EPA has finalized long-anticipated updates to the Risk Management Program (RMP), with several changes that aim to toughen the proposal issued in 2022 — including a new mandate that a broader list of facilities now required to perform a safer technology alternatives analysis (STAA) adopt at ...
Republican leaders for the House Energy and Commerce Committee are urging EPA to withdraw and repropose its upcoming Risk Management Program (RMP) rule update, charging that the proposed version conflicts with OSHA and other agencies’ responsibilities, goes beyond Congress’ explicit mandates, and ...
arguing the Trump administration has removed nearly all disaster-prevention measures and weakened many of the other protections that were in the 2017 rule. Led by the environmental law firm Earthjustice, a
1. EPA & OSHA Amendments ot PSM & RMP 2. EPA'S News Compliance Audit Position 3. OSHA's New PSM "Interpretations" 4. Injury & Illness Recordkeeping Data Submission Rule.National Occupational & Process Safety Conference 2016: San Antonio, Texas, USA, 17-18 May 2016Eric J. Conn...
March 12, 2021 EPA is asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to extend by another 90 days a stay of consolidated litigation over the Trump EPA’s rule reversing Obama-era chemical disaster safety mandates for facilities, saying the rule is part of the White...
EPA-HQ-OEM-2015-0725; RIN 2050-AG91 Dear Mr. Belke: Topics/ Environment and Sustainability/ 5 19 17 comments to epa on proposal to further delay effective date of risk management program rmp rule Download Published May 19, 2017 Share VIA ELECTRONIC FILING TO:James Be...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently amended its Risk Management Plan regulation (RMP Rule), which applies to facilities holding threshold quantities of regulated substances. As background, these facilities must assess their potential release impacts, take steps to prevent releases,...
Find guidance, factsheets, training, and assistance.US EPA,OSWER,OEMUS Environmental Protection Agency (2014) Chemical Emergency Preparedness and Prevention—Risk Management Plan (RMP) Rule, 29 April 2014. Available at http://www2.epa.gov/rmp . Accessed 29 May 2014...
Looks at the United States Environmental Protection Agency's ruling which modifies the accidental-release-prevention requirements of the Clean Air Act's Risk Management Program rule. Addition of four mandatory and five optional data elements to risk management plans; Other changes.Ondrey...
Possible Changes to the EPA RMP RuleDreux, Mark