Facilities are often required to prepare, implement, and maintain prevention, control, emergency response, and contingency plans under a multitude of federal, state, and local statutes and regulations.  Examples of these plans include Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure (SPCC) Plans under the EPA’s Oil Pollution Prevention regulation; Risk Management Planning under EPA’s Clean Air Act Amendments; Contingency Planning under EPA’s Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA); Preparedness Planning under RCRA and Emergency Planning and Community Right-To-Know Act (EPCRA) ; and various Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) programs including HAZWOPER, the Process Safety Standard, and the Emergency Action Plan. 

The EPA encourages facilities to develop an Integrated Contingency Plan (ICP) or “One Plan” that is a succinct, centralized document to address the various emergency response planning requirements of each agency.  The intent of the ICP is to minimize the duplication effort in the preparation of required plans, thereby eliminating confusion for facility first responders and allowing for improved coordination between facility response personnel and local, state, and federal emergency response personnel.

GZA’s regulatory specialists possess extensive experience in the development and implementation of plans designed to satisfy certain EPA, OSHA, and other governmental emergency response regulations. GZA has developed hundreds of individual prevention, control, and emergency response plans and numerous ICPs / “One Plans”.