Connersville Crops - Executive Summary |
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Executive Summary - Anhydrous Ammonia Accidental Release Prevention and Emergency Response Policices It is Connersville Crop Center of Fayette County Farm Bureau Co-op intenetion to provide for the safety of our employees, customers and the geneal public concerning anhyrous ammonia. Our facility complies with all federal, state, and local requlations and the 1989 ANSI K61.1 "Safety Requirements for the Storage and Handling of Anhydrous Ammonia". We Conduct annual safety inspections, conduct employee and customer training to ensure safe work practices involving anhydrous ammonia. We have an emergency response policy outlining the procedures to follow involvoing an incident with anhydrous ammonia. Description of our Facility and the regulated substances handled. Our facility is a retail farm supply center. we handle a variety of farm pesticides, fertilizers, including anhydrous ammonia that is considered an EHS material and regulated by EPA. We distribute anhydrous ammonia to our cus tomers in 1000 gallon nurse tanks. We have 2 anhydrous ammonia storage tanks at our facility. One tank is 26,000 gallons and the other is 30,000 gallons for a combined maximum storage capicity of 242760 pounds. The single largest tank has a storage capacity of 130050 pounds. Worst Case Scenario: Our worst case sscenario would be the loss of the entire contents of our 30,000 gallon storage tank released as a gas over a ten minute period resulting in total vaporization of the material. The maximum quanitiy released would be 130050 pounds of material resulting in an off-site impact. Faytte County Co-op has never experienced a release of this nature. Alternative Release Scenario The most common alternaative release scenario would be a transfer hose failure resulting in a release of 2 minutes until manual shut down could be accomplished. This would result in the release of 12,000 pounds of anhydrous ammonia. Fayette County Co-op has never had a release of thiss type. Five-year A ccident History There have been no accidents at our stationary anhdrous ammonia storage facility. Planned Changes to Improve Safety: There are no planned changes to our storage facilitiy at this time. |