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SPCC DEFINITIONS <br /> Adverse weather means weather conditions that make it difficult for response <br /> equipment and personnel to clean up or remove spilled oil, and that must be <br /> considered when identifying response systems and equipment in a response plan <br /> for the applicable operating environment. Factors to consider include significant <br /> wave height as specified in Appendix E to this part (as appropriate), ice <br /> conditions, temperatures,weather-related visibility, and currents within the area <br /> in which the systems or equipment is intended to function. <br /> Alteration means any work on a container involving cutting,burning,welding, <br /> or heating operations that changes the physical dimensions or configuration of <br /> the container. <br /> Animal fat means a non-petroleum oil, fat, or grease of animal,fish, or marine <br /> mammal origin. <br /> Breakout tank means a container used to relieve surges in an oil pipeline system <br /> or to receive and store oil transported by a pipeline for reinjection and continued <br /> transportation by pipeline. <br /> Bulk storage container means any container used to store oil. These containers <br /> are used for purposes including,but not limited to, the storage of oil prior to use, <br /> while being used, or prior to further distribution in commerce. Oil-filled <br /> electrical, operating, or manufacturing equipment is not a bulk storage container. <br /> Bunkered tank means a container constructed or placed in the ground by cutting <br /> the earth and re-covering the container in a manner that breaks the surrounding <br /> natural grade, or that lies above grade, and is covered with earth, sand, gravel, <br /> asphalt, or other material. A bunkered tank is considered an aboveground <br /> storage container for purposes of this part. <br /> Completely buried tank means any container completely below grade and <br /> covered with earth, sand, gravel, asphalt, or other material. Containers in vaults, <br /> bunkered tanks, or partially buried tanks are considered aboveground storage <br /> containers for purposes of this part. <br /> Complex means a facility possessing a combination of transportation-related and <br /> non-transportation-related components that is subject to the jurisdiction of more <br /> than one Federal agency under §3110) of the CWA. <br />