Factoid/2007/10/01
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EPA Both Extends Compliance Deadline And Proposes Weakening of Oil Spill Prevention Regulations
- Excerpt 1: "EPA Administrator Signs Final Rule to Extend Compliance Dates for Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure (SPCC) Rule until July 1, 2009..." Excerpt 2: "EPA has proposed amendments to the SPCC rule... The regulated community now has the opportunity to comment on these proposed changes during a 60-day comment period... EPA is proposing to exempt the following from SPCC regulations: hot-mix asphalt and hot-mix asphalt containers; pesticide application equipment and related mix containers... and completely buried oil storage tanks at nuclear power generation facilities... [and] exclude farms and oil production facilities from the loading/unloading requirements..." - Excerpts from these two EPA web pages, 1 and 2.
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