Idaho Administrative Code
Title IDAPA 58 - Environmental Quality, Department of
Rule 58.01.05 - RULES AND STANDARDS FOR HAZARDOUS WASTE
Section 58.01.05.900 - EXPENDITURES FROM HAZARDOUS WASTE EMERGENCY ACCOUNT

The Director may declare a hazardous waste emergency if the public health, safety or the environment are threatened by a release or threat of release of a hazardous waste or a substance which has become a hazardous waste. Following a hazardous waste emergency declaration, the Department may spend or obligate to be spent up to two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) from the Hazardous Waste Emergency Account, Section 39-4417, Idaho Code, to obtain equipment and materials, conduct investigations, test samples, and employ personnel as necessary or eliminate or mitigate the immediate threat and stabilize the situation. The Director may authorize the expenditure or obligation of more than two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) from this account in any given situation upon a finding by the Board that a greater expenditure or obligation is prudent and necessary to protect the public health, safety or environment. (3-24-22)