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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".07" citation="COMAR 26.10.15.07" title_num="26" subtitle_num="10" chapter_num="15" heading="Closure Requirements.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>Upon the termination of used oil operations, an owner, an operator, and a person in charge of an oil handling or oil storage facility that collects, stores, transports, transfers, processes, re-refines, recycles, burns as fuel, or otherwise manages used oil shall comply with the closure requirements of this regulation.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>Facility Closure. An owner, an operator, and a person in charge an oil handling or oil storage facility described in §A of this regulation shall:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Remove or decontaminate used oil residues in storage tank systems, containers and contaminated secondary containment system components and used oil-contaminated soils, structures and equipment;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Unless determined to be nonhazardous waste under COMAR 26.13.02.15—.19 or COMAR 26.13.10.05, manage used oil residuals or used oil-contaminated material as hazardous waste; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>If the owner, the operator, and the person in charge of the facility demonstrates not all contaminated soils can be practicably removed or decontaminated as required in §B(1) of this regulation, close the storage tank system and perform post-closure care at the facility in accordance with the requirements for a hazardous waste landfill in COMAR 26.13.06.22B(3).</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="C.">
    <text>Underground Storage Tanks. An owner, an operator, and a person in charge of an oil handling or oil storage facility storing used oil in a UST shall comply with the temporary or permanent closure requirements in COMAR 26.10.10.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="D.">
    <text>Aboveground Storage Tanks. An owner, an operator, and a person in charge of an oil handling or oil storage facility storing used oil in an AST shall comply with the temporary or permanent closure requirements in COMAR 26.10.17 or 26.10.18.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="E.">
    <text>Containers. An owner, an operator, and a person in charge of an oil handling or oil storage facility storing used oil in containers shall:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Remove used oil residues from containers;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Remove containers that stored used oil and any used oil residues from the site; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>Unless determined to be nonhazardous waste under COMAR 26.13.02.15—.19 or COMAR 26.13.10.05, manage the materials as hazardous waste.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="F.">
    <text>An owner, an operator, and a person in charge of an oil handling or oil storage facility conducting a removal or decontamination processes in accordance with this regulation that generates air emissions shall meet all applicable air quality requirements in COMAR 26.11.</text>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>