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Terms Used In Vermont Statutes Title 10 Sec. 1924

  • following: when used by way of reference to a section of the law shall mean the next preceding or following section. See
  • Operator: means any person in control of, or having responsibility for, the daily operation of the underground or aboveground storage tank. See
  • Owner: means :

  • Release: means any spilling, leaking, emitting, discharging, escaping, leaching, or disposing from an underground storage tank or aboveground storage tank into groundwater, surface water, or soils. See
  • Secretary: means the Secretary of Natural Resources or the Secretary's duly authorized representative. See
  • Tank integrity demonstration: means a test or a series of tests or other appropriate procedures prescribed by the Secretary to ascertain the condition of an underground storage tank and its surroundings. See
  • Underground storage tank: means any one or combination of tanks, including underground pipes connected to it or them, that is or has been used to contain an accumulation of regulated substances, and the volume of which, including the volume of the underground pipes connected to it or them, is 10 percent or more beneath the surface of the ground. See

§ 1924. Integrity report

The owner or operator of an underground storage tank may be ordered by the Secretary to complete a tank integrity demonstration in the following circumstances:

(1) when the Secretary has reason to suspect there is or has been a release, or

(2) when in the Secretary’s opinion the age, operation, or conditions surrounding the installation, or any combination of the above, so warrant. (Added 1985, No. 66, § 1.)