Colorado § 8-20.5-204 - Installation and upgrading of underground storage tanks.

§ 8-20.5-204. Installation and upgrading of underground storage tanks.

(1) Plans for any installation of a new underground storage tank and plans for the complete upgrading of an existing underground storage tank shall be submitted by the owner or operator of the proposed or existing underground storage tank to the director of the division of oil and public safety for approval prior to such installation or upgrading.

(2) Plans for the installation of a new underground storage tank or for the complete upgrading of an existing underground storage tank shall be in compliance with the rules promulgated pursuant to section 8-20.5-202 (1). The director of the division of oil and public safety or a designee shall approve or reject proposed plans and amendments thereto within twenty working days after submittal of the plan. If no action is taken by the director of the division of oil and public safety or a designee within twenty working days after submittal, the plans shall be deemed approved.

(3) In an emergency situation the director of the division of oil and public safety shall respond to plans within twenty-four hours.

(4) The director of the division of oil and public safety or a designee shall make an on-site inspection of every new installation and every upgrading of an existing underground storage tank prior to the operational start-up of such tank to ensure that all of the standards established in this part 2 have been met. The director of the division of oil and public safety or a designee shall complete the on-site inspection within ten calendar days prior to the anticipated operational start-up date. For the purposes of this subsection (4), a designee may be an underground storage tank inspector when licensed as such by the director of the division of oil and public safety.

(5) All installations and inspections of underground storage tanks shall be performed in accordance with the rules promulgated by the director of the division of oil and public safety pursuant to section 8-20.5-202 (1).

(6) The director of the division of oil and public safety shall establish a fee to be paid by each person submitting plans pursuant to subsection (1) of this section for on-site inspection. The fees paid pursuant to this subsection (6) shall be:

(a) Used for the administration of this section; and

(b) No more than necessary to offset the direct costs of the inspections conducted pursuant to subsections (4) and (5) of this section, but in no event more than one hundred fifty dollars.

Source: L. 95: Entire article added, p. 402, § 1, effective July 1. L. 2001: (1) to (5) and IP(6) amended, p. 1128, § 49, effective June 5.

Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 8-20-505 as it existed prior to 1995.