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LOCATION PROCEDURE NUMBER DTE STOCKTON, LLC EAP-01 WEStockton, LLC EMERGENCY ACTION PLAN REV: 10, updated: 3/2018 STATUS: FINAL Page 21 of 35 10.5 Chemical/Oil Releases The spill or release of any chemical is a potentially serious event and appropriate response actions must be taken to minimize health hazards to personnel as well as potential impacts to the environment. Chemicals used at the plant include sulfuric acid, sodium hypochlorite, anhydrous ammonia and calcium carbonate (limestone). Various petroleum products are also used or produced including, diesel, turbine oil, machine oil, motor oil, thinner and used oil. It is the policy of DTE Stockton that plant personnel will not respond to spills/releases,but will instead call for trained outside responders to perform this function. EXCEPTION: Personnel may respond to "incidental releases" of chemicals. An incidental release is defined as "one that does not cause a health or safety hazard to employees and does not need to be cleaned up immediately to be to prevent death or serious injury to employees". For the purpose of clarification to plant personnel, the term "respond" in this context refers to actions taken to perform cleanup operations of spilled substances and in some cases may even take the meaning of actually stopping the source of the spill. Taking basic response actions to a spill such as setting up barricades,placing containment media and stopping spills in situations such as the step 1 example below should not be construed to be acting in the role of a "responder" as it is defined in OSHA HAZWOPER regulations. The basic actions to be taken in response to a chemical spill or ammonia release are the following: 1. Upon discovering a spill/release, communicate the event to the control room operator and notify the Plant Manager and the Environmental Health and Safety Manager. 2. If the spill or release is the direct result of an operational action performed, the person who performed the action should attempt to stop the release if he/she can do so without incurring additional personal exposure to the substance. Example: A person opens the isolation valve on a line that results in an unexpected release of chemical. If the person can immediately stop the release by closing the isolation valve, this action should be taken if no additional exposure to the chemical will occur by doing so. Emergency Action Plan—DTE Stockton, LLC