Toxic Release Inventory Reporting

Canada has recently started an emission inventory similar to the United States TRI. As in the United States, information reported by facilities is freely available to the public. 

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EPA. 1995g. Toxics release inventory reporting modifications beginning with 1995 reporting year. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. EPA 745-R-95-009. 

EPA. 1995b. Toxic release inventory reporting modifications beginning with 1995 reporting year. 

Methylenediphenyl diisocyanate can be released to the environment in waste stream emissions from sites of industrial manufacture and use. Toxic Release Inventory reports to the United States Environmental Protection Agency before at least the mid-1990s were subject to serious overestimation of the releases to the environment, because of errors in the way that the figures were calculated by industry. Within the European Union, total emissions from production sites in 1996 were about 43 kg and emissions from processing plants in the same year were about 7100 kg (European Union, 1999). 

Reconciliation of 1989 Toxic Release Inventory Report and Pollution Prevention Inventory Yorktown Refinery (Units of TonsA ear)... 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 2007 [Released March 2007]. U.S. EPA Toxics Release Inventory Reporting Year 2005 Public Data Release. Summary of key findings. Lead and Lead Compounds, pp. 12—14. www.epa.gov/tri (accessed 23.10.10). 

The EPA s latest Toxics Release Inventory report indicated that pesticides comprised 1%, PCBs 12%, mercury and mercury cottqroimds 36% and polynucleararomatic hydrocarbons 44% of die bioaccumulative releases to the environment in 2000. A total of 12.1 X 10 pounds of bioaccumulative releases were reported out of a total 7.10 X lO pounds of all toxic releases in the United States. The total is down from 7.7 X 10 pounds in 1999. These releases have decreased 48%, or 1.6 X 10 pounds, for chemicals since 1988. ... 

Chlor—alkah production is the largest iadustrial source of mercury release ia the United States (see Alkali and chlorine products). For the 1991 reporting year, chlor—alkah faciUties accounted for almost 20% of the faciUties that reported releases of mercury to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for inclusion onto the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) (25). 

Submission of EPA Form R. the Toxic Chemical Release Inventory Reporting Form, Is required by section 313 of the Emergency Planning and Community RIght-to-Know Act (Title III of the Superfund Amendments and Reauthoiizatlon Act of 1986), Public Law 99-499. The Information contained in Form R constitutes a report, and the submission of a report to the appropriate authorities constitutes reporting. ... 

The submissions of section 313 reports in magnetic media and computer-generated facsimile formats has been approved by EPA. Magnetic media submissions to EPA must follow basic specifications set forth by EPA in the document. Magnetic Media Submissions Instructions fEPA 560/4-90-008) which is also included in EPA s Toxic Chemical Release Inventory Reporting Package for 1989 (EPA 560/4-90-001). To order these documents, see the document request form in Appendix I. 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency TOXIC CHEMICAL RELEASE INVENTORY REPORTING FORM Section 313 of the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986. also known as Title III of the Suoerfuhd Amehdments ahd Reauthorization Act ... 

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