2014 Louisiana Laws
Revised Statutes
TITLE 30 - Minerals, Oil, and Gas and Environmental Quality
RS 30:2484 - Uses of fund

§2484. Uses of fund

NOTE: §2484 eff. until July 1, 2014. See Acts 2013, No. 394, §1.

A. Money in the fund may be disbursed for the following purposes and no others:

(1) Administrative and personnel expenses of the office of the coordinator, excluding those of the oil spill technical assistance program, not to exceed six hundred thousand dollars in any fiscal year; except that during a declared state of emergency or disaster caused by an unauthorized discharge of oil, more than six hundred thousand dollars in a fiscal year may be disbursed from the fund after approval of the commissioner of administration and the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget.

(2) Removal costs related to abatement and containment of actual or threatened unauthorized discharges of oil incidental to unauthorized discharges of hazardous substances.

(3) Removal costs and damages related to actual or threatened unauthorized discharges of oil as provided in this Chapter.

(4) Protection, assessment, restoration, rehabilitation, or replacement of or mitigation of damage to natural resources damaged by an unauthorized discharge of oil as provided in this Chapter.

(5) Grants, with the approval of the interagency council, for interagency contracts as provided in R.S. 30:2495, not to exceed seven hundred fifty thousand dollars in any fiscal year. Of the total amount of grants awarded in any fiscal year, one hundred thousand dollars shall be made available for grants specifically for the purposes of research, testing, and development of discharge and blowout prevention and training using full scale well service training.

(6) Beginning in Fiscal Year 96-97 and each fiscal year thereafter until Fiscal Year 1999-2000, the monies expended from the fund for the Oil Spill Technical Assistance Program established in R.S. 30:2480(C)(4) shall be increased by one hundred thousand dollars each fiscal year whereupon funding for the Oil Spill Technical Assistance Program shall reach five hundred thousand dollars during Fiscal Year 2000-2001.

(7) Operating costs and contracts for response and prevention as provided in this Chapter, excluding operating costs and contracts where indicated of the oil spill technical assistance program, not to exceed six hundred thousand dollars in any fiscal year; except that during a declared state of emergency or disaster caused by an unauthorized discharge of oil, more than six hundred thousand dollars in a fiscal year may be disbursed from the fund after approval of the commissioner of administration and the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget.

(8) Other costs and damages authorized by this Chapter.

(9) Any state agency or political subdivision seeking an appropriation from the fund or proposing expenditures utilizing money from the fund must notify the coordinator in writing before submitting the appropriation request to the legislature.

(10) An inventory under R.S. 30:2480, to be completed by July 1, 2001, in an amount not to exceed five million five hundred fifty thousand dollars in total.

B. Funds paid to the office of the oil spill coordinator as cost recoveries from responsible parties, the Oil Spill Contingency Fund, or the federal Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund, shall not be included in the amounts provided for in Paragraphs (1) and (7) of Subsection A. Such cost recoveries and other funds may be used to supplement the activities normally funded under those Paragraphs beyond the set limits provided therein.

NOTE: §2484 as amended by Acts 2013, No.394, §1, eff. July 1, 2014.

A. Money in the fund may be disbursed for the following purposes and no others:

(1) Administrative and personnel expenses of the office of the coordinator, excluding those of the oil spill technical assistance program.

(2) Removal costs related to abatement and containment of actual or threatened unauthorized discharges of oil incidental to unauthorized discharges of hazardous substances.

(3) Removal costs and damages related to actual or threatened unauthorized discharges of oil as provided in this Chapter.

(4) Protection, assessment, restoration, rehabilitation, or replacement of or mitigation of damage to natural resources damaged by an unauthorized discharge of oil as provided in this Chapter.

(5) Grants, with the approval of the interagency council, for interagency contracts as provided in R.S. 30:2495, including grants specifically for the purposes of research, testing, and development of discharge and blowout prevention and training using full scale well service training.

(6) The Oil Spill Technical Assistance Program established in R.S. 30:2480(C)(4).

(7) Operating costs and contracts for response and prevention as provided in this Chapter.

(8) Other costs and damages authorized by this Chapter.

B. Any state agency or political subdivision seeking an appropriation from the fund or proposing expenditures utilizing money from the fund must notify the coordinator in writing before submitting the appropriation request to the legislature.

Acts 1991, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 7, §1, eff. April 23, 1991; Acts 1992, No. 426, §1; Acts 1995, No. 740, §1; Acts 1997, No. 882, §1; Acts 2000, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 103, §1; Acts 2001, No. 649, §1, eff. June 22, 2001; Acts 2003, No. 1082, §1, eff. July 2, 2003; Acts 2010, No. 962, §1, eff. July 6, 2010; Acts 2013, No. 394, §1, eff. July 1, 2014.