Issue Date: November 11, 2019

As an employer, do you know the requirements for making safety data sheets (SDSs) accessible to employees for the hazardous chemicals in your facility? One subscriber recently asked if an SDS is needed to be kept on-site for each stain color, even though they were manufactured by the same company. Click here to see how the experts at Enviro.BLR.com^® answered.

Hazard communication, or HazCom, can be complicated, but BLR^® has all the SDS-related resources you need.

Topic Analysis—SDS
Toolbox Talk—HazCom: What is a safety data sheet?
Toolbox Talk—HazCom: The SDS: What to do when a worker is exposed
Looking for an SDS? Search MSDSonline's database through Enviro.BLR.com here.

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Upcoming Reporting Deadlines

Stay on top of your reporting deadlines with the Environmental Compliance Calendar.

The following are upcoming submittal deadlines for water-related activities through the end of November:

November 15

Oregon — Industrial Stormwater Discharge Monitoring Report

Washington — Construction Stormwater Discharge Monitoring Report

Washington — Industrial Stormwater Discharge Monitoring Report

November 20

Michigan — Industrial Stormwater Discharge Monitoring Report

November 25

New Jersey — Industrial Stormwater Reports

For more upcoming deadlines, including stormwater, hazardous waste, air, and chemical reporting, check in with the Environmental Compliance Calendar every month.

State Updates

Illinois

New Source Review — Air quality is not improving. The following counties have been redesignated from moderate to serious nonattainment for the 2008 8-hour ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS): Cook, DuPage, sections of Grundy, Kane, sections of Kendall, Lake, McHenry, and Will.

Montana

New Source Review — The East Helena area has been redesignated to attainment for the 1971 sulfur dioxide (SO2) NAAQS, and all of Lewis and Clark County has been redesignated attainment for lead.

New York

New Source Review — Air quality is not improving. The following counties have been redesignated from moderate to serious nonattainment for the 2008 8-hour ozone NAAQS: Bronx, Kings, Nassau, New York, Queens, Richmond, Rockland, Suffolk, and Westchester, as well as the Shinnecock Indian Nation.

Texas

New Source Review — Air quality is not improving. The following counties have been redesignated from moderate to serious nonattainment for the 2008 8-hour ozone NAAQS: Brazoria, Chambers, Collin, Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Fort Bend, Galveston, Harris, Johnson, Kaufman, Liberty, Montgomery, Parker, Rockwall, Tarrant, Waller, and Wise.

Wisconsin

New Source Review — Air quality is not improving. Sections of Kenosha County have been redesignated from moderate to serious nonattainment for the 2008 8-hour ozone NAAQS.

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