California Code of Regulations › Title 14 - Natural Resources › Division 1 - Fish and Game Commission-Department of Fish and Game › Subdivision 4 - Office of Spill Prevention and Response › Chapter 3 - Oil Spill Prevention and Response Planning › Subchapter 3.6 - Drills and Exercises › Section 820.1 - Drills and Exercises-Facilities, Vessels, and Mobile Transfer Units

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) Applicability
					 and Definitions.
(1) This subchapter provides
					 the requirements for equipment deployment drills and tabletop exercises (as
					 defined in section
					 790 of chapter 1, and hereinafter
					 referred to as "drills" and "exercises", respectively) applicable to owners or
					 operators of facilities, vessels, and mobile transfer units requiring an oil
					 spill contingency plan pursuant to subchapter 3 or subchapter 4 of this
					 chapter. Drills and exercises are not required if a facility, vessel, or mobile
					 transfer unit is exempt from oil spill contingency plan requirements pursuant
					 to subchapter 3 or subchapter 4 of this chapter.
(2) Regions. For in-state drill and exercise
					 scheduling and attendance purposes, the Office of Spill Prevention and Response
					 divides California into three regions: North, Central, and South.
(A) The North region includes the counties of
					 Alameda, Alpine, Amador, Butte, Calaveras, Colusa, Contra Costa, Del Norte, El
					 Dorado, Glenn, Humboldt, Lake, Lassen, Marin, Mendocino, Modoc, Napa, Nevada,
					 Placer, Plumas, Sacramento, San Francisco, San Joaquin, San Mateo, Santa Clara,
					 Shasta, Sierra, Siskiyou, Solano, Sonoma, Sutter, Tehama, Trinity, Yolo, and
					 Yuba.
(B) The Central region
					 includes the counties of Fresno, Kern, Kings, Madera, Mariposa, Merced,
					 Monterey, San Benito, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, Stanislaus,
					 Tulare, Tuolumne, and Ventura.
(C)
					 The South region includes the counties of Imperial, Inyo, Los Angeles, Mono,
					 Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, and San Diego.
(3) Tiers. Oil spill contingency plans are
					 categorized into one of three tier classifications for exercise purposes. These
					 tiers are as follows:
(A) Tier I plan holders
					 include facilities with a reasonable worst-case spill volume of 1,000 barrels
					 or more that may impact inland waters, or 600 barrels or more that may impact
					 marine waters, and all vessels.
(B)
					 Tier II plan holders include facilities with a reasonable worst-case spill
					 volume of 500 to 999 barrels that may impact inland waters, or 250 to 599
					 barrels that may impact marine waters.
(C) Tier III plan holders include facilities
					 with a reasonable worst-case spill volume of 499 barrels or less that may
					 impact inland waters, or 249 barrels or less that may impact marine waters, and
					 all mobile transfer units.
(4) The Administrator may determine that a
					 different tier is more appropriate for a particular facility based on, but not
					 limited to, the following: a change in the facility's reasonable worst-case
					 spill volume, spill and response history, threat to sensitive sites, or public
					 safety concerns (e.g., proximity to a residential area).
(5) In addition to the requirements contained
					 in this section, the Administrator may require an additional drill or exercise
					 to validate the oil spill contingency plan. This drill or exercise may be
					 announced or unannounced and may be called due, but not limited, to: one or
					 more unsuccessful mandatory objective(s), new resources, or changed
					 resources.
(6) Definitions. In
					 addition to the definitions in section
					 790, the following definitions
					 apply to this subchapter.
(A) "CalTriVEX"
					 means "California Triennial Vessel Exercise", a tabletop exercise performed by
					 vessel plan holders and held in-state as described in this
					 subchapter.
(B) "CoreVEX" means
					 "Core Vessel Exercise", a tabletop exercise performed by vessel plan holders
					 and held either in-state or out-of-state as described in this
					 subchapter.
(C) "Drill Coordinator"
					 means a member of the Office of Spill Prevention and Response's drills and
					 exercises unit who serves as the Administrator's designee to fulfill
					 responsibilities as described in this subchapter.
(D) "Drills and Exercises Unit" means the
					 unit within the Office of Spill Prevention and Response that oversees the
					 drills and exercises as described in this subchapter.
(E) "Mandatory Objective" means any objective
					 described in subsections (c) through (f) that must be successfully achieved in
					 a specified calendar year for an oil spill contingency plan to maintain
					 compliance with drill and exercise requirements.
(F) "OSPRIE" means "Office of Spill
					 Prevention and Response Initiated Event", referring to an unannounced drill or
					 exercise that may be substituted for drill or exercise credit as described in
					 this subchapter.
(G) "Sensitive
					 Site" means the location of environmental, historic, cultural/tribal, or
					 economic resources that may be at risk from an oil spill as identified in area
					 contingency plans, geographic response plans, or pursuant to the National
					 Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Title
					 54 U.S.C. §
														300101 et seq.) and regulations implementing
					 that Act ( 36 CFR Part 800 ).