Wisconsin Administrative Code
Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection
ATCP 90-139 - Trade and Consumer Protection
Chapter ATCP 93 - Flammable, Combustible, And Hazardous Liquids
Section ATCP 93.010 - Purpose

(1) In accordance with ss. 101.02(15) (a) and 101.14(1) (a), Stats., to provide fire and life safety through the safe storage, display, installation, operation, use, maintenance and transportation of flammable, combustible and hazardous liquids and the equipment, facilities, buildings and premises that are used to store, transfer and dispense them.

(2) To comply with s. 168.23(1), Stats.

Note: Section 168.23(1), Stats., reads in part:

The department shall promulgate by rule construction, maintenance and abandonment standards applicable to tanks for the storage, handling or use of liquids that are flammable or combustible or are federally regulated hazardous substances, and to the property and facilities where the tanks are located, for the purpose of protecting the waters of the state from harm due to contamination by liquids that are flammable or combustible or are federally regulated hazardous substances.

Note: The definition of federally regulated hazardous substances in s. 168.21(3), Stats., corresponds to the CERCLA List of Hazardous Substances and Reportable Quantities contained in 40 CFR 302.4, Table 302.4.

Note: The definition of "waters of the state," as used in s. 168.21, Stats., is found in s. 281.01(18), Stats., and reads as follows:

Waters of the state" includes those portions of Lake Michigan and Lake Superior within the boundaries of this state, and all lakes, bays, rivers, streams, springs, ponds, wells, impounding reservoirs, marshes, watercourses, drainage systems and other surface water or groundwater, natural or artificial, public or private, within this state or its jurisdiction.

(3) To comply with the flammable and combustible liquid related provisions of subtitle I of the federal Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments of 1984, Public Law 98-616, which extended and strengthened the provisions of the Solid Waste Disposal Act as amended by the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, also known as RCRA, of 1976 as contained in 42 USC 6912 and 6991.

(4) In accordance with s. 168.16, Stats., to establish standards for storing and dispensing motor fuel in a manner that does not compromise any minimum product grade specifications achieved under ch. ATCP 94.