Emergency Response Program, EPA

Risk Management Program Rule (RMP)—Emergency Response Program EPA 40 CFR part 68.95... 

DOD Marine Corps Chemical Biological Incident Response Force, EPA Environmental Response Team, EPA Emergency Response Team, EPA Emergency Response Contract Services, DOE Radiological Assistance Program. 

The terms hazardous substance and pollutant or contaminant do not include petrolemn or natural gas. EPA conducts emergency responses to incidents involving petroleum and non-petroleum oils separately from its responses to hazardous substance incidents. Throughout the Emergency Response Program, the term hazardous substance includes pollutants and contaminants. 

Operating under contract to EPA, the TCSA Hotline provides technical assistance and information about programs under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), including the Asbestos School Hazard Abatement Act (ASHAA), the Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act (AHERA), and the Lead Exposure Reduction Act. Hours 8 30 a.m. - 5 00 p.m. EST weekdays. 

Human research issues affect all programs in US-EPA. In its Office of Research and Development, US-EPA conducts research with human subjects to provide critical information on environmental risks, exposures, and effects in humans. This is referred to as first-party research. In both its Office of Research and Development and its program offices (including the Office of Air and Radiation, the Office of Water, the Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response, and the Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances), US-EPA also supports research with human subjects conducted by others. This is referred to as second-party research. In aU this work US-EPA is committed to full compliance with the common rule. The US-EPA will continue to conduct and support such research, and to consider and rely on its results in US-EPA assessments and decisions. 

Emergency preparedness risk management plans were submitted under the EPA Risk Management Program (RMP), and six sites in the USA communicated emergency response information contained in the plans with the public. Tests of plans were carried out at all major US sites in conjunction with municipal agencies and other industrial groups. 

For supervisors. EPA activities and other key legislation, effective chemical management, training and personnel issues, and emergency response. Part of 15-volume series, "Supervisors Development Program. ... 

Both stable and unstable NSCWM could be addressed under the emergency response provisions of the RCRA or CERCLA programs. True emergency events were never intended to be addressed under the conventional RCRA permit, which as indicated above, may take years to obtain. RCRA emergency permits (40 CFR 270.61) or CERCLA emergency removal actions (40 CFR 300.415) may be employed in these cases. In some situations, however, even RCRA s emergency permit provisions are inapplicable. EPA specifically addressed munition emergencies in its Mihtary Munitions Rule (MMR) (EPA, 1997) ... 

PCB cleanups are overseen by the EPA s Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response (OSWER), which handles cleanups in general, and not by the Office of Prevention, Pesticides, and Toxic Substances, which is the office that implements most of the TSCA programs. In addition to PCB cleanups, OSWER implements the TSCA regulations concerning PCB disposal, storage, processing, and distribution for disposal. Which office handles which function is detailed in two memoranda issued by the EPA. ... 

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