Background

The Clean Air Act §112(r) required EPA to publish regulations focusing on the prevention of chemical accidents. On June 20, 1996, EPA published the final rule for Risk Management Programs. An estimated 66,000 facilities are subject to this regulation based on the quantity of regulated substances they have on site. These facilities will be required to implement a Risk Management Program and submit a summary of the program (the Risk Management Plan, or RMP) to EPA, by June 21, 1999.

EPA created RMP*Submit, a free software package for facilities to use in submitting Risk Management Plans (RMP). RMP*Submit helps submitters avoid common reporting errors by verifying that all required data elements are completed; allows errors to be corrected before submitting an RMP; and provides on-line help. The software comes in a set of four diskettes that must be loaded to your hard drive to utilize. You will need an IBM-compatible PC with a 486 DX2 or higher Central Processing Unit (CPU) (Pentium is recommended) to run RMP*Submit. Your monitor must be a Video Graphics Adapter (VGA) or a compatible display (SVGA is recommended). RMP*Submit needs Windows Version 3.1 or Windows 95; although it will also run under Windows 98.

EPA is strongly encouraging electronic submission of RMPs. To help assist the regulated community who may not have a computer on-site, we would like to offer the RMP*Submit software at Federal Depository Libraries to give them an opportunity to report on diskette. To use RMP*Submit at a FDL the user would have to temporarily store their data on the libraries hard drive.

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