{"id":540,"date":"2012-10-08T04:39:07","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T08:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ehscsi.com\/?p=540"},"modified":"2017-12-10T23:20:55","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T04:20:55","slug":"introduction-to-epcra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ehscsi.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/08\/introduction-to-epcra\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction to EPCRA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Environmental regulations have the\u00a0tendency\u00a0to confuse even the most intelligent of \"\"<\/a>professionals.\u00a0 A group of regulations that I revisit often is Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know (EPCRA).\u00a0 This week I will post of series that will detail the requirements of EPCRA.\u00a0 The goal of EPCRA, as indicated by its name, is to facilitate emergency preparations, emergency notifications and to create the framework to inform the community about hazardous chemicals stored, used, and\/or released by local facilities.\u00a0 In short, there are three major components to these regulations:<\/p>\n

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  1. Emergency Planning<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Emergency Release Notifications<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Inventory, MSDS<\/a> and TRI Reporting<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    This group of regulations largely centers around Threshold Planning Quantities (TPQs) that are specified in Appendices A<\/a> and B in 40 CFR 355<\/a>.\u00a0 These quantities of specific hazardous chemicals qualify facilities to comply with this set of regulations.\u00a0\u00a0 We will delve into more detail during our isolated discussions on each of the three components mentioned above this week.\u00a0 Do you have specific questions about EPCRA that you would like addressed?\u00a0 If so leave a comment below, email me directly<\/a> or join the discussion on our Facebook Page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Environmental regulations have the\u00a0tendency\u00a0to confuse even the most intelligent of professionals.\u00a0 A group of regulations that I revisit often is Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know (EPCRA).\u00a0 This week I will post of series that will detail the requirements of EPCRA.\u00a0 The goal of EPCRA, as indicated by its name, is to facilitate emergency…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[87,135,134,133,136,138,139,137],"class_list":["post-540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ehs-compliance","tag-ehs-compliance-consultant-in-south-florida","tag-emergency-notification","tag-emergency-planning","tag-epcra","tag-hazardous-chemical-releases","tag-tier-i","tag-tier-ii","tag-tri"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ehscsi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ehscsi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ehscsi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ehscsi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ehscsi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.ehscsi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":548,"href":"https:\/\/www.ehscsi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions\/548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ehscsi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ehscsi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ehscsi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}