[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 40, Volume 31]
[Revised as of July 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 40CFR1400.3]

[Page 862-863]
 
                   TITLE 40--PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT
 
  CHAPTER IV--ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY AND DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
 
PART 1400_DISTRIBUTION OF OFF-SITE CONSEQUENCE ANALYSIS
INFORMATION--Table of Contents
 
                         Subpart B_Public Access
 
Sec.  1400.3  Public access to paper copies of off-site consequence analysis information.


    (a) General. The Administrator and the Attorney General shall ensure 
that any member of the public has access to a paper copy of OCA 
information in the manner prescribed by this section.
    (b) Reading-room access. Paper copies of OCA information shall be 
available in at least 50 reading rooms geographically distributed across 
the United States and its territories. The reading rooms shall allow any 
person to read, but not remove or mechanically reproduce, a paper copy 
of OCA information, in accordance with paragraphs (c) through (g) of 
this section and procedures established by the Administrator and 
Attorney General.
    (c) Limited number. Any person shall be provided with access to a 
paper copy of the OCA information for up to 10 stationary sources 
located anywhere in the country, without geographical restriction, in a 
calendar month.
    (d) Additional access. Any person also shall be provided with access 
to a paper

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copy of the OCA information for stationary sources located in the 
jurisdiction of the LEPC where the person lives or works and for any 
other stationary source that has a vulnerable zone that extends into 
that LEPC's jurisdiction.
    (e) Personal identification for access to OCA information without 
geographical restriction. Reading rooms established under this section 
shall provide a person with access to a paper copy of OCA information 
under paragraph (c) of this section only after a reading room 
representative has
    (1) Ascertained the person's identity by viewing photo 
identification issued by a Federal, State, or local government agency to 
the person; and
    (2) Obtained the person's signature on a sign-in sheet and a 
certification that the person has not received access to OCA information 
for more than 10 stationary sources for that calendar month.
    (f) Personal identification for access to local OCA information. 
Reading rooms established under this section shall provide a person with 
access to a paper copy of OCA information under paragraph (d) of this 
section only after a reading room representative has
    (1) Ascertained where the person lives or works by viewing 
appropriate documentation; and
    (2) Obtained the person's signature on a sign-in sheet.
    (g) Record keeping. Reading room personnel shall keep records of 
reading room use and certifications in accordance with procedures 
established by the Administrator and the Attorney General. These records 
shall be retained for no more than three years. Federal reading rooms 
will not index or otherwise manipulate the sign-in sheets according to 
individuals' names, except in accordance with the Privacy Act.