McLEAN, Va. -

The Regulatory Affairs Committee of the National Automobile Dealers Association updated members this week about deadlines for compliance with spill prevention, control and countermeasure rules for oil established by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

The SPCC rules amended in 2008 provide dealerships with regulatory relief by creating a category of Tier 1 qualified facilities. Service departments are eligible if store management completes a simple, self-certified SPCC plan template in lieu of a complex written SPCC plan.

NADA said the new date that dealerships must fill out the self-certified SPCC plan template is Nov. 10, 2011.

The associated also reiterated what Tier 1 qualified facilities must have:

—10,000 or fewer gallons in aggregate aboveground oil storage capacity and no individual oil storage container of more than 5,000 gallons.

—Looking back over the last three years, no discharge of oil to navigable waters exceeding 1,000 gallons, and no two discharges of oil to navigable waters within a 12-month period that each exceeded 42 gallons.

A template to complete the necessary paperwork is available here.