To further benefit the citizens of the State of Oklahoma, the Department may, if funds are available from the fund, render financial assistance, by form of a matching grant not to exceed Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000.00), to any municipality or county of the state, which has prepared an emergency response plan which has been approved by the Department, for the purpose of providing basic emergency response training and protective equipment to be used by such municipality or county in responding to incidents involving hazardous waste. Such financial assistance shall be available only to those applicants which have a significant potential for initiating emergency response to an incident involving hazardous waste. The Department shall give priority to municipalities or counties of the state in which off-site facilities are located.
Laws 1982, c. 202, § 5; Laws 1986, c. 229, § 2, emerg. eff. June 10, 1986; Laws 1992, c. 403, § 40, eff. Sept. 1, 1992; Laws 1993, c. 145, § 122, eff. July 1, 1993. Renumbered from Title 63, § 1-2019 by Laws 1993, c. 145, § 359, eff. July 1, 1993.