EPCRA - Section 313

A Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) report must be filed if your business meets ALL of the following criteria during a calendar year:

The facility is in a covered industry:
- Manufacturing
- Federal Facilities
- Metal and Coal Mining
- Electric Utilities (burning coal and/or oil for commercial distribution)
- Commercial Hazardous Waste Treatment facilities (regulated under RCRA Subtitle C)
- Chemical and Allied Products - Wholesale
- Petroleum Bulk Terminals and Plants
- Solvent Recovery Services (fee or contract basis)
The facility has 10 or more full-time employees (or equivalent hours for full- and part-time employees)
The facility manufactured (including imported) or processed or otherwise used a toxic chemical in excess of the threshold quantity during the calendar year.

TRI Reporting Thresholds

The quantities that most often trigger TRI reporting are:

25,000 pounds manufactured or processed, or
10,000 pounds otherwise used

Please note: Certain Persistent Bioaccumulative Toxic (PBT) Chemicals have lower reporting thresholds. There are 16 PBT chemicals and 4 PBT chemical compound categories subject to TRI reporting. The thresholds are:

100 pounds for PBT chemicals such as polycyclic aromatic compounds (PACs), lead and lead compounds.
10 pounds for a subset of PBT chemicals that are highly persistent and highly bioaccumulative chemicals such as mercury and mercury compounds
0.1 grams for dioxins and dioxin-like compounds.

Reporting thresholds for PBT Chemicals are available at EPA’s website at www.epa.gov/tri/trichemicals/pbt%20chemicals/pbt_chem_list.htm.

NEW !

EPA added sixteen chemicals to the list of reportable chemicals for TRI reporting due to a determination that each is “reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen”. The newly listed chemicals are:

Individual Listings		Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds (PACs)
Chemical Name	CAS#	Chemical Name	CAS#
1-Amino-2,4-dibromoanthraquinone	81-49-2	1,6-Dinitropyrene	42397-64-8
2,2-bis(Bromomethyl)-1,3-propanediol	3296-90-0	1,8-Dinitropyrene	42397-65-9
Furan	110-00-9	6-Nitrochrysene	7496-02-8
Glycidol	556-52-5	4-Nitropyrene	57835-92-4
Isoprene	78-79-5
Methyleugenol	93-15-2
o-Nitroanisole	91-23-6
Nitromethane	75-52-5
Phenolphthalein	77-09-8
Tetrafluoroethylene	116-14-3
Tetranitromethane	509-14-8
Vinyl Fluoride	75-02-5

These chemicals are typically found in industry sectors that manufacture basic organic chemicals, dyes, pigments, plastics and resins. They might also be present at petroleum refineries. The final rule, Federal Register Vol. 75 No. 227, can be found at the EPA’s web site at www.epa.gov/tri/lawsandregs/ntp_chemicals/final.html.

EPA has developed a list of more than 600 toxic chemicals or chemical categories subject to EPCRA Section 313 reporting requirements. Reporting thresholds are available at EPA’s website at www.epa.gov/triinter/trichemicals.

EPA also offers a TRI Threshold Screening Tool to help facilities determine if they meet the threshold requirements for TRI reporting. There is also a 10 minute tutorial that explains the TRI reporting requirements. The tutorial complements the Threshold Screening Tool.

Additional information on using NAICS Codes for TRI reporting can be found on the EPA website: http://www.epa.gov/tri/lawsandregs/naic/ncodes.htm

2010 TRI National Analysis

Reporting data from TRI facilities nationwide is available in EPA’s National Analysis.

There are several new features in the National Analysis this year. In addition to providing data on TRI facilities by geographic region such as by state or county, a more in-depth look is given to more locally relevant data. The National Analysis now highlights TRI facilities within major metropolitan areas, near large water bodies, or on tribal lands.

More detailed analysis can be found for: