Kan. Admin. Regs. § 28-45a-11 - Emergency response plan and safety and security measures
(a) Each permittee
of an existing underground natural gas storage facility and each applicant for
a permit for a proposed underground natural gas storage facility shall prepare
an emergency response plan as part of the permit application or the plugging
plan. The following requirements shall apply:
(1) Each permittee and each applicant shall
maintain the emergency response plan at the facility and at the company
headquarters and shall make it available for inspection by the secretary.
(2) Each permittee and each
applicant shall make a copy of the plan available to all coordinating agencies
or committees involved in emergency response.
(b) Each permittee shall update the plan
annually and also shall update the plan whenever new information regarding the
requirements for the emergency response plan becomes available.
(c) Each plan shall include a description of
the facility's response to the following events:
(1) Spills and releases;
(2) fires and explosions;
(3) cavern subsidence and collapse; and
(4) any other activity that
endangers public health and safety, or that constitutes a threat to the
environment.
(d) Each
plan shall include the following information:
(1) A description of the warning systems in
operation at the facility;
(2) a
description of the facility's emergency response communication system that
includes the following:
(A) A plat showing
the location of all occupied buildings within two miles of the facility's
perimeter; and
(B) a list of
addresses and telephone numbers for all persons to contact within two miles of
the facility's perimeter if a release or emergency condition occurs;
(3) the procedures for
coordination of emergency response with local emergency planning committees,
including emergency notification and evacuation of citizens and employees;
(4) a description of employee
training for emergency response;
(5) a plat of the facility, showing locations
for the following:
(A) All underground
storage wells;
(B) all underground
injection control wells;
(C) all
monitoring wells;
(D) all brine
and product lines, if present;
(E)
railroad and transportation routes;
(F) all brine ponds, if present; and
(G) any other appurtenances at the
facility; and
(6) a
plan map of all man-made surface structures and any construction activities
within one mile of the facility's perimeter.
(e) Each permittee shall establish an
educational program for community safety and awareness of the emergency
response plan.
(f) Each permittee
of an underground natural gas storage facility shall provide security measures
to protect the public and to prevent unauthorized access. These security
measures shall include the following:
(1)
Methods for securing the facility from unauthorized entry and for providing a
convenient opportunity for escape to a place of safety;
(2) clearly visible, permanent signs at all
points of entry and along the facility's boundary, identifying the well or
storage facility name, owner, and contact telephone number;
(3) security lighting;
(4) alarm systems;
(5) appropriate warning signs in areas that
may contain accumulations of hazardous or noxious vapors or where physical
hazards exist; and
(6) a direct
communication link with the control room or remote control center for service
and maintenance crews.
(g) Warning systems and alarms shall consist
of the following:
(1) Leak detectors, fire
detectors, heat sensors, pressure sensors, and emergency shutdown
instrumentation shall be integrated with warning systems audible and visible in
the local control room and at any remote control center;
(2) circuitry designed so that the failure of
a detector or heat sensor, excluding meltdown and fused devices, will activate
the warning; and
(3) a manually
operated alarm, audible to facility personnel.
(h) Each wellhead and storage cavern shall be
protected with safety devices to prevent pressures in excess of the maximum
allowable operating pressure from being exerted on the storage well or storage
cavern and to prevent backflow if a flowline ruptures.
(i) Each wellhead shall be equipped with
manual isolation valves. Each port on each wellhead shall be equipped with
either a valve or a blind flange. The valve or blind flange shall be rated at
the same pressure as that for the wellhead.
(j) Each permittee shall install a
supervisory control and data acquisition monitoring system approved by the
secretary to monitor storage operations for individual storage caverns. Each of
the following instruments shall be connected to an alarm:
(1) Flow indicators for natural gas;
(2) gas indicators; and
(3) pressure indicators on the product lines
of the wellhead.
(k)
Each permittee shall install emergency shutdown valves on all natural gas lines
and, if present, brine or water lines. Each emergency shutdown valve shall meet
the following requirements:
(1) Meet either
of the following pressure-ratings:
(A) Be
rated at least equivalent to 125% of the maximum pressure that could be exerted
at the surface; or
(B) meet a
pressure-rating standard equivalent to that specified in paragraph (k)(1)(A)
and determined by the secretary to be protective of public health, safety, and
the environment;
(2)
fail to a closed position;
(3) be
capable of remote and local operation; and
(4) be activated by any overpressuring in the
natural gas system.
(l)
Each permittee shall conduct annual inspections of all wellhead
instrumentation.
(m) Each
permittee shall function-test each critical control system and emergency
shutdown valve semiannually.
(n)
Each permittee shall perform trip testing of each loop, including the
instrumentation, valves, shutdown equipment, and all wiring connections, to
ensure the integrity of the circuit.
(o) Each permittee shall ensure that the
equipment automatically closes all inlets and outlets to the storage cavern and
safely shuts down or diverts any operation associated with the storage cavern,
in case of overfilling or emergency.
(p) Each permittee shall ensure that the
automatic valve closure times meet the valve design limits for closure times.
(q) Each permittee shall cease
operations or shall comply with the instructions from the secretary if the
secretary determines that an imminent threat to public health, safety, or the
environment exists due to any unsafe operating condition. The permittee may
resume operations if the secretary determines that the facility's operations no
longer pose a risk to public health, safety, or the environment.
Notes
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