Iowa Comprehensive Petroleum Underground Storage Tank Fund Board v. Mobil Oil Corp.

CADY, Justice.

This case concerns the responsibility of a petroleum refiner and supplier under the Iowa Comprehensive Petroleum Underground Storage Tank Fund Act, Iowa Code chapter 455G (1997) (Tank Fund Act), for the corrective costs of the release of petroleum into the ground from an underground storage tank. The district court found the oil refiner and supplier was not responsible for the corrective costs as a matter of law, and granted summary judgment. We affirm.

I. Background Facts and Proceedings.

Schroeder Oil Company owned and operated a gas station in Carroll, Iowa from 1974 to 1978.…