Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA) Overview
Learning objectives
- Explain the purpose and scope of EPCRA, and your facility’s main responsibilities for compliance
- Identify any regulated substances stored at your facility that are subject to EPCRA reporting
- Understand your facility’s reporting requirements with regard to the storage or release of a regulated substance
Course overview
This lesson provides information about your facility’s EPCRA reporting responsibilities, and covers how to report the storage or release of a hazardous substance.
- 8 Minutes
- English
Course Outline
- Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA) Overview
Regulations
- Code of Federal Regulations 40, Part 355, Sections 302, 303, 304, 311, 312, 313
- Environmental Protection Agency, Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act
- Electronic Code of Federal Regulations, List of Extremely Hazardous Substances and Threshold Planning Quantities, Appendix A to Part 355
- MSDS Online, Tier II Hazardous Chemical Inventory Reports: What You Need To Know About the Annual Deadline, February 9, 2017
- United States Department of Health and Human Services, What is the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI), TOXMAP Frequently Asked Questions (and Answers)