238.133 Brownfield site assessment grants.
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238.133 Brownfield site assessment grants.
(1)Definitions. In this section:
(a)“Eligible site or facility” means one or more contiguous industrial or commercial facilities or sites with common or multiple ownership that are abandoned, idle, or underused, the expansion or redevelopment of which is adversely affected by actual or perceived environmental contamination.
(b)“Local governmental unit” means a city, village, town, county, redevelopment authority created under s. 66.1333 , community development authority created under s. 66.1335 , or housing authority.
(c)“Petroleum product” has the meaning given in s. 292.63
(f).
(d)“Underground hazardous substance storage tank system” means an underground storage tank used for storing a hazardous substance other than a petroleum product together with any on-site integral piping or dispensing system with at least 10 percent of its total volume below the surface of the ground.
(e)“Underground petroleum product storage tank” has the meaning given in s. 292.63
(i).
(2)Duties of the corporation.
(a)The corporation shall administer a program to award brownfield site assessment grants from the appropriation under s. 20.192
(s)to local governmental units for the purposes of conducting any of the eligible activities under sub.
(3).
(b)The corporation may not award a grant to a local governmental unit under this section if that local governmental unit caused the environmental contamination that is the basis for the grant request.
(c)The corporation may only award grants under this section if the person that caused the environmental contamination that is the basis for the grant request is unknown, cannot be located or is financially unable to pay the cost of the eligible activities.
(d)The corporation shall establish criteria as necessary to administer the program. The corporation may limit the total amount of funds that may be used to cover the costs of each category of eligible activity described in sub.
(3).