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Hazard Information on Toxic Chemicals Added to EPCRA Section
313 Under Chemical Expansion
This page provides summary hazard information on the 286 chemicals
that were added to the Toxics Release Inventory in 1994.
Section 313 of the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know
Act of 1986 (EPCRA) requires certain facilities manufacturing,
processing or otherwise using listed chemicals to report their
environmental releases of such chemicals annually. The list
of reportable chemicals, known as the EPCRA section 313 list
and also referred to as the Toxics Release Inventory, or TRI
list, was originally identified in the statute and was comprised
of more than 300 individual chemicals and 20 chemical categories.
In November 1994, EPA issued a rule which added 286 new chemicals
and chemical categories to the EPCRA section 313 list. These
chemicals were added to the list based on the statutory criteria
in EPCRA section 313(d)(2): in short, acute human health risks,
cancer or chronic (non-cancer) human health effects, and/or
environmental effects.
- Exhibit I summarizes the
basis for listing these new chemicals.
- Table 1 lists each of
the 286 chemicals and chemical categories from the 1994 expansion
and indicates the toxicity criteria that were used as the
basis for including the chemical on the list.
- Table 2 provides detailed
acute toxicity data.
- Table 3 provides
chronic (non-cancer) toxicity data.
- Table 4 provides cancer
data by chemical, and
- Table 5 provides environmental
toxicity data.
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