Diesel tanks in michigan

I am wanting to install an above ground diesel tank in Michigan on my farm. What are the requirements to putting in a skid tank say 500 gallon or so? Who sells new ones or should i go with a good used one?

check with your fuel supplier

You need secondary containment for at least half of the capacity.

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Michigan Rules

Contact Steel Tank & Fabricationg in Mancelona, MI and they can build you anything you need. Phone number is 231-587-8412

In Nebraska they're checking with google or drive by looking. 500 gallon limit, above that containment. Go buy a cheap carport and enclose it so they won't see your tank.

You do not need containment until you go above 1100 gallons of TOTAL storage. This includes barrels of oil so even if you only have two 500 gallon tanks but you have three 55 gallon barrels of oil. You would be supposed to have containment structures because of the oil barrels putting you over the 1100 gallon limit. That is even of the oil barrels are stored inside. You would have to have containment structures on all of the fuel/oil storage. This includes the inside barrels.

Think about floor drains in your shop. They do not want an oil barrel leaking on the floor and then running out a floor drain.

The EPA will check this while doing manure management plan checks.

Above 1100 gallons you need to comply with containment and different set back laws. For the average smaller farmer just keep smaller tanks. Say two 350 gallon tanks and then you would not have to have containment structures.

Just had to take a class on this because of the amount of fuel we store. Iowa DNR had the classes. It is new Federal rules taking effect sometime this year. The effective date has been moved several times already.

I have a thousand gal. with containment that I will give you a deal on in NH.

I'd check with the supplier. The cost at 500 gallons might not be very good. I'd doubt that you would get much of a price break, if any. It does cost something to run that truck out there to fill it.

Why not check with your fuel supplier

EPA SPCC rule goes into full effect May 10th. If you have 1320 total gallons or more of above ground storage in 55-gallon or larger containers (including tanks like those mounted in a truck bed or on a trailer to transport fuel to the field) will need a plan in place by then that encompasses all of your storage. Remember a 500 gallon tank is actually a 550, etc. Storage capacity is what they're looking at, not how much of that storage you actually use.

http://www.epa.gov/OEM/content/spcc/spcc_ag.htm

Note that it's not just fuels. EPA says that ...."diesel fuel, gasoline, lube oil, hydraulic oil, adjuvant oil, crop oil, vegetable oil or animal fat" all apply. If you feel the rule doesn't apply to you, "EPA recommends that you document the reasons why you think an oil spill would not reach water to demonstrate to regional inspectors, if necessary, that your facility is not subject to the SPCC rule". You'll be inspected eventually even if your farm isn't subject to this rule. You will have to prove you are right or prove you're in compliance, even if you think "innocent until proven guilty" applies. If it comes down to your interpretation of "if my farm could reasonably discharge oil into or upon navigable waters or adjoining shorelines" and the EPA's, the EPA will win or try to bankrupt you to prove their point. The implementation of this "rule" has been delayed several times and they're chompin' at the bit to start enforcing it.

Talk to your fuel supplier on the tank. They'll also know about any other fed/state/local laws that apply.


[b:e70eb2fc7b][size=18:e70eb2fc7b][/size:e70eb2fc7b]EDIT[/b:e70eb2fc7b][size=12:e70eb2fc7b][/size:e70eb2fc7b] It appears that perhaps funding to enforce SPCC may be delayed another 180 days as per this thread. http://talk.newagtalk.com/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=378989&mid=3010212#M3010212
Even if this is true, the compliance date on the EPA's site is still May 10. The money just isn't there to enforce it for another 180 days. Guess what happens if inspected 180+ days later and you don't have a plan dated May 10 or earlier? Hopefully this BS is done away with entirely. It's paperwork that's nothing more than a preventative measure for a preventative measure, and not an actual preventative measure for a potential problem.

AG

Local Farmers Co-op, bulk fuel supplier, has
tanks, makes deliveries, should know the rules!
(but don't depend on them if it becomes a legal
matter)

So THAT'S why they want to classify every mud puddle that they can find as a 'navigable waterway'.