Kan. Admin. Regs. § 4-4-911 - Operational area containment for fertilizer
(a) Loading
pads.
(1) Each area or pad used for loading
fluid bulk fertilizer into storage containers or for unloading fluid bulk
fertilizer from storage containers into mobile containers shall be curbed and
paved with asphalt, concrete or other similar material approved by the
secretary or be otherwise adequately designed to contain and allow recovery of
any discharged fertilizer materials resulting from loading or unloading
fertilizer materials or rinsates resulting from the cleaning of fertilizer
application equipment.
(2) Each
area or pad shall be sufficient to hold the entire mobile container during
loading or unloading. This pad shall be designed, constructed and maintained to
handle all reasonably foreseeable loading conditions to which it is exposed.
Cracks and seams shall be kept sealed.
(3) Each area or pad shall be designed to
prevent accumulation and overflow resulting from precipitation.
(4) Any cleaning at the storage facility of
equipment used to apply fertilizer or fertilizer materials shall be cleaned
upon a loading pad or area described in subsections (1), (2) and (3) of this
section.
(5) Each facility where
125 tons or more of liquid fertilizer or 25 tons or more of dry fertilizer are
received into or transferred out of one or more storage containers located at
the facility during any period of 365 consecutive days shall have at least one
loading pad or area which complies with the provisions of this regulation.
(b) Catch basins.
(1) The curbed and paved surface of the
loading pad or area shall form or drain into a liquid-tight catch basin. If the
curbed and paved surface of the loading pad or area drains to a sump, the catch
basin may include the sump and an above-ground container if a pump is installed
which transfers the contents of the sump into the above-ground container.
(2) The curbed surface and catch
basin shall be of adequate design and size to contain a combined total of 110%
of the largest volume of fertilizer or fertilizer material to be loaded or
unloaded or 5,500 gallons of fluid whichever is greater and a minimum of 2,000
gallons of discharged fluid.
(d) Protection of containers and
appurtenances. Each storage container and appurtenance, including pipes, shall
be protected against any reasonably foreseeable risk of damage by trucks and
other moving vehicles engaged in the loading or unloading of bulk fertilizer.
(e) Exceptions.
(1) This regulation shall not apply to the
unloading of fertilizer or fertilizer materials from a mobile container into an
application device at the site where the fertilizer is to be applied.
(2) In lieu of the requirements of
paragraphs (a) and (b) of this regulation, a portable pad or device which
provides confinement and allows recovery of fertilizer leaks, spills or other
discharged fertilizer and which has been approved by the secretary may be used
during the loading and unloading of fertilizer from rail cars.
(3) This regulation shall not apply to the
unloading of rail cars directly into a permanent riser or manifold system which
has been approved by the secretary as part of storage facility which complies
with the requirements of K.A.R. 4-4-900 et seq.
(4) This regulation shall not apply to any
storage facility through which a volume of less than 125 tons of liquid
fertilizer or less than 25 tons of dry fertilizer is sold or transferred in any
period of 365 consecutive days.
(f) Inspection and maintenance.
(1) The operator of every storage facility
shall routinely inspect and maintain loading pads and catch basins. These
inspections shall be conducted on a regularly scheduled basis at least monthly.
(2) The operator of a storage
facility shall make a written record of each inspection and each major
maintenance or repair on the day of the inspection, maintenance or repair.
Inspection and maintenance records shall be kept at the storage site or at the
nearest local office from which the storage site and operational area is
administered.
(3) For the purposes
of this regulation, major maintenance or repair means any repair or maintenance
which requires taking the pump appurtenance or storage container affected out
of service.
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