Seyfarth Synopsis: Last week Administrator Scott Pruitt signed a final rule to further delay the effective date of EPA’s Risk Management Program (RMP) Amendments an additional 20 months to allow the agency to conduct a reconsideration proceeding.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s new rules to strengthen the Clean Air Act’s Risk Management Program (RMP), 40 C.F.R. Part 68, were first adopted on January 13, 2017 (82 Fed. Reg. 4594), after the proposed regulations were published for notice and comment on March 14, 2016 (81 Fed. Reg. 13638).

However, Administrator Pruitt has now signed a rule changing the effective date of the amendments to February 19, 2019 (82 FR 27133).

For an analysis on the proposed rules see our previous blog on U.S. EPA To Require Stronger Chemical Safety Regulation.