TRI Guidance Documents

EPA provides extensive industry-specific, chemical-specific and general guidance for the regulated community, many of which are listed below. If you have additional questions, call the EPCRA Call Center (703-412-9810 from all government locations and the Washington metropolitan local calling area; 1-800-424-9346 from all non-government locations outside the Washington metropolitan local calling area; 1-800-553-7672 TTY) between 9 am - 6 pm, Monday through Friday, Eastern Time.

Guidance Documents By Category

• General Guidance
• Questions & Answers
• Revising and Withdrawing TRI Data
• TRI Assistance Library
• Industry Specific
• Chemical Specific
• Waste Management
• Software Development




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General

• How Are the Toxics Release Inventory Data Used?
  A new report that contains case studies of government business, academic and citizen uses. (PDF, 790 KB).
  
  
• EPCRA Section 313 Release Reporting Requirements "blue brochure" (February 2001 Revision; PDF, 614 KB).
  
  
• Title III List of Lists (November 1998 Revision; PDF, 587 KB).
  The Title III List of Lists presents a list of chemicals regulated under four of the EPA's programs for chemical emergency preparedness, accident prevention, and community right-to-know. It is intended to help facilities and state and local governments in compliance with the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act and the accident prevention provisions of the Clean Air Act, as well as to support chemical emergency preparedness and prevention initiatives.

Questions & Answers Document

• Revised 1998 EPCRA Section 313 Questions and Answers (December 1998; PDF, 4.3 MB)
  
  
• EPCRA Section 313 Questions and Answers Addendum for Federal Facilities - Revised 1999 Version (May 2000; PDF, 315 KB)

Revising and Withdrawing TRI Data

• The Process for Revising or Withdrawing TRI Data (January, 2003; PDF, 87 KB,WPD, 27 KB)
  

TRI Assistance Library

• TRI Assistance Library (February 26, 2002; Self-extracting Zip, 4.5 MB).
  This Windows help file provides users with a searchable collections of information on the TRI submission process and its requirements. (NOTE: File is 20 MB when unzipped)
  

Industry Specific

• Presswood and Laminated Products Industry (August 2001; PDF, 1.4 MB)
  
  
• Coal Mining Facilities (February 2000; PDF, 462 KB)
  
  
• Electricity Generating Facilities (February 2000; PDF, 428 KB)
  
  
• Petroleum Terminals and Bulk Storage Facilities (February 2000; PDF, 306 KB)
  
  
• Rubber and Plastics Manufacturing (August 10, 2000; PDF, 1.0 MB)
  
  
• Printing, Publishing, and Packaging Industry (June 2000; PDF, 1.9 MB)
  
  
• Textile Processing Industry (June 2000; PDF, 2.5 MB)
  
  
• Leather Tanning and Finishing Industry (April 2000; PDF, 4.96 MB)
  
  
• Semiconductor Industry (July 1999; PDF, 2.0 MB)
  
  
• ERRATA SHEETS describe changes made to the January 1999 versions of the following 3 guidance documents.
  
  
  
  1. EPCRA Section 313 Industry Guidance: Metal Mining Facilities (January 1999; PDF, 657 KB)
     (The following pages were edited for clarity: p. 2-6 and 2-7 -- Table 2-2 and p. 4-23 -- Example: Production Ratio.)
     
  2. EPCRA Section 313 Industry Guidance: RCRA Subtitle C TSD Facilities and Solvent Recovery Facilities (January 1999; PDF, 709 KB)
     (Example: Production Ratio on page 4-27 was edited for clarity.)
     
  3. EPCRA Section 313 Industry Guidance: Chemical Distribution Facilities (January 1999; PDF, 676 KB) - The following pages were edited for clarity: p. 4-27, "Activity Index = 0.67" instead of "= 0.67 Activity Index"; p. 4-34, web address correction for CHEMDAT8; and p. 4-35, web address correction from ../cheif/ to ../chief.
     
     The National Association of Chemical Distributors developed Tables for Estimating TRI Air Emissions from Chemicals Distribution Facilities ( PDF, 613 KB) which was peer reviewed by EPA. This document provides an estimate of air releases (fugitive and stack) ONLY for selected listed toxic chemicals (11 chemicals in glycol ether category, and 43 listed chemicals) to assist establishments and facilities in standard industrial classification code 5169.
     
  
  
• Spray Application and Electrodeposition of Organic Coatings (December 1998; PDF, 1.3 MB)
  
  
• Food Processors (September 1998; PDF, 1.6 MB)
  (Section 3.2.2.3 of this document has been edited for clarity)
  
  
• CHIEF (Clearing House for Inventories and Emissions Factors)
  Includes AP-42

Chemical Specific

• Aqueous Ammonia (December 2000) (PDF, 42 KB)
  
  
• Dioxin and Dioxin-like Compounds Category (December 2000) (PDF, 180 KB)

  The default emission factors in the dioxin and dioxin-like compounds category guidance document were developed from three primary references:

  • EPA’s Database of Sources of Environmental Releases of Dioxin-Like Compounds in the United States, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Center for Environmental Assessment, Office of Research and Development, Washington, DC 20460, EPA/600/P-98/002B, September, 2000.
    
    
  • The Inventory of Sources of Dioxin in the United States, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Center for Environmental Assessment, Office of Research and Development, Washington, DC 20460, EPA/600/P-98/002Aa.
    
    
  • Estimating Exposure to Dioxin-Like Compounds; Volume 2: Sources of Dioxin-Like Compounds in the United States, EPA/600/)-00/001, Draft Final, September, 2000.
    
    

• Chlorophenols (June 1999) (PDF, 24 KB)
  
  
• Certain glycol ethers (December 2000) (PDF, 462 KB)
  
  
• EBDC (Ethylenebisdithiocarbamic Acid, Salts and Esters Category and List of Mixtures that Contain the Individually listed Chemicals Maneb, Metiram, Nabam, and Zineb) (September 2001) (PDF, 299 KB) ( WPD, 480 KB)
  
  
• Hydrochloric acid aerosols (December 1999) (PDF, 254 KB)
  
  
• Lead and Lead Compounds: Guidance for Reporting Releases and Other Waste Management Quantities of Toxic Chemicals: Lead and Lead Compounds (December 2001)(PDF, 523 KB)
  
  
• Mercury and Mercury Compounds (August 2001) (PDF, 97 KB)
  
  
• Nicotine and salts (June 1999) (PDF, 66 KB)
  
  
• Nitrate compounds (December 2000) (PDF; 35 KB)
  
  
• Pesticides and Other Persistent Bioaccumulative Toxic (PBT) Chemicals (August 2001)(PDF, 174 KB)
  
  
• Polychlorinated alkanes (June 1999) (PDF, 38 KB)
  
  
• Polycyclic aromatic compounds (PACs)(August 2001) (PDF, 74 KB)
  
  
• Strychnine and salts (June 1999) (PDF, 81 KB)
  
  
• Sulfuric acid aerosols (March 3, 1998 Revision) (PDF, 96 KB)
  
  
• Warfarin and salts (June 1999) (PDF, 21 KB)

Waste Management

• Waste Management Activities: Recycling, Combustion for Energy Recovery, Treatment for Destruction, Waste Stabilization and Release (August 1999 Revision; PDF, 39 KB)

Software Development

• Magnetic Media File Formats for RY2001 (October 15, 2001; PDF, 67 KB).
  This document details the file formats required for TRI submissions made on diskette.
  

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