Underwriters Laboratories Canada

Underwriters Laboratories of Canada (ULC) publishes a number of standards for aboveground tanks and accessories. All the following pertain to the aboveground storage of flammable liquids and combustible liquids such as gasoline, fuel oil, or similar products with a relative density not greater than 1.0 ... 

The Eastern Forest Products Laboratory (12,71) at Ottawa, Ontario, has been active in development of leach-resistant treatments using melamine or urea with dicyandiamide, formaldehyde, and phosphoric acid. Decay resistance is also shown for a urea-based treatment (72). One stystem has met the requirements for Class C wood roofing under ASTM El08 by Underwriters Laboratories of Canada (12,73). This treatment, or one similar, is expected to be introduced into the United States within the year as an approved exterior-type leach-resistant treatment. 

Note USA and Canada have adopted most of the IEC Standards up to 1998. The following survey correlates the IEC Standard with the corresponding national (USA and Canada) standard for Class I apparatus (by courtesy of Underwriters Laboratories Inc., Northbrook, Illinois/USA) ... 

CLC-S603.1-M Standard for Galvanic Corrosion Protection Systems for Steel Underground Tanks for Flammable and Combustible Liquids, Underwriters Laboratories of Canada. 

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