Title 23.1 — Environmental Quality

For purposes of this chapter: 1. "Aboveground storage tank" means any one or a combination of aboveground containers, vessels, or enclosures, including associated piping or appurtenances used to store an accumulation of refined petroleum products that is not an underground storag…

The department shall: 1. Administer and enforce this chapter. 2. Administer aboveground storage tank programs under this chapter. 3. Adopt, modify, repeal, and enforce rules governing the aboveground storage tanks. 4. Enter agreements with other local, state, or federal agencies …

The department shall adopt rules: 1. For maintaining a leak detection method or combination of methods designed to identify releases in a manner consistent with the protection of human health and the environment. 2. For maintaining records of any monitoring of a leak detection sy…

The department by rule may provide for the payment and collection of reasonable fees for the issuance of permits for registering, licensing, or permitting aboveground storage tanks. The permit fees must be based on the anticipated cost of filing and processing the application, ta…

To develop or enforce any rule authorized by this chapter or enforce a requirement of this chapter, any duly authorized representative or employee of the department may, upon presentation of appropriate credentials, at any reasonable time: 1. Enter any place, facility, or site at…

Upon receipt of information that a release from an aboveground storage tank may present an imminent and substantial endangerment to health or the environment, the department may take emergency action as necessary to protect health or the environment.

1. If the department finds a person is in violation of a permit, rule, standard, or requirement of this chapter, the department may issue an order requiring the person to comply with the permit, rule, standard, or requirement, and the department may bring an action for a civil pe…