PlanKeep

SPCC compliance · 40 CFR 112

The plan is written.The deadlines are live.

PlanKeep turns the obligations in your certified SPCC plan into a deadline calendar and keeps every one moving: inspections on time, briefings logged, amendments filed inside the 6-month window. Inspection-ready all year, not just the week the consultant visits.

Do I need an SPCC plan? (3 minutes)Start 30-day trial

Free to check · no credit card · verdict in 3 minutes

  • Records kept 3 years
  • Priced per facility, not per seat
  • US-only · 40 CFR 112

Informational assessment only. Not legal advice, not PE certification.

Facility
Dana Fleet Yard
Access
Owner

93

readiness score / 100

Monthly visual inspection

112.7(e)
Overdue · Oct 1

Plan amendment

112.5(a)
Due Nov 28 · 42 days

Five-year review

112.5(b)
Oct 4, 2027

One-click audit package

Ready

SHT 01 · SPCC-2026 · LIVE RECORD

01 · The plan becomes deadlines

Your deadlines, generated from the plan you already paid for.

PlanKeep reads the obligations your plan already sets: annual discharge prevention briefings 112.7(f), the five-year plan review 112.5(b), amendments due within 6 months of a change that materially affects your discharge potential 112.5(a). Each lands on one calendar with its citation attached.

02 · The deadlines become records

Your inspections, run. Your records, kept three years.

The facility-wide runner walks 30 checkpoints in 5 groups: photos where they matter, findings closed through a clear lifecycle, signed records kept 3 years under 112.7(e). Just got the notice with no history behind it? The Inspection Readiness Report shows where you stand.

03 · The records become the audit

Your audit, one click. Your clients, up to sixty.

The audit package assembles your plan, calendar, and closed findings the way an inspector expects to read them. Consultants run the same play across up to 60 client facilities: invitations in two clicks, amendment alerts whenever a registry changes. Plans from $69/mo; partners from $499/mo.

The facility file · annotated

One facility file runs the whole SPCC program.

The Overview tab of a PlanKeep facility, with sample data: the readiness score the app computes, the obligations the certified plan generates, and the audit package one click away. Registry, calendar and inspections live one tab away.

SPCC facility file

Dana Fleet Yard

Facility
Dana Fleet Yard
Access
Owner
Date
Oct 17, 2026
01 Overview02 Registry03 Calendar04 Inspections05 Findings06 Logs07 Amendments08 Audit package09 Settings

93

readiness score / 100

6

containers 55+ gal

Registry

1

overdue obligations

Calendar

2

open findings

Findings

Next obligations

  • Monthly visual inspection

    112.7(e)

    overdue · Oct 1

  • Plan amendment: T-04 added to registry

    112.5(a)

    Nov 28, 2026

  • Annual discharge prevention briefing

    112.7(f)

    Jan 15, 2027

  • Annual integrity inspection (per industry standard)

    112.7(e)

    Feb 1, 2027

  • Five-year plan review

    112.5(b)

    Oct 4, 2027

Inspection moment

Got an inspection notice? Don't scramble for records: generate what an inspector expects, or a one-page readiness summary if the history is thin.

Download audit package (ZIP)Readiness report (PDF)

Open corrective findings

  • T-03 transfer valve weepopen
  • Secondary containment crack, pump islandin progress

Overview tab · sample data · illustrative

Detail 01 · 40 CFR 112.5(a)

A material change opens a six-month clock.

11 days left

In this sample facility, the T-04 hydraulic oil container entered the registry on Apr 28 - the kind of change that materially affects discharge potential. From that day the rule allows six months to amend the plan. PlanKeep opens the amendment task, counts the days, and alerts the owner and the consultant.

Apr 28 · T-04 added to registryToday · Oct 17

Oct 28 · amendment deadline

Detail 02 · Tier status

The registry does the threshold math.

8,200 of 10,000 gal

PlanKeep sums aboveground capacity as containers change and tracks the facility against the gallon thresholds that decide SPCC applicability and Tier status.

0 gal12,000 gal
1,3205,00010,000

more than 1,320 gal · the SPCC rule applies to the facility

5,000 gal · single-container cap for Tier I

10,000 gal · aggregate cap for Tier I

Dana Fleet Yard (sample): 8,200 gal total · largest single container 4,000 gal

The alternative

A checklist has boxes. Your plan has deadlines.

Generic inspection platforms are good at running a form. SPCC compliance is a document lifecycle: the plan sets obligations, and the rule sets deadlines. Eight places where that difference shows up, checked side by side:

Handled Partial Not handled

3-year record retention

112.7(e)
PlanKeepSigned records kept with the plan for the full retention cycle
Checklist appsSome free tiers delete inspection records after 3 months
Binder, sheetsPaper records survive only as long as the person who filed them

Container registry and capacity math

PlanKeepAboveground gallons auto-summed against the 1,320 / 5,000 / 10,000 thresholds
Checklist appsNo container registry; the gallon math stays manual
Binder, sheetsSpreadsheet sums rebuilt by hand every time a tank changes

Calendar generated from plan metadata

112.7(f)112.5(b)
PlanKeepMonthly visuals, annual briefings and the five-year review land as dated obligations
Checklist appsRecurring reminders configured by hand, with no link to the plan
Binder, sheetsNo calendar; deadlines live in prose on the plan pages

Amendment clock on registry change

112.5(a)
PlanKeepAdd a tank and an amendment task opens with the 6-month deadline
Checklist appsAdding an item changes nothing upstream
Binder, sheetsNobody recomputes the deadline until an inspector asks

One facility-wide audit package

PlanKeepRegistry, inspections, findings and logs exported the way an inspector expects
Checklist appsExports are per-inspection PDFs
Binder, sheetsAssembled by hand from loose records

Inspection records with photos

PlanKeepPhotos attach where they matter and stay with the signed record
Checklist appsPhotos are supported on form fields
Binder, sheetsPhotos printed or filed apart from the record

Findings lifecycle, open to verified

PlanKeepEvery finding moves open, assigned, corrected, verified, with dates
Checklist appsA checkbox closes; nothing tracks what happens after the visit
Binder, sheetsCorrections tracked verbally, if at all

Readiness report with no history

PlanKeepInspection Readiness Report for facilities that just received the notice
Checklist appsNothing to export until records accumulate
Binder, sheetsNo structured answer to a first inspection

Comparison reflects publicly documented capabilities of general-purpose checklist tools as of October 2026. Binder and spreadsheet marks assume a diligently kept system; a disciplined facility can satisfy the rule that way too. PlanKeep exists for the days that discipline slips.

Common objections

Seven questions before you commit

The same seven questions come up in every conversation with a facility owner or an EHS lead. Straight answers, with the citations where they belong.

Q1We already have a PE-certified SPCC plan.
The certification is a snapshot; the obligations keep running between certifications. PlanKeep reads your plan's own metadata into a deadline calendar: monthly visual checks, annual integrity inspection elements per your industry standard, discharge prevention briefings 112.7(f), and the five-year review 112.5(b). A PE stamp does not pause any of them.
Q2Our consultant handles SPCC for us.
Your consultant writes and certifies the plan, but the deadlines, inspections and records belong to the facility. PlanKeep keeps your records under your login, so the audit package an inspector asks for comes from your data, not from whoever still has the binder. Consultant mode lets your consultant watch up to 60 client facilities and get amendment alerts while every record stays yours.
Q3What if we get inspected with no inspection history?
Generate the Inspection Readiness Report on the spot. It assembles the container registry with capacity math against the 1,320 / 5,000 / 10,000-gallon thresholds, the obligations already on the calendar, and every finding closed since you started. It does not invent history; it shows an inspector exactly where you stand today.
Q4We track everything in spreadsheets today.
A spreadsheet stores what someone typed; it never opens the amendment task with the 6-month clock of 112.5(a), and it never enforces the 3-year retention of 112.7(e). PlanKeep generates deadlines from plan metadata and timestamps every inspection with photos and a findings lifecycle, so the record exists before anyone asks for it.
Q5What happens when we add a tank?
The container registry re-sums aboveground capacity against the 1,320 / 5,000 / 10,000-gallon thresholds and flags your Tier status the moment it changes. Adding capacity is a material change under 112.5(a): an amendment task opens with the 6-month deadline, so the plan gets updated while the clock still runs.
Q6How long are records kept?
Three years, per 112.7(e): signed inspection records with photos and the full findings lifecycle stay attached to the plan. Nothing expires at 30, 60 or 90 days the way some free checklist tiers delete them.
Q7Is this legal advice or PE certification?
No. PlanKeep is an informational assessment and a record system: it organizes your obligations and your evidence. It is not legal advice and not PE certification; where the rule requires a PE, your plan still carries one.

Start here

The plan is written.Keep it that way.

Run the 3-minute check, then let PlanKeep run the deadlines: inspections, briefings, amendments, the five-year review.

Do I need an SPCC plan? (3 minutes)Start 30-day trial

Priced per facility · records kept 3 years · US-only

PlanKeep: SPCC plan lifecycle hub