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APA Files Comments on EPA's Risk Management Program

On October 29, 2014 APA filed detailed comments on EPA’s Request for Information (RFI) on the agency’s Risk Management Program (RMP) rule.  Among other things, APA’s comments provide a detailed history as to how the fireworks industry is already stringently and effectively regulated by numerous federal and state agencies as well as industry consensus codes and standards with regard to the manufacture, transportation, storage, use, and disposal of fireworks.  Accordingly, the APA contends there is no demonstrable need to amend the RMP to include low and high explosives as they relate to the fireworks industry.