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Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Chapter 116 — Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know

§ 11041. Relationship to other law

Statutory text

(a)

In general

Nothing in this chapter shall—

(1)

preempt any State or local law,

(2)

except as provided in subsection (b), otherwise affect any State or local law or the authority of any State or local government to adopt or enforce any State or local law, or

(3)

affect or modify in any way the obligations or liabilities of any person under other Federal law.

(b)

Effect on MSDS requirements

Any State or local law enacted after , which requires the submission of a material safety data sheet from facility owners or operators shall require that the data sheet be identical in content and format to the data sheet required under subsection (a) of section 11021 of this title. In addition, a State or locality may require the submission of information which is supplemental to the information required on the data sheet (including information on the location and quantity of hazardous chemicals present at the facility), through additional sheets attached to the data sheet or such other means as the State or locality considers appropriate.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 99–499 title III § 321 · 100 Stat. 1747

    Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 11041

    (Pub. L. 99–499, title III, § 321, Oct. 17, 1986, 100 Stat. 1747.)

    Unresolved: Pub. L. 99–499 was not found in the local Statutes at Large index.

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 99–499, title III, § 321, Oct. 17, 1986, 100 Stat. 1747.)

0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 unresolved

Credits

(Pub. L. 99–499, title III, § 321, , 100 Stat. 1747.)

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