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Communicating Under Section 112(r) of the Clean Air Act Amendments
Author(s) -
McNulty Patrick J.,
Schaller Leon C.,
Chinander Karen R.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
risk analysis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.972
H-Index - 130
eISSN - 1539-6924
pISSN - 0272-4332
DOI - 10.1111/j.1539-6924.1998.tb00930.x
Subject(s) - clean air act , section (typography) , apprehension , agency (philosophy) , business , risk analysis (engineering) , environmental economics , air pollution , economics , advertising , psychology , philosophy , chemistry , organic chemistry , epistemology , cognitive psychology
Regulations under Section 112(r) of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments require fixed facilities having threshold quantities of materials on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's list of regulated substances to disclose to the general public the expected offsite consequences of worst‐case accidental chemical releases. This paper describes the communication practices of small firms in Delaware and New Jersey and the practical problems these facilities might encounter complying with the proposed rule. The paper reports an interesting difference between the apprehension voiced by small firms required to report worst‐case release information and the public's apparent lack of interest in such information. Unlike the difficulty expected by small firms in calculating and communicating worst‐case chemical release information, this paper includes some observations on the ability of large chemical firms to comply with the proposed requirements.