Reversing course from an Obama-era EPA agreement to initiate a rulemaking to impose spill prevention, countermeasure and control (SPCC) requirements for hazardous substances, EPA announced on June ...

EPA has agreed to conduct a rulemaking regarding the establishment of regulations to address potential spills of hazardous substances similar to the existing “Spill Prevention, Countermeasure and ...

The goal of SPCC is to prevent oil spills into waters of the United States and adjoining shorelines. These plans can help farmers prevent oil spills, which can damage water resources needed for ...

The Environmental Protection Agency plans to delay a series of changes the agency published last fall to clarify Spill Prevention, Control and Countermeasure (SPCC) regulations (BA, Dec. 8/261). EPA ...

The Environmental Protection Agency has issued a series of clarifications, which the FBO community had been anticipating, to the agency’s Spill Prevention, Control and Countermeasure (SPCC) final rule ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is extending the compliance date by one year for certain facilities subject to recent amendments to the Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasure (SPCC ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a settlement with the owner and the operator of the bulk fuel storage facility at Sand Island on Tuesday, June 8. Hawaii ...

WASHINGTON, DC, Dec. 5-- Facilities that store and transfer oil will not have to file a specialized spill prevention plan with the US Environmental Protection Agency in February, industry groups say.

From 2004 to 2006, the EPA inspected less than 1 percent of the 571,000 estimated facilities nationwide subject to the SPCC rule, the GAO found. More recent estimates put the number of SPCC-eligible ...

SPCC program is a cornerstone strategy of the EPA to prevent oil spills from reaching our nation’s water. Unlike oil spill contingency plans that typically address spill cleanup measures after a spill ...