Department of Emergency Services Hazardous Chemical List
Department of Emergency Services Hazardous Chemical List
Reporting requirements under the community right-to-know provisions, section 311 and 312 or EPCRA are on-going obligations. Sections 311 and 312 of EPCRA apply to owners and operators of facilities that are required to prepare or have available a material safety data sheet (MSDS) for a hazardous chemical defined under the OSHA Hazard Communication Standard. Under section312 of EPCRA, if a hazardous chemical is present at or above the reporting threshold specified in 40 CFR part 370, the facility owner/operator is required to submit an emergency and hazardous chemical inventory form to the SERC< LEPC, and local fire department annually by March 1.
The reporting thresholds under Section 312 are:
- For extremely hazardous substances: 500 lbs. or the threshold planning quantity (TPQ), whichever is less and
- For all other hazardous chemicals: 10,000 lbs. of an OSHA hazardous chemical that is present at a facility, the below conversion table will help.
EXAMPLES
Chemicals
Acetylene
Ammonia 7664-41-7
Asphalt
Cement
Chorine 7782-50-5
Diesel Fuel - at service stations
Diesel Fuel - not service stations
Endosulfan
Gasoline - at service stations
Gasoline - not service station
Grain Dust
Nitrogen
Sulfuric Acid 7664-93-9 (Battery Acid)
Toluene
Threshold Planning Quantity (TPQ)
10,000 lbs.
500 lbs.
10,000 lbs.
10,000 lbs.
100 lbs.
100,000 gallons
10,000 lbs. / 1,388 gallons
10 lbs. solids in power form or 10,000 lbs. other forms
75,000 gallons
10,000 lbs. / 1,617 gallons
10,000 lbs.
10,000 lbs.
500lbs
10,000 lbs.