General Description

This includes facilities and activities such as: recycling; solid waste collection; recycling; restrooms; offices; vehicle maintenance; heating, ventilation, and air conditioning repair; plumbing operations and services; pesticide applications; building repair and maintenance; and janitorial services. It also includes watercraft maintenance and repair. Heavy equipment often founds in ports and harbors to facilitate maintenance and repair includes gantry cranes, conventional cranes, fork lifts, trucks, buckets & grapples, bull dozers pay loaders, boom trucks, welding trucks, water trucks, excavators, sweepers, pumps, tug boats, deck barges, hopper barges, crane barges, trackers, flat beds, fuel oil tankers, bulk cement trailers, engines, etc.

Summary of Federal Requirements

Hazardous and/or acutely hazardous waste generated in shore support operations is managed the same as all other hazardous waste. Click here to visit the Hazardous Waste Storage section of the Facility Regulatory Tour.

Vehicle maintenance (i.e., air conditioning, asbestos, degreasers, emissions testing, vehicle fuel dispensing, paint booths, and used oil) is managed the same at shore-based support operations as all other vehicle maintenance operations. Click here to visit the Vehicle Maintenance section of the Facility Regulatory Tour.

Solid waste generated at shore support operations is managed the same as all other solid waste. Click here to visit the Solid Waste Storage section of the Facility Regulatory Tour.

Building and infrastructure maintenance is managed at shore-based support operations the same as at other locations. Click here to visit the Facility Infrastructure section of the Facility Regulatory Tour.

Grounds maintenance at shore-based support operations is managed the same as elsewhere. Click here to visit the Grounds Maintenance section of the Facility Regulatory Tour.