--- title: Audit, Compliance and Risk Blog | STP | spcc description: spcc | STP's blog giving insight into audit, compliance and risk issues for EHS, business and accounting. --- [![Specialty Technical Publishers](https://blog.stpub.com/hubfs/STP-logo-white-orange.png)](http://www.stpub.com/) - [My Account](http://stponline.stpub.com) - 1-800-251-0381 # Audit, Compliance and Risk Blog ## [COVID-19 Impacts to Your SPPC Plans: Are Your Plans Up-to-Date?](https://blog.stpub.com/covid-19-impacts-to-your-spcc-plans-are-your-plans-up-to-date) Posted by [Antea Group](https://blog.stpub.com/author/antea-group) on Wed, Aug 11, 2021 - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) ![Tanks-2-1](https://blog.stpub.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Tanks-2-1.png?width=251&name=Tanks-2-1.png)The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted all industries to some degree over the past year. With offices shut down, and some workforces working remotely, many offices have been left vacant. At the beginning of the pandemic, food and beverage and consumer goods manufacturing facilities were temporarily shut down or production was significantly reduced. Restaurants and retail facilities were closed or transitioned to online ordering and pick-up. Only critically essential services and operations managed to stay open.  At many of these facilities, Aboveground Storage Tanks (ASTs) and/or Portable Containers (drums/totes) are used for oil or fuel storage critical to operations. If these facilities meet the criteria indicated below, then the facility must prepare and implement a Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure (SPCC) Plan according to the Federal Oil Pollution Prevention regulation [40 CFR part 112](https://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?SID=5630f5f0c6119d534ef3e71fde63e2de&mc=true&node=pt40.24.112&rgn=div5). [Read More](https://blog.stpub.com/covid-19-impacts-to-your-spcc-plans-are-your-plans-up-to-date) 0 Comments [Click here to read/write comments](https://blog.stpub.com/covid-19-impacts-to-your-spcc-plans-are-your-plans-up-to-date#comments-listing) Tags: [spcc](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/spcc), [Covid-19](https://blog.stpub.com/topic/covid-19) ## [EPA Decides Not to Require SPCCs to Address Hazardous Substance Spills](https://blog.stpub.com/epa-decides-not-to-require-spccs-to-address-hazardous-substance-spills) Posted by [Jon Elliott](https://blog.stpub.com/author/jon-elliott) on Tue, Sep 24, 2019 - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) [![](https://blog.stpub.com/hubfs/Stormwater.jpg) ](https://blog.stpub.com/epa-decides-not-to-require-spccs-to-address-hazardous-substance-spills) The Clean Water Act (CWA) requires the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to define “oil” and “hazardous substances”, and includes requirements that EPA establish “procedures, methods, and equipment and other requirements for equipment to prevent discharges of oil and hazardous substances from vessels and from onshore facilities and offshore facilities, and to contain such discharges….” (33 USC § 1321(j)(1)(C)) Since 1973, EPA has required owners and operators of non-transportation-related onshore and offshore facilities to establish and implement Spill Prevention, Countermeasure and Control (SPCC) Plans if they manage more than threshold levels of oils (I summarized these requirements [here](https://blog.stpub.com/bid/201232/EPA-May-Require-Spill-Prevention-Control-and-Countermeasure-Plan)). 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