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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
Questions & Answers Document
Revising and Withdrawing
TRI Data
TRI Assistance Library
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.
- 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.)
- 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.)
- 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)
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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)
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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)
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