Kansas Administrative Regulations
Agency 28 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT
Article 45b - UNDERGROUND CRUDE OIL STORAGE WELLS AND ASSOCIATED BRINE PONDS
Section 28-45b-11 - Emergency response plan and safety and security measures

Universal Citation: KS Admin Regs 28-45b-11

Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 12, March 20, 2024

(a)

(1) Each applicant for a permit for an underground crude oil storage facility shall make the emergency response plan available for inspection by the secretary when the permit application is submitted to the department.

(2) Each permittee shall maintain the emergency response plan at the facility and at the company headquarters and shall make the plan available for inspection by the secretary.

(b) Each permittee shall update the emergency response plan annually and also shall update the plan whenever new information regarding the requirements for the emergency response plan becomes available.

(c) Each emergency response plan shall include a description of the facility's response to the following events:

(1) Spills and releases;

(2) fires and explosions;

(3) cavern subsidence and collapse; and

(4) any other activity that endangers public health and safety or that constitutes a threat to the environment.

(d) Each emergency response plan shall include the following information:

(1) A description of the warning systems in operation at the facility;

(2) a description of the facility's emergency response communication system that includes the following:
(A) A plat showing the location of all occupied buildings within a two-mile perimeter of the facility's boundaries; and

(B) a list of addresses and telephone numbers for all persons to contact within a two-mile perimeter of the facility's boundaries if a release or emergency condition occurs;

(3) the procedures for coordination of emergency response with local emergency planning committees, including emergency notification and evacuation of citizens and employees;

(4) a description of employee training for emergency response;

(5) a plat of the facility, showing the following locations:
(A) All crude oil storage wells;

(B) all underground injection control wells;

(C) all monitoring wells;

(D) all brine and product lines;

(E) railroad and transportation routes;

(F) brine ponds; and

(G) any other appurtenances at the facility; and

(6) a plan map of man-made surface structures and any construction activities within a one-mile perimeter of the facility's boundaries.

(e) A copy of the emergency response plan shall be available at the facility, the company headquarters, and the office of each coordinating agency or committee involved in the emergency response plan.

(f) Each permittee shall establish an educational program for community safety and awareness of the emergency response plan.

(g) Each permittee of an underground crude oil storage facility shall provide security measures to protect the public and to prevent unauthorized access. These security measures shall include the following:

(1) Methods for securing the facility from unauthorized entry and for providing a convenient opportunity for escape to a place of safety;

(2) at least one visible, permanent sign at each point of entry and along the facility's boundary, identifying the storage well or facility name, owner, and contact telephone number;

(3) security lighting;

(4) alarm systems;

(5) appropriate warning signs in areas that could contain accumulations of hazardous or noxious vapors or where physical hazards exist; and

(6) a direct communication link with the local control room or any remote control center for service and maintenance crews.

(h) Warning systems and alarms shall consist of the following:

(1) Combustible gas detectors, hydrogen sulfide detectors, heat sensors, pressure sensors, and emergency shutdown instrumentation integrated with warning systems audible and visible in the local control room and at any remote control center;

(2) circuitry designed so that the failure of a detector or heat sensor, excluding meltdown and fused devices, will activate the warning; and

(3) a manually operated alarm that is audible to facility personnel.

(i) Each wellhead shall be protected with safety devices to prevent pressures in excess of the maximum allowable operating pressure from being exerted on the storage well or cavern and to prevent the backflow of any stored crude oil if a flowline ruptures.

(j) Each wellhead shall be equipped with manual isolation valves. Each port on a wellhead shall be equipped with either a valve or a blind flange. The valve or blind flange shall be rated at the same pressure as that for the wellhead.

(k) Each permittee shall ensure that the facility has a supervisory control and data acquisition system approved by the secretary to monitor storage operations for individual storage wells. Each of the following instruments shall be connected to an alarm:

(1) Flow indicators for crude oil;

(2) combustible gas and hydrogen sulfide detection indicators; and

(3) pressure indicators on both the product and brine lines at the wellhead.

(l) Each permittee shall install emergency shutdown valves on all crude oil, brine, and water lines. Criteria for emergency shutdown valves shall include the following:

(1)
(A) Be rated at least equivalent to 125 percent of the maximum pressure that could be exerted at the surface; or

(B) meet a pressure-rating standard equivalent to that specified to that in paragraph (l)(1)(A) and determined by the secretary to be protective of public health, safety, and the environment;

(2) fail to the closed position;

(3) be capable of remote and local operation; and

(4) be activated by the following:
(A) Overpressuring;

(B) underpressuring; and

(C) gas and heat detection.

(m) Each permittee shall conduct annual inspections of all wellhead instrumentation.

(n) Each permittee shall function-test each critical control system and emergency shutdown valve semiannu-ally.

(o) Each permittee shall perform trip-testing of each loop, including the instrumentation, valves, shutdown equipment, and all wiring connections, to ensure the integrity of the circuit.

(p) Each permittee shall ensure that the equipment automatically closes all inlets and outlets to the storage cavern and safely shuts down or diverts any operation associated with the storage cavern, in case of overfilling or an emergency.

(q) Each permittee shall ensure that the automatic valve closure times meet the valve design limits for closure times.

(r) Each permittee shall cease operations or shall comply with the instructions from the secretary if the secretary determines that an imminent threat to public health, safety, or the environment exists due to any unsafe operating condition. The permittee may resume operations if the secretary determines that the facility's operations no longer pose a risk to public health, safety, or the environment.

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