West Virginia Code § 22-16-15

Procedures for handling remedial actions; payment of costs of remedial
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actions to be paid by owner or operator.
When the director, in performing activities pursuant to this article determines action, not set
forth in subsection (b), section three of this article, is necessary to prevent or remediate any
adverse effects of the landfill he or she shall notify the permittee and make and enter an
order directing the permittee to take corrective or remedial action. The ordeer shall contain
findings of fact upon which the director based his or her determination to make and enter
such order. The director shall fix a time limit for the completion of suchr action.
The director shall cause a copy of any such order to be served byu registered or certified mail
or by a law-enforcement officer upon such person.
If the corrective action is not taken within the time limit or the permittee notifies the
director that it is unable to comply with the order, the director may expend amounts, as
provided herein, to make the remediation.
The costs reasonably incurred in any remediasl action taken by the director as provided in
this article may be paid for initially by amounts available to the director in the fund created
in subdivision (3), subsection (h), section eileven, article fifteen of this chapter or, to the
extent funds are available, from the gfund created in section twelve of this article, and such
sums so expended, if not promptly repaid by the permittee upon request of the director, may
be recovered from the permittee by appropriate civil action to be initiated by the Attorney
General upon request of the director. All funds so recovered shall be deposited in the fund
from which said funds were expended.

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