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SPCC Plan Five-Year Updates and Technical Amendments

By Braun Intertec | July 29, 2016

The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure (SPCC) regulations (Title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations [CFR] Chapter 112) applies to non-transportation-related facilities that drill, produce, store, process, refine, transfer, distribute, use, or consume oil or oil products; and that could reasonably be expected to discharge oil in harmful quantities (as described in 40 CFR 112.1(b)) to U.S. navigable waters or adjoining shorelines. Facilities subject to this rule are required to prepare and implement a SPCC Plan. The SPCC Plan must contain minimum design criteria and inspection procedures and must be approved by the facility management and certified by a professional engineer (P.E.), unless the total capacity of oil at the facility is less than 10,000 gallons, and the facility meets the criteria of a qualified facility under 40 CFR 112.3(g).

All facilities, excluding farms, (defined at 40 CFR 112.2) were required to update, prepare, and implement their SPCC Plans to meet these requirements by November 10, 2011. However, if the facility is an onshore production facility and it became operational after November 10, 2011, the facility should have prepared and implemented the SPCC Plan within 6 months after beginning operations.

Based on that, facilities that prepared or updated their SPCC Plans to comply with EPA’s amendments to the SPCC rules by November 10, 2011, are coming up for their five-year review and evaluation. These SPCC Plans must be updated by November 10, 2016 and re-certified by a P.E. if there are technical amendments to the SPCC Plan. Technical amendments include, but are not limited to, a material change in facility design, construction, operations or maintenance that alters the potential for an oil spill.

Please contact Emile C. Hanna (P.E.) if you need any assistance with your SPCC Plan and to assist you in maintaining compliance with EPA regulations under 40 CFR 112.

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