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For the last couple months Ive been hammering out Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasure (SPCC) plans for a very large electric utility company. Has anyone else here had any experience with SPCC plans? The way my company is doing it is so ass backwards. We are writing the plans now for the facility as is. This is to identify the deficiencies compared to the SPCC regs. We're then handing over the plans to the structural people who are designing berms, dam's, containment structures etc to comply with the regs. Then after that stuff is built (must be in compliance by June 2009) we have to rewrite the plan again to show everything is in compliance.
The hardest part is extracting information from the facility to write the plan. Ive always assumed that people who work at these facilities know whats going on. When I worked at the steel mill I knew I could go to any of the maintenance people and ask "which mold is set up for 55mm?" or "where the hell is the backup stopper rod PLC?". 90% of the time I would get an answer right away or if they didnt know they would know where to get the answer. At these powerplants I dont think anyone knows whats going on. I ask "whats in that storage tank (a 50,000 gallon monstrosity)?"; answer "I dont know, oil or something". OK, that tank is as big as my house and you cant tell me whats in it? It would probably be helpful if you knew that. Sigh.
The hardest part is extracting information from the facility to write the plan. Ive always assumed that people who work at these facilities know whats going on. When I worked at the steel mill I knew I could go to any of the maintenance people and ask "which mold is set up for 55mm?" or "where the hell is the backup stopper rod PLC?". 90% of the time I would get an answer right away or if they didnt know they would know where to get the answer. At these powerplants I dont think anyone knows whats going on. I ask "whats in that storage tank (a 50,000 gallon monstrosity)?"; answer "I dont know, oil or something". OK, that tank is as big as my house and you cant tell me whats in it? It would probably be helpful if you knew that. Sigh.