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 re-certified tanks
- Precision tank and piping test documentation
- Deflection tests for fiberglass tanks
- Any installation checklist documents
2. Have your leak detection records for the type of leak detection that you have on your UST system available for review
- 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
3. Any repair or upgrade records
- 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
4. A copy of a Notification of Underground Storage Tank(s) form
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
8. Remove soils from
- Overfill devices (if applicable)
- Monitoring well covers
- Submersible pump housing
