[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 49, Volume 3]
[Revised as of October1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 49CFR194.105]

[Page 114-115]
 
                        TITLE 49--TRANSPORTATION
 
 CHAPTER I--RESEARCH AND SPECIAL PROGRAMS ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF 
                       TRANSPORTATION (CONTINUED)
 
PART 194--RESPONSE PLANS FOR ONSHORE OIL PIPELINES--Table of Contents
 
                        Subpart B--Response Plans
 
Sec. 194.105  Worst case discharge.

    (a) Each operator shall determine the worst case discharge for each 
of its response zones and provide the methodology, including 
calculations, used to arrive at the volume.
    (b) The worst case discharge is the largest volume, in barrels 
(cubic meters), of the following:
    (1) The pipeline's maximum release time in hours, plus the maximum 
shutdown response time in hours (based on historic discharge data or in 
the absence of such historic data, the operator's best estimate), 
multiplied by the maximum flow rate expressed in barrels per hour (based 
on the maximum

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daily capacity of the pipeline), plus the largest line drainage volume 
after shutdown of the line section(s) in the response zone expressed in 
barrels (cubic meters); or
    (2) The largest foreseeable discharge for the line section(s) within 
a response zone, expressed in barrels (cubic meters), based on the 
maximum historic discharge, if one exists, adjusted for any subsequent 
corrective or preventive action taken; or
    (3) If the response zone contains one or more breakout tanks, the 
capacity of the single largest tank or battery of tanks within a single 
secondary containment system, adjusted for the capacity or size of the 
secondary containment system, expressed in barrels (cubic meters).

[58 FR 253, Jan. 5, 1993, as amended by Amdt. 194-3, 63 FR 37505, July 
13, 1998]