Division Outreach (Durango) November 16, 2009
Outreach Presentations
Division Overview
The mission of the Division of Oil and Public Safety (OPS) is to maximize the
protection of consumers, retailers, refiners of petroleum products, users of
explosives, boiler owners and public school students in the areas of safety,
product quality, accurate measurement, and safe building design. The
Division maximizes protection of public health and the environment from
contamination caused by leaking petroleum storage tanks and prevention of
releases from all regulated storage tanks; the Division maximizes effective
administration of the Petroleum Storage Tank Fund.
Public Records Center
Petroleum Storage Tank Committee Policy 4
Proposed changes
to PSTC Policy 4 (PDF)
were approved by the Committee at its 12/19/08 meeting. The new
policy will be applied to all releases occurring on or after
7/1/09.
Changes in State Fund requirements for
release detection records
At the December
19, 2008 PSTC meeting, the Committee approved a change in the
requirements for release detection records. Effective for all
releases occurring on or after 7/1/09, 12 months of release
detection records (six months more than previously required) will be
required for responsible tank owner/operators.
The new
applications are to be used for releases occurring on or after
7/1/09.
Original
Application 2009 (Word)
(Excel)
Any questions
regarding changes to Policy 4 or release detection records
requirements should be directed to
tiffany.becker@state.co.us
