Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare
Chapter 116 — Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know
§ 11044. Public availability of plans, data sheets, forms, and followup notices
Statutory text
Availability to public
Each emergency response plan, material safety data sheet, list described in section 11021(a)(2) of this title, inventory form, toxic chemical release form, and followup emergency notice shall be made available to the general public, consistent with section 11042 of this title, during normal working hours at the location or locations designated by the Administrator, Governor, State emergency response commission, or local emergency planning committee, as appropriate. Upon request by an owner or operator of a facility subject to the requirements of section 11022 of this title, the State emergency response commission and the appropriate local emergency planning committee shall withhold from disclosure under this section the location of any specific chemical required by section 11022(d)(2) of this title to be contained in an inventory form as tier II information.
Notice of public availability
Each local emergency planning committee shall annually publish a notice in local newspapers that the emergency response plan, material safety data sheets, and inventory forms have been submitted under this section. The notice shall state that followup emergency notices may subsequently be issued. Such notice shall announce that members of the public who wish to review any such plan, sheet, form, or followup notice may do so at the location designated under subsection (a).
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.
Pub. L. 99–499 title III § 324 · 100 Stat. 1752
Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 11044
(Pub. L. 99–499, title III, § 324, Oct. 17, 1986, 100 Stat. 1752.)
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, § 324, Oct. 17, 1986, 100 Stat. 1752.)
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