EPA’s ‘Worst-Case’ Chemical Spill Rule Eases Some Facility Mandates

EPA has issued its final Clean Water Act (CWA) rule that would require facilities that keep hazardous substances in above-ground tanks to plan for “worst case discharges” of those materials, maintaining many of the facility mandates initially proposed, but clarifying certain definitions and providing some carve outs for “duplicative” requirements opposed by industry. EPA issued a prepublication version of its final rule March 21, which generally requires facilities to prepare facility response plans (FRP) in the event of a worst-case...