported the contamination before the end of 1998. A plant that did all of that carries a state-funded cleanup; a plant where perc turns up under the slab during your own diligence is outside the fund and the cost lands on whoever owns the site. So the question is not whether the registration is current. It is whether this site was ever determined eligible, and under which paragraph.