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EPA RMP Rule 2024 Amendments - Risk Management Plan
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EPA has made the following changes to the Risk Management Plan:
Registration
The following requirement is added:
Method of communication and location of the notification that chemical hazard information is available to the public residing, working, or spending significant time within 6 miles of the stationary source, per the rule.
Prevention Program
For Program 2 and Program 3 processes:
The following requirement was added:
Recommendations declined from natural hazard, power loss, and siting hazard evaluations and justifications.
The following text was revised:
The date of the most recent compliance audit; the expected date of completion of any changes resulting from the compliance audit and identification of whether the most recent compliance audit was a third-party audit, and findings declined from third-party compliance audits and justifications.
For Program 3 processes, the following requirements were added:
Inherently safer technology or design measures implemented since the last PHA, if any, and the technology category (substitution, minimization, simplification and/or moderation).
Recommendations declined from safety gaps between codes, standards, or practices to which the process was designed and constructed and the most current version of applicable codes, standards, or practices.
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