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The Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA): A Summary

Categories: Environment,Laws/Regulations,Waste Management

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL32683.pdf

Summarizes the provisions of the act and the major regulatory programs that mandate reporting by industrial facilities of releases of potentially hazardous chemicals to the environment.  From the Congressional Research Service, posted by the Federation of American Scientists