Reduction in the Release of Volatile Organic Compounds (Storage and Loading of Volatile Petroleum Liquids) Regulations — 2
Application — facilities 2 (1) Subject to subsection (2), these Regulations apply to any facility that meets any of the following conditions: (a) the sum of the internal volume of all tanks at the facility that are used to store volatile petroleum liquids is greater than or equal to 500 m 3 ; (b) the total volume of volatile petroleum liquid loaded at the facility exceeds 4000 standard m 3 in a calendar year; (c) at least one tank at the facility has an internal volume greater than or equal to 5 m 3 and is used to store a volatile petroleum liquid with a benzene concentration greater than 20% by weight; or (d) at least one tank at the facility has an internal volume greater than or equal to or greater than 100 m 3 and is used to store a volatile petroleum liquid with a vapour pressure greater than 76 kPa. Exceptions (2) These Regulations do not apply to the following facilities: (a) facilities where volatile petroleum liquids are stored or loaded exclusively for the purposes of retail fuel sales at the facilities; (b) facilities that extract petroleum from an underground geological deposit or reservoir; (c) facilities that perform primary processing of petroleum after its extraction from an underground geological deposit or reservoir to (i) remove water, carbon dioxide, sulphur compounds or contaminants from the petroleum, or (ii) separate the petroleum into gaseous and liquid streams; (d) facilities that store or load petroleum before it undergoes primary processing at a facility referred to in paragraph (c); (e) facilities that separate a petroleum feed into its individual components or fractions, if at least 90% by weight of the petroleum feed entering the facility exists as a vapour at a temperature of 20°C and an absolute pressure of 101.325 kPa; (f) offshore facilities that are located more than three nautical miles from shore; (g) facilities whose property boundary is located more than 100 km from any population centre, if (i) the loading racks at the facility are never used to load volatile petroleum liquids with a benzene concentration greater than 2% by weight, (ii) the sum of the internal volume of all tanks at the facility that are used to store volatile petroleum liquids is less than 10 000 m 3 , (iii) the total volume of volatile petroleum liquid loaded at the facility does not exceed 30 000 standard m 3 in a calendar year, and (iv) the total volume of volatile petroleum liquids loaded at the facility does not exceed 2000 standard m 3 in a day; (h) facilities where each tank used to store volatile petroleum liquids and each loading rack used to load volatile petroleum liquids is located more than 300 m from any occupied building, if (i) the tanks at the facility are never used to store, and the loading racks at the facility are never used to load, volatile petroleum liquids with a vapour pressure greater than 76 kPa or a benzene concentration greater than 2% by weight, (ii) the sum of the internal volume of all tanks at the facility that are used to store volatile petroleum liquids is less than 2000 m 3 , (iii) the total volume of volatile petroleum liquid loaded at the facility does not exceed 25 000 standard m 3 in a calendar year, and (iv) the total volume of volatile petroleum liquid loaded at the facility does not exceed 500 standard m 3 in a day; and (i) facilities where each tank used to store volatile petroleum liquids and each loading rack used to load volatile petroleum liquids is located more than 60 m from any occupied building, if (i) the tanks at the facility are never used to store, and the loading racks at the facility are never used to load, volatile petroleum liquids with a vapour pressure greater than 76 kPa or a benzene concentration greater than 2% by weight, (ii) the sum of the internal volume of all tanks at the facility that are used to store volatile petroleum liquids is less than 2000 m 3 , (iii) the total volume of volatile petroleum liquid loaded at the facility does not exceed 20 000