Underground Storage Tanks and Solid Waste Disposal Control Board

Meeting Details  (Revised 07/22/2021)

August 4, 2021 - 9:30 AM CDT

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Meeting Number: 1728 93 0699

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Supporting Documents

• Tentative Agenda
• Hazardous Waste Pharmaceutical Rule 0400-12-01 Amendments - Redline Version
• Hazardous Waste Pharmaceutical Rule 0400-12-01 Amendments - Signature Version
  
• UST Enforcement Update August 2021
  

Board Characteristics

Fourteen (14) members: twelve appointed by the Governor for four-year terms upon expiration of initial appointments; two ex officio voting members.

Primarily functions to:

    -Promulgate rules
    -Interpret regulations
    -Hear appeals of permitting and enforcement actions

The Board meets at least four times a year to fulfill its duties.

Members include:

• one person engaged in a field directly related to agriculture;
• one person employed by, or is the owner of, a private petroleum concern with at least 10 years of experience owning or operating a wholesale or retail gasoline business with management responsibility for at least 15 underground storage tanks;
• one person who is employed by a private manufacturing concern in Tennessee who shall have a college degree in engineering or the equivalent and at least eight (8) years of combined technical training and experience in permit compliance and management of solid wastes or hazardous wastes;
• one person employed by a private manufacturing concern in Tennessee who shall have a college degree in engineering or the equivalent and at least eight (8) years of combined technical training and experience in the management of petroleum underground storage tanks and hazardous materials;
• one person who is a registered engineer or geologist or qualified land surveyor with knowledge of management of solid wastes or hazardous materials or the management of underground storage tanks from the faculty of an institution of higher learning;
• one person knowledgeable of the management of solid wastes, hazardous materials, or underground storage tanks to represent environmental interests;
• one representative of county governments;
• one representative of municipal governments;
• a small generator of solid wastes or hazardous materials representing automotive interests;
  
• one person employed by a private petroleum concern with experience in the management of petroleum;
• one person engaged in the business of management of solid wastes or hazardous materials;
• one person who is employed by, or is the owner of, a private petroleum concern with at least five (5) years of experience owning or operating a wholesale or retail gasoline business with management responsibility for no more than five (5) underground storage tanks;
• Commissioners of Economic and Community Development and Environment and Conservation (or their designees).

Commissioned under T.C.A. 68-211-111.

The statute authorizing this board expires June 30, 2022 and the one-year wind-down period begins.

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