2011 Wisconsin Act 196

Date of enactment: April 2, 2012
2011 Senate Bill 518 Date of publication*: April 16, 2012

* Section 991.11, Wisconsin Statutes 2009-10 : Effective date of acts. "Every act and every portion of an act enacted by the legislature over the governor's partial veto which does not expressly prescribe the time when it takes effect shall take effect on the day after its date of publication as designated" by the secretary of state [the date of publication may not be more than 10 working days after the date of enactment].

2011 WISCONSIN ACT 196

An Act to create 285.31 (5) of the statutes; relating to: gasoline vapor recovery requirements and granting rule-making authority.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

196,1 Section 1. 285.31 (5) of the statutes is created to read:

285.31 (5) Termination of requirements. (a) The rules promulgated under sub. (3) cease to apply on the effective date of the waiver of the requirement for vapor control systems specified by the federal environmental protection agency in a regulation promulgated under 42 USC 7521 (a) (6). Beginning on that day, persons owning or operating retail stations are not required to maintain vapor control systems described in sub. (3) (a).

(b) The department may promulgate by rule requirements for capping and closing vapor control systems described in sub. (3) (a).

(c) The rules promulgated under sub. (3) (a) do not apply to a retail station the construction of which begins after the effective date of this paragraph .... [LRB inserts date].