New Jersey Toxic Catastrophe Prevention Act

The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection uses the TXDS method of consequence analysis to estimate potentially catastrophic quantities of toxic substances, as required by the New Jersey Toxic Catastrophe Prevention Act (TCPA). An acute toxic concentration (ATC) is defined as the concentration of a gas or vapor of a toxic substance that will result in acute health effects in the affected population and 1 fatality out of 20 or less (5% or more) during a 1-hr exposure. ATC values, as proposed by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, are estimated for 103 extraordinarily hazardous substances and are based on the lowest value of one of the following (1) the lowest reported lethal concentration (LCLO) value for animal test data, (2) the median lethal concentration (LC50) value from animal test data multiplied by 0.1, or (3) the IDLH value. 

New Jersey Toxic Catastrophe Prevention Act (NJTCPA), 27 830 New Jersey Zinc Company, 26 564-565 New product development programs, 75 638... 

OSHA relied on several established lists-including the New Jersey Toxic Catastrophe Prevention Act (TCPA), the Delaware Extremely Hazardous Substances Risk Management Act, the European Communities Seveso Directive (82/501/EEC), and NFPA Hazardous Chemicals Data (NFPA 49)-to develop its list of highly hazardous chemicals. OSHA chose to list the chemicals classified as reactive category 3 or 4 in NFPA 49 (1975 edition). 

Toxic Catastrophe Prevention Act, New Jersey State Assembly N.J.S. A 13 IB-3, State of New Jersey, Department of Environmental Protection and Energy, Trenton, N.J., Sept. 12, 1985. 

The EPA RMP regulation and the European Community s Seveso II directive both exempt covered processes from some regulatory provisions, if the facility documents the absence of catastrophic damage from process accidents under reasonable worst case conditions. The State of New Jersey is also considering similar action in its proposed revisions of the Toxic Catastrophe Prevention Act (TCPA) regulations. 

Toxic Catastrophe Prevention Act (New Jersey) Thermogravimetric analysis... 

State of New Jersey is also considering similar action in its proposed revisions of the Toxic Catastrophe Prevention Act (TCPA) regulations. 

Two states have successfully implemented or are considering a list-based approach to address coverage of reactive hazards that affect the public. Delaware uses the same overpressurization criterion as OSHA for determining the quantity of a listed substance that is covered New Jersey is expected to include the criterion in its revision of the Toxic Catastrophe Prevention Act (TCPA). 

Environmental auditing can cover a wide range of objectives. The approach can focus on how well a manufacturing facility is complying with the various environmental regulations, such as the Clean Air Act Amendments (C AAA), the Clean Water Act (CWA), the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), Title III of the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA), the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA), the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), various aspects ofthe Occupational Safety andHealth Act (OSHA), and can also cover property acquisition. It can also cover the various State regulations, for instance, in New Jersey an environmental audit can cover the Toxic Catastrophe Prevention Act (TCPA), the Spill Act, and the State... 

New Jersey adopted a Toxic Catastrophe Prevention Act in 1986, which requires risk assessment by companies.167 The Kanawha Valley Hazardous Assessment Project in West Virginia developed worst-case scenarios for 12 chemical plants in the area.168 The chemicals studied included acrylonitrile, vinylidene chloride, butyl isocyanate, methylene chloride, chlorine, phosphorus trichloride, hydrogen sulfide, methyl isocyanate, phosgene, ethylene oxide, sulfur trioxide, and others... 

There is considerable cross-referencing to other federal and state standards, including New Jersey s Toxic Catastrophe Prevention Act (TCPA), the EPA s RMP, and BSEE s SEMS. 

In New Jersey alone, hundreds of water treatment plants have stopped using or reduced their use of chlorine gas to below threshold levels as a result of the state s Toxic Catastrophe Prevention Act from 575 such water treatment facilities in 1988 to just 22 in 2001. ... 

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