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Environmental Management and Pollution Control (Underground Petroleum Storage Systems) Regulations 2020
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Environmental Management and Pollution Control (Underground Petroleum Storage Systems) Regulations 2020
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(1) In this regulation –
cathodic protection has the same meaning as in AS 4897.
(2) An infrastructure owner of a storage system must ensure that the storage system is not allowed to be in use unless all components of the storage system that are, or are intended to be, in contact with petroleum are made of, or lined with, substances that are compatible with the petroleum stored in the storage system.
Penalty: Fine not exceeding 100 penalty units.
(3) A substance is compatible with petroleum for the purposes of subregulation (2) if both the substance and petroleum maintain, under conditions likely to be encountered in a storage system, their respective physical and chemical properties when they come in contact with one another.
(4) An infrastructure owner of a storage system that incorporates cathodic protection must ensure that the cathodic protection is maintained and tested in accordance with the requirements of AS 4897.
Penalty: Fine not exceeding 100 penalty units.