Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure (SPCC) Plan Services
Souder, Miller & Associates (SMA) helps public and private clients develop, update, implement, and maintain Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure (SPCC) Plans for facilities throughout the Mountain West. Whether your facility includes a single aboveground storage tank, multiple oil-handling areas, or a geographically dispersed portfolio of sites, SMA provides practical SPCC compliance support tailored to your operations, risk profile, and regulatory obligations.
SPCC Plans are required for certain facilities that store, use, process, transfer, distribute, or consume oil and that could reasonably discharge oil to navigable waters or adjoining shorelines. The EPA’s SPCC regulations require qualifying facilities to prepare and implement written plans that identify oil storage and handling areas, describe spill prevention and control measures, address secondary containment, establish inspection and response procedures, and document employee training and plan maintenance.
SMA’s environmental professionals understand that SPCC compliance is more than a written document. A useful SPCC Plan must reflect actual facility conditions, operational practices, tank configurations, drainage patterns, containment systems, emergency response capabilities, and staff responsibilities. Our team works with clients to develop plans that are technically sound, field-verified, and practical for day-to-day implementation.
SPCC Plan Development and Updates
SMA prepares new SPCC Plans and updates existing plans for industrial, municipal, energy, utility, agricultural, transportation, and commercial facilities. Our services may include facility applicability evaluations, oil storage inventory review, site mapping, drainage and containment assessment, spill history review, regulatory gap analysis, plan preparation, Professional Engineer certification support where required, and coordination with facility staff to confirm that procedures are realistic and implementable.
For existing SPCC Plans, SMA can evaluate whether changes in tanks, equipment, ownership, operations, site layout, drainage, secondary containment, or regulatory expectations require a plan amendment. We can also assist with periodic plan reviews, technical amendments, administrative updates, and multi-site standardization for clients managing facilities across several states.
Facility Inspections and Compliance Evaluations
A reliable SPCC Plan begins with accurate field information. SMA provides field inspection services to document current site conditions and evaluate oil storage and handling areas, including aboveground tanks, bulk storage containers, mobile or portable containers, loading and unloading areas, transfer piping, oil-filled equipment, secondary containment, stormwater pathways, valves, spill kits, and emergency response resources.
Our field inspections can be provided as part of a new SPCC Plan, as a stand-alone compliance review, or as a portfolio-wide assessment for clients with multiple facilities. SMA’s experience includes individual sites as well as clients with many geographically dispersed sites, including facilities with large-volume tanks exceeding 1,000,000 gallons. This experience allows SMA to evaluate both routine compliance details and complex facility conditions where containment, drainage, access, response timing, and operational continuity must be carefully considered.
SPCC Training and Implementation Support
SMA provides SPCC training to help facility personnel understand their responsibilities and implement the plan effectively. Training can be provided as a stand-alone service or in combination with SPCC Plan preparation, plan updates, or facility inspections.
Training topics may include oil-handling procedures, spill prevention practices, inspection responsibilities, discharge response procedures, secondary containment maintenance, recordkeeping, reporting considerations, and site-specific plan requirements. SMA can tailor training for operators, maintenance personnel, environmental staff, facility managers, and multi-site compliance teams.
Ancillary Engineering, Survey, and Mapping Services
In addition to SPCC Plan preparation, facility inspections, and training, SMA can provide related engineering, geomatics, and field support services to help clients implement practical spill prevention and containment solutions. These services may include the design of secondary containment structures, grading and drainage improvements, liner systems, containment berms, tank pad improvements, and structural components associated with oil storage and handling areas. SMA can also provide subsurface utility engineering (SUE) services to help identify and document buried utilities, transfer lines, and other subsurface features that may affect containment design, excavation, drainage improvements, or facility modifications. For larger or more complex sites, SMA can use UAV surveys and aerial photography to support comprehensive facility mapping, tank and equipment inventories, drainage evaluation, access planning, and clear visual documentation for SPCC Plans and compliance records.
Services Available Individually or as an Integrated Program
SMA’s SPCC services can be provided individually or grouped into a broader compliance program. Depending on client needs, SMA can support:
- SPCC applicability evaluations
- New SPCC Plan preparation
- SPCC Plan updates and amendments
- Facility inspections and compliance reviews
- Secondary containment evaluations
- Oil storage inventory and site diagram support
- Spill prevention and response procedure development
- Employee training and implementation support
- Multi-site program standardization
- Periodic plan reviews and compliance tracking
- Support for facilities with large tanks, complex drainage, or dispersed operations
For clients with multiple locations, SMA can help develop a consistent SPCC framework while accounting for site-specific differences in oil storage, containment, climate, drainage, operations, and state or local requirements. This approach helps institutional, municipal, industrial, utility, and private-sector clients manage compliance across the Mountain West while maintaining plans that remain usable at the facility level.
Practical Compliance for Mountain West Facilities
Facilities across the Mountain West often face unique SPCC considerations, including remote locations, large service areas, seasonal access constraints, variable precipitation, snowmelt, unpaved yards, agricultural or industrial operations, and large-capacity tanks. SMA combines environmental compliance experience with field-based engineering and site assessment capabilities to help clients identify practical, durable solutions.
From individual facilities to regional portfolios, SMA helps clients prepare SPCC Plans that support regulatory compliance, spill prevention, employee readiness, and environmental protection. For more information, please contact spcc@soudermiller.com.