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Title 42 — The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-73

§7624 Cost of vapor recovery equipment

Title 42 › Chapter CHAPTER 85— - AIR POLLUTION PREVENTION AND CONTROL › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER III— - GENERAL PROVISIONS › § 7624

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Requires owners of retail fuel stations to pay to buy and install vapor recovery equipment. Federal rules will say who counts as the owner. Any lease of a station signed or renewed after August 7, 1977 cannot make the person who rents the station (the lessee) pay those costs. Owners may recoup the expense by raising the price of any product they sell, even if other laws would stop that. The rules can allow a lease to have the lessee pay over a reasonable time set by the rules if the owner does not sell or dispense any product at that station.

Full Legal Text

Title 42, §7624

The Public Health and Welfare — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)The regulations under this chapter applicable to vapor recovery with respect to mobile source fuels at retail outlets of such fuels shall provide that the cost of procurement and installation of such vapor recovery shall be borne by the owner of such outlet (as determined under such regulations). Except as provided in subsection (b), such regulations shall provide that no lease of a retail outlet by the owner thereof which is entered into or renewed after August 7, 1977, may provide for a payment by the lessee of the cost of procurement and installation of vapor recovery equipment. Such regulations shall also provide that the cost of procurement and installation of vapor recovery equipment may be recovered by the owner of such outlet by means of price increases in the cost of any product sold by such owner, notwithstanding any provision of law.
(b)The regulations of the Administrator referred to in subsection (a) shall permit a lease of a retail outlet to provide for payment by the lessee of the cost of procurement and installation of vapor recovery equipment over a reasonable period (as determined in accordance with such regulations), if the owner of such outlet does not sell, trade in, or otherwise dispense any product at wholesale or retail at such outlet.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Prior Provisions

A prior section 323 of act
July 14, 1955, was classified to section 7623 of this title prior to repeal by Pub. L. 96–300, § 1(c),
July 2, 1980, 94 Stat. 831.

Amendments

1980—Pub. L. 96–300, § 1(b), which directed that last sentence of this section be struck out was probably intended to strike sentence purportedly added by Pub. L. 95–190. See 1977 Amendment note below and section 7623(i) of this title. 1977—Pub. L. 95–190 which purported to amend subsec. (j) of this section by inserting “The Commission may appoint and fix the pay of such staff as it deems necessary.” after “(j)” was not executed to this section because it did not contain a subsec. (j). See 1980 Amendment note above.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section effective Aug. 7, 1977, except as otherwise expressly provided, see section 406(d) of Pub. L. 95–95, set out as an

Effective Date

of 1977 Amendment note under section 7401 of this title.

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

42 U.S.C. § 7624

Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73