Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:2472 – Information
Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:2472
- Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
- Discharge: means the placing, releasing, spilling, percolating, draining, pumping, leaking, seeping, emitting, or other escaping of pollutants into the air, waters, subsurface water, or ground as the result of a prior act or omission; or the placing of pollutants into pits, drums, barrels, or similar containers under conditions and circumstances that leaking, seeping, draining, or escaping of the pollutants can be reasonably anticipated. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:2004
- Facility: means a pollution source or any public or private property or facility where an activity is conducted which is required to be regulated under this Subtitle and which does or has the potential to do any of the following:
(a) Emit air contaminants into the atmosphere. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 30:2004
Each applicant for a discharge prevention and response certificate shall submit information, in a form satisfactory to the coordinator, describing all of the following:
(1) The barrel or other measurement capacity of the terminal facility.
(2) The dimensions and barrel capacity of the largest vessel docking at or providing service from the terminal facility.
(3) The storage and transfer capacities and average daily throughput of the terminal facility.
(4) The types of oil stored, handled, or transferred at the terminal facility.
(5) Information related to implementation of the applicant’s discharge prevention and response plan, including:
(a) All response equipment including but not limited to vehicles, vessels, pumps, skimmers, booms, bioremediation supplies and application devices, dispersants, chemicals, and communication devices to which the terminal facility has access, as well as the estimated time required to deploy the equipment after an unauthorized discharge.
(b) Personnel available to deploy and operate the response equipment, as well as the estimated time required to deploy the personnel after an unauthorized discharge.
(c) The measures employed to prevent unauthorized discharges.
(d) The terms of agreement and operation plan of any discharge cleanup organization to which the owner or operator of the terminal facility belongs.
(6) The source, nature of, and conditions of financial responsibility for removal costs and damages.
(7) Any other information necessary or appropriate to the review of a registrant’s discharge prevention and response capabilities.
Acts 1991, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 7, §1, eff. April 23, 1991.