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One of the cornerstones of EPA’s strategy to prevent oil spills from reaching our nation’s waters is the Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasures (SPCC) rule. SPCC requires regulated facilities to prepare and implement spill prevention and control measures. This ensures that facilities have containment and other countermeasures in place to prevent oil spills from reaching navigable waters or adjoining shorelines.
Facilities covered under SPCC Standard at 40 CFR 112 include those that:
Note: When counting the number of gallons of aboveground storage, do not count containers with a capacity less than 55 gallons, permanently closed containers, storage containers used exclusively in wastewater treatment, hot mix asphalt or hot-mix asphalt containers, pesticide application equipment and related mix containers, residential heating oil containers, or milk and milk product containers. When counting the number of gallons of completely buried storage tanks, do not count completely buried tanks subject to all of the technical requirements of 40 CFR 280 or 281, underground oil storage tanks that supply emergency diesel generators at a nuclear power station, permanently closed containers, and single family residential heating oil containers.
An SPCC-covered facility must: