Storage Tanks Financial Responsibility Requirements Type of Financial Responsibility Applicable Federal Definition Regulated Size Regulated Product Tank [Per Occurrence / Aggregate] Statute/Rules Requirements Petroleum Only (Petroleum An aboveground based pollutants*) Required Pollutants: stationary device designed until tanks are properly Motor Fuels to store pollutants and the closed. volume of which (include Lubricating Oils (Tank system capacity in integral piping) is less Naphtha gallons) than 10% beneath the Distillates > 550 & 10,000 surface of the ground. Tank: ≤ Greater than 550 Waste Oil [$500,000 / $1,000,000] None gallons * EXCLUDES: (AST) Blends or Mixtures Tank: > 10,000 & 30,000 ≤ . LP Gas Tanks or Byproducts of [$1,000,000 / $1,000,000] oil or gas Tanks less than 30,000 Tank: > 30,000 & 250,000 ≤ gallons storing heating oil Pesticides: [$1,000,000 / $2,000,000] for on-site consumption Ammonia and Hazardous Waste Tanks Tank: > 250,000 Chlorine compounds [$3,000,000 / $6,000,000] *SEE . and derivatives thereof Use of any EPA approved mechanism for UST’s allowed (modified per .) An underground stationary Group 1: Petroleum device designed to store Producers, Refiners, Or regulated substances and the Marketers Regulated Substances: volume of which (including [$1,000,000 / $1,000,000 for integral piping) is more than Fuels 100 tanks OR $2,000,000 for ≤ 10% beneath the surface of > 100 tanks] the ground. Oils Group 2: Non-Marketers Greater than 110 *EXCLUDES: Oil gallons [$500,000 if throughput LP Gas Tanks (UST) . 10,000 gallons monthly OR ≤ Agricultural tanks - Solvents $1,000,000 if throughput 550 gallons or less > 10,000 gallons monthly / Heating oil tanks for $1,000,000 for 100 tanks OR ≤ substances and any onsite consumption $2,000,000 for > 100 tanks] substance defined in Hazardous Waste Tanks Use of any EPA approved Residential Tanks mechanism for UST’s allowed. *SEE . Especially when an account owner has both UST and AST, see on the webpage.
Storage Tanks Financial Responsibility Requirements Type of Tank Definition Regulated Size Regulated Product Financial Responsibility [Per Occurrence / Aggregate] Applicable Statute/Rules Federal Requirements (AST) An aboveground stationary device designed to store pollutants and the volume of which (include integral piping) is less than 10% beneath the surface of the ground. * EXCLUDES: LP Gas Tanks Tanks less than 30,000 gallons storing heating oil for on-site consumption Hazardous Waste Tanks *SEE . Greater than 550 gallons Pollutants: Motor Fuels Lubricating Oils Naphtha Distillates Waste Oil Blends or Mixtures or Byproducts of oil or gas Pesticides: Ammonia and Chlorine compounds and derivatives thereof Petroleum Only (Petroleum based pollutants*) Required until tanks are properly closed. (Tank system capacity in gallons) Tank: > 550 & ≤ 10,000 [$500,000 / $1,000,000] Tank: > 10,000 & ≤ 30,000 [$1,000,000 / $1,000,000] Tank: > 30,000 & ≤ 250,000 [$1,000,000 / $2,000,000] Tank: > 250,000 [$3,000,000 / $6,000,000] Use of any EPA approved mechanism for UST’s allowed (modified per .) . None (UST) An underground stationary device designed to store regulated substances and the volume of which (including integral piping) is more than 10% beneath the surface of the ground. *EXCLUDES: LP Gas Tanks Agricultural tanks - 550 gallons or less Heating oil tanks for onsite consumption Hazardous Waste Tanks Residential Tanks *SEE . Greater than 110 gallons Regulated Substances: Fuels Oils Oil Solvents substances and any substance defined in Group 1: Petroleum Producers, Refiners, Or Marketers [$1,000,000 / $1,000,000 for ≤ 100 tanks OR $2,000,000 for > 100 tanks] Group 2: Non-Marketers [$500,000 if throughput ≤ 10,000 gallons monthly OR $1,000,000 if throughput > 10,000 gallons monthly / $1,000,000 for ≤ 100 tanks OR $2,000,000 for > 100 tanks] Use of any EPA approved mechanism for UST’s allowed. . Especially when an account owner has both UST and AST, see on the webpage.
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