tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9122514974659083342.post5136763545583413892..comments2024-02-02T22:30:20.736-05:00Comments on Chemical Facility Security News: Location, Location, LocationPJCoylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03390039682578324978noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9122514974659083342.post-81721976637854911832013-11-10T10:53:37.040-05:002013-11-10T10:53:37.040-05:00In Texas, facilities are required to report a stre...In Texas, facilities are required to report a street address, unless they do not have an assigned 911 address. Then the facilities must report Lat/Long of the storage site.<br /><br />• Facilities assigned either a Street Address or 911 Emergency Services Address MUST provide this address in the Street Address field.<br /><br />• Rural facilities that have NOT been assigned a 911 Address should enter “Lat/Long” in the Street Address field, indicating that the Latitude and Longitude coordinates for the facility will be provided on the next tab (the Location & ID tab).<br /><br />Some facilities do make errors when they make out their reports and fail to correct them the following year. That is a problem, but no one wants to pay to ground truth the data. EPA, and Texas TCEQ, wait until a facility has a reportable accident and then verifies the reported data as part of the investigation. They facility then gets an appropriate fine for incorrect data.<br /><br />Sometimes Texas TCEQ issues a contract to check reported data. But I've only a seen TCEQ verify data under the Risk Management Program and not the TIER II program. Sometimes the fire department that receives the TIER II report will go to the facility for an inspection. However, that doesn't always occur.<br /><br />Requiring all facilities to report LAT/LONG with a physical address+ is probably the best method since the data fields are already there.<br /><br />Daryl Lee Spiewak, CEM<br />Waco, TXDaryl Lee Spiewak, CEMnoreply@blogger.com