A California facility that manufactures asphalt emulsions is urging a federal appeals court to overturn EPA administrative rulings finding the facility violated provisions of the agency’s oil spill control regulations, arguing officials are seeking to use the enforcement action to unlawfully adopt a no...
“worst case discharges” of those materials, maintaining many of the facility mandates initially proposed, but clarifying certain definitions and providing some carve outs for “duplicative” requirements opposed by industry. EPA issued a prepublication version of its final rule March 21, which ...
EPA’s rulemaking will be closely watched by those charged with oil spill preparedness requirements, environmentalists, and emergency responders. While industry continues to strive to minimize the risk of oil spills, a risk always remains. How to best respond to a spill—including the decision on...
All facilities with hazmat in excess of 55 gallons, or 200 cu. ft. of compressed gas, must report hazmat on CERS (state portal) and update annually. This reporting is similar to the federal Tier II reporting requirements but more expansive. CERS includes items as follows: Inventory, facility...
The new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Clean Water Act (CWA) Hazardous Substance (HS) Facility Response Plan regulation expands requirements for facilities storing hazardous substances to prepare and submit a Facility Response Plan (FRP). The purpose of this regulation is to maintain an actiona...
and testing requirements; a centralized computational pipeline monitoring system; spill response planning and countermeasures; an environmental management system; and data management and training measures. Independent third-party audits are required to ensure that certain injunctive measures are properly develope...
is the result of a settlement agreement with environmentalists and would set first-time requirements for certain larger facilities near navigable waters to develop worst-case discharge plans for spills, as called for in 1990 amendments to the CWA.The Association of Safe Drinking Water Administrators...
reporting requirements in recent years to over 175 PFAS substances — and more information should be received in 2023. Additionally, EPA’s proposal to designate PFOA and PFOS as Hazardous Substances would also improve data on spill or release incidents reported to the Emergency Response Notification...
There are a number of 30 We expect that the RGGI states would need to make technical changes in the RGGI program design, once the final Clean Power Plan is adopted by EPA, if some aspects of RGGI would not otherwise meet EPA's requirements (e.g., as to the level of ...
where requirements can be tailored to the particular facility,” said Nancy Stoner, acting assistant administrator for EPA’s Office of Water. “The public’s comments will be instrumental in shaping safeguards for aquatic life and to build a commonsense path forward. The input we receive will ma...