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New Website!

Thank you for visiting the new DES website.
We have included links for emergency management personnel to our database,
news about our local Disaster and Emergency Services office, and much more. Please feel
free to browse.

Thank you!

Cheri Kilby
   

 

 

SARA Title III or The Emergency Planning and Community Right - To - Know Act (EPCRA) of 1986 (EPCRA) establishes requirements for Federal, State and local governments, Indian Tribes, and industry regarding emergency planning and "Community Right-to-Know" reporting on hazardous and toxic chemicals. The Community Right-to-Know provisions help increase the public's knowledge and access to information on chemicals at individual facilities, their uses, and releases into the environment. States and communities, working with facilities, can use the information to improve chemical safety and protect public health and the environment.

EPCRA has four major provisions:
 
  • Emergency planning (Section 301-303)
  • Emergency release notification (Section304)
  • Hazardous chemical storage reporting requirements (Sections 311-312), and
  • Toxic chemical release inventory (Section 313).

Under this Act, individuals storing hazardous materials must complete yearly tier II reports and file them with the LEPC (Local Emergency Planning Committee) through the Disaster and Emergency Services office. For more information, visit the sites below:

The Office of Hazardous Materials Safety Hazmat Safety Website: http://hazmat.dot.gov/

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: Tier II Chemical Inventory Reports
 http://yosemite.epa.gov/oswer/ceppoweb.nsf/content/tier2.htm

The Emergency Planning and Community Right-To-Know Act Fact Sheet
HAZMAT Fact Sheet (pdf)

If you think you may be required to file a tier II report with the DES office, please contact Karen Marks.

 

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