The Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA)
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Page : 9 pages
File Size : 15,67 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Chemical industry
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Page : 9 pages
File Size : 15,67 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Chemical industry
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Author : Peter Lawrence Gray
Publisher : American Bar Association
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 10,45 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781590310304
In 1984 and 1985 two highly publicized chemical accidents raised public awareness of chemicals handling in communities. The US Congress responded with the EPCRA of 1986. This title outlines the history behind, and reasons for, the Act, and covers topics including exclusions and emergency planning.
Author : Linda-Jo Schierow
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,5 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Chemical industry
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This report summarizes the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to- Know Act (EPCRA) and the major regulatory programs that mandate reporting by industrial facilities of releases of hazardous chemicals to the environment, as well as local planning to respond in the event of significant, accidental releases. The text is excerpted, with minor modifications, from the corresponding chapter of CRS Report RL30798, Environmental Laws: Summaries of Statutes Administered by the Environmental Protection Agency, which summarizes 12 major environmental statutes. The Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (42 U.S.C. 11001-11050) was enacted in 1986 as Title III of the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (P.L. 99-499). In Subtitle A, EPCRA established a national framework for EPA to mobilize local government officials, businesses, and other citizens to plan ahead for chemical accidents in their communities. EPCRA required each state to create a State Emergency Response Commission (SERC), to designate emergency planning districts, and to establish local emergency planning committees (LEPCs) for each district. EPA is required to list extremely hazardous substances, and to establish threshold planning quantities for each substance. The law directs each facility to notify the LEPC for its district if it stores or uses any extremely hazardous substance in excess of its threshold planning quantity. LEPCs are to work with such facilities to develop response procedures, evacuation plans, and training programs for people who will be the first to respond in the event of an accident. EPCRA requires that facilities immediately report a sudden release of any hazardous substance that exceeds the reportable quantity to appropriate state, local, and federal officials.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Superfund and Environmental Oversight
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Page : 208 pages
File Size : 11,66 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Chemicals
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Superfund and Environmental Oversight
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Page : 192 pages
File Size : 28,75 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Chemicals
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Author : James Solyst
Publisher : National Governors' Association
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 26,86 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Nature
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Author : Rosemary O'Leary
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Page : 72 pages
File Size : 46,28 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Technology & Engineering
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Author : Neil Orloff
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Page : 386 pages
File Size : 21,15 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Law
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Author : National Response Team (U.S.)
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Page : 142 pages
File Size : 41,55 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Civil defense
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Page : 16 pages
File Size : 38,54 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Government publications
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