Oil Pollution Prevention - Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure Rule Requirements - Amendments (US Environmental Protection Agency Regulation) (EPA) (2018 Edition‪)‬

The Law Library presents the complete text of the Oil Pollution Prevention - Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure Rule Requirements - Amendments (US Environmental Protection Agency Regulation) (EPA) (2018 Edition).
Updated as of May 29, 2018

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or the Agency) is amending the Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure (SPCC) rule in order to provide increased clarity, to tailor requirements to particular industry sectors, and to streamline certain requirements for those facility owners or operators subject to the rule, which should result in greater protection to human health and the environment. Specifically, this final rule: Exempts hot-mix asphalt (HMA), pesticide application equipment and related mix containers, and heating oil containers at single-family residences from the SPCC rule; amends the definition of “facility” to clarify the existing flexibility associated with describing a facility's boundaries; amends the facility diagram requirement to provide additional flexibility; defines “loading/unloading rack” to clarify the equipment subject to the provisions for facility tank car and tank truck loading/unloading racks, as well as amends the provisions for this equipment; provides streamlined requirements for a subset of qualified facilities; amends the general secondary containment requirement to provide more clarity; exempts non-transportation-related tank trucks from the sized secondary containment requirements; amends the security requirements; amends the integrity testing requirements to allow greater flexibility in the use of industry standards; amends the integrity testing requirements for containers that store animal fats or vegetable oils and meet certain criteria; streamlines a number of requirements for onshore oil production facilities; and exempts underground oil storage tanks at nuclear power generation facilities. EPA is also providing clarification in the preamble to this final rule on additional issues raised by the regulated community and, in a separate action in the Federal Register of November 26, 2008, (73 FR 72016), the Agency is proposing a new compliance date for farms.

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- The complete text of the Oil Pollution Prevention - Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure Rule Requirements - Amendments (US Environmental Protection Agency Regulation) (EPA) (2018 Edition)
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