NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document
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FIRE DEPARTMENT
9 MetroTech Center____ Sruoklys. X.Y. 11201-3857
TO: Admin. Unit 'att. Via: Division:
FROM: Daniel A. Nij EHS
RE: Hazardous Materials Information Filing
DATE:
Under Title HI of the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (“SARA”) of 1970, the
New York State General Municipal Law/Section 209-U, as well as local laws, facilities which
store or handle certain hazardous substance vrithin New York City must file relevant information
concerning those substances with the Fire Department. The information filed with the Fire
Department is made up of Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS), which are a mannfar^ir^r’s
summary of a product’s potential hazards; Facility Inventory Forms (FIF), which were developed
to fulfill Federal and City filing requirements; and form 209-U, which covers New York State
filing requirements. Section 209-U of the General Municipal law.
The Bureau of Operation's Toxic Substance Unit is the recipient of the foregoing information. It
is that Unit’s responsibility to gather all the hazardous materials information filed with the unit
and ensure that each administrative unit, via the Division Command, receives the data which
pertains to its district.
Enclosed is a copy of the hazardous substance filings, which pertain to your administrative
district. Company Commanders should review this information and consider pre-incident
planning items such as: entry into the CIDS program, target hazard program, facility drills, etc.
Particular attention should be paid to the box marked “EHS”, j.e., Extremely Hazardous
Substances.
Units having any questions regarding this procedure should contact the Toxic Substance Unit,
Bureau of Operations, at (718) 999-0369, Fax: (718) 999-0034.
Daniel A. Nigro
Chief of Operations
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