EPA oil storage regs impact farmers
19.09.11
The Oil, Disclose Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure (SPCC) program was put in order by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to hinder oil spills into
waters of the United States. This program recently expanded regulations to count some farms.
As a result of these regulations, certain facilities are required to bring out SPCC Plans that describe oil storage containers, emergency contacts and response personnel, procedures, and training to balk, control, and provide adequate countermeasures to a discharge of oil.
What cultivate facilities are covered by the SPCC program? The basics: your homestead facility is covered by this program if you store more than 1,320 gallons of oil in above earth bulk containers, including containers (drums, totes, aboveground storage tanks (ASTs), attend tanks, well pumps, hydraulic lifts, etc.) with a storage capacity of 55 gallons and above, and your facilities have a “believable expectation of an oil discharge” to water.
Source: Southwest Farm Press
Bettendorf company pays $50K for oil leak
26.09.11
Sivyer Dagger Corporation of Bettendorf has agreed to pay a $54,786 penalty and sterile up residual used oil that may have leaked from its storage tanks as part of settlement with the U.S. Environmental Haven Agency.
According to an administrative consent agreement filed by the EPA in Kansas Burgh, Kan., an inspection at Sivyer Steel in March 2010 found several violations of the federal Resource Protection and Recovery Act, which regulates the storage, treatment, transportation and disposal of hairy waste. Inspectors cited the company, which produces and finishes nerve castings, for operating without proper permits and failures to agree with hazardous waste generator, used oil and universal atrophy requirements.
As part of the settlement, the company must act within 30 days to protest that its used oil containers and universal waste lamp containers are properly keep going and labeled, and show that all areas of its facility contaminated by leaks of old oil have been cleaned up. Sivyer Steel must also notify the EPA of the existence of any additional locality at its facility that may be contaminated by leaked used oil, and take appropriate effect to address them.
Source: Iowa Independent