Indiana Administrative Code › Title 327 - WATER POLLUTION CONTROL DIVISION › Article 2 - WATER QUALITY STANDARDS › Rule 10 - Secondary Containment of Aboveground Storage Tanks Containing Hazardous Materials › Section 10-4 - Definitions

Current through July 10, 2024
Authority: IC
				  13-18-5
Affected: IC
				  13-11-2
Sec. 4.
For the purposes of this rule, the following terms are
				  defined as follows:
(1) "Aboveground
				storage tank" means a stationary device designed to structurally support,
				enclose, and contain an accumulation of liquid hazardous materials on or above
				the surface of the ground, and which is constructed of nonearthen materials,
				such as concrete, metal, or plastic.
(2) "Board" has the meaning set forth in IC
				13-11-2-17(d).
(3) "Commissioner" has the meaning set forth
				in IC
				13-11-2-35(a).
(4) "Department" has the meaning set forth in
				IC
				13-11-2-51.
(5) "Discharge" means the leaking, leaching,
				escaping, or disposing from an aboveground storage tank, storage area, or
				transfer area into secondary containment.
(6) "Drum" means a nonstationary container
				that holds between ten (10) and one hundred (100) gallons of a liquid hazardous
				material.
(7) "Facility" has the
				meaning set forth in IC
				13-11-2-77(c).
(8) "Hazardous material" has the meaning set
				forth in IC
				13-11-2-96(a)
				 or means a mixture that contains at least
				one (1) of the substances specified in IC
				13-11-2-96(a).
(9) "Liquid" means a nongaseous state of
				matter that, at sixty (60) degrees Fahrenheit and atmospheric pressure, will
				take the shape of its container immediately upon being placed in such
				container.
(10) "Mixture" means a
				combination of materials that contains at least one (1) of the substances
				defined as a hazardous material under this rule in a quantity greater than or
				equal to ten percent (10%) by volume.
(11) "Operator" means a person who is
				responsible for overall operation of a facility, including a private contractor
				conducting operational activities at a facility.
(12) "Owner" means a person who holds title
				to, controls, or owns an interest in a facility with an aboveground storage
				tank, storage area, or transfer area. "Owner" does not include a unit of
				federal, state, or local government that has acquired ownership or control
				involuntarily through bankruptcy, tax delinquency, abandonment, or other
				circumstances in which the governmental unit involuntarily acquired title
				because of the unit's function as sovereign, except if the unit causes or
				contributes to the release or threatened release of a hazardous
				material.
(13) " Person" has the
				meaning set forth in IC
				13-11-2-158(a).
(14) "Petroleum facility" has the meaning set
				forth in IC
				13-11-2-161.
(15) "Portable tank" means a nonstationary
				container that holds one hundred (100) gallons to one thousand (1,000) gallons
				of a liquid hazardous material.
(16) "Process tank" means a vessel or other
				container used for the mixing or batching of chemicals, feeds, wastewater, or
				other components, or for the preparation of one (1) or more components, leading
				to the production of a desired product. The term includes all attached piping
				and other fixtures necessary for the intended operation of the vessel or
				container.
(17) "Secondary
				containment" has the meaning set forth in IC
				13-11-2-197.
(18) "Spill" means any unexpected,
				unintended, abnormal, or unapproved dumping, leakage, drainage, seepage,
				discharge, or other loss of petroleum, hazardous substances, extremely
				hazardous substances, or objectionable substances. The term does not include
				releases to impermeable surfaces when the substance does not migrate off the
				surface or penetrate the surface and enter the soil.
(19) "Stationary" means designed and
				constructed to be:
(A) immobile;
(B) with fixed piping;
(C) permanently attached to a surface;
				or
(D) not designed to be moved
				when filled.