The RCC charge covers the cost of doing business with the regulations affecting Linde Gas & Equipment's business. Some of these regulations include:
Safety
Hazard Communications Standard
Process Safety Management Program
Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards
Transportation Safety
HazMat Classifications
Substance Detection Program
Transportation Workers ID Program
Environmental
Clean Air Act
Clean Water Act
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act
Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-know Act
Toxic Substances Control Act
Risk Management Plan Program
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
There are more than the above list, but the costs of compliance cover such items as additional reporting, higher permitting fees, developmental CFC substitutes, removal of underground storage tanks, more stringent air, water, and waste treatment requirements
including increasingly sophisticated air monitoring systems.