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Written plans are more than just a paperwork exercise. Written plans document how a facility is using good engineering practices to store oil, prevent spills, and take actions to control, mitigate, and respond to any spills before and after they reach navigable waters and adjoining shorelines. What’s more, written plans may be required by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). In the end, written plans help to protect the environment from the serious threat that oil poses to water bodies in the U.S.
Written plans are more than just a paperwork exercise. Written plans document how a facility is using good engineering practices to store oil, prevent spills, and take actions to control, mitigate, and respond to any spills before and after they reach navigable waters and adjoining shorelines. What’s more, written plans may be required by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). In the end, written plans help to protect the environment from the serious threat that oil poses to water bodies in the U.S.