Purpose

The Toxics Release Inventory - Made Easy (TRI-ME) software is a tool to help facilities determine and complete their Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA) section 313 (TRI) reporting obligations. TRI-ME is an interactive, intelligent, user-friendly software that guides facilities through the TRI reporting experience. By leading prospective reporters through a series of logically ordered questions, TRI-ME streamlines the analysis needed to determine if a facility must complete a Form R report or Form A certification statement for a particular chemical. For those facilities required to report, the software provides the user with guidance for each data element on the reporting forms. Additionally, this software has a one-stop guidance feature, the Assistance Library that allows users to do keyword searches on the statutes, regulations, and many EPCRA section 313 guidance documents. For the more experienced reporter, TRI-ME allows for direct data entry onto electronic versions of the Form R and Form A certification statement. TRI-ME will check the data for common errors and then prepare the forms, on paper, magnetic media (diskette), or electronically over the Internet via the EPA's Central Data Exchange (CDX) for submission to EPA.

For reporting year 2000, TRI-ME was distributed as a pilot release to a limited number of facilities.

Beginning with reporting year 2001, TRI-ME was distributed with the paper version of the TRI Reporting Forms and Instructions in the spring before the July 1 reporting deadline to all facilities who filed TRI reports in the past 2 years.

The Agency is committed to making the completion of TRI reports easier for facilities, while at the same time improving the quality of the submitted data. TRI-ME plays a big role toward achieving these goals.