The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today (12/4/2018) that the amendments to the Risk Management Program under the Clean Air Act put forward in a final rule published in the Federal Register on January 13, 2017 are now in effect.
The rule amending 40 CFR part 68, published at 82 FR 4594 (January 13, 2017) and delayed at 82 FR 8499 (January 26, 2017), 82 FR 13968 (March 16, 2017), and 82 FR 27133 (June 14, 2017), is EFFECTIVE December 3, 2018.
History of the Amendments and Facts that got us to this point