STORAGE TANK LABELS

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STORAGE TANK LABELS

• Enforcement with Regard to Enhanced Vapor
  Recovery (EVR) Upgrades

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STORAGE TANK LABELS

• Water Resources Board regulations required spill
  buckets and debris buckets to be installed
  around underground tank inlets by April 2005.
• DMS NOTICE P-05-2 advised Weights and Measures
  Officials of this requirement.

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STORAGE TANK LABELS

• Spill buckets are not removable and contain a
  valve to drain spilled engine fuel into the
  storage tank.
• Debris buckets are removable and are designed to
  trap trash and debris that may get under the fill
  access lids and plug the drain valve.

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STORAGE TANK LABELS

• Fill pipe with debris and spill bucket
  Fill pipe with debris bucket removed.
• in place. Label hidden by spill bucket.
  Label visible if debris bucket is
  removed.

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STORAGE TANK LABELS

• Debris buckets frequently hide the required
  storage tank labels.
• Drivers usually will not remove the debris bucket
  unless it is necessary to hook up their delivery
  hose.

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STORAGE TANK LABELS

• 13480(a) SALE, ETC., OF PETROLEUM PRODUCTS
  FROM UNLABELED CONTAINERS, ETC., UNLAWFUL
• It is unlawful to sell any petroleum product
  unless there is affixed to the inlet end of the
  fill pipe of each underground storage tank a
  sign or label plainly visible consisting of the
  name of the product, the brand and, in the case
  of engine fuel the grade .

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STORAGE TANK LABELS

• 13483. APPLICATION OF RULES RESPECTING
  LETTERING TO SIGNS, ETC., AT INLET END OF STORAGE
  TANKS
• The provisions of this article as to size of
  letters shall not apply to signs or labels at the
  inlet end of any underground storage tank shall
  be plainly visible while such underground storage
  tank is being filled.

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STORAGE TANK LABELS

• What is the intent of the label requirement?
• To prevent the accidental dumping of the wrong
  product into the storage tank by the delivery
  driver, weights and measures officials or service
  agents.

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STORAGE TANK LABELS

• Solutions to the visibility problem
• Affix labels both under the debris bucket and to
  the debris bucket prevents mix up of buckets
  when removed and provides label visibility.
• Affix a label that is a collar in the fill
  opening.
• Affix a label to the ground outside the fill
  cover opening.

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STORAGE TANK LABELS

• Label affixed to the ground outside the fill
  cover opening.