REGIONAL CEPP CONTACTS
(617) 565-9232
(617) 573-5715
Ray DiNardo, CEPP Contact
Denisses Valdes
EPA-Region!
Wail Code: SPP) FAX (617) 565-1141
JFK Federal Building Email: dinardo.ray@epamail.epa.gov
Boston, MA 02203 Email: valdez.denisses@epamail.epa.gov
(908) 906-6194
(908) 321-6620
John Higgins, CEPP Contact
John.Ulshoefer
EPA-Region 2
(Mail Code: 211) FAX (908) 321-4425
2890 Woodbndge Avenue Email: ulshoefer.john@epamail.epa EOV
Edison, NJ 08837-3679 Email: higgins.john@epamail.epa.gov
(215) 566-3293
(215) 566-3302
David Wright, CEPP Contact
Alan Brown
EPA-Region 3
Wail Code: 3HW33) FAX (215) 566-3254
841 Chestnut Building Email: wright.david@epamail.epa.gov
Philadelphia, PA 19107 Email: brown.alan@epamail.epa.gov
(404) 562-9188
(404) 562-9167
FAX (404)562-9163
Henry Hudson, CEPP Contact
Bill Taylor
EPA - Region 4
Atlanta Federal Center
61 Forsyth Street, SW Email: hudson.henry@epamail.epa.gov
Atlanta, GA 30303 Email: taylor.william@epamail.epa.gov
Mark Horwitz, Chief OCEPP (312) 353-9045
EPA - Region 5
(Mail Code: SC-9J) FAX (312) 886-6064
// w. Jackson Blvd Email: horwitz.mark@epamail.eDa gov
Chicago, IL 60604
Steve Mason, CEPP Contact
Jim Staves
EPA - Region 6
(Mail Code: 6E-E)
Allied Bank Tower
1445 Ross Avenue
Dallas, TX 75202-2733
(214) 665-2292
(214) 665-2277
FAX (214) 665-7447
Email: mason.stephen@epamail.epa.gov
Email: staves.james@epamail.epa.gov
Mark Smith, CEPP Contact
(913) 551-7876
EPA - Region 7 (ARTD/TSPP)
726 Minnesota Ave.
Kansas City, KS 66101
FAX (913)551-7065
Emaihsmi th.marka@epamail.epa.gov
Eric Steinhaus, CEPP Contact (303) 312-6837
EPA-Region 8 (Mail Code: EPR-ER) FAX (303) 312-6071
One Denver Place Email: steinhaus.eric@epamail.epa eov
999-18th Street, Suite 500 •
Denver, CO 80202-2405
Betsy Curnow, CEPP Contact (SFD-5) (415) 744-2344
Kathleen Shimmin (SFD-1-3) . (415) 744-2216
EPA - Region 9 Email: curnow.faetsy@epamail.epa.gov
75 Hawthorne Street Email: shimmin.kathleen@epamail.epa.sov
San Francisco, CA 94105
Walt Jaspers, CEPP Contact (206) 553-0285
Bub Loiselle, Section Chief (206) 553-6901
EPA - Region 10 (Mail Code: HW-093) FAX (206) 553-0175
1200 Sixth Avenue Email: loiselle.bub@epamail.epa.golv
Seattle, WA 98101
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United States EPA 550-F-97-009
Environmental Protection January 1998
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Solid Waste and Emergency Response
EPA's Chemical Emergency
Preparedness and Prevention
Office
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Environmental safety is everyone's
responsibility. In recent years, one aspect of
this broad field has come into sharp focus:
the safe handling of chemicals. Following an
incident in 1984 in Bhopal, India, which
killed more than 2,000, initiatives have
sprung up in public and private sectors to
determine how we maintain the quality of life
and still manage chemicals safely. EPA has
taken a leading role in building programs to
respond to and prevent chemical accidents.
EPA's activities in these areas come together
in its Chemical Emergency Preparedness and
Prevention Office (CEPPO), organized in
1985.
The CEPPO Difference
CEPPO created a program with substantial flexibility
that emphasizes cooperation with its partners rather
than command-and-control approaches. We recognize
that the fundamental responsibility for protecting pub-
lic safety rests with State and local governments and
with industry. We believe that emergency planners,
with their intimate knowledge of local conditions and
the business community, are in the best position to
work with facilities to reduce chemical hazards and
risks and to take action to prevent incidents.
CEPPO's Mission
EPA's Chemical Emergency Preparedness and Prevention
Office (CEPPO) provides leadership, builds partnerships, and
offers technical assistance to:
• Prevent and prepare for chemical emergencies;
• Respond to environmental crises;
• Inform the public about chemical hazards in their
community; and
• Investigate chemical accidents
Local Risk, Local Action, Local Benefit
Prevention, preparedness, and response to accidental
releases of hazardous chemicals can only be dealt with
effectively at the local level. When Congress enacted
the Emergency Planning and Community Right-To-
Know Act, also known as Title III of the Superfund
Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 (SARA),
they reaffirmed the basic premise of the work that EPA
had conducted previously with State and local govern-
ments.
Experience has shown that emergency preparedness
improves when local stakeholders share information and
participate in environmental decision-making. To that
end, CEPPO works with numerous Federal, State, local,
and Tribal governments; industry groups; environmental
groups; labor organizations; and community groups to
help them better understand the risks posed by chemi-
cals in their communities, to manage and reduce those
risks, and to deal with emergencies.
Partnerships to Improve Safety
CEPPO works with its State and local partners to devel-
op new, streamlined approaches to deal with emergency
preparedness and accident prevention. CEPPO assists
Local Emergency Planning Committees (LEPCs) and
State Emergency Response Commissions (SERCs) by
providing national leadership, issuing regulations, devel-
oping technical guidance, and offering grants to enable
SERCs and LEPCs to develop their own emergency pre-
paredness and prevention systems.
The relationship forged among .
government, industry, public interest
groups, and the public provides access to
information about the presence of
hazardous chemicals and for representation
in the local decision-making process
through their LEPCs.
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CEPPO also works closely with the National Response
Team to help States and localities better prepare for,
respond to, and prevent accidents. The NRT consists of
16 Federal agencies with interests and expertise in
various aspects of emergency response to pollution
incidents.
When a major chemical accident occurs, EPA works
with the Occupational Safety and Health
Administration and the new Chemical Safety and
Hazard Investigation Board to determine the causes
and contributing factors associated with chemical
accidents and to prevent their recurrence.
Better Customer Service
CEPPO works effectively to meet our customer needs.
Our office structure allows us to involve our State,
Regional, local, and industry partners from the time
regulations are written through the implementation
phase. CEPPO's Program Development staff writes
regulations and provides technical assistance and guid-
ance to community-based emergency planners and
industry, while the Program Implementation and
Coordination staff ensures that our partners have an
opportunity to help shape our programs. Our outreach
efforts are designed to educate stakeholders and to
keep in close touch with our various State/local/indus-
try partners to gain their valuable input on our pro-
grams.
CEPPO's site on the World Wide Web features links to
general information and subject-specific data about
Emergency Planning and Community Right-To-Know
Act, risk management planning requirements of the
Clean Air Act, up-to-date information on chemical
accidents, as well as publications, regulations,
conference listings, and links to other databases to help
regulators, SERCs, LEPCs, industry, and the public
find out more about chemical emergency preparedness
and accident prevention. Access the information at
http://www.epa.gov/swercepp.
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Roadmap To the Future
In 1990, the Clean Air Act Amendments responded to
the public's concern about what could be done to pre-
vent chemical accidents from occurring in their com-
munities. New regulations require industry to tell EPA
and States how they manage chemical risks and what
they are doing to reduce risk to the community.
CEPPO is developing important prevention programs
with our partners:
• Risk Management Plans - RMPs, due from
industry in June 1999, require certain facilities to
tell the public and CEPPO what they are doing to
prevent accidents, how they plan to operate safely
and whether they are managing their chemicals in
a responsible way.
8 RMP*Submit/RMP*Info - Summaries of Risk
Management Plans will be submitted by industry
electronically using new software called
RMP*Submit. That information will be available
to the public on a new database, RMP*Info. The
data will be useful to environmental groups, State
and local agencies, community organizations, and
the public in understanding the chemical risks in
their communities.
a Counter Terrorism - Incidents such as the
deliberate chemical release in Tokyo, Japan have
highlighted the need to ensure that local
emergency response plans consider this possibility
however slight it may be for any specific
community. While the U.S. government has
structures and mechanisms in place to address this
situation, State and local emergency responders
need to be well prepared. CEPPO is working with
communities on how local emergency plans can
address deliberate chemical releases and provide
suggestions for rapid response.
Visit the CEPPO Home Page:
http.7/www. epa.gov/swercepp
To call the EPCRA Hotline:
(800) 424-9346
(703)412-9810
TDD (800) 553-7672
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