This audio conference was recorded on Thursday - July 9, 2009
1:30 to 3:00 p.m. (EST), 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. (PST)

Credits:

This audio conference qualifies for Continuance of Certification (COC) credit. CSPs will earn 0.05 COC points for attending this audio conference.

Description:

Late last year, EPA released changes to the Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure (SPCC) regulations. The changes were initially set to take effect this past February, but the effective date has since been extended to November 10, 2010, creating confusion for employers and others.

The SPCC regulations require owners and operators of facilities that use, store, transfer, or consume oil or oil-based products (including animal fats and vegetable oils) to develop and implement SPCC plans, certified by a professional engineer, to prevent releases of oil to waters of the United States. SPCC plans are generally required for a broad cross-section of facilities with aboveground storage capacity of 1,320 gallons or underground capacity in excess of 42,000 gallons of oil or oil-based products.

Order this in-depth audio conference recording. Our environmental experts will guide you through the maze of the existing regulations, and the changes coming your way in a few short months.

Speaker(s):

Elaine Enfonde is a Senior Environmental Scientist in the Environmental Practice Group at Nixon Peabody, LLP. She is responsible for providing technical assistance to attorneys and firm clients. She has extensive working knowledge of various industrial processes such as electronics, printing, steel, coke, coke by-products, resins, coatings, glass, food, and electric power production. She has conducted numerous environmental audit activities for compliance determinations, property transfers, and acquisitions, including universities and colleges, steam-power generating plants and active and closed industrial manufacturing facilities, in order to identify concerns raised in the area of environmental compliance with federal and state requirements and/or site contamination.

Allan Floro, Esq., is of counsel with the Rochester, New York, office of Nixon-Peabody, LLP. He concentrates on all matters relating to environmental law, with a particular focus on SPCC regulations, hazardous, solid, and radioactive waste management, transportation and disposal, civil and criminal enforcement of hazardous waste management requirements, RCRA corrective action, inactive hazardous wastesite remediation, asbestos management and compliance, environmental quality review, storage tanks, release reporting and remediation, National Environmental Policy Act and New York State Environmental Quality Review Act review and associated permitting issues, environmental auditing, and environmental due diligence for transactions.

Richard Marx, CPEA, CHMM, is a Senior Environmental Engineer, Certified Professional Environmental, Health and Safety Auditor (CPEA), and Certified Hazardous Materials Manager (CHMM) with the Environmental Practice Group at Nixon Peabody, LLP. Marx has over 20 years of experience managing various environmental projects and has completed the ISO 14000 Lead Auditor Training (ANSI-RAB). He is responsible for providing technical assistance to attorneys and firm clients. He has extensive working knowledge in a broad range of federal, state, and local environmental regulations. On behalf of industrial clients, he has developed and implemented strategies for compliance with regulations applicable to site investigation and remediation, waste management (RCRA), Waste Minimization, SARA Title III, Hazard Communication/Employee Right-to-Know, wastewater discharges, and air emissions.

You and your colleagues will learn:

• The added exemptions from the SPCC regulations for hot-mix asphalt operations, pesticide application equipment and related mix containers, and heating oil containers at single-family residences
• The clarified definition of “facility” for purposes of the SPCC rule with regard to describing a facility’s boundaries
• How EPA clarified the general secondary containment requirement
• Effective strategies to comply with amended security and integrity testing requirements
• Steps to take to streamline requirements for on-shore facilities
• The rules for exempted underground oil storage tanks at nuclear power generation facilities