98 STAT. 3278
42 USC 9601. 42 USC 6921.
PUBLIC LAW 98-616—NOV. 8, 1984 The term 'underground storgige tank' shall not include any pipes connected to any tank which is described in subparagraphs (A) through (I). "(2) The term 'regulated substance' means— "(A) any substance defined in section 101(14) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (but not including any substance regulated as a hazardous waste under subtitle C), and "(B) petroleum, including crude oil or any fraction thereof which is liquid at standard conditions of temperature and pressure (60 degrees Fahrenheit and 14.7 pounds per square inch absolute). "(3) The term 'owner' means— "(A) in the case of an underground storage tank in use on the date of enactment of the Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments of 1984, or brought into use after that date, any person who owns an underground storage tank used for the storage, use, or dispensing of regulated sustances, and "(B) in the case of any underground storage tank in use before the date of enactment of the Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments of 1984, but no longer in use on the date of enactment of such Amendments, any person who owned such tank immediately before the discontinuation of its use. "(4) The term 'operator' means any person in control of, or having responsibility for, the daily operation of the underground storage tank. "(5) The term 'release' means any spilling, leaking, emitting, discharging, escaping, leaching, or disposing from an underground storage tank into ground water, surface water or subsurface soils. "(6) The term 'person' has the same meaning as provided in section 1004(15), except that such term includes a consortium, a joint venture, and a commercial entity, and the United States Government. "(7) The term 'nonoperational storage tonk' means any underground storage tonk in which regulated substonces will not be deposited or from which regulated substonces will not be dispensed after the date of the enactment of the Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments of 1984. "NOTIFICATION
42 USC 6991a.
"SEC. 9002. (a) UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANKS.—(1) Within 18 months after the date of enactment of the Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments of 1984, each owner of an underground storage tank shall notify the Stote or local agency or department designated pursuant to subsection (b)(1) of the existence of such tonk, specifying the age, size, type, location, and uses of such tank. "(2)(A) For each underground storage tonk token out of operation after January 1, 1974, the owner of such tonk shall, within eighteen months after the date of enactment of the Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments of 1984, notify the Stote or local agency, or department designated pursuant to subsection (b)(1) of the existence of such tanks (unless the owner knows the tonk subsequently was removed from the ground). The owner of a tonk taken out of operation on or before January 1, 1974, shall not be required to notify the Stote or local agency under this subsection. "(B) Notice under subparagraph (A) shall specify, to the extent known to the owner—
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