• Protecting Communities from Chemical Accidents: Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA). EPA Office of Emergency Management developed a training video that raises awareness of roles and responsibilities of EPCRA to new generations of planners and responders, state, tribal and local officials, emergency management leadership and the public. The video presents a basic understanding of the requirements of EPCRA to maintain effective participation in Local Emergency Planning Committees (LEPCs), Tribal Emergency Planning Committees (TEPCs), State Emergency Response Commissions (SERCs), Tribal Emergency Response Commissions (TERCs) to protect communities from chemical accidents.
• National LEPC-TEPC Handbook. EPA developed this national handbook as a resource for local and tribal emergency planning committees (LEPCs and TEPCs) to strengthen community preparedness for accidental chemical releases. It compiles and expands upon existing guidance materials for the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA) and its amendments under the America’s Water Infrastructure Act (AWIA) of 2018. This resource will be particularly helpful for new members of tribal and local organizations responsible for implementing EPCRA and for communities that may deal with chemical accidents.
• Computer-Aided Management of Emergency Operations (CAMEO). EPA suite of software applications/tools used to plan for and respond to chemical emergencies.
• Envirofacts. EPA system that provides search access to multiple environmental databases that may include data on such things as toxic chemical releases, water discharge permit compliance, hazardous waste handling processes, Superfund status, and air emission estimates, among others.
• Facility Registry Service (FRS). EPA system that provides data about facilities, sites, or places of environmental interest to support EPA's mission of protecting human health and the environment.
• Training.FEMA.gov. FEMA website offering more than 150 courses to help build critical skills first responders need to function effectively in mass consequence events.
• Funding Resources. This webpage is a compilation of resources which can help communities improve their SERCs, TERCs, LEPCs, and TEPCs emergency planning and preparedness efforts.
• Grants.gov. Provides a unified site for interaction between grant applicants and the U.S. Federal agencies that manage grant funds, including information on all available Federal grants specific to chemical safety and security that communities can use for community chemical safety and security planning.
• Homeland Security Information Network (HSIN). Federal, State, local, tribal, territorial, international, and private sector homeland security partners use HSIN to manage homeland security operations, analyze data, send alerts and notices, and in general, share the information they need to do their jobs.
• How to Better Prepare Your Community for a Chemical Emergency: A Guide for State, Tribal, and Local Agencies. EPA has developed a factsheet for State/Tribal/local agencies which is a general guide on their roles and responsibilities to protect communities from chemical accidents and ensure they are provided information on chemical risks in their communities
• Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS). FEMA system that provides public safety officials with an effective way to alert and warn the public about serious emergencies using the Emergency Alert System (EAS), Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Weather Radio, and other public alerting systems from a single interface.
• Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Gateway EO 13650 Portal. The CISA Gateway Information systems serves as the single interface through which DHS partners can access a large range of integrated infrastructure protection tools and information to conduct comprehensive vulnerability assessments and risk analysis. This, in turn, enables homeland security partners to quickly identify relevant vulnerability and consequence data in support of incident preparedness and response efforts. FSLTT partners can access the DHS Executive Order Portal here.
• Substance Registry System (SRS). EPA system that provides information about substances that are tracked or regulated by EPA or other sources. It is the authoritative resource for basic information about chemicals, biological organisms, and other substances of interest to EPA and its state and tribal partners. The SRS catalog also provides other federal regulatory information as well as sources of information pertaining to a selected substance. Stakeholders can find detailed instructions on the Chemical Substance Checklist Instructions, made by the Working Group.
• Toxics Release Inventory (TRI). EPA system that tracks the management of certain toxic chemicals that may pose a threat to human health and the environment through the Emergency Planning Community Right to Know Act Section 313.
• Training Repository Information. Training of First Responders and Emergency Management stakeholders is critical to saving lives and property. This webpage is designed to assist First Responders, Emergency Management, and associated response personnel in identifying repositories of training sites that have content relevant to addressing chemical incidents.

• Regulatory Frequent or Critical Violations resource. In October 2016, the Working Group published this resource describing the key items each program found to be its most frequent or, in some cases, most critical violations. While there is an expectation that facilities comply with all regulations, this information highlights areas of chemical security and safety that the regulated community should specifically consider for greater compliance.

• Facility Registry Service (FRS). EPA system that provides data about facilities, sites, or places of environmental interest to support EPA's mission of protecting human health and the environment.
• Substance Registry System (SRS). EPA system that provides information about substances that are tracked or regulated by EPA or other sources. It is the authoritative resource for basic information about chemicals, biological organisms, and other substances of interest to EPA and its state and tribal partners.

Guidance Documents and Fact Sheets

• Joint EPA/OSHA/CISA Safety Advisory: Risks of Improper Storage of Hazardous Chemicals at Chemical Warehouses and Chemical Distribution Facilities. This advisory informs the industry (chemical warehouses and distribution facilities) that companies must ensure that their chemicals are managed safely, securely, and in compliance with EPA, OSHA, and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) programs to help prevent chemical accidents and security incidents.
• Chemical Advisory: Safe Storage, Handling, Management of Ammonium Nitrate
• Safety and Security Guidelines for Ammonium Nitrate
• OSHA Fertilizer Industry Guidance on Storage and Use of Ammonium Nitrate
• Chemical Safety Alert: Safer Technology and Alternatives
• Fact Sheet: The Importance of Root Cause Analysis During Incident Investigation. OSHA and EPA urge employers to conduct a root cause analysis following an incident or near miss at a facility. By conducting a root cause analysis and addressing root causes, an employer may be able to substantially or completely prevent the same or a similar incident from recurring.
• Fact Sheet: The Use of Metrics in Process Safety Management (PSM) Facilities. This document provides employers with examples metrics that are tracked by facilities that are enrolled in OSHA's Voluntary Protection Program (VPP). Because VPP sites have achieved a high standard of safety excellence, tracking these metrics can make a positive contribution to the effectiveness of an employer's process safety management program. Therefore, employers may want to use this information to determine whether it would be helpful to begin tracking one or more of these metrics for their own facilities.
• Interim Chemical Accident Prevention Advisory: Design of LPG Installations at Natural Gas Processing Plants: EPA published Interim Chemical Accident Prevention Advisory Design of LPG Installations at Natural Gas Processing Plants in January 2014. This advisory provided natural gas processing plants with awareness of the applicable standards and codes for safe design of these facilities.
• During stakeholder outreach as part of EO 13650 and during OSHA's PSM SBREFA (Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act), OSHA and EPA received multiple comments from stakeholders expressing confusion on the applicability and overlap between OSHA's Process Safety Management (PSM) standard and EPA's Risk Management Plan (RMP) regulation. Many of the requirements in RMP Programs are identical to PSM's requirements. The overlap in coverage between the two standards is close but not complete. In October 2016, OSHA and EPA published the Process Safety Management and Risk Management Plan Comparison Tool to help facilities understand their requirements when they are covered by both regulations.
• In October 2016, the Working Group published Executive Order 13650 Regulatory Programs Overview. The purpose of this overview is to increase awareness of select federal regulatory programs among state regulators, facilities, stakeholders, and other non-Working Group federal agencies.
• Fact Sheet: Resources for Law Enforcement and First Responders
• Fact Sheet: CFATS RBPS 9 - Response
• Fact Sheet: CFATS and the CISA Gateway

Policies and Regulatory Updates

• OSHA Process Safety Management Appendix A Chemical Concentrations
• OSHA Process Safety Management RAGAGEP
• OSHA Process Safety Management Retail Exemption
• Issued RMP Final Amendments Rule
• Risk Management Program Reconsideration Rule. On December 19, 2019, EPA’s Administrator signed a final rule that made several changes to the final RMP Amendments issued on January 13, 2017.
• Process Safety Management. As an initial rulemaking step, and prior to publication of any changes to existing rules or enforcement policies, OSHA convenes a Small Business Advocacy Review Panel ("SBAR Panel") in accordance with the Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act. OSHA held the SBAR Panel in order to get feedback on several potential revisions to OSHA's Process Safety Management Program (PSM) standard. The Panel's final report can be found at: https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=OSHA-2013-0020-0116
• Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standard. On July 22, 2020, President Trump signed into law the Extension of Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards Program of the Department of Homeland Security to extend the CFATS program for 3 years—through July 27, 2023.
• Reducing the Threat of Improvised Explosive Device Attacks by Restricting Access to Explosive Precursor Chemicals." Study conducted by The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine commissioned by DHS.
• Policy for Assessing a Civil Penalty under the CFATS Program.
• Regional Emphasis Program Focused on Reducing Employee Exposure to Ammonium. On October 1, 2018, OSHA launched a Regional Emphasis Program (REP) to address hazards from exposure to fertilizer-grade ammonium nitrate (FGAN) and agricultural anhydrous ammonium. The REP will be effective in the states of Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas

Archived Regulatory Actions

• Comments and Related Documents on the Executive Order Listening Sessions
• Section 6(a) – Solicitation of Public Input on Options for Policy, Regulation, and Standards Modernization
• Request for Information on Process Safety Management and Prevention of Major Chemical Accidents
• Comments on OSHA's Process Safety Management Request for Information
• Ammonium Nitrate Security Program Notice of Proposed Rulemaking
• Comments on the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) Appendix A Chemicals of Interest list

Industry
Training

• Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program Shelter-In-Place Video for Business
  • Video
  • Video Student Guide/Transcript
• Safeguarding Information Designated as Chemical-terrorism Vulnerability Information (CVI)

Process Safety

• Safer and More Secure Chemical Processes Best Practice

First Responders
Training

• English/Spanish Protective Action Outreach
  • Protective Action Calendar Page
• Best Practices for Protecting EMS Responders during Treatment and Transport of Victims to Hazardous Substance Releases
• Protected Critical Infrastructure Information (PCII)
• Safeguarding Information Designated as Chemical-terrorism Vulnerability Information (CVI)

Administrative

• Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program (CSEPP) Shelter-In-Place Guidebook
  • Full Guidebook

Environmental-Community-Labor
Technology

• Proven Practice – CSEPP Shelter in Place Guidebook
• Proven Practice – CSEPP Shelter in Place Business Video CSEPP Shelter in Place Business Video Student Guide

Administrative

• Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program (CSEPP) Shelter-In-Place Guidebook
  • Full Guidebook

Federal-State-Local-Tribal (SERC, TERC, LEPC, TEPC)
Training

• Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program (CSEPP) Coloring Book
  • K-2 Coloring Book
  • K-2 Teaching Guide
  • 2-5 Coloring Book
  • 2-5 Teaching Guide
• Safeguarding Information Designated as Chemical-terrorism Vulnerability Information (CVI)
• Protected Critical Infrastructure Information (PCII)