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§7624 Cost of Vapor Recovery Equipment

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

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

Owners must pay to buy and install vapor recovery equipment at retail fuel outlets, as defined by the rules. Leases made or renewed after August 7, 1977 cannot make the renter pay those costs. Owners may recover the cost by raising prices on products they sell, even if other laws would say otherwise. The rules can allow a lease to make the renter pay over a reasonable time, but only if the owner does not sell, trade, or dispense any product at that outlet. Who counts as the owner and what is a “reasonable period” are set by the rules.

Full Legal Text

Title 42, §7624

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

(a)Costs to be borne by owner of retail outlet
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)Payment by lessee
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

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Citation

42 U.S.C. § 7624

Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110