Florida Administrative Code
62 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
62S - Office of the Secretary
Chapter 62S-6 - POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ACT
Section 62S-6.034 - Additional Equipment to Cleanup a 10, 000 Gallon Pollutant Discharge

Universal Citation: FL Admin Code R 62S-6.034

Current through Reg. 50, No. 187; September 24, 2024

(1) The additional cleanup equipment to be available to a terminal facility as required under Section 376.065(3), F.S., shall be as follows:

(a) Twenty-five hundred feet of sorbent boom.

(b) Two each 2, 000 gallon per hour mechanical removal or skimming devices and two each 2, 000 gallon capacity holding or storage devices and a minimum of 200 feet of suction hose.

(c) A sufficient quantity of sorbents based on their rated sorption capacity for 1, 000 gallons of pollutants.

(d) One thousand each heavy duty 30 gallon or larger garbage bags or the equivalent, for containment of soiled sorbents.

(e) Three boats (16 feet or larger), each with a minimum of a 25 horsepower engine suitable for deploying and retrieving boom and transporting discharge clean up equipment.

(f) Hand tools - 10 each yard rakes, 10 each square point shovels, 10 each round pointed shovels and 3 each wheelbarrows.

(g) Two each portable gasoline powered blowers (yard type).

(h) Two each portable trash pumps with at least 100 feet of discharge hose and 50 feet of suction hose with a nozzle. Pumps shall have a lift capacity of 25 feet and discharge capacity of 50 psi.

(i) Ten each portable two-way communication radios or cellular telephones.

(j) One thousand feet of 1/2" line or rope.

(k) Nautical charts of the terminal facility site.

(l) Fifty sets of protective clothing.

(m) Twenty-five pairs of protective footwear.

(2) A terminal facility shall not be required to provide for permanent or sorbent boom in response to a discharge of chlorine, ammonia or pesticides in a form which cannot be contained by such booming equipment.

(3) A terminal facility may request a waiver or substitution for any specific equipment required by this section. The department shall grant the waiver or substitution provided the item is not required due to specific environmental or operational features or characteristics at the terminal facility and that the waiver or substitution will not be detrimental to the discharge cleanup capabilities of the facility.

Rulemaking Authority 376.07 FS. Law Implemented 376.065 FS.

New 8-27-92, Formerly 16N-16.034, 62N-16.034, Amended 1-9-14.

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