Other State Regulatory Initiatives

In addition to the rules, regulations and procedures provided above for emergency planning and response, each state (in tlie United States) is actually involved in other environmental management activities. Recently, Matystik et al lia C prepared a suiiuiiary outline for interested users on tliese otlier state regulatory initiatives. The outline is a baker s dozen of information wliicli include the following for each state  

Dale tlie website was last updiited, if listed on the agency s home page 

A contact of each agency with e-mail, phone, fax, information where available 

Basic descriptions of tliree major environmental areas Air, Water, and Solid/Hazardous Wasle/Land contacts pennits and file downloads (for each area when available) 

Online laws, rules, and regulations, i.e., links to specific state laws, rules, and regulations 

Btisic laws of the tliree major enviroimienlal areas 

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The Donora catastrophe of 1948 made it clear that factory fumes were more than just another species of smoke. The Manufacturing Chemists Association was not alone in bringing new vigor to pollution control. Regulatory initiatives were launched in New Jersey and other industrial states in a sign of the times, the Smoke Prevention Association, composed mostly of local... 

The concept of a safety case comes from the requirements of the European Union/European Community (EU/EC) Seveso Directive (82/501/EC) and, in particular, regulations that the United Kingdom and other member states used to implement that directive. United Kingdom regulations (Control of Industrial Major Accident Hazards [CIMAH], 1984 replaced by Control of Major Accident Hazards Involving Dangerous Substances [COMAH] in 1999) require that major hazardous facilities produce a safety report or safety case.64 The requirement for a safety case is initiated by a list of chemicals and a class of flammables. Like the hazard analysis approach (Section 8.1.2), experts identify the reactive hazards of the process if analysis shows that the proposed process is safe, it may be excluded from additional regulatory requirements. 

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