You just found out that the USPEA in going to inspect your facility’s Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasure (SPCC) compliance as required under 40 CFR part 112. What should expect when the federal oil inspector shows up at your facility. While inspections can be intimidating, EPA approaches these compliance monitoring activities as an opportunity to interact with facilities to improve compliance before an oil dischargeoccurs. The presentation is geared toward environmental professionals in the private and public sectors that may be responsible for compliance evaluation, development andimplementation of SPCC plans. As this is an advance course attendees and the regulated community stakeholders are assumed to have a general understanding of the SPCC rule and EPA Oil Program. The objective of the presentation is to provide attendees with insight on the EPA inspection process, common deficiencies and how EPA work to return facilities to compliance. The overview of the federal SPCC inspection process will include:
- What do we look for?
- The steps of a typical SPCC inspection
- Interactive review of inspection findings with photographs of common deficiencies
- How EPA and facilities can work together on compliance issues.
- Q&A
The course will be instructed by Mark W. Howard the EPA national AST/SPCC subject matter expert (SME). Attend so you can understand what is really like to be inspected by EPA. Finally, attend to improve your understanding of the common pitfalls so you can prepare and implement your facility SPCC plan with the goal of achieving compliance and a productive inspection experience.
