SARA Title III

SARA Title III is intended to help eommunities aeeess information and be better prepared to deal with the presenee of hazardous ehemieals and releases of those ehemieals into the environment. Through SARA, states and eommunities are eneouraged to work together with faeilities to improve hazardous materials safety and proteet publie health. 

SARA has four major provisions or seetions emergeney planning, emergeney release notifieation, eommunity right-to-know reporting requirements, and toxie ehemieal release inventory. 

The LEPC ineludes eleeted state and loeal oflfieials. Besides eleeted offieials, the LEPC eould inelude poliee, fire, eivil defense, publie health, hospital, and transportation offieials, as well as environmental experts and faeility representatives. The LEPC requires the development of emergeney response plans. 

Under this provision, facilities should notify the LEPC and consequently the SERC of any possible environmental release of specific chemicals. The specific chemicals referred to in SARA Title III are found on the Extremely Hazardous Substance List (40 CER 355) and the Reportable Quantity List (the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act [CERCLA] Section 103 [a]). 

Emergency notification should include chemical name and identification of the chemical by number estimation of quantity released time and duration of release mode of release (air, water, or soil) known health risks associated with the emergency applicable precautions and name and phone number of a contact person. All emergency notifications require a written follow-up as soon as possible [2]. 

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Environmental documentation, including Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS), military specification data, permits (e.g., NPDES, POTW, RCRA), SARA Title III reports, waste manifests, and any pending permits or application information... 

Emergency Planning and Community Right-To-Know Act (EPCRA) The U.S. Emergency Planning and Community Right-To-Know Act (EPCRA) also known as the Community Right-To-Know Act or SARA, Title III provides for the collection and public release of information about the presence and release of hazardous or toxic chemicals in the nation s communities. The law requires... 

The second section covers Treliminary List of Computer Applications and Systems of Potential Use Under SARA Title III" and contains a list of computer systems applicable to local planning. The list is not anticipated to be fully comprehensive of the environmental computer systems market nor is it intended to act as an endorsement for any of the listed systems. The list is only intended to serve an initial reference source. Vendor names, addresses, and phone numbers have been provided it is essential that the vendor be contacted to obtain current cost capability, availability, and limitation information for any system of interest. 

The PURPOSE/DESCRIFTION/REQUIREMENTS column of Table I provides information about each system pertaining to these areas of apparent concentration. Within Table I, systems that are double asterisked ( ) possess an apparent high degree of usefulness for SARA Title III planning, however this does not indicate any endorsement of the system s ability. The vendor should be contacted to determine the extent to which the system addresses specific needs and to verify the system s capabilities. 

Indicates an apparent high degree of usefulness for SARA Title III (i.e., includes two or more principal areas of use identified on page 12). 

PRELIMINARY UST OF COMPUTER APPLICATIONS AND SYCTEMS OF POTENTIAL USE UNDER SARA TITLE III... 

For the environmental engineer, this handbook provides extensive technical data on toxic chemical properties and detailed instructional aid on how to properly prepare toxic chemical release inventory reporting. The volume contains numerous examples on preparing SARA Title III chemical release reports and provides a compendium of State and Regional contacts within the Environmental Protection Agency. 

The handbook additionally provides an extensive overview and comparison of commercially available computer systems and software for chemical emergency planning. This section provides technical guidance for hazard analysis and identification implementing regulatory requirements and descriptions of computer applications and systems applicable under SARA Title III. 

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