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PA EPA AMENDS REGULATIONS FOR CHEMICAL RELEASE RISK MANAGEMENT PLANNING
Release Date: 04/17/98
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FOR RELEASE: FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1998
EPA AMENDS REGULATIONS FOR CHEMICAL RELEASE
RISK MANAGEMENT PLANNING
RISK MANAGEMENT PLANNING
EPA today announced proposed amendments to the Risk Management Planning (RMP) Rule to reflect the new industrial classification system (the North American Classification System NAICS), to clarify how Confidential Business Information (CBI) should be submitted to EPA, and identifies four required data elements and four voluntary data elements. The final regulation requiring risk management planning, which was published June 20, 1996 in the Federal Register (61 FR 31668), is intended to help prevent accidental releases of hazardous chemicals. These risk management planning requirements of Clean Air Act, section 112(r), complement and support the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986 by making information available to the public on chemical risk and ways to reduce it. These new RMP requirements affect facilities that produce, handle, process, distribute or store certain chemicals including: chemical manufacturers; other manufacturers; certain wholesalers and retailers; drinking water systems; wastewater treatment works; ammonia refrigeration systems; utilities and federal facilities. Risk Management Plan must be submitted to EPA before June 21, 1999. The proposed amendments would require facilities to substantiate any CBI submitted in the risk management plan, as well as provide EPA with both non-CBI and CBI version of the RMPs. States and Local Emergency Planning Committees will have to submit a written request for the unsanitized version of the RMP to EPA. The Rule is expected to be published in the Federal Register April 17. Copies of the proposed rule can be obtained through the National Center for Environmental Publications and Information at 1-800-490-9198, or via their homepage at: https://www.epa.gov/ncepihom/index.html. The proposal can also be found on EPA’s Chemical Emergency Preparedness and Prevention Office’s homepage at: https://www.epa.gov/ceppo/acc-pre.html .
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