US Army Corps of Engineers: Environmental Compliance Guidance and ProceduresDIANE Publishing |
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adjoining shorelines APPENDIX baseline CERCLA hazardous substance CFR Part 302 Clean Water Act commands having responsibility contiguous zone Countermeasure Plan Deepwater Port Act Department of Defense discharges of oil Emergency Action Plan emergency planning committee emergency response commission Emergency Response Plan emergency spill response employees environment Environmental Protection EPCRA section equipment Executive Order 12856 extremely hazardous substance facility manager facility subject hazardous chemical Hazardous Materials hazardous waste HazMat implementation inventory maintenance MARPOL means navigable waters notification Oct 96 CHAPTER ODSs offshore facility operations project managers owner or operator personal protective equipment pollution prevention plans Pollution Prevention Program Polychlorinated Biphenyls procedures project and facility project or facility regulations release reportable quantity retrofit or replacement section 311 SPCC Plan Spill Contingency Plan spill plan Spill Prevention storage threshold planning quantity toxic chemicals U.S. Army United USACE commands USACE facilities USACE personnel USACE PROJECTS waste management
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Page 2 - For the purpose of this section, the term — (1) 'oil' means oil of any kind or in any form, including, but not limited to, petroleum, fuel oil, sludge, oil refuse, and oil mixed with wastes other than dredged spoil; (2) 'discharge...
Page 1 - International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS PROT 88); the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973, as modified by the Protocol of 1978 relating thereto...
Page 1 - Act, (B) discharges resulting from circumstances identified and reviewed and made a part of the public record with respect to a permit issued or modified under section 402 of...
Page 2 - States other than submerged land ; (11) "offshore facility" means any facility of any kind located in, on, or under, any of the navigable waters of the United States...
Page 4 - person" means an individual, firm, corporation, association, partnership, consortium, joint venture, commercial entity, United States Government, State, municipality, commission, political subdivision of a State, or any interstate body. (22) The term "release" means any spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying, discharging, injecting, escaping, leaching, dumping, or disposing into the environment...
Page 3 - States, adjoining shorelines, or into or upon the waters of the contiguous zone, or (ii) in connection with activities under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act or the Deepwater Port Act of 1974, or which may affect natural resources belonging to, appertaining to, or under the exclusive management authority of the United States...
Page 2 - wetlands" means those areas that are inundated or saturated by surface or ground water at a frequency and duration sufficient to support, and that under normal circumstances do support, a prevalence of vegetation typically adapted for life in saturated soil conditions. Wetlands generally include swamps, marshes, bogs, and similar areas.
Page 4 - Cause a film or sheen upon or discoloration of the surface of the water or adjoining shorelines or causa a sludge or emulsion to be deposited beneath the surface of the water or upon adjoining shorelines.
Page 2 - ... every description of watercraft or other artificial contrivance used, or capable of being used, as a means of transportation on the navigable waters, the construction of which is initiated before promulgation of standards and regulations under this section ; "(3) 'public vessel...
Page 2 - ... means the entire zone established or to be established by the United States under article 24 of the Convention on the Territorial Sea and the Contiguous Zone ; (10) "onshore facility" means any facility (including, but not limited to, motor vehicles and rolling stock) of any kind located in, on, or under, any land within the United States other than submerged land ; (11) "offshore facility...