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FAR and DFARS › FAR Part 23: Environment, Sustainable Acquisition, and Material Safety › Subpart 23.4

FAR 23.403 Emergency planning and toxic release reporting.

The codified text (eCFR, as of 2026-10-02). Under the Revolutionary FAR Overhaul ↗, agencies follow class deviations with new text for many parts while the formal rules go through the Federal Register: check the solicitation and your contract's clauses, which rule.

In plain English

This section requires Federal facilities to follow emergency planning and toxic release reporting rules under EPCRA and PPA. It also means contracts for work on a Federal facility must require the contractor to give the agency information it needs to meet those requirements.

Applies to: Contracts performed on a Federal facility

What it requires

  • Provide information necessary for the Federal agency to comply with EPCRA and PPA emergency planning and toxic release reporting requirements

Key terms: EPCRA · PPA · Federal facility · emergency planning · toxic release reporting

Written by AI from this section's text. A guide, not legal advice: the text below rules.

The text

(a) Federal facilities are required to comply with the emergency planning and toxic release reporting requirements in EPCRA and PPA.

(b) Pursuant to EPCRA, PPA, and any agency implementing procedures, every contract that provides for performance on a Federal facility shall require the contractor to provide information necessary for the Federal agency to comply with paragraph (a) of this section.

← 23.402 Authorities. · 23.404 Environmental management systems. →

Rule changes for FAR Part 23

Source: eCFR, 48 CFR chapters 1 and 2 (GPO GovInfo bulk data) ↗. Plain words for the terms: glossary.

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