OKLAHOMA CORPORATION COMMISSION

The Petroleum Storage Tank Division was created by a merger of the Fuel and Indemnity Fund divisions on July 1, 1998. The Division comprises four departments: Accounting, Administrative, Compliance and Inspection, and Technical. The Division enforces state and federal regulations and administers certain assistance programs applicable to the storage, quality, and delivery of refined petroleum products (i.e., gasoline and other fuels). The Division also administers the Petroleum Storage Tank Release Indemnity Fund, created by the Legislature in 1989 to help fuel storage tank owners meet a requirement for liability insurance for damage caused by leaking tanks.

The PSTD protects human health and the environment by enforcing state and federal regulations and administers certain assistance programs applicable to the storage, quality, and delivery of refined petroleum products. The Division is also responsible for administering The Petroleum Storage Tank Release Indemnity Fund.

The PSTD continuously improves the effectiveness of its activities and the customer service provided.

By 2012, the division expects to have accomplished significant modernization taking advantage of advances in information technology to increase efficiency and productivity and decrease the customer’s workload in dealing with the division. The division would like to achieve as close to a “paperless” office environment as possible. We believe that this would result in efficiencies and productivity improvements and reduce the regulatory burden to customers.

Within 24-hours of discovering evidence of released fuel, all petroleum storage tank owners, operators, their agents and/or employees must report to the Petroleum Storage Tank Division (PSTD), by telephone, at 405-521-4683 during normal working hours (8:00a.m-4:30p.m., Monday through Friday).

If after hours, on weekends or holidays, a message must be left on the answering machine.

All releases requiring emergency corrective actions must be reported immediately to the PSTD. When offices are closed, the emergency must be reported to PSTD's pager number, 405-575-5255, or the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality at 1-800-522-0206.