Can SPCC Plans prevent a disaster?
Posted on Tue, Jun 22, 2010
The best and most cost-effective way to prevent an oil spill is to pre-identify potential causes of spills. The SPCC (Spill Prevention ,Control, and Countermeasure) regulation is designed to reduce the potential for a spill to occur as opposed to after-the-fact reactive measures commonly described in Oil Spill Contingency Plans. SPCC Plans should identify potential vulnerabilities and identify ways to minimize the potential for spills to occur.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) requires SPCC Plans for facilities that could discharge oil into navigable water and store more than 1,320 gallons aboveground or more than 42,000 gallons underground.
SPCC plans must meet specific regulatory requirements and are required for a large number of facilities. Web-based planning systems greatly improve the efficiency of developing these plans and provide a cost-effective method for plan maintenance, especially when multiple plans share common telephone numbers and other information. In a web-based system, the information maintained in these plans can be managed in an integrated database, which can be also leveraged for other uses within the company, such as managing tank integrity programs.
TRP Corp. has developed more than 10,000 SPCC plans for oil production facilities, bulk storage terminals, power plants, automotive plants, chemical plants, power plants, compressor stations and more.
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