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Statutes > Connecticut > Title22a > Chap446l > Sec22a-609Sec. 22a-609. Submission of material safety data for certain chemicals. (a) The owner or operator of any facility required to have available a material safety data sheet for a hazardous chemical under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (15 USC 651 et seq.) or regulations promulgated thereunder shall, for any such hazardous chemical present at the facility in an amount equal to or in excess of the minimum threshold level specified in Part 370 of Title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations, as amended from time to time, submit a material safety data sheet for each such chemical or a list of such chemicals to the appropriate local emergency planning committee, the commission and the fire department with jurisdiction over the facility. The owner or operator shall submit a revised sheet to the appropriate local emergency planning committee, the commission and the fire department with jurisdiction over the facility not more than three months after discovery by such owner or operator of significant new information concerning an aspect of a hazardous chemical for which a material safety data sheet was submitted. Any list submitted under this section shall include (1) a list of hazardous chemicals for which a material safety data sheet is required under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 and regulations promulgated thereunder, grouped in categories pursuant to said act or such other categories prescribed by the administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency, (2) the chemical name or the common name of each chemical as provided on the material safety data sheet and (3) any hazardous component of each such chemical as provided on the material safety data sheet. In the case of a hazardous chemical which is a mixture, the owner or operator may submit (1) a material safety data sheet for or a list of each chemical or compound in the mixture which is a hazardous chemical or (2) a material safety data sheet for the mixture.
(b) The owner or operator of a facility submitting a list of chemicals under subsection (a) of this section shall submit the material safety data sheet for any chemical on the list to the local emergency planning committee upon request of such committee. The local emergency planning committee upon request of any person, shall make available the material safety data sheet to the person. If the local emergency planning committee does not have such sheet, the committee shall request the sheet from the owner or operator of the facility.
(c) As used in this section, "hazardous chemical" shall be defined as in 1910.1200(c) of Title 29 of the Code of Federal Regulations, except that such term shall not include (1) any food, food additive, color additive, drug or cosmetic regulated by the Food and Drug Administration, (2) any substance present as a solid in any manufactured item to the extent exposure to the substance does not occur under normal condition of use, (3) any substance to the extent it is used for personal, family or household purposes, or is present in the same form and concentration as a product packaged for distribution and use by the general public, (4) any substance to the extent it is used in a research laboratory or a hospital or other medical facility under the direct supervision of a technically qualified individual and (5) any substance to the extent it is used in routine agricultural operation or is a fertilizer held for sale by a retailer to the ultimate customer.
(P.A. 89-212, S. 7; P.A. 91-172, S. 2; P.A. 97-124, S. 2, 16.)
History: P.A. 91-172 amended Subsec. (c) to make a technical correction; P.A. 97-124 amended Subsec. (a) to provide that the reporting requirements under this section shall apply to hazardous chemicals for which minimum threshold amounts are specified in certain federal regulations and to make a technical change, effective June 6, 1997.
