Portland metro · older Willamette Valley stock
Decommissioned heating oil tanks
Decommissioned heating oil tanks in Oregon: what it is, why it matters here, how it shows up in a report, and what it means for a transaction.
Why this sits outside a standard inspection
OAR 812-008-0203 makes an Oregon home inspection visual and not technically exhaustive. OAR 812-008-0204 excludes underground items, items not permanently installed, and the determination of environmental hazards.
That is adopted rule, not custom. It is the reason this finding needs a specialist rather than a generalist, and the reason the only existing coverage tends to be written by the companies selling the remediation.
Inspections undertaken in accordance with division 8 are visual and are not technically exhaustive.
OAR 812-008-0203(1)
Portland metro · older Willamette Valley stock
Decommissioned heating oil tanks
Verified fields
Public database
- finding
- Your DEQ Online Public Records Portal is searchable by street address. This is the highest-value single finding for the issue layer.
- workflow leak
- Select Projects, then Project Type 'Leaking Heating Oil Tank'.
- deq search tip
- For the best results, use only the house number and street name, for example '1111 Main'.
- ui
- Blue info button opens record detail. Red PDF button opens documents.
- date cutoff
- Projects started AFTER 2024-04-03 are mostly in the portal. Before that, additional records may not be online and require a public records request.
- records request
- https://www.oregon.gov/deq/about-us/Pages/Request-Public-Record.aspx
Fees
- effective
- 2024-04-16
Cleanup standards
- sampling expiry
- DEQ will not accept site assessment data more than 90 days old. This is the practical clock on any transaction.
- rule
- OAR 340-177
- generic remedy qualifiers
- Release from a UST, Product is heating oil or diesel #2 only, No groundwater in the tank pit or borings, No free product, No ecological risk
- soil storage
- Contaminated soil may be stored on site up to 30 days on plastic, bermed and covered.
Licensed providers
- status
- URL confirmed correct, but see the outage flag above.
- deq position
- DEQ does not recommend contractors. It suggests also checking CCB at 503-378-4621 extension 4900.
- phone
- 503-229-6170
Why this is outside a home inspection
- rule
- Home inspectors are not required to report on underground items, and the plumbing standard covers only ABOVE GROUND oil storage.
- consequence
- An underground tank locate is outside the standard Oregon home inspection by rule, not by custom. See statewide/inspection-scope-spine.json.
Cleanup options confirmed
- rule
- OAR 340-177-0065 Cleanup Options and Technical Requirements
- confirms
- The three cleanup paths recorded in this file are correct and are named in the rule in this order.