The purpose of the voluntary cleanup program is to:

1. (1) enable the expansion, redevelopment or return to use of industrial and commercial sites whose redevelopment is complicated by real or perceived environmental contamination;
2. (2) provide an incentive to conduct response actions at a site by providing nonresponsible parties a covenant not to sue, contribution protection, and third party liability protection, or by providing responsible parties with a covenant not to sue for the work done in completing the response actions specifically covered in the contract and completed in accordance with the approved work plans and reports; and
3. (3) provide reimbursement to the department for oversight costs.

HISTORY: 2000 Act No. 258, Section 2; 2008 Act No. 342, Section 1, eff June 11, 2008.

Effect of Amendment

The 2008 amendment, in paragraph (1), added "enable the expansion, redevelopment or" and substituted "sites" for "facilities"; and in paragraph (2), substituted "a covenant not to sue, contribution protection, and third party liability protection," for "State CERCLA liability protection" and added the text at the end, beginning with "for the work done".