33 C.F.R. Subpart F—Design and Equipment
Title 33 - Navigation and Navigable Waters
This subpart provides general requirements for equipment and design on deepwater ports. The District Commander must be notified of the following: (a) To show compliance with the Act and this subchapter, the licensee must submit to the Commandant (G-M) three copies of: (1) Each construction drawing and specification; and (2) Each revision to a drawing and specification. (b) Each drawing, specification, and revision under paragraph (a) of this section must bear the seal, or a facsimile imprint of the seal, of the registered professional engineer responsible for the accuracy and adequacy of the material. (a) The Commandant (G-M) may concurrently review and evaluate construction drawings and specifications with the Marine Safety Center and other federal agencies having technical expertise (such as RSPA and FERC) in order to ensure compliance with the Act and this subchapter. (b) Construction may not begin until the drawings and specifications are approved by the Commandant (G-M). (c) Once construction begins, the Coast Guard periodically inspects the construction site to ensure that the construction complies with the drawings and specifications approved under paragraph (b) of this section. (d) When construction is complete, the licensee must submit two complete sets of as-built drawings and specifications to the Commandant (G-M). (a) Each component, except for hoses, mooring lines, and aids to navigation buoys, must be designed to withstand at least the combined wind, wave, and current forces of the most severe storm that can be expected to occur at the deepwater port in any 100-year period. Component design must be appropriate for the protection of human life on the port or on vessels calling on or servicing the port from death or serious injury, and to protect the environment. (b) Heliports on floating deepwater ports must be designed in compliance with the regulations at 46 CFR part 108. Manned deepwater ports built after January 1, 2004 and manned deepwater ports that undergo major conversions must comply with the requirements for structural fire-protection outlined in this subpart. (a) Accommodations spaces and modules must be designed, located, and constructed so as to minimize the effects of flame, excess heat, or blast effects caused by fires and explosions; and to provide safe refuge from fires and explosions for personnel for the minimum time needed to evacuate the space. (b) This requirement may be met by complying with the applicable portions of 46 CFR part 108, provided that: (1) The exterior boundaries of superstructures and deckhouses enclosing these spaces and modules, including any overhanging deck that supports these spaces and modules, are constructed to the A–60 standard defined in 46 CFR 108.131(b)(2) for any portion that faces, and is within 100 feet of, the platform hydrocarbon source; and (2) The ventilation system must have a means of shutting down the system and an alarm at a manned location that sounds when any hazardous or toxic substance enters the system. (c) As an alternative to paragraph (b) of this section, the requirement imposed by this section may be met by complying with a national consensus standard, as that term is defined in 29 CFR 1910.2, for the structural fire-protection of accommodation spaces and modules, and that complies with the standards set by a nationally recognized testing laboratory, as that term is defined by 29 CFR 1910.7, for such protection, provided that: (1) All such spaces and modules on manned ports are provided with automatic fire-detection and alarm systems. The alarm system must signal a normally manned area both visually and audibly, and be divided into zones to limit the area covered by a particular alarm signal; (2) Sleeping quarters are fitted with smoke detectors that have local alarms that may, or may not, be connected with the central alarm panel; and (3) Independent fire walls are constructed and installed so as to be of size and orientation sufficient to protect the exterior surfaces of the spaces or modules from extreme radiant heat flux levels and provide the A–60 standard defined in 46 CFR 108.131(b)(2). Each SPM and its attached hose must be designed appropriately for the protection of the environment and for durability under combined wind, wave, and current forces of the most severe storm that can be expected to occur at the port in any 100-year period. The appropriateness of a design may be shown by its compliance with standards generally used within the offshore industry that are at least equivalent, in protecting the environment, to the standards in use on January 1, 2003, by the American Bureau of Shipping or another recognized classification society. Helicopter fueling facilities must comply with 46 CFR 108.489 or an equivalent standard. (a) Each pumping platform complex must have emergency power equipment to provide power to operate simultaneously all of the following for a continuous period of 18 hours: (1) Emergency lighting circuits; (2) Aids to navigation equipment; (3) Communications equipment; (4) Radar equipment; (5) Alarm systems; (6) Electrically operated fire pumps; and (7) Other electrical equipment identified as emergency equipment in the operations manual for the deepwater port. (b) No emergency power generating equipment may be located in any enclosed space on a platform that contains oil or natural gas transfer pumping equipment or other power generating equipment. Each pumping platform complex must have a general alarm system that meets the following: (a) Is capable of being activated manually by the use of alarm boxes; (b) Is audible in all parts of the pumping platform complex, except in areas of high ambient noise levels where hearing protection is required under §150.613 of this chapter; and (c) Has a high intensity flashing light in areas where hearing protection is used. Each of the following must be marked with the words “GENERAL ALARM” in yellow letters at least 1-inch high on a red background: (a) Each general alarm box; and (b) Each audio or visual device under §149.665 for signaling the general alarm. Each pumping platform complex must have a public address system operable from two locations on the complex. Each deepwater port with sleeping spaces for 12 or more persons, including persons in accommodation modules, must have a medical treatment room that has: (a) A sign at the entrance designating it as a medical treatment room; (b) An entrance that is wide enough and arranged to readily admit a person on a stretcher; (c) A single berth or examination table that is accessible from both sides; and (d) A washbasin located in the room. A medical treatment room may be used as a sleeping space if the room meets the requirements of this subpart for both medical treatment rooms and sleeping spaces. It may also be used as an office. However, when used for medical purposes, the room may not be used as a sleeping space or office. Each deepwater port must comply with the requirements for means of escape, personnel landings, guardrails and similar devices, and noise limits as outlined in §§149.691 through 149.699. (a) Each deepwater port must have the primary and secondary means of escape complying with 46 CFR 108.151 for use in evacuating the port. (b) A primary means of escape consists of a fixed stairway, or a fixed ladder, constructed of steel. (c) A secondary means of escape consists of a marine evacuation system, a portable flexible ladder, a knotted manrope, or a similar device determined by the OCMI to provide an equivalent or better means of escape. (d) Where a secondary means of escape is required, a primary means of escape may be substituted. (a) Each means of escape must be easily accessible to personnel for rapidly evacuating the deepwater port. (b) When two or more means of escape are installed, at least two must be located as nearly diagonally opposite each other as practicable. (c) The following spaces, with a floor area of 300 square feet or more, must have at least two exits as widely spaced as possible: (1) Each accommodation space; and (2) Each space that is used on a regular basis, such as a control room, machinery room, storeroom, or other space where personnel could be trapped in an emergency. (d) Structural appendages to the deepwater port that do not have living quarters, workshops, offices, or other manned spaces and that personnel do not occupy continuously (i.e., pumping platform complex) must have at least one primary means of escape and, as determined necessary by the OCMI, one or more secondary means of escape. (e) When personnel are on an unmanned deepwater port, the port must have, in addition to the one primary means of escape, either: (1) Another primary means of escape; or (2) One or more secondary means of escape for every 10 persons onboard at any one time—located in the work areas. (f) Structural appendages to an unmanned deepwater port do not require a primary or a secondary means of escape, unless the OCMI determines that one or more are necessary. (g) Each means of escape must extend from the deepwater port's uppermost working level, to each successively lower working level, and so on to the water surface. (a) On manned deepwater ports, sufficient personnel landings must be provided to assure safe access and egress. (b) The personnel landings must be provided with satisfactory illumination. The minimum is one foot candle of artificial illumination as measured at the landing floor and guards and rails. (a) The configuration and installation of catwalks, floors, and openings must comply with 143.110 of this chapter. (b) This section does not apply to catwalks, floor or deck areas, and openings: (1) In areas not normally occupied by personnel; or (2) On helicopter landing decks. Stairways must have at least two courses of rails. The top course must serve as a handrail and be at least 34 inches above the tread. A helicopter landing deck safety net must comply with 46 CFR 108.235. (a) A survey to determine the maximum noise level during normal operations must be conducted in each accommodation space, working space, or other space routinely used by personnel. The recognized methodology used to conduct the survey must be specified in the survey results. Survey results must be kept on the deepwater port or, for an unmanned deepwater port, in the owner's principal office. (b) The noise level must be measured over 12 hours to derive a time-weighted-average (TWA) using a sound level meter and an A-weighted filter or equivalent device. (c) If the noise level throughout a space is determined to exceed 85 db(A), then signs must be posted with the legend: “NOISE HAZARD—HEARING PROTECTORS REQUIRED.” Signs must be posted at eye level—at each entrance to the space. (d) If the noise level is determined to exceed 85 db(A) only in a portion of a space, the sign described in paragraph (c) of this section must be posted within that portion in a location visible from each direction of access. (e) Working spaces and other areas routinely used by personnel, other than accommodation spaces, must be designed to limit the noise level in those areas so that personnel wearing hearing protectors may hear warning and emergency alarms. If this is not practicable and warning and emergency alarms cannot be heard, visual alarms in addition to the audible alarms must be installed. Each portable light and its supply cord on a deepwater port must be designed for the environment where it is used.
Title 33: Navigation and Navigable Waters
PART 149—DEEPWATER PORTS: DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION, AND EQUIPMENT
Subpart F—Design and Equipment
General
§ 149.600 What does this subpart do?
§ 149.610 What must the District Commander be notified of and when?
------------------------------------------------------------------------ The District Commander must When_ be notified_------------------------------------------------------------------------(a) Construction of a pipeline, platform, At least 30 days before or SPM is planned. construction begins.(b) Construction of a pipeline, platform, Within 24 hours, from the or SPM begins. date construction begins, that the lights and sound signals are in use at the construction site.(c) A light or sound signal is changed Within 24 hours of the during construction. change.(d) Lights or sound signals used during Within 24 hours of the construction of a platform, buoy, or SPM replacement. are replaced by permanent fixtures to meet the requirements of this part.(e) The first cargo transfer operation At least 60 days before the begins. operation.------------------------------------------------------------------------
§ 149.615 What construction drawings and specifications are required?
§ 149.620 What happens when the Commandant (G-M) reviews and evaluates the construction drawings and specifications?
§ 149.625 What are the design standards?
Structural Fire-Protection
§ 149.640 What are the requirements for systems fire-protection?
§ 149.641 What are the requirements for structural fire-protection for deepwater ports in accommodation spaces and modules?
Single Point Moorings
§ 149.650 What are the requirements for single point moorings and their attached hoses?
Helicopter Fueling Facilities
§ 149.655 What are the requirements for helicopter fueling facilities?
Emergency Power
§ 149.660 What are the requirements for emergency power?
General Alarm System
§ 149.665 What are the requirements for a general alarm system?
§ 149.670 What are the requirements for marking a general alarm system?
Public Address System
§ 149.675 What are the requirements for the public address system?
Medical Treatment Rooms
§ 149.680 What are the requirements for medical treatment rooms?
§ 149.685 May a medical treatment room be used for other purposes?
Miscellaneous
§ 149.690 What are the requirements for means of escape, personnel landings, guardrails, and similar devices and for noise limits?
Means of Escape
§ 149.691 What means of escape are required?
§ 149.692 Where must they be located?
Personnel Landings
§ 149.693 What are the requirements for personnel landings on manned deepwater ports?
Guardrails and Similar Devices
§ 149.694 What are the requirements for catwalks, floors, and openings?
§ 149.695 What are the requirements for stairways?
§ 149.696 What are the requirements for a helicopter landing deck safety net?
Noise Limits
§ 149.697 What are the requirements for a noise level survey?
Portable Lights
§ 149.700 What kind of portable lights may be used on a deepwater port?
