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Title 18 . Environmental Conservation
Chapter 75 . Administrative Enforcement
Section 90. Recommended practices

18 AAC 75.090. Recommended practices

To meet the requirements of 18 AAC 75.005 - 18 AAC 75.080, the owner or operator is encouraged to follow applicable recommended practices and operating guidelines, including the following:

(1) American Petroleum Institute (API) Chapter 6.6, Manual of Petroleum Measurement Standards, Metering Assemblies, Pipeline Metering Systems, First Edition, 1981, Reaffirmed August 1987 (ANSI/API MPMS 5.6-1981);

(2) API Publication 1615, Installation of Underground Petroleum Storage Systems, Fourth Edition, Cautionary Statement, March, 1989;

(3) API Publication 2008, Safe Operation of Inland Bulk Plants (1984);

(4) API Publication 2200-83, Repairing Crude Oil, Liquified Natural Gas, and Product Pipelines (1983);

(5) API Recommended Practice 2A, Recommended Practice for Planning, Designing and Constructing Fixed Offshore Platforms ;

(6) API Recommended Practice 2A-LFRD, Draft Recommended Practice for Planning, Designing and Construction Fixed Offshore Platforms - Load and Resistance Factor Design, First Edition, December 15, 1989;

(7) API Recommended Practice 2K, Recommended Practice for Care and Use of Marine Drilling Risers, Second Edition, January 1982;

(8) API Recommended Practice 2Q, Recommended Practice for Design and Operation of Marine Drilling Riser Systems, Second Edition, April 1984;

(9) API Recommended Practice 2R, Recommended Practice for Design, Rating and Testing of Marine Drilling Riser Couplings, First Edition, May 1984;

(10) API Recommended Practice T-2, Recommended Practice for Qualification Programs for Offshore Production Personnel Who Work with Anti-Pollution Safety Devices, Revised Edition, October 1975;

(11) API Recommended Practice T-3, Recommended Practice for Training and Qualification of Personnel in Well Control Equipment and Techniques for Drilling on Offshore Locations, July 1976;

(12) API Recommended Practice T-6, Recommended Practice for Training and Qualification of Personnel in Well Control Equipment and Techniques for Completion and Workover Operations on Offshore Locations, First Edition, October 1986;

(13) API Recommended Practice 6G, Recommended Practice on Through Flowline (TFL) Pump Down Systems, Third Edition, January 1982;

(14) API Recommended Practice 12R1 (RP12R1), Recommended Practice for Setting, Maintenance, Inspection, Operation and Repair of Tanks in Production Service, Fourth Edition, 1991;

(15) API Recommended Practice 14B, Recommended Practice for Design, Installation, Repair and Operation of Subsurface Safety Valve Systems, Third Edition, January 1, 1990;

(16) API Recommended Practice 14C, Recommended Practice for Analysis, Design, Installation and Testing of Basic Surface Safety Systems on Offshore Production Platforms, Fourth Edition, September 1986, Errata November 1986;

(17) API Recommended Practice 14E, Recommended Practice for Design and Installation of Offshore Production Platform Piping Systems, Fourth Edition, April 1984;

(18) API Recommended Practice 14G, Recommended Practice for Fire Prevention and Control on Open Type Offshore Production Platforms, Second Edition, 1986;

(19) API Recommended Practice 14H, Recommended Practice for Use of Surface Safety Valves and Underwater Safety Valves Offshore, Second Edition, April 1984 and Supplement 1 to the Second Edition for RP 14H, June 1986;

(20) API Recommended Practice 16E, Recommended Practice for Design of Control Systems for Drilling Well Control Equipment, First Edition, October 1, 1990;

(21) API Recommended Practice 17A-87, Recommended Practice for Design and Operation of Subsea Production Systems, First Edition, September 1, 1987;

(22) API Recommended Practice 53, Recommended Practices for Blowout Prevention Equipment Systems for Drilling Wells, Second Edition, May 1984;

(23) API Recommended Practice 521, Guide for Pressure-Relieving and Depressuring Systems, Second Edition, September 1982;

(24) API Recommended Practice 652, Lining of Aboveground Petroleum Storage Tank Bottoms, First Edition, 1991;

(25) API Recommended Practice 750-90, Management of Process Hazards, First Erratum, February 1990;

(26) API Recommended Practice 1102, Recommended Practice for Liquid Petroleum Pipelines Crossing Railroads and Highways, Fifth Edition, November 1981 and Errata;

(27) API Recommended Practice 1110, Recommended Practice for the Pressure Testing of Liquid Petroleum Pipelines, Second Edition, December 1981;

(28) API Recommended Practice 1111, Recommended Practice for Design, Construction, Operation and Maintenance of Offshore Hydrocarbon Pipelines, First Edition, 1976;

(29) API Recommended Practice 2003, Protection Against Ignitions Arising out of Static, Lightning, and Stray Currents, Fourth Edition, March 1982;

(30) API Recommended Practice for Cathodic Protection of Underground Petroleum Storage Tanks and Piping Systems, Second Edition (1987) and Supplement 2, March 1989;

(31) API Specification 5L, Specification for Line Pipe, Thirty-Eighth Edition, May 1, 1990;

(32) API Specification 6A, Specification for Wellhead and Christmas Tree Equipment, Sixteenth Edition, October 1, 1989;

(33) API Specification 6D, Specification for Pipeline Valves (Gate, Plug, Ball, and Check Valves), Twentieth Edition, 1991;

(34) API Specification 10, Specification for Materials and Testing for Well Cements, Fifth Edition, 1990;

(35) API Specification 12B, Specification for Bolted Tanks for Storage of Production Liquids, Thirteenth Edition, 1990;

(36) API Specification 12D, Specification for Field Welded Tanks for Storage of Product Liquids, Ninth Edition, January 1982, Supplement 1, March 1983, Supplement 2, May 1985;

(37) API Specification 12F, Specification for Shop Welded Tanks for Storage of Production Liquids, Tenth Edition, June 1, 1989;

(38) API Specification 12P, Specification for Fiberglass Reinforced Tanks, First Edition, 1986;

(39) API Specification 14D, Specification for Wellhead Surface Safety Valves and Underwater Safety Valves for Offshore Service, Seventh Edition, January 1988 and Supplement, August 1989;

(40) API Standard 510, Pressure Vessel Inspection Code: Maintenance, Inspection, Rating, Repair and Alteration, Sixth Edition, June 1989, Erratum September 1989;

(41) API Standard 526, Flanged Steel Safety Relief-Valves, Third Edition, February 1984;

(42) API Standard 620, Design and Construction of Large Welded, Low-Pressure Storage Tanks, Eighth Edition, June 1990;

(43) API Standard 650, Welded Steel Tanks for Oil Storage, Eighth Edition, November 1988, Revised 1990;

(44) API Standard 653, Tank Inspection, Repair, Alteration, and Reconstruction, First Edition, 1991, and Supplement 1, January 1992;

(45) API Standard 1104, Welding of Pipelines and Related Facilities, Seventeenth Edition, September 1988 and Errata, June 1989;

(46) API Standard 2000, Venting Atmospheric and Low Pressure Storage Tanks, Third Edition, Revised 1987;

(47) American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), ASME SPPE 1-88, Quality Assurance and Certification of Safety and Pollution Prevention Equipment Used in Offshore Oil and Gas Operations, Addenda SPPE 1A-1988, Addenda SPPE 1B-1989, Addenda SPPE 1D-1990, Special Notice, October 1990;

(48) ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code, Section VIII, "Pressure Vessels Division 1" (1989);

(49) ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code, Section IX, "Qualification Standard for Welding and Brazing Procedures Welders, Brazers and Welding and Brazing Operators" (1989);

(50) American National Standards Institute/American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ANSI/ASME), ANSI/ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code, Section I, Power Boilers including Appendices (1989);

(51) ANSI/ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code, Section Heating Boilers including non-mandatory Appendices A, B, C, D, E, F, H, I, and J and the Guide to Manufacturers Data Report Forms (1989);

(52) ANSI/ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code Section VIII, Pressure Vessel Divisions 1 and 2, including Nonmandatory Appendices (1989);

(53) ANSI B31.1, Pressure Piping Code, Power Piping, and Addenda B31.1a (1989);

(54) ANSI B31.3, Chemical Plant and Petroleum Refinery Piping (1990);

(55) ANSI B31.4, "Liquid Transportation Systems for Hydrocarbons, Liquid Petroleum Gas, Anhydrous Ammonia and Alcohols" (ASME) (1989);

(56) ANSI B36.10M, Welded and Seamless Wrought Steel Pipe (1985);

(57) American Concrete Institute (ACI), ACI Standard 201.2R- 77(82), Guide to Durable Concrete, Sixth Printing (1982);

(58) ACI Standard 222R-89, Corrosion of Metals in Concrete (1989);

(59) ACI Standard 224R-89, Control of Cracking in Concrete Structures (1989);

(60) ACI Standard 318-89/318R-89, Building Code Requirements for Reinforced Concrete and Commentary (1989);

(61) ACI Standard 350R-89, Environmental Engineering Concrete Structures ACI 515R.1R Guide to the Use of Waterproofing, Dampproofing, Protective and Decorative Barrier Systems for Concrete (1989);

(62) ACI Standard 357-R-84, Guide for the Design and Construction of Fixed Offshore Concrete Structures (1989);

(63) ACI Standard 357.1R-85, State-of-the Art Report on Offshore Concrete Structures for the Arctic (1985);

(64) ASTM Specification A333333M, "Standard Specification for Seamless and Welded Steel Pipe for Low-Temperature Service" (1988), Revised A-88;

(65) ASTM Specification A381, "Standard Specification for Metal-Arc-Welded Steel Pipe for Use with High Pressure Transmission Systems" (1989);

(66) ASTM Specification A671, "Standard Specification for Electric-Fusion-Welded Steel Pipe for Atmospheric and Lower Temperatures" (1989), Revision A, 1989;

(67) ASTM Specification A672, "Standard Specification for Electric-Fusion-Welded Steel Pipe for High Pressure Service at Moderate Temperatures" (1989), Revision B, 1989;

(68) ASTM Specification A69 1 Rev A, Standard Specification for Carbon and Alloy Steel Pipe, Electric-Fusion Welded for High Pressure Service at High Temperatures (1989);

(69) Manufacturers Standardization Society of the Valve and Fitting Industry (MSS), MSS SP-75, Specification for High-Test Wrought Welding Fittings (1988);

(70) MMS OCS Order No. 2, Drilling Operations, Section 5, Blowout-Preventer (BOP) Equipment Requirements (1988);

(71) National Association of Corrosion Engineers (NACE), NACE RP0175-75, Control of Internal Corrosion in Steel Pipelines and Piping Systems (1975);

(72) NACE RP 0275-75, Application of Organic Coatings to the External Surface of Steel Pipe for Underground Service ;

(73) NACE RP 0276-76, Extruded Asphalt Mastic Type Protective Coatings for Underground Pipelines (1976);

(74) NACE RP 0286-86, The Electrical Isolation of Cathodically Protected Pipelines (1986);

(75) NACE RP 06-75 Control of External Corrosion on Offshore Steel Pipelines (1988);

(76) NACE RP 01-69 Recommended Practice for Control of External Corrosion on Underground or Submerged Metallic Piping Systems, Revised 1983;

(77) NACE RP 02-85, Control of External Corrosion on Metallic Buried, Partially Buried or Submerged Liquid Storage Systems (1985);

(78) National Association of Pipe Coating Applicators (NAPCA), NAPCA 3-67-87, External Application Procedures of Hot Applied Coal Tar and Asphalt Enamel Coatings to Steel Pipe (Specifications and Plant Coating Guide, 1983);

(79) National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), NFPA 30-90, Flammable and Combustible Liquids Code (1990);

(80) NFPA 77-88, Recommended Practice on Static Electricity (1988);

(81) NFPA 78-89, Lightening Protection Code (1989);

(82) NFPA Chapter 6, Bulk Plants and Terminals (Flammable and Combustible Liquids Code Handbook, Third Edition, (1990));

(83) Petroleum Equipment Institute (PEI) RP-100-90, Recommended Practice for Installation of Underground Liquid Storage Systems (1990);

(84) Steel Structural Painting Council (SSPC), SSPC Chapter 16.1-82, Coatings for Pipelines and Other Underground Structures (Good Painting Practice), Volume 1, Second Edition, 1982;

(85) Steel Tank Institute, STI-P3 Specification System and Manual for External Corrosion Protection of Underground Steel Storage Tanks (1987);

(86) Underwriters Laboratories Standard 58, Steel Underground Tanks for Flammable and Combustible Liquids, Eighth Edition, August 3, 1990;

(87) Underwriters Laboratories Standard 174689, External Corrosion Protection Systems for Underground Storage Tanks, First Edition, November 7, 1990.

History: Eff. 5/14/92, Register 122

Authority: AS 46.03.020

AS 46.04.030

AS 46.04.070


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