SENATE CS FOR CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 382(RES) "An Act relating to the evaluation and cleanup of sites where certain controlled substances may have been manufactured or stored; and providing for an effective date." This was the first hearing for this bill in the Senate Finance Committee. REPRESENTATIVE GRETCHEN GUESS, the sponsor of the bill, informed the Committee that this legislation provides assurance that illegal drug laboratory sites would be thoroughly decontaminated before the premise could be re-occupied. She informed the Committee that currently "after a lab has been busted," the law enforcement agency sends a notice to the property owner to clean up the facility, and the agency takes no further action. She continued that no guidelines exist to specify the proper way to clean up a site, and the cleanup activities that occur are usually not adequate. She stated that this bill would establish proper clean-up guidelines for testing and decontamination of sites. Senator Olson asked whether an existing problem has prompted this legislation. Representative Guess responded that 50 methamphetamine laboratories "were busted" in the State in the year 2000, and proper cleanup provisions are not established to assure a safe environment for future occupants of these locations. She reiterated that this legislation would provide a residential property owner with the appropriate clean-up guidelines for a site. Senator Austerman moved to report House Bill 382 "out of Committee with individual recommendations and accompanying fiscal notes." There being no objections, SCS CS HB 382 (RES) was REPORTED from Committee with a previous zero fiscal note, dated February 27, 2002, from the Department of Public Safety, and a $12,000 fiscal note dated February 25, 2002 from the Department of Environmental Conservation.