(i) The department shall attach a tag to the tank or tanks to identify those tanks to which delivery is prohibited and provide a written notice to the owner and operator specifying the reasons for the prohibition of delivery. The department may consider not prohibiting deliveries of petroleum for up to one hundred eighty days after a determination is made that the facility or tank meets the conditions in this subdivision if such prohibition would jeopardize the availability of, or access to, fuel in any rural and remote areas unless the department has determined that the condition at the facility endangers public health, safety or the environment.

(ii) As promptly as possible thereafter, not to exceed fifteen days, the commissioner shall provide the owner or operator an opportunity to be heard and to present proof that such condition or activity does not violate the provisions of this section or of the rules or regulations adopted pursuant to this title. The commissioner shall adopt rules and regulations describing the procedure to be followed in the prohibition of petroleum deliveries. In adopting such rules and regulations the department shall allow for the owner or operator at any time to submit information to the department to demonstrate that the owner or operator is in compliance with the requirements or has corrected the violation that prompted the department to prohibit deliveries of petroleum and to allow the tank or tanks to be, as promptly as possible, brought back into operation, not to exceed two business days from the department's determination that a tank is in compliance. The department shall use its best efforts to timely determine compliance. The commissioner shall draft such rules and regulations and submit them to the state petroleum bulk storage advisory council for comments within six months of the effective date of this subparagraph.

(iii) Unless otherwise authorized by the department, no person shall tamper with or remove, or cause the tampering with or removal of, a tag attached to any tank under the provisions of this subdivision.

(iv) No person shall deliver, cause the delivery of, deposit, or accept petroleum to any tank or tanks to which a tag is affixed pursuant to this subdivision.