SPCC Plan Requirements to meet EPA & State Compliance Any facility that stores over 1,320 gallons of oil products is required to develop and maintain a Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure Plan, commonly referred to as SPCC plan. This plan must comply with the applicable EPA regulations of 40…
Spillco Engineers Create EPA and California State Compliant SPCC Plans The State of California is recognized as having the most stringent environmental related regulations in the United States. How can an out-of-state company provide EPA, CUPA and as well as local government’s required compliant SPCC Plans for a considerably…
Unknown to most auto shops, if you store over 1,320 total gallons of oil products, you are required to develop and maintain an EPA Compliant Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure (SPCC) Plan. The majority of auto service departments do not have total oil storage capacities over 10,000 gallons. The…
Any facility that stores over 1,320 gallons of oil products must maintain an EPA SPCC Plan (Spill Prevention, Control & Countermeasure Plan). This includes auto service, construction, buildings that utilize diesel for their emergency generator, and companies that store oil for equipment utilization facilities. Uncertain oil prices have been…
Electrical power distribution equipment utilized by Substations and Wind Turbines frequently stores oil in large quantities. Transformers, voltage regulators, circuit breakers and load tap changers contain large quantities of oil designed to both cool and insulate the electrical conductors. Wind Turbine operations also utilize oil in gearboxes, hydraulic and…
Spillco is excited to announce the expansion of our EPA compliant SPCC spill plan services. With the recent contract with a Professional Engineer who is licensed and qualified in 38 states, we are now expanding our services into all the states shaded in blue in the following map. PCC…
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) recently responded to a lawsuit by several environmental groups by agreeing to enact rulemaking to expand the Spill Prevention, Control and Countermeasure (SPCC”) program beyond oil products to include other hazardous substances. The consent decree will impact thousands of industrial facilities and manufacturing…
SPCC Plan Requirements for Farmers Over the past few years, confusion has reigned about the exact requirements that are applicable to our farmers regarding compliance with the SPCC regulations as related to the Clean Water Act. Beginning in 2013, there were several unscrupulous companies that began a dialog that…
Most facilities we come across are lacking a simple, easy to use document that can keep them out of BIG trouble with the EPA, especially if a spill or leak occurs. This is called a Spill Prevention, Control and Countermeasure Plans, and here we discuss what exactly they are,…
What is a SPCC Plan? In 2011, that was my first question after being approached by an acquaintance about this service. I had been involved in various phases of the oil and gas business for 20 years before moving to other endeavors in more recent years. To my surprise,…