Section 6.04. Eligible costs.

  Costs for which reimbursement is sought must be incurred for temporary emergency measures taken by the response team to protect human health and the environment from releases or threatened releases of hazardous substances, pollutants or contaminants. Eligible response costs include response team expenses associated with security, emergency evacuation, source, control, release containment, neutralization or other treatment methods, contaminated runoff control and similar activities mitigating immediate threats to human health and the environment. Specific response team costs include, but are not limited to:

(1)  Reimbursement for vehicles and apparatus at uniform rates established for regional hazardous material response team services or the rate established by the reviewing entity for the authorized level B response team.

(2)  Response team personnel expenses which may reflect replacement personnel costs and indirect charges and costs for wage, fringe, death and duty disability retirement benefits.

(3)  Necessary and reasonable emergency expenses related to response team services rendered based on actual expenditures.

(4)  The following administrative costs incurred to collect response costs from a responsible party:

(a) For a level B response to an emergency in which there is a potential release of a hazardous substance, the maximum eligible reimbursement cost may not exceed $500 for the initial response assessment except as provided under par. (b) .

(b) Costs that exceed $500 for a level B response to an emergency, in which there is a potential release of a hazardous substance and for which a hazardous substance is present, shall be justified and documented.

(c) Response teams are not eligible for reimbursement costs that exceed $500 for level B responses where the bill of lading or manifest indicate that a hazardous substance is not present and for which the bill of lading or manifest is readily accessible to the response team during the emergency response.

History: Cr. Register, May, 1997, No. 497 , eff. 6-1-97; CR 02-106 : am. (1) to (3), cr. (4) Register October 2003 No. 574 , eff. 11-1-03.