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3.3 Management of Containers, Storm Water, and Cleaned -Up Waste Materials Containers and Drums Containers of petroleum products should, whenever possible, be ordered only when the empty container can be returned to the supplier for reuse. In the event the container cannot be recycled with the same product or another compatible product and the container must be emptied, it needs to be drained of product. Draining of lubricants and mixing with oils destined for recycling may be acceptable but must not be done until the Environmental Resources Department has approved the draining. After draining of petroleum product drums, it may be necessary to rinse the drums into the large truck washbay located at the Truck Shop at the Ironclad Facilities. The Environmental Resources Department should be consulted prior to rinsing. Containers that contain product, product destined for recycling, or which are not yet "empty," are to be stored within lined areas or other acceptable containment areas. Empty containers that have held fuels, oils, or antifreeze will be properly drained and returned to the supplier for reuse, when possible, if they are not going to be refilled with the identical product. Team Members using the products must be aware of which containers are to be sent back to a particular vendor for reuse. Residual fluids will be properly removed from containers in accordance with the next intended use of the barrel. Orderly storage and return to vendors reduces the potential for a release from these containers. Storm Water Storm water and snowmelt accumulations will be removed from secondary containment structures to maintain the required storage volume. If water contained in a sump has an oily sheen, the oily layer can be pumped off into a temporary storage container. Typically a 5- gallon bucket or 55- gallon drum container is sufficient volume to collect the oily sheen layer and transport it to an oil -water separator located at the Truck Shop at the Ironclad Facilities or transfer it to a 55 gallon drum designated for off - site disposal. Other measures such as sorbent pads may be used to remove the oily layer on the water. Clear water in containment sumps and secondary containment can be pumped to the ground outside the containment if a responsible individual monitors the process to assure there is no oily sheen and the pumping effort is recorded on the form provided in Appendix F. Clean -Up Waste Materials Following a spill clean -up effort, there will be some used materials such as booms, pads, socks, rags, oil dry soaked with oil, oil- contaminated soils, etc. Such materials should be gathered up and placed in drums or clean containers for proper disposal. Depending on the nature of the contaminated materials, it may be possible for them to be placed in a dumpster for disposal in the local landfill or the materials may need to be shipped off -site to a licensed disposal facility. Sorbent pads that have been used to remove petroleum products, including fuels, antifreeze, and oils, may be disposed of as a conventional solid waste and placed into the commercial solid waste containers at various locations around the property, provided no solvents or other potentially hazardous wastes have been added and no oil is dripping from these pads. If the pads are dripping, the oil can be rung out and collected, or more pads can be used to absorb the free liquid, or the dripping pads can be containerized for off -site disposal. In the case of oil- stained soils that are free of other contaminants, these materials may be stockpiled at the stemming stockpile for use as stemming in blast holes. The Environmental Resources Department will make all decisions regarding the final disposition of any by- product wastes generated by clean -up operations. Spill Response Plan EMS: AGANA/CCV G: \EMS\Plans\Emergency Response Plans\SRP Plan \SRP Plan.doc Printed Copies are Uncontrolled August 17, 2010 Doc. # E -006 Revision 05 1 0