{"id":999,"date":"2018-05-17T17:13:32","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T22:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/taocompliance.com\/?p=999"},"modified":"2018-05-17T17:13:32","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T22:13:32","slug":"yet-another-update-on-the-rmp-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taocompliance.com\/?p=999","title":{"rendered":"Yet another update on the RMP Updates!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Today, EPA&#8217;s Administrator, E. Scott Pruitt, signed a new proposed rule, further changing the Obama-era EPA\u2019s proposed changes and the EPA is submitting that for publication in the Federal Register (FR).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Basically, it outlines two proposals for the Obama-era EPA\u2019s proposed changes:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Repeal nearly ALL of the Obama-era EPA\u2019s proposed changes essentially returning the RMP rule back to its 2004 condition.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Repeal about 90% of the Obama-era EPA\u2019s proposed changes and alter\/replace the remainder with some more flexible options for compliance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While there is a lot of information to digest, the basic arguments for the changes the Trump-era EPA is making are:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The EPA wants to maintain its historic consistency with OSHA\u2019s PSM standard as mandated by the Clean Air Act which established the requirement for the PSM\/RMP rules. The EPA believes it may update the rule further if OSHA moves forward with its (currently stalled) update process but that it will do so in a coordinated fashion <em>with<\/em> OSHA to minimize divergence.<\/li>\n<li>Address Security Concerns raised by many commenters.<\/li>\n<li>Address BATF finding on West Fertilizer incident.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Reduce unnecessary regulations and regulatory costs in response to three Executive Orders that require Agencies to place greater emphasis on reducing regulatory costs and burdens.<\/li>\n<li>Revise compliance dates to provide necessary time for program changes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As always, stay tuned for further information. We&#8217;re still <strong>years<\/strong> away from a change at this rate!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/rmp\/pre-publication-copy-proposed-risk-management-program-rmp-reconsideration-rule\">Notice of pre-publication copy of proposed rule: Accidental Release Prevention Requirements: Risk Management Programs Under the Clean Air Act (PDF)<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/sites\/production\/files\/2018-05\/documents\/rmp_reconsideration_2050-ag95_nprm_20180516.pdf\">Pre-publication copy of proposed rule: Accidental Release Prevention Requirements: Risk Management Programs Under the Clean Air Act (PDF)<\/a>(128 pp, 602 K)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Regulations.gov Docket No.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.regulations.gov\/docket?D=EPA-HQ-OEM-2015-0725\">EPA-HQ-OEM-2015-0725<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, EPA&#8217;s Administrator, E. Scott Pruitt, signed a new proposed rule, further changing the Obama-era EPA\u2019s proposed changes and the EPA is submitting that for publication in the Federal Register (FR). Basically, it outlines two proposals for the Obama-era EPA\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/taocompliance.com\/?p=999\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,64],"tags":[11,12],"class_list":["post-999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compliance","category-epa","tag-epa","tag-rmp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taocompliance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taocompliance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taocompliance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taocompliance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taocompliance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/taocompliance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1000,"href":"https:\/\/taocompliance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999\/revisions\/1000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taocompliance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taocompliance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taocompliance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}