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Washington State
Pipeline Safety Trust Conference
Ecology’s Program
• The program focuses on preventing oil spills to Washington’s waters and land, as well as planning for and delivering a rapid, aggressive, and well coordinated response to oil and hazardous substance spills wherever they occur.
Program Overview
• Prevention • Preparedness • Response • Statewide Services
Program Overview
• Regional Offices ▫ Bellevue ▫ Bellingham ▫ Yakima ▫ Spokane ▫ Vancouver Rapid Response capability
Program Overview • Prevention ▫ Prevention Plans, Operations Manuals, Vessel and Facilities
- Inspections – Pipelines excluded ▫ Advanced Notice of Transfer (ANT)
• Preparedness ▫ Oil Spill Contingency Plans, Drills and Geographical
Response Plans – Pipelines included • Response ▫ Responders strategically located to provide a rapid
response to spills ▫ NRDA
• Statewide Services ▫ Supports program functions, policy, investigations,
Enforcement, IT, etc.
Budget and FTE’s • Budget – $18.6M a Biennium - $9.3M year • Response Account $9M • 76-80 FTE’s ▫ 18 Prevention ▫ 18 Preparedness ▫ 30 Response ▫ 13 Statewide Resources ▫ 2 NRDA
Response $7,619,290
Statewide Resources $3,155,762
Prevention $3,966,818
Preparedness $3,399,536
NRDA $493,455
Funding
• Model Toxics Control Account – Tax on hazardous substances.
• Barrel Tax – 5 cent tax on every barrel of oil imported into the state by vessel. ▫ Two accounts: Oil Spill Prevention Account
(OSPA) and Oil Spill Response Account (OSRA). Of this 5 cent per barrel tax, 4 cents goes into the OSPA and one cent goes into the OSRA. ▫ Export Tax Credit
Ecology Regulated Pipelines Western Washington • Trans-Mountain Kinder Morgan • Olympic Pipeline • U.S. Oil - McCord Pipeline
Eastern Washington • Phillips 66 Yellowstone Pipeline • Tesoro Pipeline Pasco (Previously Chevron) • Tidewater Pipeline Pasco (Previously NuStar)
Ecology Pipeline Requirements
• Oil Spill Contingency Plans WAC 173-182 • Drills WAC 173-182
Contingency Plan • Notification and call out procedures • Identification of spill management teams • Assessment of the planning standards and worst
case spill volume • Appropriate response equipment and personnel
to respond to a worst case spill • Identification of oil types and properties • Contracts with primary response contractors
Drills • Test the plan! ▫ Deployment Drills ▫ Table Top ▫ Worst Case
• Evaluation/Credit
Pipeline Video
New State Efforts - Heavy Oils • 2012 Rule Update ▫ Products Handled Reporting ▫ Planning Standards for Group 5 Oils ▫ PRC with G5 capability needed if G5 handled ▫ Best Achievable Protection(BAP) - 5 year cycle
Law change to include pipelines into BAP Bottom line there is more to be done!
Products Handled Reporting • Each plan holder will list oil(s) and product(s) handled by: ▫ Name - product trade name. ▫ Density - mass per unit volume, typically expressed as
kilograms / meter3 at 15oC. ▫ Specific Gravity - ratio of mass of a given volume to the
mass of an equal volume of water at the same temperature. ▫ API Gravity - relative density of petroleum liquid to water,
141.5 / specific gravity at 60oF. ▫ Oil Group Number – Please review definitions for non-
persistent and persistent oil to understand how to determine the oil group number. Definitions for persistent and non-persistent oil are found in WAC 173-182-030(42) respectively. ▫ Sulfur Content - percent sulfur by weight
Planning Standard for G5 Oils
• Contract with a PRC approved for G5 oils ▫ Sonar, sampling equipment to locate in
water column ▫ Containment equipment ▫ Dredges, pumps ▫ On-scene in 12 hours
Best Achievable Protection • RCW 88.46.180 & WAC 173-182-621 ▫ (2) The department shall by rule update the
planning standards at five-year intervals to ensure the maintenance of best available protection over time. Rule updates to covered non-tank vessels shall minimize potential impacts to discretionary cargo moved through the state.
• Applies to vessels only
Heavy Oil - Challenges • Oil that is subsurface is very challenging • Technology is evolving • Updating and implementing rules • GRP’s may not work with sinking oil • Other challenges – Bakken Oil • Limited Resources
Key Work!
• 2015 Legislative Session • 2015 Rule Making – at least 1 year to complete ▫ Pipeline planning standards
• 2014 Marine and Rail Oil Transportation Study • 2013 Emerging Risks Task Force Report • Group V Oils Response Taskforce • Geographic Response Plans • 2012 Oil Spill Contingency Plan Rule Update
“Group V Oils Response Taskforce” • NWACP Non-floating Oils Response Tool-
Describes response techniques, capabilities, and considerations for non-floating oil spill response.
• Oil Spill Characteristics Form - form used by responders to document information and considerations for non-floating oils response.
• Pacific Northwest Non-floating Oils Response Resources Spreadsheet- Inventory of vendors and submerged oil response capabilities that can be used to source specific equipment for non-floating oils spill responses.
Air Monitoring • National, State and Local Issue • Better guidelines needed • Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease
Registry • States are asking questions and setting
minimums
Air Monitoring
• Initial Response – Responders/Contractors ▫ C-Plan Requirements for initial assessment
• Public Health and Safety - Public ▫ ICS – Initial objective of FOSC/SOSC ▫ Call in monitoring resources ▫ Call in health experts ▫ Decision
• Lessons from Kalamazoo ▫ Way to high initially ▫ Consider lower levels
It is on our radar!
Thank You
Sean Orr, Washington State Department of Ecology [email protected]
www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/spills/spills.html