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Toxics Release Inventory Display System

The Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA) was enacted by the United States Congress in 1986. Under EPCRA Section 313 certain businesses are required to annually report the amounts of toxic chemicals their facilities release into the environment in the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) report. EPCRA requires the US EPA and the states to annually collect data on releases and transfers of certain toxic chemicals from industrial facilities and make the data available to the public.

TRI reports are submitted to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), state and tribal governments. This data is available online in a publicly accessible national TRI database. This vast source of data is a powerful tool for environmental improvement.

To view the TRI data in a user friendly fashion, Ecology and EPA created the Toxics Release Inventory Display System (TRIDS) software. TRIDS displays a given state’s releases of toxic chemicals into the air, land, water, sewers and/or moved off-site within a given year. Both the TRI data and TRIDS are intended to be used by federal, state, local and tribal governments as well as a broad sector of the public including schools, communities, environmental organizations, and business groups. To learn more about TRIDS click here to view a brief slide presentation. Get Adobe Acrobat Viewer here.

TRIDS is a stand-alone software program that can be downloaded below or you may request a CD version by contacting us at hsieo@ecy.wa.gov.

What your computer needs to run TRIDS

1. TRIDS can only run on a PC, sorry Mac users
2. Windows 95, 98, 2000 or XP Operating System
3. Pentium or higher processor with 66 MHz or higher processing speed
4. 57 Mg of available memory and 40 Mg or more available disk space
5. A color monitor

Software

TRIDS 2004 for Access 97 and Runtime (no special software needed)

TRIDS 2004 for Access 2002 2003 versions