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Accidental Release Prevention Requirements: Risk Management Programs Under the Clean Air Act

air-emissions · Rule · Published 2019-12-19 · Effective 2019-12-19 · 84 FR 69834

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Document number
2019-25974
Federal Register citation
84 FR 69834
CFR reference
40 CFR 68
Type
Rule
Action
Final rule.
Category
air-emissions
Publication date
2019-12-19
Effective date
2019-12-19
EPA docket
EPA-HQ-OEM-2015-0725

Abstract

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is revising regulations that are designed to reduce the risk of accidental releases of hazardous chemicals. These regulations are part of the EPA's Risk Management Program (RMP), which the Agency established under authority in the Clean Air Act and recently amended on January 13, 2017. After a process of reconsidering several parts of the 2017 rule, EPA has concluded that a better approach is to improve the performance of a subset of facilities by achieving greater compliance with RMP regulations instead of imposing additional regulatory requirements on the larger population of facilities that is generally performing well in preventing accidental releases. For this and other reasons, EPA is rescinding recent amendments to these regulations that we no longer consider reasonable or practicable relating to safer technology and alternatives analyses, third-party audits, incident investigations, information availability, and several other minor regulatory changes. EPA is also modifying regulations relating to local emergency coordination, emergency response exercises, and public meetings. In addition, the Agency is changing compliance dates for some of these provisions.

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