10 V.S.A. § 8021: Cost recovery

(a) In addition to any existing authority, the Secretary, in issuing an administrative order, emergency order, or assurance of discontinuance under this chapter, may recover monies expended from a special fund for a cleanup related to an environmental violation, provided that such recovered monies not exceed $20,000.00.

(b) When monies are recovered under this section, they shall be deposited into the special fund from which they were expended.