The supervisor, or the supervisor's designee, may recover from the owner or operator all response, prosecution, and enforcement costs incurred by the division arising from the administration and enforcement of this chapter. The supervisor may request, and a public prosecutor, the Attorney General, or an attorney for the division or department as part of a prosecution or negotiation, may allege a claim for, these costs and expenditures and shall deposit any recoveries into the Oil and Gas Environmental Remediation Account established pursuant to Section 3261.
Ca. Pub. Res. Code § 3236.6