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

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Coast Guard

[CGD 94-016]

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 Subcommittee on Marine Vapor Control Systems of the

Chemical Transportation Advisory Committee will meet to review tank

vessel cleaning facility operations and evaluate 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 April 19 and 20, 1994, from 8:30

a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. Written material should be submitted no later

than April 11, 1994.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the offices of the American

Bureau of Shipping, 16855 Northchase Drive, Houston, Texas, 77060.

Personnel attending the meeting should report to the main floor

reception area for direction to the meeting room. Written material

should be submitted to LCDR Robert F. Corbin, Commandant (G-MTH-1),

U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters, 2100 Second Street, SW., Washington, DC

20593-0001.

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 pursuant to

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

One section of the 1990 Amendments to the Federal Clean Air Act

(CAA) requires states to achieve and maintain a 15% reduction in their

Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) emissions level below the 1990 base

year level by 1996 in non-attainment areas within the individual

states. States are presently developing methods to achieve required

compliance levels. One state recently passed state regulations that

will require vessels that have carried certain VOC cargoes and are

being gas-freed and/or cleaned to utilize a marine vapor control system

or an alternate means of control approved by the state at the tank

vessel cleaning facility. It is anticipated other states will develop

similar regulations as a means of complying with the CAA Amendments for

their states. The purpose of this meeting is to conduct a detailed

review of tank vessel cleaning facility gas-freeing and tank cleaning

operations in order to evaluate potential control technologies that

will allow these facilities to meet air quality emissions standards

while ensuring a high level of safety for facility and vessel personnel

is maintained. As a result of this review, the Subcommittee will

develop recommendations for revising existing safety guidelines for

tank vessel cleaning facilities.

Dated: February 24, 1994.

R.C. North,

Captain, U.S. Coast Guard, Acting Chief, Office of Marine Safety,

Security and Environmental Protection.

[FR Doc. 94-5287 Filed 3-7-94; 8:45 am]

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