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Category Archives: SPCC
EPA requires certain facilities to keep spill prevention, control, and countermeasure (SPCC) plans. These articles offer tips on how to write and maintain the SPCC plan and monitor any updates to SPCC regulations.
Free Special Report: Recordkeeping for EHS Managers
Region 10 Busy with SPCC/FRP Enforcement
SPCC | Wednesday, May 15th, 2013
"Three individual fuel companies in Oregon have settled with EPA for Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure (SPCC) violations and will pay fines and invest in facility upgrades at their facilities. EPA inspections of each facility from 2007 and 2011 found multiple violations of federal spill prevention rules and spill response requirements under the Clean Water Act (CWA)."
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SPCC Fun with Facility Diagrams!
SPCC | Tuesday, May 7th, 2013
"One fundamental, required component of a compliant Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure (SPCC) Plan is a description of the physical layout of the facility in a facility diagram."
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SPCC Tier Program: Why You Want to Qualify
SPCC | Thursday, April 25th, 2013
"Yesterday we told you that the majority of SPCC-regulated facilities are subject to the more streamlined SPCC plan requirements of the Tier plans. According to EPA, 66 percent of the more than 650,000 regulated facilities are Tier II facilities and are eligible to more streamlined SPCC requirements. Here’s what you need to know about Tier I and Tier II SPCC plans."
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10 Things You Don’t Know About SPCC
SPCC | Wednesday, April 24th, 2013
"At the 2013 National Institute for Storage Tank Management’s (NISTM) 15th At a recent storage tank conference, EPA gave a really detailed, 3-hour review of spill prevention, control, and countermeasure (SPCC) regulations and best practices. Here are some things I picked up that I bet you didn’t know about SPCC."
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Looming SPCC Deadline
SPCC | Friday, April 19th, 2013
"The May 10, 2013, Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure (SPCC) Plan deadline for farms is 2 weeks away and that means farms in operation on or before August 16, 2002, must maintain or amend their existing SPCC Plan by that date. Also, any farm that started operation after August 16, 2002, but before May 10, 2013, must prepare and use an SPCC plan on or before May 10, 2013."
Under SPCC, a farm is defined as "a facility on a tract of land devoted to the production of crops or raising of animals, including fish, which produced and sold, or normally would have produced and sold, $1,000 or more of agricultural products during a year."
SPCC applies to a farm that:
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EPA’s Top 12 SPCC Violations
SPCC | Tuesday, April 16th, 2013
"At the 2013 National Institute for Storage Tank Management’s (NISTM) 15th annual conference and trade show, an EPA regulator from the Office of Emergency Management (OEM) revealed the most common SPCC violations he finds on field inspections. Yesterday, we told you about common violations for nonproduction facilities, here are some typical violations from all facility types."
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Most Common SPCC Violations in the Field
SPCC | Monday, April 15th, 2013
"At the 2013 National Institute for Storage Tank Management’s (NISTM) 15th annual conference and trade show, an EPA regulator from the Office of Emergency Management (OEM) revealed the most common Spill Prevention, Control, Countermeasure (SPCC) violations he finds on field inspections."
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States Are Serious About Oil Spill Reporting
SPCC | Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013
"Most regulated facilities know that they must report oil spills to the National Response Center immediately, but what confuses most owner/operators are the oil spill reporting requirements imposed by the states. Yesterday we told you about a company in Massachusetts that was fined $2,000 by MassDEP for not reporting a spill within that state’s required 2-hour window."
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Co Fined for Late Notification to State DEP
SPCC | Monday, April 1st, 2013
"The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) has assessed a penalty of $2,000 to a Maine-based company for violating state regulations following a spill of hydraulic fluid at a facility located in Pittsfield, Massachusetts."
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