Mississippi Administrative Code
Title 11 - Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality
Part 5 - Underground Storage Tank Regulations
Chapter 3 - Underground Storage Tank Regulations for the Certification of Persons Who Install, Alter, Test, and Permanently Close Underground Storage Tanks (Adopted January 24, 1990; Amended September 28, 1995; Last Amended August 23, 2018)
Rule 11-5-3.1 - General Intent

The purpose of these Regulations is to provide for the certification and regulation of persons installing, altering, testing, and permanently closing underground storage tank (UST) systems which contain regulated substances. These regulations are promulgated to assure that UST systems are being installed, altered, tested, and permanently closed in a manner which will not cause or contribute to releases of regulated substances as defined in Section 49-17-403, Mississippi Annotated Code of 1972, and will protect the environment, the public health, safety, and welfare.

Miss. Code Ann. §§ 49-17-429, 49-2-9(1)(b), 49-17-17(i), 49-17-401, et seq., 49-2-1, et seq. and 49-17-1, et seq.