EPCRA / SARA Reporting

The Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA) of 1986 (EPCRA) was created to help communities plan for emergencies involving hazardous substances.  The Act 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.

There are four major provisions of EPCRA:

• Emergency Planning (Sections 301 — 303)
• Emergency Release Notification (Section 304)
• Hazardous Chemical Storage Reporting (Sections 311 — 312)
• Toxic Chemical Release Inventory (Section 313)

EH&S Consulting can assist your facility in maintaining regulatory compliance in regards to all EPCRA reporting.

In general, you are subject to EPCRA reporting if your site has 10,000lbs of any chemical or 500lbs (or the threshold planning quaintly, whichever is less) of an extremely hazardous substances present at any time within the facility