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[FR Doc No: 94-11708]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Coast Guard
[CGD 94-046]

 

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 continue 
reviewing 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 June 15, 1994, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. 
Written material should be submitted no later than June 10, 1994.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held in Room 4315, U.S. Coast Guard 
Headquarters, 2100 Second Street, SW., Washington, DC 20593-0001. 
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. 2 sec. 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 continue reviewing 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: May 3, 1994.
A.E. Henn,
Rear Admiral, U.S. Coast Guard, Chief, Office of Marine Safety, 
Security and Environmental Protection.
[FR Doc. 94-11708 Filed 5-12-94; 8:45 am]
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