Federal Planning Requirements

Occupational Safety and Health Administration permissible exposure level, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health recommended exposure limit, and the ACGIH threshold limit value has been set at 5.0mgm for an 8-10hday per 40 h week. Although dibutyl phthalate is not subject to EPA emergency planning requirements, if dibutyl phthalate is released in a quantity exceeding 10 pounds over 24 h, the appropriate local, state, and federal authorities must be notified. 

Many states and territories also have their own occupational safety and health plans that have been approved by OSHA and many of these are more stringent than the federal OSHA requirements. 

To further add to the confusion, in the U.S. environmental regulations are enforced by the states, but only after the U.S. EPA approves each state s enforcement plan for consistency with the Federal program. States also can be more stringent than the Federal requirements. Thus, when the U.S. EPA decides to relax a requirement, states must act affirmatively to implement relaxed requirements. Nothing in the U.S. federal system requires them to act, so state programs are frequently inconsistent with the Federal model. 

If EPA grants a petition, these Federal NO, requirements will no longer apply. However, States remain free to impose NO, restrictions on other bases. For example. States may choose in certain circumstances to reduce NO, emissions for purposes of ozone maintenance planning, visibility protection, PM-10 control strategy, acid deposition program or other environmental protection. 

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) requires a fire prevention plan for the protection of employees. The Code of Federal Regulations under 1910.39 lists the minimum requirements for such a prevention plan. It is required for all general industry workplaces except for mobile stations such as vessels and vehicles. All OSHA state-plan states must cover government and municipal employees. There may also be state law in a federal-plan state that adopts these regulations for public workers or develops its own standards. Regardless, it is a best management practice for any facility to incorporate these minimum requirements. 

Areas that do not meet the standard are labeled nonattainment areas. Once an area has been found to be in nonattainment, the state, region, or locality will have three years to address the pollution and create a State Implementation Plan (SIP) describing how it will meet and maintain the standards. The SIP must include pollution controls for stationary sources and vehicle emissions testing requirements. EPA has the authority to accept an area s plan, call for revisions, or impose a federal plan on the area. 

Development of the bubble plan cannot delay enforcement of federal and state requirements. 

The states are required to submit to the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plans, known as State Implementation Plans (SIP), showing how they will achieve the standards in their jurisdictions within a specified time period. If after that time period there are areas within the states where these standards have not been attained, the states are required to submit and obtain EPA approval of revised plans to achieve the standards in these "nonattainment" areas. EPA also designates certain areas where the standards are being met, but which have the potential for future nonattainment, as Air Quality Maintenance Areas (AQMA). Such regions have stricter requirements than attainment areas for the granting of permits for new sources of the pollutant not in attainment status. 

Contractors are required to comply with all applicable federal, state, and local regulatory requirements, in addition to host organization requirements as described in company policies and procedures and the site-specific health and safety plan (H S plan). 

Co., Philadelphia 1961. (I have been informed that since 1961 the number of activities listed above has increased. This is in part due to additional requirements imposed by clients, state and federal agencies, and labor unions, as well as an upgrading of the planning criteria). 

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