Tennessee Code 68-217-110 – Rulemaking
Terms Used In Tennessee Code 68-217-110
- Commissioner: means the commissioner of environment and conservation, or the commissioner's designee. See Tennessee Code 68-217-102
- Release: means any spilling, pouring, overfilling, leaking, leaching, emitting, discharging, or escaping of drycleaning solvents from a drycleaning facility or an in-state wholesale distribution facility or its associated piping which impacts groundwater, surface water, surface or subsurface soils. See Tennessee Code 68-217-102
- solvent: means any and all non-aqueous solvents or products used, or intended for use, in the cleaning of garments and other fabrics at a drycleaning facility and includes, but is not limited to, dense non-aqueous solvents such as chlorinated solvents like perchloroethylene (perc), also known as tetrachloroethylene, and light non-aqueous solvents such as petroleum-based solvents like Stoddard Solvent, and the products into which all such solvents or products degrade. See Tennessee Code 68-217-102
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
The commissioner shall promulgate, after public notice and an opportunity for comment, regulations to implement the duties and responsibilities as set forth in § 68-217-105, including, but not limited to, standards for evaluating releases of drycleaning solvent at or from affected drycleaning facilities, in-state wholesale distribution facilities, or abandoned drycleaning facilities and for determining what, if any, response action is necessary for any such release and standardized methods and techniques for responding to such releases and appropriate presumptive remedial responses. Such standards, methods and techniques shall, to the maximum extent practicable, be applicable to all drycleaning facilities, in-state wholesale distribution facilities and abandoned drycleaning facilities in this state, and, in any event shall be cost-effective, reasonable, and technically feasible.