SPILL CONTINGENCY PLANS

United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) As part of its strategy to prevent the contamination of the nation’s water supply due to oil spills, The United States Environmental Protection Agency requires that certain facilities develop and implement SPCC Plans.
Visit the EPA webstite or the Oil Spill Pages on the EPA site. Freedom Environmental Services is ready to assist your company in the development of an SPCC Plan (Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasures Plan). Completing an SPCC Plan brings your facility into compliance with the series of new US EPA regulations and associated amendments finalized up through May 16, 2007.
The new rule as presented in 40 CFR Part 112 is effective August 16, 2002. Various amendments have also been finalized that streamline regulatory requirements and provide extensions to the compliance dates. As of the final amendment, an oil storage facility that began operation on or before August 16, 2002, must maintain its existing Plan, or amend and implement no later than July 1. 2009. Significant changes to the rule have included new threshold aggregate values, secondary containment requirements for fueling trucks for facilities with loading racks, and the elimination of the requirement for dikes on vaulted AST’s, and the option for facility owners to self-certify their Plans.	Read the EPA Region III OIL PROGRAM UPDATE, published October 2007.  (PDF)

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The regulation applies to facilities with a total aboveground oil storage capacity of greater than 1,320 gallons. In addition to the storage capacity criteria, a facility is regulated if, due to its location, the facility could reasonably be expected to discharge oil into navigable waters of the U.S. or adjoining shorelines.
 

PPC Plans apply to industrial and commercial installations which have the potential for causing accidental pollution of air, land or water, or the endangerment of public health and safety. The plan is be prepared based on the requirements as set forth within the Technical Guidance Document “Guidelines for the Development and Implementation of Environmental Emergency Response Plans,” PA Department of Environmental Protection, September 2001. The scope of work usually includes a visual site inspection, generation of all required plan documentation, development of site layout plan, plan implementation and personnel training. 

In addition, when a regulated storage tank facility, within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, maintains an aggregate storage capacity exceeding 21,000 gallons, the PADEP requires that an SPR Plan is prepared in conjunction with the PPC Plan. When prepared together, downstream notification requirements of the SPR Plan are simply added to the PPC Plan satisfying the “Storage Tank and Spill Prevention Act.”

The staff at Freedom Environmental Services constantly maintains a thorough understanding of the latest Federal and State regulations with regard to Spill Contingency Planning, and we stand ready to assist your company in meeting all current environmental regulations in a safe, efficient, and cost-effective manner.

As required, FES can develop Preparedness, Prevention, and Contingency Plans, such as those required by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, and Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasures Plans as required by the United States Environmental Protection Agency. We are also familiar with regulations affecting Ohio, West Virginia, Maryland, New York, and other surrounding states.
 

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