General Guidance

IMPORTANT NOTICE: If your facility was required to submit an RMP for a Program 2 or Program 3 process, you must announce and hold a public meeting by FEBRUARY 1, 2000, to discuss your RMP, including the Offsite Consequence Analaysis (OCA) sections. You must then certify to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) by June 5, 2000 that you have held the meeting.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released RMP*Submit. RMP*Submit is the free, official EPA, personal computer software for facilities to use in submitting Risk Management Plans (RMP) required under the Risk Management Program. If you must comply with this regulation, this software will facilitate your RMP submittal.

For software or installation problems, contact the RMP Reporting Center at (301)429-5018 (8am-4:30pm EST M-F). For compliance assistance and policy-related questions, call the RMP Call Center at (800) 424-9346.

You may submit your RMP to the Reporting Center at any time even though RMPs were due on June 21, 1999.

The procedure and address is as follows:
RMPs must be submitted on diskette. Small business that do not have computer access are eligible for an "electronic waiver" and can submit their reports on paper. Please send to:

RMP Reporting Center
P.O. Box 1515
Lanham-Seabrook, MD 20703-1515

For express (e.g. FedEx) deliveries, please use this address:

RMP Reporting Center
c/o Computer Sciences Corp., Suite 300
8400 Corporate Drive
New Carrollton, MD 20785
phone: (301)429-5018

• EPA's CAA Section 112r Frequently Asked Questions (very comprehensive - ~36 printed pages)
• GENERAL GUIDANCE FOR RISK MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS

Technical Guidance Document for 112r; Published by EPA July 1998. (This document is a necessity for completing a Risk Managment Plan. This is located down about a half page)

Fact Sheets

• Information in the Funding Sources for Implementing the Risk Management Program Factsheet (May 1998) (PDF) originally appeared in the December 1997 report, State Strategies and Considerations for Implementing the Chemical Accidental Release Prevention Program, which was prepared by the National Governors' Association Center for Best Practices under a cooperative agreement with EPA's Chemical Emergency Preparedness and Prevention Office. (Posted 9/28/98)
• Integrated Contigency Plan ("One Plan") Guidance; Issued: April 1998 (PDF)(Posted 9/28/98)
• Small Business and the Risk Management Program; Issued: April 1998 (PDF)(Posted 9/28/98)
• Modifications to the List of Regulated Substances; Issued: April 1998(PDF)(ASCII text)(Posted 9/28/98)
• Risk Management Program: RMP*Submit RMP*Info Issued: January 1998 (PDF)(Posted 9/28/98)
• General information about CEPPO fact sheets (ASCII Text)(Posted 9/28/98)
• Risk Management Planning: Accidental Release Prevention; Final Rule: Clean Air Act section 112(r) (4 pages) (ASCII Text)(PDF)(Posted 9/28/98)
• Chemical Accident Prevention and the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 (6 pages) (ASCII Text)(PDF)(Posted 9/28/98)
• Clean Air Act Section 112(r); Excerpts from the Statute (4 pages) (ASCII Text)(PDF)(Posted 9/28/98)
• List of Substances for Accidental Release Prevention: CAA 112(r) (2 pages)(Posted 9/28/98) (ASCII Text)(Posted 9/28/98) (PDF) (Posted 9/28/98)

Risk Management Programs Basic Awareness Brochures for Specific Sectors

(NOTE: These brochures are in pamphlet format. Due to this format, the title page comes at the end of the document, not at the beginning.)

• EPA's Risk Management Program: How Does It Affect Chemical Distributors? (Posted 9/28/98)
• EPA's Risk Management Program: How Does It Affect Operators of Water Treatment Systems? (Posted 9/28/98)
• EPA's Risk Management Program: How Does It Affect Operators of Ammonia Refrigeration Systems? (Posted 9/28/98)
• EPA's Risk Management Program: How Does It Affect POTWs? (Posted 9/28/98)
• EPA's Risk Management Program: How Does It Affect Propane Retailers and Users? (Posted 9/28/98)
• EPA's Risk Management Program: How Does It Affect Chemical Warehouses? (Posted 9/28/98)

Other Program Related Documents

• >112r - Hazards of Ammonia Releases at Ammonia Refrigeration Facilities. This alert is designed to impart lessons-learned from numerous accidental releases of ammonia from refrigeration facilities. (Posted 9/10/98)
• >112r - EPA Compliance for Rural Electric Co-operatives Empower Manual AND 112r - Empower ReadMe Document The EPA and the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association have worked together to create this manual to address environmental issues associated with the non-power generation activities at rural electric cooperatives. This manual (empower) is ~300 pages in .pdf format. (Posted 9/10/98)