New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 20 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
Chapter 5 - PETROLEUM STORAGE TANKS
Part 109 - NEW AND UPGRADED ABOVE GROUND STORAGE TANK SYSTEMS: DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION, AND INSTALLATION
Section 20.5.109.913 - GENERAL PERFORMANCE STANDARDS FOR PIPING

Universal Citation: 20 NM Admin Code 20.5.109.913

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 6, March 26, 2024

A. Owners and operators shall properly design and construct new piping, provide project drawings, initially test piping, and ensure that any steel portion of piping that routinely contains regulated substances and is in contact with an electrolyte, such as soil or water, shall be protected from corrosion, in accordance with the current edition of an industry standard or code of practice developed by a nationally recognized association or independent testing laboratory approved in advance by the department. Owners and operators shall use one or more of the following to comply with the requirements of this section:

(1) third party certification from a nationally recognized laboratory;

(2) American Society of Mechanical Engineering Standard B31.3, "Process Piping";

(3) American Society of Testing and Materials A53, "Standard Specification for Pipe, Steel, Black and Hot-Dipped, Zinc-Coated, Welded and Seamless";

(4) American Society of Testing and Materials A106, "Standard Specification for Seamless Carbon Steel Pipe for High-Temperature Service"; or

(5) American Society of Testing and Materials A135, "Standard Specification for Electric-Resistance-Welded Steel Pipe".

B. Owners and operators shall ensure that piping is compatible with any regulated substance conveyed in accordance with 20.5.110.1009 NMAC.

C. Owners and operators shall protect all piping from impact, settlement, vibration, expansion, corrosion, and damage by fire.

D.Owners and operators shall install a containment sump at any point where piping transitions from above the surface of the ground to below the ground surface. Containment sumps shall be either listed in accordance with an industry standard or code of practice developed by a nationally recognized association or independent testing laboratory for use with flammable and combustible liquids or approved prior to installation by the Department in accordance with the alternate methods requirements in 20.5.109.920 NMAC.

E. If owners and operators install more than one type of piping at a storage tank system, then owners and operators shall comply with the requirements applicable to each type of piping for that run of piping.

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