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Chapter 4:Secondary Containment and Impractica"Wcuetermunation <br /> transportation-related. Indicators of when a vehicle is intended to be used as a storage tank(and therefore <br /> considered non-transportation-related) include,but are not limited to: <br /> • The vehicle is not licensed for on-road use; <br /> • The vehicle is fueled on-site and never moves off-site;or <br /> • The vehicle is parked on a home-base facility and is filled up off-site but then returns to the <br /> home base to fuel other equipment located exclusively within the home-base facility,and only <br /> leaves the site to obtain more fuel. <br /> The exemption from sized secondary containment requirements does not apply to vehicles that are used <br /> primarily to store oil in a stationary location, such as tanker trucks used to supplement storage and serving as a <br /> fixed tank.An indicator that a vehicle is intended to store ail in a fixed location is that the vehicle is no longer <br /> mobile(e.g.,it is hard-piped or permanently parked,or that the tank car has been separated from the cab of the <br /> truck). <br /> 0 Tip—Non-transportation related vehicles and railroad cars <br /> The 1971 Memorandum of Understanding between EPA and the Department of Transportation(DOT)states that <br /> "highway vehicles and railroad cars which are used for the transport of oil exclusively within the confines of a non- <br /> transportation-related facility and which are not intended to transport oil in interstate or intrastate commerce"are <br /> considered non-transportation-related,and therefore fall under EPA's regulatory jurisdiction.For example,some oil <br /> refinery tank trucks and fueling trucks dedicated to a particular facility(such as a construction site, military base,or <br /> similar large facility)fall under this category. <br /> 4.7.7 Bulk Storage Containers at Oil Production §112.9(c)(2) <br /> Facilities (Sized Secondary Containment Except as described in paragraph (c)(5)of <br /> Requirements,§112.9(c)(2)) this section forflow-through processvessels <br /> and paragraph(c)(6)of this section for <br /> The secondary containment requirements of produced water containers and any <br /> §112.9(c)(2)applyto all tank battery,separation,and treating associated piping and appurtenances <br /> facility installations at a regulated oil production facility, except downstream from the container,construct <br /> for flow-through process vessels that comply with the alternative all tank battery,separation,and treating <br /> requirements under§112.9(c)(5),and produced water containers facility installations,sothatyou provide <br /> secondary means of containment for the <br /> that comply with the alternative requirements of§112.9(c)(6). entire capacity ofthe largestsingle container <br /> Accordingtothe 2002 rule preamble,the sized secondary and sufficient freeboard to contain <br /> precipitation.you must safely confine <br /> containment requirement at§112.9(c)(2) is not required forthe drainage from undiked areas in a catchment <br /> entire leased area, merelyforthe contents of the largest single basin or holding pond. <br /> container in the tank battery,separation,and treating facility Note:The above text is an excerpt of the SPCC rule. <br /> installation,with sufficient freeboard to contain precipitation." Refer to 40 CFR part 112 for the full text of the rule. <br /> (67 FR 47128,July 17 2002)Thus,containers(e.g. drums storing <br /> SPCC GUIDANCE FOR REGIONAL INSPECTORS 4-61 <br /> December 16,2013 <br />