Risk Management Links
- Department of Energy, Oak Ridge National Laboratory: Risky Business: Assessing Clean Up Plans for Waste Sites — http://www.ornl.gov/ORNLReview/rev28-1/text/ris.htm — Site gives information on DOE’s requirement to prepare an environmental impact statement on any actions that may significantly affect the environment — even actions that would clean it up.
- Environmental Health Center: Crossroads — http://www.crossroads.nsc.org/ — Site provides a repository of information about the Risk Management Program Rule, including documents and a directory of resources available from other organizations. The directory identifies organizations playing active roles in the issues, relevant articles from other organizations, and information regarding plant safety and efforts to identify and analyze risk in the community.
- Environmental Protection Agency: Chemical Emergency Preparedness and Prevention Office — http://www.epa.gov/swercepp/ — Site gives information on EPA’s Chemical Emergency Preparedness program, a voluntary program to encourage state and local authorities to identify hazards in their areas and to plan for potential chemical emergencies. This local planning complements emergency response planning carried out at the national and regional levels by the National Response Team and Regional Response Teams.
- Federal Emergency Management Agency — http://www.fema.gov — Site provides information on recovering from disasters.
- VISTA Information Solutions, Inc., VISTACheck — http://www.eisreports.com/index.htm — Site includes the Environmental Information Services, Inc., that provides intelligence on the environmental track record and liabilities of almost any U.S. site, company or industry. VISTACheck is a database interface that includes details on compliance, violation, spills, leaking tank, hazardous generators, emission generators, landfills and all other "environmentally active" properties in the United States.
Environmental Health Center
A Division of the National Safety Council
1025 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 1200, Washington, DC 20036
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