COMPLIANCE INSPECTIONS

Periodically inspectors from the Underground Storage Tank Branch will send you a letter to let you know that your facility will be inspected on a certain day and time. On the day of the inspection, you should have the following items ready:

1. Installation records for any tank system installed after 12/22/88

• Installer's name
• Documentation of new or recertified tanks
• Precision tank and piping test documentation
• deflection tests for fiberglass tanks
• any installation checklist documents
  
  

• Monitoring well records
• Automatic tank gauging records
• Daily and Monthly Inventory Reports and last tank tightness test results
• Statistical inventory reconciliation reports
• Interstice inspection records
• Manual record keeping forms
• Annual automatic line leak detector test results
• Line tightness test results
  
  

• Documentation of installation of spill and overfill prevention
• Documentation of installation of cathodic protection
• Documentation that upgraded components were sound when brought up to required standards
  
  

5. Have your corrosion protection (if applicable) tests and checks available

6. Make accessible cathodic protection test points

7. Have keys to

• your dispensers
• submersible pump manways
• overfill device
• monitoring wells
  
  

• overfill devices (if applicable)
• monitoring well covers
• submersible pump housing
  
  

• Any repairs or upgrades of tank or piping
• Any repairs to your leak detection system(s)
• Any repairs to your corrosion protection system
• Any repairs to your spill prevention system
• Any repairs to your overfill prevention system
  

• Copies of MDEQ closure reports
• Copies of analytical results of samples, and
• Copies of chain-of-custody reports for samples
• Copies of manifests for the disposal of any contaminated soil, water, or tank sludge
  
  

• Tanks
• Piping
  
  

• Impressed Current System - Keep results of last three inspections of the system to ensure that it is working properly and of the last two tests conducted by a qualified cathodic protection tester.
• Sacrificial Anodes - Keep records of the last two tests conducted by a qualified cathodic protection tester.
  
  

• Installer's name
• Documentation of new or recertified tanks
• Precision tank and piping test documentation
• deflection tests for fiberglass tanks
• any installation checklist documents
  
  

• You should notify the MDEQ 30 days in advance of the planned installation date of the new UST system by completing a Notice of Upcoming Installation of Underground Storage Tanks form.
  
  
• You must use a contractor who has certification from the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) to install USTs. For a list of companies who have certified workers, click here.
  
  
• Within 30 days of bringing the new UST system in to use, you must submit a completed Notification for Underground Storage Tanks form to MDEQ. The owner's and certified installer's signatures are required on this form.
  
  
• You must pay the annual tank fees. Once you submit the Notification for Underground Storage Tanks form, you will be assessed a $100 per tank fee on the newly installed tanks.
  
  

• Complete a Mississippi Change In Ownership for Underground Storage Tanks form.
  
  

• If you plan to replace the old piping with new piping or an exiting tank with a new tank, you must follow closure procedures for the tank and piping (See Closure Guidance Document). Then you must follow installation procedures for the new piping and tank installation.
  
  
• If you change your leak detection method like from monitoring wells to automatic tank gauging, just indicate the changes on a Notification for Underground Storage Tank form and submit it to this office.
  
  

• Submit a Notice of Intent to Permanently Close Underground Storage Tank System(s) form to this office at least 30 days before the closure begins.
  
  
• Select a remover from a list of companies that employ persons who have been certified by the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality to install, alter, and/or remove underground storage tanks.

1. Listing of companies by State and City
2. Listing of companies alphabetical by Company Name
   
   
• Conduct the permanent closure in accordance with the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality's permanent closure policy.
  
  
• Submit a Underground Storage Tank System Closure Report form and all required information upon completion of the permanent closure.
  1. Laboratory results of any sampling (MDEQ does not regulate laboratories)
  2. Completed Chain of Custody form
  3. Manifests for the disposal of any contaminated soils, waters, or tank sludges
  4. A detailed site drawing
     
     

• Guidelines for the Permanent Closure of Petroleum Underground Storage Tank Systems
• Tank Closure Without Tears
• Regulations for the Certification of Persons Who Install, Alter, and Remove Underground Storage Tanks
• Underground Storage Tank Typical Clean up Levels

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