Impacts of EPA 2012 commercial pump-out regulations.

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• Creators:
  Hsieh, Hsin-Neng ; Marhaba, Taha
• Corporate Creators:
  New Jersey Institute of Technology. Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Ballast (Ships)
  • Ships
  • Pumps
  • Permits
  • Benefit cost analysis
  • Maritime industry
  • Water quality
  • Discharge of ballast water--Law and legislation
  • Graywater (Domestic wastewater)
• Publication/ Report Number:
  FHWA-NJ-2012-006
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  New Jersey
• Edition:
  Final report.
• Corporate Publisher:
  New Jersey. Dept. of Transportation ; United States. Federal Highway Administration
• Abstract:
  The US EPA issued the Vessel General Permit (VGP) for managing vessel discharges, under the Clean Water ; Act. As a result, commercial vessels operating in the New York/New Jersey Harbor and at Delaware River will ; be required to comply, including additional conditions imposed by the state. This will affect maritime ; commerce in terms of cost and operation to meet the VGP requirements. The objectives of this research are ; to (1) determine how this rule would affect maritime commerce in New Jersey, (2) perform an analysis of the ; US EPA standards and the VGP rules and determine their impacts on New Jersey maritime operations, and ; (3) determine what New Jersey needs to do to be prepared. To carry out the project tasks, information on ; vessels registered under the VGP Notice of Intent and vessels arrivals were solicited from the US EPA and US ; Coast Guard, respectively, and analyzed. A stakeholder committee was formed where key and urgent issues ; were discussed in several meetings. New Jersey ports and onshore storage and treatment facilities were ; investigated. A cost analysis of alternative methods and facilities for pump-out of the discharge, storage, ; transport to a treatment facility, and waste treatment was performed. A protocol was developed for the ; maritime industry for filing VGP compliance and reporting. With the 2008 VGP expiration date approaching, US ; EPA is proposing new, more stringent numeric technology-based effluent limitations for ballast water in the ; 2013 VGP. A draft sVGP for small vessels is also issued. Finally, the impact on New Jersey and ; recommendations to the maritime industry are presented.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/25484/dot_25484_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 707.18 KB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
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