Self Certification An Option Starting January 14th 2010
After an 11 month delay for additional public comment the EPA has finalized the December 2008 amendments to the Spill Control and Countermeasures Plan (SPCC) rules. If you recall, last year’s amendments were to reduce some of the regulatory burden on smaller oil handling facilities such as yours. As it turns out, the changes resulting from the extended public comment period have not had any impact on the amendments in your business sector. As with the previous rules if your facility has an aggregate storage capacity of over 1,320 gallons (including 55 gallon drums) of petroleum products, these amendments will affect your facility.
For more information about this upcoming rule change, read more in our January newsletter or join our SPPC webinar on January 14.
Wage and hour law continues to be a hot topic for our clients. Just when we have learned how to deal with that last batch of new regulations on paying employees, record-keeping and employee classification the