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§ 146.130
§ 146.130

33 CFR Ch. I (7–1–10 Edition)
Station bill.

(a) The person in charge of each
manned platform shall be responsible
for and have prepared a station bill
(muster list). This station bill must be
signed by the person in charge. Copies
shall be duly posted in conspicuous locations on the manned platform.
(b) The station bill shall set forth the
special duties and duty stations of each
member of the personnel for any emergency which involves the use or application of equipment required by this
subchapter. In addition, it shall contain all other duties assigned and considered as necessary for the proper handling of other emergencies.
(c) The station bill shall contain the
various signals to be used for calling
the personnel to their emergency stations, and to abandon the facility.
(Approved by the Office of Management and
Budget under OMB control number 2115–0542)
[CGD 78–160, 47 FR 9383, Mar. 4, 1982, as
amended by CGD 86–011, 51 FR 5712, Feb. 18,
1986]

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§ 146.135 Markings
equipment.

for

emergency

(a) Markings shall be provided as
considered necessary for the guidance
of persons on manned facilities.
(b) The general alarm bell switches
shall be identified by red letters at
least one inch high with a contrasting
background: ‘‘General Alarm.’’
(c) All general alarm bells shall be
identified by a sign at each bell in red
letters at least one inch high with a
sharp contrasting background: ‘‘General Alarm—When Bell Rings Go to
Your Station.
(d) All life floats, lifeboats, life rafts,
and survival capsules, together with
paddles or oars, shall be conspicuously
marked with a name or number of, or
other inscription identifying, the facility on which placed. The number of
persons allowed on each life float, lifeboat, or life raft shall be conspicuously
marked thereon in letters and numbers
11⁄2 inches high. These numbers shall be
placed on both sides of the life float,
lifeboat, or life raft. Inflatable life
rafts shall be marked in accordance
with Subpart 160.051 of 46 CFR part 160
and no additional markings are required.

(e) All life preservers and ring life
buoys shall be marked with the name
or number of, or other inscription identifying, the facility on which placed except those which accompany mobile
crews to unmanned platforms may be
marked with the operator’s name and
field designation.
§ 146.140 Emergency Evacuation Plan.
(a) The operator of each manned OCS
facility shall develop an Emergency
Evacuation Plan (EEP) for the facility
which addresses all of the items listed
in paragraph (d) of this section. The
EEP may apply to more than one facility, if the facilities are located in the
same general geographic location and
within the same Coast Guard Officer in
Charge, Marine Inspection (OCMI)
zone; if each facility covered by the
EEP is specifically identified in the
EEP; and if the evacuation needs of
each facility are accommodated. The
EEP must be submitted to the OCMI
having jurisdiction over the facility, 30
days before placing the facility in operation. The OCMI reviews the EEP to
determine whether all items listed in
paragraph (d) of this section are addressed for each facility included in the
EEP. If the OCMI determines that all
items in paragraph (d) of this section
are addressed, the OCMI stamps the
EEP ‘‘APPROVED’’ and returns it, together with a letter indicating Coast
Guard approval, to the operator. If the
OCMI determines that any item is not
addressed, the OCMI stamps the EEP
‘‘RETURNED FOR REVISION’’ and returns the EEP, together with an explanation of the EEP’s deficiencies, to the
operator.
(b) Once the EEP is approved under
paragraph (a) of this section, the facility operator shall ensure that a copy of
the EEP and the letter indicating
Coast Guard approval is maintained on
the facility.
(c) The EEP must be resubmitted for
approval when substantive changes are
made to the EEP. Only the pages affected by a change need be resubmitted
if the EEP is bound in such a way as to
allow old pages to be removed easily
and new ones inserted. Substantive
changes include, but are not limited to,
installation of a new facility within
the area covered by an EEP, relocation

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of a MODU, changes in the means or
methods of evacuation, or changes in
the time required to accomplish evacuation.
(d) The EEP must, at a minimum,
(1) Be written in language that is easily understood by the facility’s operating personnel;
(2) Have a table of contents and general index;
(3) Have a record of changes;
(4) List the name, telephone number,
and function of each person to be contacted under the EEP and state the circumstances in which that person
should be contacted;
(5) List the facility’s communications equipment, its available frequencies, and the communications
schedules with shore installations,
standby vessels, rescue aircraft, and
other OCS facilities specified in the
EEP;
(6) Identify the primary source of
weather forecasting relied upon in implementing the EEP and state the frequency of reports when normal weather
is forecasted, the frequency of reports
when heavy weather is forecasted, and
the method of transmitting the reports
to the facility;
(7) Designate the individual on each
facility covered by the EEP who is assigned primary responsibility for implementing the EEP;
(8) Designate those facility and
shoreside support personnel who have
the authority to advise the person in
charge of the facility as to the best
course of action to be taken and who
initiate actions to assist facility personnel;
(9) Describe the recognized circumstances, such as fires or blowouts,
and environmental conditions, such as
approaching hurricanes or ice floes, in
which the facility or its personnel
would be placed in jeopardy and a mass
evacuation of the facility’s personnel
would be recommended;
(10) For each of the circumstances
and conditions described under paragraph (d)(9) of this section, list the preevacuation steps for securing operations, whether drilling or production,
including the time estimates for completion and the personnel required;
(11) For each of the circumstances
and conditions described under para-

graph (d)(9) of this section, describe the
order in which personnel would be
evacuated, the transportation resources to be used in the evacuation,
the operational limitations for each
mode of transportation specified, and
the time and distance factors for initiating the evacuation; and
(12) For each of the circumstances
and conditions described under paragraph (d)(9) of this section, identify the
means and procedures—
(i) For retrieving persons from the
water during an evacuation;
(ii) For transferring persons from the
facility to designated standby vessels,
lifeboats, or other types of evacuation
craft;
(iii) For retrieving persons from designated standby vessels, lifeboats, or
other types of evacuation craft if used;
and
(iv) For the ultimate evacuation of
all persons on the facility to land, another facility, or other location where
the evacuees would be reasonably out
of danger under the circumstance or
condition being addressed.
(e) The operator shall ensure that—
(1) All equipment specified in the
EEP, whether the equipment is located
on or off of the facility, is made available and located as indicated in the
EEP and is designed and maintained so
as to be capable of performing its intended function during an emergency
evacuation;
(2) All personnel specified in the EEP
are available and located as specified
in the EEP and are trained in fulfilling
their role under the EEP; and
(3) Drills are conducted in accordance
with § 146.125(c).
(f) A complete copy of the EEP must
be made available to the facility’s operating personnel and a brief written
summary of, or an oral briefing on, the
EEP must be given to each person
newly reporting on the facility.
(g) A copy of the EEP must be on
board each standby vessel, if any, designated in the EEP and provided to all
shoreside support personnel, if any,
specified in the EEP.
[CGD 84–098b, 54 FR 21572, May 18, 1989, as
amended by USCG–1998–3799, 63 FR 35530,
June 30, 1998]

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