When an emergency action is required to protect the public health or safety or the environment, the City is authorized to charge any person responsible for causing or allowing an unauthorized spill, release or discharge of material into or upon the environment for the necessary and reasonable, additional or extraordinary costs incurred by the jurisdiction in investigating, mitigating, minimizing, removing or abating the spill, release or discharge in the course of an emergency action, provided that the criteria and methods prescribed under 40 CFR 300, as amended, are utilized and adhered to.
(Res. R-22-96. Passed 8-12-96.)