EPA Aligns Chemical Classification For Facility Reporting With OSHA HCS

EPA is aligning its hazard classification system for industrial facilities' reporting of hazardous chemicals under the agency's emergency planning rule with categories OSHA adopted in a 2012 update to its Hazard Communication Standard (HCS). In a direct final rule scheduled for publication in the June 13 Federal Register , EPA says chemical classifications for reporting under the agency's Emergency Planning and Community Right To Know Act (EPCRA) have long been based on OSHA's HCS hazard classifications systems, and that stakeholders...