Services

SPCC SelfCert Create allows a single facility, user or Professional Engineer (PE) to create one SPCC plan and print it multiple times. This option can be converted to an unlimited subscription at any time.

SPCC SelfCert Unlimited is an unlimited subscription designed for multiple changes at facilities that are managed by a single owner or Professional Engineer (PE). Two different levels are available.

Standard is the basic package that allows for unlimited changes to a single facility SPCC Plan.

Professional is the package for unlimited changes to SPCC Plans at up to 100 facilites.

SPCC SelfCert Corporate is designed for larger organizations who own or manage over 100 facilites. It includes a set of analysis tools that help an administrator quickly assess SPCC Plan compliance status.

SPCC SelfCert Managed Solutionis a comprehensive offering that allows facilites to outsource any or all parts of the SPCC Plan creation process. This can include data collection, plan creation, engineering review, legal review and risk exposure.

Add-Ons

Alerts provide automated reminders about maintenance requirements and SPCC plans.

Monthly maintenance reminders including Inspection Log and Schedule, Bulk Storage Container Inspection Schedule, Dike Drainage Log and Oil-Handling Personnel Training and Briefing Log

Monthly Disqualified Reminders that help administrators address causes of SPCC Plan disqualifications

Monthly Incomplete Plan Reminders that keep administrators informed about SPCC Plan progress and completion

Annual Refresh Remindersused to determine whether or not existiing SPCC Plans require updating

Five Year Reminders that helps administrators stay in compliance by creating new SPCC Plans every five years

Reporting

Disqualified reportsallow administrators to quickly identify facilities that are currently not able to self certify their SPCC Plan

In-process reportsidentify facilites that have started, but not yet finished an SPCC plan

Spill reportingallows an administrator to get a facility-wide assessment of the types and quanities of spills that have occurred

Complete Plans allow administrators to review and print completed SPCC Plans to ensure that copies are on file at local facilities

SPCC Compliance Date 2011

On October 7, 2010, EPA maintained the November 10, 2010, compliance date for drilling, production or workover facilities that are offshore or that have an offshore component, and for onshore facilities required to have and submit Facility Response Plans (FRPs). However, EPA extended the compliance date an additional year for all other facilities to amend [...]

SPCC Compliance Date Amendment

On June 11, 2009, EPA again extended the compliance date for all facilities to November 10, 2010. Facilities must amend or prepare, and implement SPCC Plans by the compliance date in accordance with revisions to the SPCC rule promulgated since 2002. Farms must also amend or prepare their SPCC Plans, and implement those Plans by [...]

National Fuel Efficiency Policy

WASHINGTON, DC – President Obama today – for the first time in history – set in motion a new national policy aimed at both increasing fuel economy and reducing greenhouse gas pollution for all new cars and trucks sold in the United States. The new standards, covering model years 2012-2016, and ultimately requiring an average [...]

EPA Student Awards

(Washington, D.C. – May 13, 2009) EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson will recognize young people from across the country at the 2008 President’s Environmental Youth Awards (PEYA) ceremony today. These students have made outstanding contributions to environmental protection through projects that help to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, improve air quality and protect America’s waters. “The [...]

EPA Plan for Renewable Fuels

(Washington, D.C. – May 5, 2009) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is proposing its strategy for increasing the supply of renewable fuels, poised to reach 36 billion gallons by 2022, as mandated by the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007. “As we work towards energy independence, using more homegrown biofuels reduces our vulnerability to [...]

EPA Hazardous Waste Rules

(Washington, D.C. – May 5, 2009) EPA is announcing next steps on two hazardous waste rules to respond to concerns raised by stakeholders: the Definition of Solid Waste rule and the Emission Comparable Fuels rule. EPA is planning to hold a public meeting to discuss possible revisions to the Definition of Solid Waste (DSW) rule [...]

Methylmercury Contamination

(Washington, D.C. – May 1, 2009) A new landmark study published today documents for the first time the process in which increased mercury emissions from human sources across the globe, and in particular from Asia, make their way into the North Pacific Ocean and as a result contaminate tuna and other seafood. Because much of [...]

EPA Discusses Recovery Act

(Washington, D.C. – April 29, 2009) Chairman Oberstar, Ranking Member Mica, and Members of the Committee, thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today to discuss the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) implementation of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act). As Members of this Committee well know, we are [...]

EPA Reviews Source Rules

(04/27/09) EPA notified petitioners of its intent to reconsider portions of three rules under its New Source Review (NSR) permitting program. The rules under review determine when and how facilities are required to: 1. account for air emissions that are not released through a stack, vent or other confined air stream; 2. keep records on [...]

EPA Reduces Mercury Emissions

(Washington, D.C. – April 21, 2009) EPA is proposing to significantly reduce mercury emissions from Portland cement kilns, the fourth-largest source of mercury air emissions in the U.S. The proposal would set the nation’s first limits on mercury emissions from existing Portland cement kilns and would strengthen the limits for new kilns. The proposed standards [...]