Required Skills for Certification as a Toxics Use Reduction Planner

(1) In order to become certified as a toxics use reduction planner, an applicant shall demonstrate to the Department that he or she possesses sufficient skills and knowledge to evaluate whether a plan was developed in accordance with 310 CMR 50.40. An applicant shall do so by complying with either 310 CMR 50.54 or 310 CMR 50.55. (2) In determining whether an applicant possesses sufficient skills and knowlege to evaluate whether a plan was developed in accordance with 310 CMR 50.40, the Department may consider, without limitation, whether the applicant has sufficient skills or knowledge to evaluate whether the following analyses were conducted in accordance with 310 CMR 50.40: (a) analysis of toxic chemical use, byproduct generation, and emissions in a process or method of producing a product or service, including but not limited to analysis of whether a process flow diagram developed pursuant to 310 CMR 50.44(1) reflects actual facility operations; (b) analysis of the technical feasibility and potential impacts of a change to an existing process or method of producing a product or service; (c) analysis of the economic feasibility and potential impacts of a change to an existing process or method of producing a product or service; (d) analysis of the potential effects on the facility's operation, function, and business activities due to a change to an existing process or method of producing a product or service; (e) analysis of the potential effects on worker health and safety at the facility due to a change to an existing process or method of producing a product or service; (f) analysis of the potential effects on toxic chemical use, byproduct generation and emissions to all environmental media due to a change to an existing process or method of producing a product or service; (g) analysis of the potential effects of a change to an existing process or method of producing a product or service on compliance with other applicable laws and regulations; and, (h) evaluation of whether a potential change to an existing process or method of producing a product or service constitutes toxics use reduction.