(A) No person shall close or cause to be closed a new chemical substance source regulated pursuant to this chapter without first obtaining a closure permit from the Planning and Zoning Office. A permit shall not be issued to temporarily or permanently close a chemical substance source unless adequate plans and specifications and other appropriate information have been submitted by the applicant showing that the proposed closure meets the intent and provisions of this chapter.
(B) Closure permits shall be required for all chemical substance sources that cease to store, handle, treat, use, or produce chemical substances for a period of more than 365 days or when the owner has no intent within the next year to store, handle, treat, use, or produce regulated substances. During the period of time between cessation of chemical substance sources storage, handling, treatment, use, or production, and actual completion of chemical substance source closure, the applicable containment and monitoring requirements of this chapter shall continue to apply.
(C) Prior to closure, the chemical substance source owner shall submit to the Planning and Zoning Office a proposal describing how the owner intends to comply with closure requirements. Owners proposing to close a chemical substance source shall comply with the following requirements:
(1) Chemical substances shall be removed from the chemical substance source, including residual liquids, solids, or sludges to levels specified by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency;
(2) When a containment device is to be disposed of, the owner must document to the Planning and Zoning Office that disposal has been completed in compliance with the Act; and
(3) An owner of a containment device or any part of a containment device that is destined for reuse as scrap material shall identify this reuse to the county.
(D) The owner of a chemical substance source being closed shall demonstrate to the satisfaction of the Groundwater Protection Committee that no detectable unauthorized release has occurred or that all unauthorized releases have been cleaned up. This demonstration can be based on the ongoing leak detection monitoring or soils sampling performed during or immediately after closure activities.
(F) Chemical substance source closure will be accepted as complete by the Groundwater Protection Committee upon implementation of the closure permit conditions and compliance with all other provisions of this chapter.
(G) No person shall temporarily or permanently abandon a chemical substance source in an GWPA without complying with the requirements of this chapter.
(H) The application for a closure permit pursuant to this chapter shall be made on a form provided by the county and shall be accompanied by a fee of $200.
(I) Any person who owns or operates more than one chemical substance source in a single zone of the (GWPA) shall have the option of obtaining one permit for all simultaneous closures if the operations at each chemical substance source are similar and the permit requirements under this chapter are applicable to each chemical substance source individually.
(Prior Code, 6 TCC 6-13) Penalty, see § 97.99