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SB 843 Aboveground storage tanks; Water Control Board to develop performance standards for certain tanks.

Introduced by: J. Chapman Petersen | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles | history

SUMMARY AS PASSED:

Aboveground storage tanks. Requires the State Water Control Board to develop standards for facilities with aboveground storage tanks in the City of Fairfax having an aggregate capacity of one million gallons or greater, existing prior to January 29, 1992, to upgrade to meet best practices standards for new or retrofitted tanks. The tanks have to meet these performance standards by July 1, 2021. This bill is identical to HB 2103 (Bulova).

SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE:

Aboveground storage tanks; retrofitted tanks; allocation of proceeds from civil penalties. Requires the State Water Control Board to establish performance standards to incorporate all reasonable technologies designed to prevent oil discharges at facilities with aboveground storage tanks having an aggregate capacity of one million gallons or greater, existing prior to January 29, 1992, and located in a city surrounded by a county wherein the urban county executive form of government is in effect .

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Aboveground storage tanks; retrofitted tanks; allocation of proceeds from civil penalties.  Requires the State Water Control Board to develop standards for facilities with aboveground storage tanks having an aggregate capacity of one million gallons or greater to upgrade to meet best practices standards for new or retrofitted tanks. The tanks have to meet these performance standards by July 1, 2021. The bill also provides that civil penalties assessed and collected for petroleum spills shall be first allocated to immediate corrective actions to contain or mitigate the effects of any release of petroleum into the environment from such violation before being paid into the Virginia Underground Petroleum Storage Tank Fund.