Voluntary payment by dry cleaning owners or operators, wholesale distributors selling dry cleaning agents, owners of abandoned dry cleaning facilities, and impacted third parties to a trust fund benefiting a dry cleaning industry self- insurance program to cover the costs of investigating, assessing, and re-mediating dry cleaning contamination.

Dry cleaning owners or operators who establish a new dry cleaning facility shall pay a one-time registration fee equal to $5,000 for the first year of operation, and for the second year of operation, shall pay an annual registration fee equal to the greater of $5,000 or 2% of the gross receipts earned the prior year. For each year thereafter, the new owner or operator shall pay an annual registration fee equal to 2% of the gross receipts earned in the state during the prior calendar year, not to exceed a total of $25,000 per year. Dry cleaning owners or operators, who acquire an existing dry cleaning facility, shall pay an annual registration fee equal to 2% of the gross receipts earned in the state by the prior owner or operator during the prior calendar year, not to exceed a total of $25,000 per year.

Wholesale distributors, annual registration fee of $5,000.

Abandoned dry cleaning facility owners and impacted third parties, registration fee equal to $5,000 per year per site.

Alabama Dry Cleaning Environmental Response Trust Fund.