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Understand all the ways your business affects the environment. Make certain your employees know how to keep safe, respond to spills, and fulfill the requirements of applicable environmental regulations. This page also includes environmental laws and regulations, compliance assistance, pollution prevention, lead disclosures, hazmat, emergency response guides, grants, training, and more.
General

RBLC Products
Find relevant air permit and technology information in RACT/BACT/LAER (RBLC) databases (including steel, chemical, power, etc).

National Environmental Compliance Assistance Clearinghouse
National repository of compliance assistance tools, resources, and contacts.

Compliance Assistance: Sector Notebooks
Industry Sector Notebooks includes industry background, emission outputs, summaries of applicable regulations, and references.

Ozone Depletion
Information about the CFC phase-out, ozone-related regulations, and the Significant New Alternatives Policy (SNAP) program required by section 112 of the Clean Air Act.

Regulatory Flexibility Act / Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act (RFA/SBREFA)
Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA) / Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act (SBREFA) provides access to information and documents produced for the agency's implementation of the Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act amendments to the Regulatory Flexibility Act.

Environmental Regulations And Laws
Resources on environmental laws and regulations.

Small Business Ombudsman
The Small Business Ombudsman acts as a liaison between the EPA and small businesses to deal with information needs, assistance, guidance, and disputes.

Compliance Assistance Centers
These centers provide comprehensive, easy to understand compliance information targeted to specific industry sectors.

Enviro$en$e
This site provides a single repository for pollution prevention, compliance assurance, and enforcement information and databases.

New England Compliance Assistance And Pollution Prevention
This team provides New England communities and industries with compliance and pollution prevention information.

Mid-Atlantic Region Business Assistance Center
This center assists small and medium-size businesses in Region 3 with environmental compliance issues.

Chemical Emergency Preparedness And Prevention
General guidance, fact sheets, and other information on how to comply with the Accidental Chemical Release Prevention regulations.

SAGE: Solvent Alternatives Guide
Helps identify alternative low polluting industrial surface cleaning systems.

Hazmat

Research And Special Projects Administration (RSPA)
List of publications relating to Hazmat regulations and compliance to regulations. Note that RSPA has no compliance assistance tool.

The Office Of Hazardous Materials Safety: Got A Question?
The online Hazardous Materials Information Center, which includes Designated Approval Agencies for DOT Spec. IM 101 & 102 Portable Tanks.

The National Hazardous Material Route Registry
The National Hazardous Material Route Registry provides the most current listing of the national network of Prescribed, Restricted, and HRCQ Radioactive routes.

Regulations And Federal Hazmat Law
Office of Hazardous Materials Safety's list of links to regulations and federal Hazmat law.

Exemptions And Approvals
Information on the issuance of DOT Exemptions and Approvals to the Hazardous Materials Regulations (HMR).

Training Information
The Office of Hazardous Materials Safety is providing information to aid in complying with the requirements set forth in the Hazardous Materials Regulations (HMRs).

Spills
Hazmat incident and release data.

Must You Register?
Information on the Hazmat Registration program.

Emergency Response Guidebook
Hazmat Emergency Response Guidebook.

HMEP Grants
Hazmat grant opportunities.

International Standards
Information on the Hazmat International program.

Hazmat Files And Documents
Hazmat electronic forms and files.

North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
Link to NAFTA's Land Transportation Standards Sub-Committee and Hazardous Materials Land Transportation Standards Working Group.

Hazmat Enforcement
Hazmat Enforcement program.

Hazmat Safety Main Website
Link to Hazmat Safety's main website; includes latest updates on safety laws.

Research And Special Programs Administration (RSPA)
The RSPA's website for the Chief Counsel.

Transportation Emergency Management
Office of Emergency Transportation's main website.

Office of Innovation, Research, And Education
Office of Innovation, Research, and Education's main website.

Hazmat Training
Transportation Safety Institute's Hazmat training.



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