دیکشنری تخصصی مهندسی نفت - نسخه آنلاین

n: (RSPA) a DOT agency that oversees the Office of Pipeline Safety, intermodal containers, highway portable tanks, railroad cars, and anything used in interstate or international commerce not regulated by the coast guard. Under OPA, RSPA has authority over onshore oil and hazardous materials pipelines that are used in interstate commerce. Address: 400 7th Street SW;Washington, DC 20590;(202) 366-4433.

n: an inventory required by HAZCOM. Under HAZCOM, all employers must keep a complete list, or inventory, of all hazardous materials on site.

n pi: a classification of injection wells under Safe Drinking Water Act that are related to hazardous, industrial nonhazardous, and municipal wastewater disposal below underground sources of drinking water.

n: (CAA) one of the first environmental laws passed by the federal government. The CAA addresses and regulates airborne pollution that may be potentially hazardous to public health or natural resources.

n: (HAZWOPER) an operation during which hazardous substances are removed, contained, incinerated, neutralised, stabilised. cleaned up, or in any other manner processed or handled. with the ultimate goal of making the site safer for people or the environment.

n: (CERCLA) a congressional act that gives the government the authority to clean up any site where there is an unremedied release of a hazardous substance. Frequent]y, these sites, which are referred to as Superfund" sites, are areas where hazardous waste has been disposed of improperly.

n: (under HAZWOPER) the removal of hazardous substances from employees and their equipment to the extent necessary to preclude the occurrence of foreseeable adverse health effects.

n: carcinogens and other hazardous chemicals that cause an adverse effect on a target organ (as defined by the Code of Federal Regulations) that manifests itself after a long period of time following or during repeated contact with the substance.

n pi: formation gases that are produced during a drill stem test, which is the conventional method of testing formations. Although these gases typically are produced only in very small quantities and consist mainly of natural gas, they become an environmental concern when the gases fall into the extremely hazardous substance category under SARA and are produced in sufficient quantities so that they exceed the TPQ limit set for that substance. Typically, wells are not set up for production operations when the drill stem test is run;consequently, gas-containment equipment is not installed or operational during the running of the test and such gases must be released or flared.

abbr: extremely hazardous substance.