Nevada Code § 459.755

Use of Contingency Account for Hazardous Materials to pay for costs of cleaning and decontamination of area affected by spill, accident or motor vehicle crash
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If the person
responsible for hazardous material involved in a spill, accident or motor
vehicle crash does not act promptly and appropriately to clean and
decontaminate the affected area, and if the inaction of the person presents an
imminent and substantial hazard to human health, public safety, any property or
the environment, money from the Contingency Account for Hazardous Materials may
be expended to pay the costs of:
1. Responding to a spill of or an accident
or motor vehicle crash involving hazardous material;
2. Coordinating the efforts of state,
local and federal agencies responding to a spill of or an accident or motor
vehicle crash involving hazardous material;
3. Managing the cleaning and
decontamination of an area for the disposal of hazardous material or the site
of a spill of or an accident or motor vehicle crash involving hazardous
material; or
4. Removing or contracting for the removal
of hazardous material which presents an imminent danger to human health, public
safety or the environment.

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