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EPA Region 6 - NPDES General Permit GMG290000
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Produced Water Hypoxia Study Participation Agreement
Deadline: February 28, 2005 |
Published on January 24, 2004
PRODUCED WATER HYPOXIA STUDY PARTICIPATION AGREEMENT IS HERE!!!
The EPA Region 6 General NPDES Permit requires operators that discharge produced water
in the hypoxic zone of the Gulf of Mexico, as defined by the lease blocks specified below,
must conduct sampling or, alternatively, participate in an industry-wide study.
OOC, along with API and DOE, have coordinated the industry-wide study, which is
ready to get kicked off. The good news is that API and DOE have provided funding
in the amount of $140,000, which should be enough to complete the sampling program.
If you do the math correctly, that means that the industry-wide study is a really
good deal! You don't have to be an OOC member to participate, but OOC hopes that all
non-members will see how being an OOC member can be quite beneficial. OOC will continue
to work with EPA and MMS to complete the study and work toward getting the permit re-issued
in three years. Once the study is completed then EPA will determine if the study will
continue with the re-issued permit.
LEASE BLOCKS INCLUDED IN THE HYPOXIC ZONE
- High Island Blocks 36, 37, 47, 48, 86, 117, 118, 132, A1, A2, A3, A4, A11, A12, A13 and A14
- High Island East Addition Blocks 38 through A180
- Sabine Pass Blocks 5 through 16
- West Cameron Blocks 154 through 356
- West Cameron Blocks 22 through 276
- East Cameron Blocks 10 through 190
- Vermilion Blocks 11 through 211
- South Marsh Island North Addition Blocks 208 through 288
- South Marsh Island Blocks 1 through 55
- Eugene Island Blocks 20 through 245, 113A, 113B, 128A and 129A
- Ship Shoal Blocks 37 through 211
- South Pelto Blocks 1 through 25
- South Timbalier Blocks 7 through 182
- Grand Isle Blocks 16 through 63
- West Delta Blocks 16 through 101
HOW TO PARTICIPATE
- Go to the OOC website at www.offshoreoperators.com and click on the "Hypoxia Zone Survey" on the home page.
A web-based participation form will pop up that will instruct you to provide the information requested.
- Complete the form for each platform and lease you operate in the list of lease/blocks from the
drop-down box (although only platforms with produced water discharges are required to sample, a lease
could have a future produced water discharge platform).
- Click on the "Participation Agreement", print, sign, and send it to OOC at the address provided
(only one agreement per company required).
- After submitting your first platform, the next page will provide an opportunity to add another platform.
The data submitted for each platform will assist OOC in selecting the platforms that will be sampled.
All sampling instructions will be sent to the contact person and platform for the sampling (a total of 50
platforms will be sampled).
The period to join the industry-wide study will be open until February 28, 2005; however, the early
submittal of data will help OOC validate the platforms that have been randomly selected for sampling.
JCC’s EPA Group can enter the information in the database for your company. If you have any questions
about the Hypoxia Study, please feel free to contact Denise Rogers at
denise.rogers@jccteam.com or (281) 578-3388.
If you decide to enter the data yourself, please advise Denise. Additionally, JCC will be contacting our
clients who operate the specified blocks.
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