Laws & Regulations

RMP Guidance for Propane Storage Facilities - Main Text

This document is intended as comprehensive Risk Management Program guidance for larger propane storage or distribution facilities who already comply with propane industry standards. Includes sample RMP, and release calculations.

State of Utah

This page provides information about the Utah Department of Environmental Quality, a selected applicant for EPA's Climate Pollution Reduction Grants (CPRG) program, which is part of the Inflation Reduction Act.

The Big River and Floodplain - St. Francois, Jefferson and Washington Counties in Missouri - Fact Sheet, July 2019

Free Lead Testing and Residential Cleanup Opportunity; Protect Public Health and Prevent Lead Poisoning

RMP Guidance for Warehouses - Chapter 7: Prevention Program (Program 3)

If you are already complying with the OSHA Process Safety Management standard for on-site consequences, your process hazard analysis (PHA) team may have to assess new hazards that could affect the public or the environment offsite.

RMP Guidance for Warehouses - Appendix C: Technical Assistance

Resources to assist warehousing facilities in complying include the Chemical Emergency Preparedness and Prevention Office website, EPCRA/Superfund/RCRA/CAA hotline, OSHA publications and training program, and Institute of Chemical Engineers publications.

RMP Guidance for Chemical Distributors - Chapter 11: Communication with the Public

Risk Management Plans must be made available to the public, except for any classified or confidential business information contained in RMPs or the off-site consequence analysis sections. Be prepared to communicate risk with LEPCs and SERCs.

RMP Guidance for Chemical Distributors - Chapter 4: Offsite Consequence Analysis

How to perform the OCA for regulated substances, informing the government and the public about potential consequences of an accidental chemical release at your facility. Includes calculations for worst-case scenario, alternative scenarios, and endpoints.

Chemical Safety Alert: Use Multiple Data Sources for Safer Emergency Response

Increases awareness of Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) limitations so that first responders to accidental releases can take proper precautions and identify additional sources of chemical information, such as reactivity and incompatibility.

Chemical Safety Alert: Emergency Isolation for Hazardous Material Fluid Transfer Systems - Application and Limitations of Excess Flow Valves

While excess flow valves (EFV) are in extensive service and have prevented numerous pipe or hose breaks from becoming much more serious incidents, experience shows that in some cases the EFV did not perform as intended, usually because of misapplication.

RMP Guidance for Chemical Distributors - Chapter 3: Five-Year Accident History

A five year accident history must be completed for each covered process, and all accidental release events meeting specified criteria must be reported in the Risk Management Plan (RMP) for that process.

Topical Backgrounder: Chemical Safety in Your Community: EPA's New Risk Management Program

This May 1999 document is part of a series of publications on the RMP and issues related to chemical emergency management. Explains how the RMP requirements pick up where the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act left off.

Chemical Safety Alert: Hazards of Delayed Coker Unit (DCU) Operations

EPA and OSHA jointly publish this Chemical Safety Alert/Safety and Health Information Bulletin (CSA/SHIB) to increase awareness. DCU is a severe form of thermal cracking requiring high temperatures for long periods, for refining crude oils.

RMP Guidance for Chemical Distributors - Chapter 7: Prevention Program (Program 3)

The OSHA Process Safety Management program has legal authority for on-site consequences, EPA's Prevention Program for offsite consequences, so your process hazard analysis (PHA) team may have to assess new hazards to the public and offsite environment.

RMP Guidance for Chemical Distributors - Appendix A: 40 CFR part 68/Selected NAICS Codes

The full text of Part 68, Chemical Accident Prevention provisions, includes hazard assessment, emergency response, threshold quantities for regulated substances, reporting requirements, and the Risk Management Plan.

RMP Guidance for Chemical Distributors - Appendix C: Technical Assistance

Resources available to assist warehousing facilities include the Office of Emergency Management website, EPCRA/Superfund/RCRA/CAA hotline, OSHA website and documents and training program, and American Institute of Chemical Engineers publications.

RMP Guidance for Chemical Distributors - Introduction

If you handle, manufacture, use, or store any of the toxic and flammable substances (e.g., chlorine, ammonia) listed in Appendix A above the specified threshold quantities in a process, you are required to develop and implement a risk management plan.

RMP Guidance for Warehouses - Appendix D: OSHA Guidance on PSM

This text is taken directly from OSHA's appendix C to the Process Safety Management standard (29 CFR 1910.119). Compiled information required by this standard, including material safety data sheets (MSDS), is essential to process hazards analysis (PHA).