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 IDAHO ADMINISTRATIVE CODE IDAPA 58.01.05 Department of Environmental Quality Rules & Standards for Hazardous Waste Section 996 Page 11 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) 901. -- 995. (RESERVED)