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[FR Doc No: 94-5287]


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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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