Chemical Transportation Advisory Committee (CTAC) Subcommittee on Marine Vapor Control Systems

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

[CGD 94-084]

Chemical Transportation Advisory Committee (CTAC) Subcommittee on

Marine Vapor Control Systems

AGENCY: Coast Guard, DOT.

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

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SUMMARY: The barge and facility working groups of the Subcommittee on

Marine Vapor Control Systems of CTAC will meet to continue reviewing

tank vessels cleaning facility operations and evalaute the technical

and safety aspects of potential control technologies which will allow

these facilities to meet air quality emissions standards. The meeting

will be open to the public.

DATES: The meeting will be held on November 2-3, 1994, from 9 a.m. to 5

p.m. each day.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Wyndham Hotel, 12400

Greenspoint Drive, Houston, Texas 77060. Personnel attending the

meeting should proceed to the hotel information desk for direction to

the meeting room.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

LCDR Robert F. Corbin, Commandant (G-MTH-1), U.S. Coast Guard

Headquarters, 2100 Second Street, SW., Washington, DC 20593-0001,

telephone (202) 267-1217.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice of this meeting is given purusant to

the Federal Advisory Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. App. 2 twist 1 et seq.

The purpose of this meeting is to continue in the identification of

potential safety hazards associated with the use of a marine vapor

control system at tank vessel cleaning facilities. On the first day,

the barge and facility working groups of the Subcommittee on Marine

Vapor Control Systems will be conducting separate Hazard and

Operability Studies (HAZOPS) to identify potential safety hazards

associated with tank barge systems/vessel-to-shore interface issues,

and facility vapor control system technologies, respectively. The

second day of the meeting will be spent discussing unresolved issues

and formulating a work plan for the development of proposed regulatory

revisions at the next Subcommittee meeting.

Dated: September 30, 1994.

J.C. Card,

Rear Admiral, U.S. Coast Guard, Chief, Office of Marine Safety,

Security and Environmental Protection.

[FR Doc. 94-24820 Filed 10-5-94; 8:45 am]

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