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Painting
Paint Booths
Because Fort Hood has such a large amount of equipment
that needs to be painted, there are 15 active paint
booths to accommodate this need. 11 paint booths are
covered under Fort Hood's
Permit #24538
and the other 4 are covered under a Permit by Rule (PBR)
PBR 106.433. These paint booths must meet
requirements for recordkeeping, material usage
restrictions, operational and emission limitations, and
more. Spray painting of Chemical Agent Resistant Coating
(CARC) can only take place in an authorized paint booth.
If you are in a motorpool that does not have a paint
booth, your unit is only allowed to store up to 1 qt. of
CARC paint for touch up applications. If you are going
to handle CARC paint, make sure you are using the proper
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).
Aerosol Spray Painting and Bumper Number Painting
If you are going to use aerosol spray paints, make sure
that you meet these requirements:
- Low-VOC, No-HAP Paints (Eco-Sure) preferred
- Dispose of empty or un-sprayable cans in proper containers for
turn-in to Classification Unit Spraying with guns in Paint Booths
ONLY
- Spray painting with Aerosol Cans is authorized ONLY outside or
in well ventilated (open bay or hangar doors, away from others) work
areas
Painting Parking Spaces
When a new activity moves into a new Motorpool, they
want to paint the asphalt, curbs, and other things to
identify themselves. While it is understood that this is
a form of Esprit De Corps, it is prohibited by Fort Hood
and Army Regulations and others such as OSHA. Read more
about this below:
- Fort Hood Regulation 420-27, Care, Maintenance, and Alterations
of Facilities, 15 March 2000, prohibits painting of real property by
activities. DPW will maintain exterior markings on Fort Hood. Also,
this regulation prohibits painting of sidewalks, curbs, and asphalt
surfaces by activities.
- Fort Hood Regulation 420-5, Standards for Signs and Markings, 28
February 1989, requires all traffic painting or markings to be done
under the authority of DEH (DPW). No other traffic painting or
marking is authorized. FH Reg 420-5, page 3, specifically states:
Traffic painting of motor pool parking lots and hardstand areas is
not authorized.
- OSHA Standard 1910.144 specifies colors of safety markings.
Yellow shall be the basic color for designating caution and physical
hazards that one could strike against, stumble over, or get caught
in between. Red shall be the basic color used to mark fire
protection equipment areas and danger areas. Black and white shall
indicate housekeeping areas, and green shall be the basic color for
designating safety equipment.
- Pursuant to
AR 385-10, paragraph 3.5, "Commanders may not issue waivers or
variances to OSHA standards". Also, DOD Instruction 6055.1 requires
components to comply with the standards promulgated by OSHA.
Requesting more CARC paint than you are authorized for
If you work in a motorpool that doesn’t have a permitted
paint booth, you are only authorized to have 1 qt. of
CARC paint at any time in accordance with FH 200-1. On
the rare occasion that you should need more than this
amount, you can request through DPW Environmental to
purchase more than 1 qt. To do this you must fill out
this (right click the link and select "Save Target
As..")
Blank CARC Exception Request form
and turn it into the DPW Environmental Hazardous
Material Manager, phone number 287-9718, for approval.
An evaluation will be conducted and after signatures
from the Hazardous Material Manager and the Air Program
Manager, the form will be returned to you authorizing
you to make the purchase.
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