Prior to expending federal funds awarded to the state for the purpose of assessing or cleaning up petroleum tank release sites that are eligible for petroleum brownfields funding from the United States environmental protection agency under the federal Brownfields Revitalization and Environmental Restoration Act of 2001, Title II of Public Law 107-118, the department shall make a reasonable effort to coordinate with a grant recipient who may intend to expend federal brownfields funding to assess or remediate eligible petroleum brownfields sites in the grant recipient's brownfields target area and to ensure that the grant recipient is not intending to expend petroleum brownfields funding at the same eligible brownfields sites.
§ 75-11-409, MCA