Ohio Administrative Code › Title 3745 - Ohio Environmental Protection Agency › Chapter 3745-279 - Used Oil Management Standards › Section 3745-279-01 - Definitions- used oil management standards

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
(A) For purposes of Chapter 3745-279 of the
			 Administrative Code:
(1) "Aboveground tank"
			 means a tank used to store or process used oil that is not an
			 "underground storage tank" as defined in Chapter 1301:7-9 of the Administrative
			 Code.
(2) "Container" means any
			 portable device in which a material is stored, transported, treated, disposed
			 of, or otherwise handled.
(3)
			 "Do-it-yourselfer used oil collection center" means any site or facility that
			 accepts or aggregates and stores used oil collected
			 only from household do-it-yourselfers.
(4) "Existing tank" means a tank that is used
			 for the storage or processing of used oil and that is in operation, or for
			 which installation has commenced, on or prior to October 20, 1998. Installation
			 will be considered to have commenced if the owner or operator has obtained all
			 federal, state, and local approvals or permits necessary to begin installation
			 of the tank and if either:
(a) A continuous
			 on-site installation program has begun.
(b) The owner or operator has entered into
			 contractual obligations, which cannot be canceled or modified without
			 substantial loss, for installation of the tank to be completed within a
			 reasonable time.
(5)
			 "Household do-it-yourselfer used oil" means oil that is derived from
			 households, such as used oil generated by individuals who generate used oil
			 through the maintenance of  personal
			 vehicles.
(6) "Household
			 do-it-yourselfer used oil generator" means an individual who generates
			 "household do-it-yourselfer used oil."
(7) "New tank" means a tank
			  used to store or process used
			 oil and for which installation 
			 commenced after October 20, 1998.
(8) "Petroleum refining facility" means an
			 establishment primarily engaged in producing gasoline, kerosene, distillate
			 fuel oils, residual fuel oils, and lubricants, through fractionation, straight
			 distillation of crude oil, redistillation of unfinished petroleum derivatives,
			 cracking, or other processes (i.e., facilities classified as SIC
			 2911).
(9) "Processing" means
			 chemical or physical operations designed to produce from used oil, or to make
			 used oil more amenable for production of, fuel oils, lubricants, or other used
			 oil-derived product. Processing includes, but is not limited to, blending used oil
			 with virgin petroleum products, blending used oils to meet the fuel
			 specification, filtration, simple distillation, chemical or physical separation
			 and re-refining.
(10) "Re-refining
			 distillation bottoms" means the heavy fraction produced by vacuum distillation
			 of filtered and dehydrated used oil. The composition of still bottoms varies
			 with column operation and feedstock.
(11) "Tank" means any stationary device,
			 designed to contain an accumulation of used oil, which is constructed primarily
			 of non-earthen materials (e.g., wood, concrete, steel, plastic) that provide
			 structural support.
(12) "Used oil"
			 means any oil that has been refined from crude oil, or any synthetic oil, that
			 has been used and, as a result of that use, is contaminated by physical or
			 chemical impurities.
(13) "Used oil
			 aggregation point" means any site or facility that accepts, aggregates,
			 or
			 stores used oil collected only from other used oil generation sites owned or
			 operated by the owner or operator of the aggregation point, from which used oil
			 is transported to the aggregation point in shipments of no more than fifty-five
			 gallons. Used oil aggregation points may also accept used oil from household
			 do-it-yourselfers.
(14) "Used oil
			 burner" means a facility where used oil that does not meet the specification
			 requirements in rule
			 3745-279-11
			 of the Administrative Code is burned for energy recovery in devices identified
			 in paragraph (A) of rule
			 3745-279-61
			 of the Administrative Code.
(15)
			 "Used oil collection center" means any site or facility that is registered with
			 Ohio EPA to manage used oil and accepts
			 or aggregates and stores used oil collected from used oil generators
			 regulated under rules
			 3745-279-20
			 to
			 3745-279-24
			 of the Administrative Code that brings used oil to the collection center in
			 shipments of no more than fifty-five gallons under  rule
			 3745-279-24
			 of the Administrative Code. Used oil collection centers may also accept used
			 oil from household do-it-yourselfers.
(16) "Used oil fuel marketer" means any
			 person who conducts either of the following activities:
(a) Directs a shipment of off-specification
			 used oil from the facility to a used oil burner.
(b) First claims that used oil that is to be
			 burned for energy recovery meets the used oil fuel specifications
			  in rule
			 3745-279-11
			 of the Administrative Code.
(17) "Used oil generator" means any person,
			 by site, whose act or process produces used oil or whose act first causes used
			 oil to become subject to regulation.
(18) "Used oil processor or re-refiner" means a facility that
			 processes used oil.
(19) "Used oil
			 transfer facility" means any transportation related facility including loading
			 docks, parking areas, storage areas, and other areas where shipments of used
			 oil are held for more than twenty-four hours and not longer than thirty-five
			 days during the normal course of transportation or prior to an activity
			 performed pursuant to paragraph (B)(2) of rule
			 3745-279-20
			 of the Administrative Code. Transfer facilities that store used oil for more
			 than thirty-five days are subject to regulation under rules
			 3745-279-50
			 to
			 3745-279-59
			 of the Administrative Code.
(20)
			 "Used oil transporter" means any person who transports used oil, any person who
			 collects used oil from more than one generator and transports the collected
			 oil, and owners and operators of used oil transfer facilities. Used oil
			 transporters may consolidate or aggregate loads of used oil for purposes of
			 transportation but, with the following exception, may not process used oil.
			 Transporters may conduct incidental processing operations that occur in the
			 normal course of used oil transportation (e.g., settling and water separation),
			 but that are not designed to produce (or make more amenable for production of)
			 used oil derived products or used oil fuel.