ARM 17.74.501. PURPOSE

(1) This subchapter is adopted to protect the public health, safety, and welfare by providing specific cleanup standards for inhabitable properties, including volunteer properties as defined in 75-10-1302, MCA, contaminated by clandestine methamphetamine or fentanyl drug labs, or from the consumption of methamphetamine or fentanyl. This subchapter establishes a voluntary program for property owners to obtain department confirmation that the decontamination standards established by the department have been met, for purposes of liability immunity pursuant to 75-10-1305(4), MCA, and for purposes of removing property from the list of inhabitable properties maintained by the department pursuant to 75-10-1306, MCA.