Indiana Administrative Code
Title 355 - STATE CHEMIST OF THE STATE OF INDIANA
Article 2 - COMMERCIAL FERTILIZERS
Rule 5 - Diked Secondary Containment of Fluid Bulk Fertilizers
Section 5-1 - General requirements

Universal Citation: 355 IN Admin Code 5-1

Current through March 20, 2024

Authority: IC 15-16-2-44

Affected: IC 15-16-1

Sec. 1.

(a) Fluid fertilizer storage containers shall be located within secondary containment constructed with a base, perimeter wall, and sloped floor. An exception for a sloped floor may be granted by the state chemist.

(b) The containment area shall be separate from a secondary containment area for other materials and used only for containment of fluid fertilizer containers or other fertilizer related equipment. This subsection shall not prohibit the storage within the diked area of anhydrous ammonia when stored in compliance with rules adopted under IC 15-3-2[IC 15-3 was repealed by P.L. 2-2008, SECTION 83, effective July 1, 2008. See IC 15-16-1.]. Adjoining secondary containment areas may share common walls.

(c) Secondary containment not protected from rainfall shall at all times have a minimum capacity of one hundred percent (100%) of the volume of the largest storage container within the contained area plus the volume displaced by all the other tanks, equipment, and appurtenances in the area up to the safe design level of the containment structure plus a freeboard of six (6) inches.

(d) Secondary containment protected from rainfall is not required to have the freeboard noted in subsection (c) but shall comply with all other requirements.

(e) Secondary containment constructed before July 6, 1991, and having a capacity of a minimum of one hundred ten percent (110%) of the volume of the largest storage container within the contained area plus the volume displaced by all the other tanks in the area up to the safe design level of the containment structure shall be deemed to be in compliance with this rule. Any such storage facility, upon alteration of the secondary containment area or increases in storage container volume, shall be brought into full compliance within ninety (90) days of alteration or increase.

(f) Tile drainage shall not be permitted within or under secondary containment.

(g) Alternative means, with prior approval, shall be permitted.

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