Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act

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United States federal law environmental law right-to-know law

The Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act is a U.S. federal law that requires industries to report on the storage, use, and releases of hazardous chemicals to support emergency planning and inform the public about environmental risks.

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All labels observed (8)

Label Occurrences
Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act canonical 18
EPCRA Section 313 2
Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986 2

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf United States federal law ⓘ
environmental law ⓘ
right-to-know law ⓘ
abbreviation TRI ⓘ
administeredBy Office of Land and Emergency Management ⓘ
surface form: EPA Office of Emergency Management

United States Environmental Protection Agency ⓘ
appliesTo certain industrial facilities ⓘ
facilities with extremely hazardous substances above threshold quantities ⓘ
codifiedIn United States Code ⓘ
country United States of America ⓘ
surface form: United States
createsProgram Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Toxics Release Inventory
defines extremely hazardous substances list ⓘ
effectiveDate 1987 ⓘ
enactedBy United States Congress ⓘ
establishes Local Emergency Planning Committees ⓘ
State Emergency Response Commissions ⓘ
implementedThrough 40 CFR Part 355 ⓘ
40 CFR Part 370 ⓘ
Code of Federal Regulations ⓘ
surface form: 40 CFR Part 372
partOf Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act ⓘ
surface form: Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986
policyArea chemical safety ⓘ
environmental protection ⓘ
public health ⓘ
publicLawNumber Public Law 99-499 ⓘ
purpose improve community right-to-know about environmental risks ⓘ
inform the public about hazardous chemical storage and releases ⓘ
support emergency planning for chemical accidents ⓘ
relatedTo Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act ⓘ
Superfund program ⓘ
requires development of local emergency response plans ⓘ
reporting of hazardous chemical releases ⓘ
reporting of hazardous chemical storage ⓘ
reporting of hazardous chemical use ⓘ
requiresUnderSection304 emergency notification of releases ⓘ
requiresUnderSection311 material safety data sheet reporting ⓘ
requiresUnderSection312 hazardous chemical inventory reporting ⓘ
requiresUnderSection313 annual toxic chemical release reporting ⓘ
section Section 302 ⓘ
Section 303 ⓘ
Section 304 ⓘ
Section 311 ⓘ
Section 312 ⓘ
Section 313 ⓘ
shortName Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: EPCRA
signedBy Ronald Reagan ⓘ
titleWithinSARA Title III ⓘ
uscSections 11001–11050 ⓘ
uscTitle 42 ⓘ
yearEnacted 1986 ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.

Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act
Description of subject: The Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act is a U.S. federal law that requires industries to report on the storage, use, and releases of hazardous chemicals to support emergency planning and inform the public about environmental risks.

Referenced by (27)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

United States Environmental Protection Agency → enforces → Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act ⓘ
Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act → shortName → Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: EPCRA
Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act → createsProgram → Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Toxics Release Inventory
Office of Land and Emergency Management → regulatesUnderStatute → Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act ⓘ
Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance → enforces → Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act ⓘ
Title III → establishes → Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act ⓘ
Title III → relatedTo → Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act ⓘ
State Emergency Response Commissions → hasLegalBasisIn → Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act ⓘ
Local Emergency Planning Committees → legalBasis → Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act ⓘ
subject surface form: Local Emergency Planning Committee
TRI → legislatedBy → Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act ⓘ
subject surface form: Toxics Release Inventory
TRI → legislatedBy → Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act ⓘ
subject surface form: Toxics Release Inventory
this entity surface form: EPCRA Section 313
TRI → legalBasis → Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act ⓘ
subject surface form: Toxics Release Inventory
this entity surface form: Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986
Public Law 99-499 → establishes → Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act ⓘ
Public Law 99-499 → titleIIIName → Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act ⓘ
this entity surface form: Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986
Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 → containsTitle → Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act ⓘ
this entity surface form: Title III – Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act
Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 → establishes → Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act ⓘ
United States environmental law → keyStatute → Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act ⓘ
Form R → legalBasis → Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act ⓘ
Form R → legalBasis → Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act ⓘ
this entity surface form: EPCRA Section 313
99-499 → creates → Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act ⓘ
Title IV → hasShortName → Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act ⓘ
subject surface form: Title IV (Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986)
this entity surface form: Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know provisions of SARA
Title IV → relatedTo → Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act ⓘ
subject surface form: Title IV (Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986)
Office of Compliance → legalAuthority → Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act ⓘ
Office of Site Remediation Enforcement → legalAuthority → Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act ⓘ
this entity surface form: Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (for certain cleanup-related matters)
EPA regional enforcement divisions → appliesStatute → Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act ⓘ
EPA Region 6 → administers → Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act ⓘ
Superfund program → relatedTo → Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act ⓘ