PERFORMANCE STANDARDS FOR NEW DRY CLEANING FACILITIES

(a) The commission by rule shall adopt performance standards for a new dry cleaning facility. (b) Rules adopted under this section must allow for the use of new technologies as they become available. (c) Rules adopted under this section must require: (1) proper storage and disposal of wastes generated at the facility that contain any quantity of chlorinated dry cleaning solvent; (2) compliance with emissions standards for hazardous air pollutants for perchloroethylene dry cleaning facilities adopted by the United States Environmental Protection Agency on September 22, 1993; (3) dikes or other containment structures to be: (A) installed around each dry cleaning unit that uses chlorinated dry cleaning solvents and each storage area for chlorinated dry cleaning solvents or waste; and (B) capable of containing any leak, spill, or release of chlorinated dry cleaning solvent; (4) secondary containment for all new or replaced dry cleaning units, regardless of the solvent used; (5) all diked floor surfaces on which any chlorinated dry cleaning solvent may leak, spill, or otherwise be released to be made of epoxy, steel, or another material impervious to chlorinated dry cleaning solvents; and (6) all chlorinated dry cleaning solvents to be delivered to dry cleaning facilities by means of closed, direct-coupled delivery systems, when those systems have become generally available. (d) Rules adopted under this section shall ensure that wastewater from a dry cleaning unit using chlorinated dry cleaning solvent or discharge of chlorinated dry cleaning solvent is not discharged to a sanitary sewer, to a septic tank, or to water of this state.