Środowisko i energia · 26.10.1994

Request for Data and Comment on Response Strategies for Facilities That Handle, Store, or Transport Certain Non-Petroleum Oils

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is publishing a notice and request for data regarding issues concerning the Clean Water Act section 311 (as amended by the Oil Pollution Act of 1990) requirements for facility response plan preparation as applied to non- transportation-related, onshore facilities that handle, store, or transport animal fats and vegetable oils. This notice is, in part, in response to a Petition for reconsideration of EPA's final facility response plan rule (Final Rule), (59 FR 34070, July 1, 1994), submitted to EPA by seven agricultural organizations. The Petition asserts that EPA does not adequately treat these oils differently from petroleum and toxic non-petroleum oils in the Final Rule. In support of their Petition, these organizations rely on studies that draw several conclusions concerning the physical, toxicological, and chemical properties of animal fats and vegetable oils compared with other types of oil. This notice summarizes the Petition, and asks for data and comment to assist EPA in determining whether and how the differences in properties of various oils warrant further different treatment, including possibly creating separate facility re