Mariam Panasyan
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 45
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The main objective of the project during the summer internship at CalPortland Company was creating "Spill Prevention, Control and Countermeasure (SPCC) Plan" for the company's Colton aggregate plant. The SPCC plan is required by 40 CFR Section 112, oil pollution prevention, of the Environmental Protection agency in order to prevent the discharge of oil from non-transportation-related onshore and offshore facilities into or upon the navigable waters of the United States or adjoining shorelines ("ECFR---code of federal regulations," 2016). Previously, CalPortland company's Colton plant operated as a cement plant until it was permanently shut down in the year of 2009, and many documents have been lost or misplaced ever since. Since then the plant restarted operations but this time as an aggregates plant which still requires an SPCC plan since it stores and uses oil products that are in the amounts requiring current SPCC plan. Thus, as an environmental engineering intern I was assigned to study all of the rules, and regulations set by environmental protection agency for the preparation and implementation of "Spill Prevention, Control and Countermeasure Plan" which eventually became company's official plan after it was approved and signed by my internship mentor, Licensed Engineer Desirea Haggard.