2003 Handbook of Employment Regulations Affecting Florida Farm Employers and Workers: Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know [State]1
Purpose
To facilitate awareness and emergency planning regarding the potential chemical hazards in local communities.
Program
This law seeks to encourage emergency planning efforts at the state and local levels and to increase the public's access to information about the potential chemical hazards that may exist in their communities.
Any facility that produces, uses, or stores extremely hazardous substances (EHS) in excess of the Threshold Planning Quantity (TPQ) must comply with some or all requirements of this law. In addition, all businesses that have a spill or an unauthorized release of an EHS in excess of the Reportable Quantity (RQ) must immediately report such spills or releases.
Who Must Comply
If you have restricted use and/or danger labeled pesticides or chemicals on your property in sufficient quantities, you may need to comply with this law.
Responsible Agency
State Emergency Response Commission
2555 Shumard Oak Boulevard
Tallahassee, FL 32399-2100
(850) 413-9970
1-800-635-7179 (Florida only)
http://www.dca.state.fl.us/cps/SERC/serc.htm
Footnotes
This is EDIS document FE395, a publication of the Department of Food and Resource Economics, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. Published July 2003. This information is included in Circular 1200, Handbook of Employment Regulations Affecting Florida Farm Employers and Workers. First published February 1992 as Circular 1043. Revised December 2002 as Circular 1200. Please visit the EDIS website at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu.
Leo C. Polopolus, Professor Emeritus, Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL; Michael T. Olexa, Professor, Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL; Fritz Roka, Associate Professor, Department of Food and Resource Economics, Southwest Florida Research and Education Center, Immokalee, FL; and Carol Fountain, Assistant Editor, Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL; Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.
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