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state, local, and private sector personnel. Some may be available through a federal or

state agency, while others are publicly available on commercial systems or through private

organizations. Except for their own, neither DOT nor FEMA endorses the following toll-

free telephone numbers or on-line databases.

Federal and State Toll Free Technical Assistance Sources

Private Sector Toll Free Technical Assistance

Federal and State Agency Online Databases

Commercial and Private Online Databases

FEDERAL AND STATE TOLL FREE TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE SOURCES

US Coast Guard - National Response Center: 1-800-424-8802

in Washington, DC - (202)426-2675

(202)267-2675

EPA REGIONAL HOTLINES

EPA has now established a Hotline in each of it's regional offices to handle Title III

reporting. Please make note of the number for the office in your area.

Nation-wide - (800) 535-0202

In Alaska and DC - (202) 479-2449

In the Regional Offices:

Region I - Boston, MA - (617) 565-3273

Region II - Edison, NJ - (201) 321-6765

Region III - Philadelphia, PA - (215) 597-1260

Region IV - Atlanta, GA - (404) 347-3222

Region V - Chicago, IL - (312) 886-6418

Region VI - Dallas, TX - (214) 655-7244

Region VII - Kansas City, KS - (913) 236-2806

Region VIII - Denver, CO - (303) 293-1730

Region IX - San Francisco, CA - (415) 974-7054

Region X - Seattle, WA - (206) 442-1270

Remember to report all hazardous materials releases to your Local Emergency Planning

Committee representative and to your State Emergency Response Commission immediately!

TOXIC RELEASE INVENTORY REPORTING CENTER

EPA has established a reading room in the Toxic Inventory Reporting Center (TRC) located

at 470 L'Enfant Plaza East, SW, Suite 7103, Washington, DC 20024. The reading room

provides a place for concerned citizens to review release data as supplied to the

Environmental Protection Agency (through section 313 reporting). To date, the center has

received more than 50,000 of the 300,000 release reports anticipated.

The TRC's is intended to serve as a central receipt point, aid in the sorting recording and

storage of release data reported under Title III. Additionally the TRC is to provide an

easy method to facilitate public inquiries. Anyone can access the chemical information by

logging onto a data base and calling the information up by using CAS number, state, city

and/or facility name.

Staff from Computer Based Systems, Inc. (EPA contractor) are on-hand to assist with

system inquiries between 8:00 am and 4:00 PM, Monday through Friday. To schedule an

appointment, please call (202)488-1501.

CHEMICAL EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS PROGRAM (CEPP) - 1-(800) 535-0202

(202) 479-2449

Contact: Chemical Emergency Preparedness Program (CEPP)

Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Preparedness

US Environmental Protection Agency (WH-548A)

401 M Street, SW

Washington, DC 20460

EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT INFORMATION CENTER (EMIC) - 1-800-638-1821

(301) 447-6771 ext 6032

Contact: EMIC Librarian, Learning Resource Center

National Emergency Training Center

16825 South Seton Avenue

Emmitsburg, Maryland 21727

FEMA established EMIC (Emergency Management Information Center) to assist faculty,

staff, students and off-campus users of the National Emergency Training Center Learning

Resource Center with their research and information needs. EMIC is a special collection of

natural and technological case study documents that can be requested for loan to state

level fire and emergency management officials by applying in writing, on official

letterhead, to the EMIC librarian. Other requests will be referred back to appropriate

states for handling.

SUPERFUND AND RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND RECOVERY ACT - 1-800-424-9346

(202) 382-3000

Contact: For Superfund -- Office of Emergency and Remedial Response

US Environmental Protection Agency

401 M Street, SW

Washington, DC 20460

For CERCLA -- Office of Waste Programs Enforcement

US Environmental Protection Agency

401 M Street, SW

Washington, DC 20460

EPA established the toll free technical assistance hotline in 1980 to answer questions and

provide documents to those needing information on the Superfund and Resource

Conservation and Recovery Act.

TOXIC SUBSTANCES CONTROL ACT (TSCA) - (202) 554-1404

Contact: Toxic Substances Control Act Assistance Office

Office of Toxic Substances

US Environmental Protection Agency

PRIVATE SECTOR TOLL FREE TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE SUPPORT

CHEMTREC: 1-(800) 424-9300. Alaska, Hawaii and DC (202) 483-7616

Contact: Chemical Manufacturers Association

2501 M Street, NW

Washington, DC 20037.

The Chemical Manufacturers Association set up the Chemical Transportation Emergency

Center (CHEMTREC) to provide immediate assistance to those at the scene of accident, 24

hours a day, seven days a week. CHEMTREC maintains an online database on the chemical,

physical, and toxicological properties and health effects of the thousands of products of

the member companies. CHEMTREC operates in two stages: first, staff provide chemical

information for use in onsite decision making involving handling the early stages of the

problem and, second, notifies the manufacturer of the product of the accident for more

detailed information and appropriate follow-up.

CHEMNET is activated by a call to CHEMTREC. If a member shipper cannot respond

promptly to an incident and a chemical expert is required at a site, then the shipper can

authorize a CHEMNET-contracted emergency response company to go in its place.

CHLOREP: Emergency contact through CHEMTREC above.

Contact: Chlorine Institute

342 Madison Avenue

New York, NY 10017.

The Chlorine Institute in 1972 established its Chlorine Emergency Plan (CHLOREP), a

mutual-aid response network of chlorine manufacturers and packagers, to provide

assistance at chlorine emergencies in the United States and Canada through telephone

instructions to on-scene personnel or the dispatching of trained teams to sites. Response is

activated by a call to CHEMTREC which in turn calls the designated CHLOREP contact, who

notifies the appropriate team leader based upon CHLOREP's geographical sector team

assignments.

CAER: Community Awareness and Emergency Response information line. This is a 2 minute

recorded message informing callers of upcoming events related to coordinated emergency

response planning. The CAER information number is (202) 463-1599 and is updated twice a

month.

To submit an event to be publicized, send the materials to:

Todd Miller

CMA Communications Dept.

2501 M Street, NW

Washington, DC 20037

The Center for Fire Research in the National Bureau of Standards has established a public

access computer bulletin board.

Contact: Doug Walton

System Operator

U(301) 975-6872

Information on the bulletin board includes:



A listing of the most recent reports from the Center for Fire Research;



Information on upcoming activities at the Center for Fire Research such as

conferences, seminars and workshops; and



Information on FIREDOC, the Center's fire research bibliographic system.

FEDERAL AND STATE AGENCY ONLINE DATABASES

The Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response (OSWER) bulletin board is intended

to store communications and technology transfer among the Regions and with

Headquarters staff involved in solid or hazardous waste regulation, permitting, or

enforcement and with ORD scientists and engineers in Headquarters and laboratories who

are supporting OSWER. The OWSER is operated under contract to the Office of Program

Management Technology (OPMT). The OSWER BBS offers messages, bulletins, files and

computer programs, databases, and conferences. Bulletins include OSWER technical

training opportunities and ORD technology transfer seminars nationwide, new ORD

technical publications, the top 25 compounds found at Superfund Sites, and the current

status of the SITE technology demonstrations. Conferences include: Executive (for EPA

managers only), Ground-Water Workstation, Ground-Water Monitoring and Remediation,

Risk Management/Assessment, and Expert Systems/Geographic Information Systems. The

BBS is primarily intended for EPA Regional, Headquarters, and ORD personnel, however,

OSWER welcomes state and local government agencies and authorized EPA contractors.

The BBS telephone number is (301) 589-8366, the voice line is (301) 589-8368.

The Hazardous Materials Information Systems (HMIS) offers two menu-driven programs

to assist state, local and Federal agencies. The US Department of Transportation (DOT),

Research and Special Programs Administration's (RSPA) project offers quick access to

both exemptions information and informal interpretations. The exemptions menu provides

access to the following: exemption numbers, exemption holders, expiration dates,

container type and DOT specification, hazardous material, shipping name and class, and

regulations affected. The interpretations menu provides access to informal interpretations

issued by the Standards Division, Office of Hazardous Materials Transportation. Each

search provides: requester, subject, commodity, container and regulations affected. This

service is provided FREE to state, local, and federal agencies. Private sector organizations

cannot get an account on the HMIS but can call to receive printouts on information they

need (there is a fee for the printout). In order to gain access to the HMIS you must

FIRST ESTABLISH AN ACCOUNT by contacting:

Lessie Graves

Office of Hazardous Materials Transportation

Information Services Unit

FTS/COMM: (202) 366-4555

Occupational Safety and Health Administration's (OSHA) Computerized Information

System (OCIS) is designed to aid OSHA, State OSHA Program, and OSHA Area Office

staff in responding to employers' and employees' occupational safety and health problems

by maintaining quick access to various computerized information files. OCIS files are

maintained on a Digital Vax 11/750 computer at the Salt Lake City Laboratory; BASIS is

the database management software; system is accessed from OSHA and State Program

offices only; files are menu driven; and new capabilities are under development.

Questions and comments can be directed to:

OCIS Help Desk

(801) 524-5366 or 524-5896

FTS 588-5366 or 588-5896

The National Library of Medicine's (NLM) Toxicology Data Network (TOXNET) is a

computerized system of toxicologically oriented data banks, offering a sophisticated

search and retrieval package which permits efficient access to information on known

chemicals and identifies unknown chemicals based on their characteristics. TOXNET files

include: Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB), Toxicology Data Bank (TDB), and

Chemical Carcinogenesis Research Information ,System (CCRIS).

Registered NLM users can access TOXNET by direct dial or through TELENET or

TYMNET telecommunications networks. The nations average search charges (per hour) are

$75.00 for prime time.

For detailed information on TOXNET contact:

National Library of Medicine

Specialized Information Services

Biomedical Files Implementation Branch

8600 Rockville Pike

Bethesda, MD 20894

(301) 496-6531 or 496-1131

COMMERCIAL AND PRIVATE ONLINE DATABASES

FIREDOC: Nations available From NBS

The Center for Fire Research in the National Bureau of Standards has made its

computerized bibliographic system, FIREDOC, available for searching on-line. The system

can be accessed by telephone using a computer as a terminal. About 7,000 items from the

Center's collection are currently entered in the FIREDOC system. For further information

including instructions on access and use of FIREDOC, contact:

Nora Jason

Technical Information Specialist

Center for Fire Research

(301) 975-6862

CFRBBS is a public access computer bulletin board sponsored by: the Center for Fire

Research, National Bureau of Standards, US Department of Commerce, in Gaithersburg,

MD 20899. It features computer programs developed by the Center of Fire Research.

Contents of the board include: fire simulation programs, information on FIREDOC (the

Center for Fire Research bibliographic search system; FIREDOC users guide; and

FIREDOC compatible communications package), information on upcoming activities at the

Center for Fire Research, and a listing of the most recent year's reports from the center.

There is no connect fee for using the board; however the user pays for the phone call. For