Oklahoma Administrative Code › Title 165 - Corporation Commission › Chapter 26 - Aboveground Storage Tanks › Subchapter 3 - Release Prevention and Detection Requirements › Part 14 - RELEASE REPORTING REQUIREMENTS › Section 165:26-3-77 - Release reporting

Current through Vol. 41, No. 20, July 1, 2024
(a) The
				  reporting requirements of this Part do not relieve the owner or operator of the
				  responsibility to take necessary corrective action pursuant to OAC 165:29 to
				  protect the public health, safety and the environment, including the
				  containment and cleanup of spills and overfills that are not required to be
				  reported by this Chapter. No person shall allow a confirmed or suspected
				  release of regulated substances from an aboveground storage tank system to
				  continue without reporting to PSTD or initiating an investigation within
				  twenty-four (24) hours of discovery as required by this Chapter. Owners and
				  operators of aboveground storage tank systems, as well as persons who transport
				  regulated substances must ensure that spills and overfills do not occur.
(b) All aboveground storage tank
				  system owners, operators, their employees or agents, or transporters must
				  report to PSTD within twenty-four (24) hours of discovering any substances,
				  conditions or monitoring results that indicate a release may have occurred
				  using the link provided on the release reporting tab on PSTD's webpage on the
				  Commission website; by email at PSTReleaseReporting@occ.ok.gov; or by telephone
				  at (405) 521-4683 or 1-888-621-5878. If after hours, or on weekends or
				  holidays, call the PSTD emergency phone number at (405) 823-0994. Owners or
				  operators must provide written confirmation to follow within twenty (20) days
				  in accordance with the requirements established in this Chapter. Events
				  indicating a release include, but are not limited to, the following:
(1) The discovery of released regulated
				  substances at the aboveground storage tank system facility or in the
				  surrounding area (such as the presence of free product or vapors in soils,
				  basements, crawlspaces, sewer and utility lines, and nearby surface water)
				  whether on-site or off-site.
(2)
				  Any unusual operating conditions observed by owners, operators, their
				  employees, or agents such as the unexplained erratic behavior of product
				  dispensing equipment, the sudden loss of product from the aboveground storage
				  tank system, or an unexplained presence of water in the tank, unless system
				  equipment is found to be defective but not leaking, and is immediately repaired
				  or replaced.
(3) In the case of
				  inventory control, two (2) consecutive thirty (30) day periods where the Total
				  Gallons Over/Short is greater than the "Leak Check" (one percent (1%) of
				  product sales plus 130 gallons) must be reported to PSTD within twenty-four
				  (24) hours of the owner, operator, their employees, or agents discovering the
				  inventory control results.
(4)
				  Monitoring results from a release detection method required by this Chapter
				  that indicate a release may have occurred unless the monitoring device is found
				  to be defective, and is immediately repaired, recalibrated, or replaced, and
				  additional monitoring does not confirm the initial result.