New Jersey Legislature

“ Upon a finding that the loss of volume represents a leak or a discharge that is not an imminent threat to the proximate groundwater resources or public health or safety, the commissioner shall order the owner of the underground storage tank to remove, replace, or repair the underground storage tank, establish a date by which the removal, replacement, or repair shall be effected, and take any other action, or require the owner of the tank to take any action, necessary to abate, contain, clean up, or remove, or any combination thereof, the leak or discharge. ”

“ Monitoring systems may include electric or mechanical devices, monitoring wells, or any other method of monitoring approved by the department. Any regulations adopted by the department pursuant to this section requiring the installation of monitoring systems at a facility shall reflect the financial ability of an owner or operator of a facility, or classes of facilities, to install the monitoring system required by the department. (4) Require the maintaining of records of any monitoring or leak detection system, inventory control system or underground storage tank testing system. ”

“ Tanks used to store heating oil for on-site consumption in a residential building, except that for the purposes of sections 3, 7 and 8 of this act, a tank with a capacity of more than 2,000 gallons used to store heating oil for on-site consumption in a residential building shall be considered an "underground storage tank" ”