Tank cleaning permit

No tank bottom waste shall be removed from any tank used for the storage or sale of crude oil without prior approval by the director. Verbal approval may be given. Prior approval to remove tank bottom waste from tanks not used for the storage or sale of crude oil is not required. Within thirty days of the removal of the tank bottom waste of any tank used for the storage or sale of crude oil, the owner or operator shall submit a report (form 10-sm) showing an accurate gauge of the contents of the tank and the amount of merchantable oil determinable from a representative sample of the tank bottom by the standard centrifugal test as prescribed by the American petroleum institute's code for measuring, sampling, and testing crude oil. Within thirty days of the removal of the tank bottom waste of any permanent tank not used for the storage or sale of crude oil, the owner or operator shall submit a sundry notice (form 4-sm) detailing the cleaning operation. All tank bottom waste must be disposed of in a manner authorized by the director and in accordance with all applicable local, state, and federal laws and regulations. Nothing contained in this section shall apply to reclaiming of pipeline break oil or the treating of tank bottoms at a pipeline station, crude oil storage terminal, or refinery or to the treating by a gasoline plant operator of oil and other catchings collected in traps and drips in the gas-gathering lines connected to gasoline plants and in scrubbers at such plants.