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[CITE: 42USC11044]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
       CHAPTER 116--EMERGENCY PLANNING AND COMMUNITY RIGHT-TO-KNOW
 
                   SUBCHAPTER III--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 11044. Public availability of plans, data sheets, forms, 
        and followup notices
        

(a) 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.

(b) 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) of this 
section.

(Pub. L. 99-499, title III, Sec. 324, Oct. 17, 1986, 100 Stat. 1752.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 11001, 11021, 11022, 11023, 
11046 of this title.
