How to Determine if Your Facility Must Submit EPA Form

HOW TO DETERMINE IF YOUR FACILITY MUST SUBMIT EPA FORM R 

A ull-time employee, for purposes of section 313 reporting, is defined as 2,000 work hours per year. To determine the number of full-time employees atyourfacility, add up the hours worked by all employees during the calendar year, including contract employees and sales and support staff working at the facility and divide the total by 2,000 hours. In other words, if the total numter of hours worked by all employees is 20,000 hou rs or more, your facility meets the ten employee threshold. 

Section 313 requires that reports be filed by facilities, which are defined as all buildings, equipment, structures, and other stationary items which are located on a single site or on contiguous or adjacent sites and which are owned or operated by the same person. The SIC code system, however, classifies business establishments, which are defined as distinct and separate economic activities [thatj are performed at a single physical location.  

Establishments, in the SIC code system, are to be treated as separate activities. In many cases, a section 313 iacllity Is the same as an establishment as defined by the SIC code system. 

Your facility may include multiple establishments that have different primary SIC codes. If so, calculate the value of the products produced or shipped from each establishment within the facility and then use the following rule to determine if your facility meets the SIC code criterion  

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