Andy Wright, vice president of legislative affairs for the International Liquid Terminals Association (ILTA), recently met with Dave Wulf, director of the Infrastructure Security Compliance Division of the Department of Homeland Security, to voice the association’s concerns with the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) program.
ILTA members and Lona Saccomando, the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI) coordinator in the same Homeland Security office, joined Wright in Houston for the meeting with Wulf, who manages the CFATS program, to discuss the terminal industry’s concerns regarding the treatment of gasoline, diesel and other fuel mixtures under the program.
“We urged DHS to continue to support our efforts to persuade Congress to include language in CFATS reauthorization that will ensure that gasoline, diesel and other Class 1, 2 and 3 flammable mixtures are categorized appropriately and not treated as ‘Chemicals of Interest,” ILTA said in its monthly newsletter.
The group also discussed the possibility Congress might enact a short-term reauthorization of CFATS without making changes to legislative language, in which case ILTA said DHS should move quickly to correct regulations through rulemaking.
Other participants in the meeting included ILTA board member Vincent DiCosimo, senior vice president of Targa Terminals; Jay Montgomery, vice president of corporate security for Kinder Morgan; Guy Peltier, director of security for Plains All American; and Angel Roldan, compliance support specialist with Intercontinental Terminals Company.
Steve Roberts, a Houston-based attorney and security expert who often consults with ILTA and others in the industry, also participated in the meeting, ILTA said.