Oakland Gin Company - Executive Summary

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1.  FACILITY POLICY 
 
The owners, management, and employees of Oakland Gin Co. are committed to the prevention of any accidental release of anhydrous ammonia.  If an accidental release would occur, the facility is prepared to work with the local fire company, or other authorities, to mitigate any release and minimize the impact of  the release to people and the environment. 
 
2.  FACILITY INFORMATION 
The primary activity of the facility is the storage and blending of fertilizers for sale to farmers. 
 
Anhydrous ammonia is received, stored, and utilized in the batch operation for production of ammmonium phosphate fertilizers for crop production nutrients. 
 
The maximum quantity stored would be 50,000 pounds in our 16,000 gallon storage tank.  The maximum quantity handled would be the unloading of a delivery truck holding 40,000  pounds. 
 
WORST-CASE RELEASE SCENARIO AND THE ALTERNATIVE RELEASE SCENARIO 
 
The worst-case release scenario would be the release of the total contents of a storage t 
ank when being filled from a tanker truck released as a gas over 10 minutes. The maximun quantity released would be 40,000 pounds which represent the volume of the tanker truck.  Ammonia is only ordered as needed.  The distance to the endpoint (point of dispersion to 200 ppm) is 3.6 miles. 
 
The alternate release scenario based on the most likely potential incident is a release from discharging ammonia from a break in the reactor or transfer hoses.  The distance to the endpoint (point of dispersion to 200 ppm) is 0.1 mile. 
 
4.  ACCIDENTIAL RELEASE PREVENTION PROGRAM 
 
The facility has implemented the provisions of "Safety Requirements for the Storage and Handling of Anhydrous Ammonia, K-61.1", published by the American Health Standards Institute, Inc. 
 
5.  FIVE-YEAR ACCIDENT HISTORY 
 
There have been no acidental releases of anhydrous ammonia in the past five years at the facility; nor, to our knowledge, no off-site consequences. 
 
6.  EMERGENCY RESPONSE PROGRAM 
 
The facility has 1.) provi 
ded state and local authorities the emergency planning and community right -to-know information as required under SARA  Title lll (EPCRA), an emergency response program. 
 
7.  PLANNED CHANGES TO IMPROVE SAFETY 
 
Safety improvement is an on-going process at the facility.  Periodic reviews are performed to assess the maintenance of the equipment to insure safe conditions.  There are no additional specific anhydrous ammonia safety recommendations for implementation at the time.
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