This 4-hour course will provide an overview of environmental compliance and permitting requirements for liquid fuels terminals. The goal of this course is to provide environmental professionals, terminal operators or managers, and other interested parties a basic understanding of the environmental compliance programs applicable to fuels terminals. Topics include:

• Types of facilities and operations
• Air emission units and applicable regulations
• Water pollution sources and applicable regulatory programs
• Waste generating activities and regulatory requirements
• Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act (EPCRA)
• Oil Pollution Prevention requirements such as facility response and spill prevention plans
• Storage tank regulations

This course does not include detailed applicability evaluations, pipeline operation requirements, or gasoline dispensing (gas station) operations.

This course will provide practical information and guidance to attendees on effective operation of their biological treatment units, as well as the available tools to troubleshoot process upsets and employ corrective actions. Attendees of this training session will acquire information and skills necessary to provide proactive responses to abnormal conditions in their biological treatment process, allowing them to avoid upsets leading to effluent noncompliance or recover from them more quickly. Specific subjects covered in this session will include:

Basic Principles of Biological Treatment and Solids Separation
Growth Pressures for Biological Treatment
Monitoring Bioreactor Health
Identifying and Correcting Abnormal Operating Conditions
Troubleshooting with Microscopic Evaluations

This session will also include a real-time demonstration of a microscopic examination on samples of activated sludge. Attendees are encouraged to bring samples from their facilities to be analyzed during the course.

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This class puts forth a blueprint for a natural gas compressor station which maximizes compression capacity while maintaining an air emissions minor source status. The presentation will review common emissions sources, go into detail about equipment design considerations for minimizing emissions, and highlight best management practices.

Title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 112 specifies requirements for non-transportation related facilities that are engaged in the storing, processing, transferring, distributing, using or consuming oil and oil products, which, due to its location, could reasonably be expected to discharge oil in quantities that may be harmful. The threshold for SPCC applicability is 1,320 gallons contained by oil-filled operational equipment, flow-through process vessels, mobile or portable containers, and bulk storage containers with a volume of 55-gallons or more. Facilities subject to 40 CFR Part 112 are required to develop and implement an SPCC Plan that describes engineering controls and operating procedures that will reduce the probability of a release of oil and provide response measures to control accidental releases, including regulatory notification requirements for spills above the reportable quantity threshold. Specific regulatory drivers affect the oil and gas exploration, production and transmission activities. Participants in this class will focus on the basic requirements of the SPCC rule with a strong emphasis on identification of regulated equipment found in the oil and gas industry, as well as compliance obligations relevant to that equipment.

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