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Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act
Laws and Regulations
- Treatment in the Same Manner as a State
- Clean Air Act
- Clean Water Act
- Safe Drinking Water Act
- Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
- Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Programs
- Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act
- Toxic Substances Control Act
- National Environmental Policy Act
- Endangered Species Act
- Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act
Quick Links for EPCRA
The Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA) is designed to improve community access to information about chemical hazards and to facilitate the development of chemical emergency response plans by tribal governments.
EPCRA and its regulations at 40 CFR Parts 350-372 establish four types of reporting obligations for facilities that store or managed specified chemicals:
- Emergency planning (Section 301-303; 40 CFR Part 355),
- Emergency release notification (Section 304; 40 CFR Part 355),
- Hazardous chemical storage reporting requirements (Sections 311-312; 40 CFR Part 370), and
- Toxic chemical release inventory (Section 313)
EPCRA and Tribes
Under EPCRA and 40 CFR Parts 350-372, tribes can establish tribal emergency response commissions (TERCs), which are responsible for coordinating certain emergency response activities and can appoint tribal emergency planning committees (TEPCs)