The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery in the Office of Land and Emergency Management is initiating consultation with federally recognized Indian Tribes on a proposal to amend the Risk Management Program (RMP) regulations.
The EPA is proposing to amend its RMP regulations as a result of agency review. The agency is proposing to modify several RMP provisions in this rulemaking. The RMP regulations have been effective in preventing and mitigating chemical accidents in the United States since they went into effect in 1999. These proposed amendments seek to improve chemical process safety by avoiding duplicative requirements, re-aligning RMP requirements with Occupational Safety and Health Administration Process Safety Management requirements, and eliminating unnecessary burdens placed on facilities where there is not specific data available to show that the current RMP standards would have reduced the number of accidental releases.
If you would like to request government-to-government consultation with the EPA on this proposed rulemaking, please have your staff contact Denise Roy via email at roy.denise@epa.gov by March 20, 2026. Please also identify a Tribal representative to serve as a point of contact for planning purposes. The EPA will work with your staff to schedule the consultation meeting with your Tribal government as requests are received.
To assist you with deciding whether to request consultation, the EPA will host an informational webinar for Tribes to explain the agency’s proposed rule on March 12, 2026, 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. (ET). You may register for the informational webinar at: https://usepa.zoomgov.com/meeting/register/-1OcJD7ETra2kpqC0tMLqQ
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