What You Need to Know About Spill Prevention, Control and Countermeasure Plans & Aboveground Storage Tanks

[2012; R-2013 | Keywords: Regulatory Compliance, SPCC] For almost four decades, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has used the Spill Prevention, Control and Countermeasure (SPCC) Plan as the primary resource of preventing oil spills from contaminating surface waters. A SPCC Plan is a preventive measure to assure that a spill from an Aboveground Storage Tank (AST) is contained and countermeasures are established to prevent oil spills that could reach navigable waters. If your business has AST with a capacity to store an aggregate total of 1,320 gallons of oil or more (in 55 gallon containers or larger), or 42,000 gallons… Read More »