Iowa Double Circle Mt. Pleasant - Executive Summary |
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Risk Management Plan - Executive Summary Facility: Iowa Double Circle, Mt. Pleasant, Ia Contact: Steve Williams Phone: 800-772-2667 1. Facility Policy. The owners, management, and employees of Iowa Double Circle (Mt. Pleasant) are committed to the prevention of any accidental releases of propane. If an accidental release should occur, the facility is prepared to work with the local fire department, or other authorities, to mitigate and minimize the impacts of the release to the people and the environment. 2. Facility Information. The primary activity at the facility is the storage and delivery of propane for customer use. The maximum quantity stored would be 50,300 pounds of propane. 3. Worst-Case Senario and Alternate Release Scenario a. The worst-case scenario would be the release of the total contents of a storage tank released as gas over a period of 10 minutes. The maximum quanity released would be 50,300 pounds, which represents the volume of the largest storage tank at 85 percent capacity as limited by design standards. The distance to the end point (point of dispersion to 200 parts per million, or ppm) is 0.3 miles. b. The alternate release scenario, based on the five-year accident history (or the most likely potential incident), is a release from hose rupture caused by a pull-away and assumes a 25-foot length of 4-inch transfer hose. The active mitigation devices are assumed to function as designed, limiting the release to the contents of the hose. The maximum quantitiy released would be 69 pounds. The distance to the end point (point of 1 psi overpressure) is 0.03 miles, or 175 feet. 4. Accidental Release Prevention Program The facility has been reviewed for general compliance with the provisions of "Safety Requirements for the S torage and Handling of Anhydrous Ammonia, K-61.1", published by The American National Standards Institute, Inc. (ANSI), and the Standards of the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), 29 CFR 1910.111, "Storage and Handling of anhydrous ammonia. The applicable standard for propane is NFPA-58. The OSHA standard is referenced in the Registration Form Section 8.3.b. 5. There have been no accidental releases of propane in the past five years that have caused any deaths, injuries, or significant property damage at the facility; nor to our knowledge have resulted in off-site deaths, injuries, evacuations, sheltering in place, property damage, or environmental damage. 6. Emergency Response Program. The facility has: a. a written action plan, in accordance with OSHA standard CFR 1910.38; b. provided state and local authorities with the emergency planning and community right-to-know information as required under SARA Title III (EPCRA). 7. Planned Changes to Improve Safety. Safety improvement is an on-going process at the facility. Periodic evaluations are performed to assess the maintenance of safe conditions. There are no additional specific safety recommendations regarding storage or use of propane for implementation at this time. |