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Petroleum Bulk Storage
(e.g. Gasoline, Fuel Oil, and
Waste Motor Oil)
For Upstate New York State
public schools there are several different regulatory
requirements for Petroleum Bulk Storage. The New York
State Department of Environmental Conservation Regulates
schools that have more than 1100 gallons of storage on site
(generally excluding small tanks or less than 1100 gallons
containing heating fuel to be used on site or waste motor
oil). They require that regulated tanks be registered,
have leak detection, be corrosion resistant, have overfill
prevention and spill prevention, etc.
To
go to the DEC PBS website click here.
The Environmental Protection
Agency also regulates some tanks, yet not others. The
EPA regulates Motor Fuels (Gasoline and Diesel) and the waste
motor oil tanks large than 110 gallons, but generally not
heating oil tanks.
The EPA does have a new
regulation requiring facilities with more than 1320 gallons of
above ground storage to have a
Spill
Prevention, Control and Countermeasure (SPCC)
program. The deadline has been extended to July 1, 2009. The requirements of this program go above and
beyond the current DEC and EPA requirements, and requires
schools to have a facility description, an inventory of tanks,
a discharge prevention plan for each tank, spill control
during dispensing fluids, disposal plans, emergency plans,
security, and training of operators.
Links:
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