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Toxic Chemical Release Reporting
Food, 4%
Hazardous Waste, 5%
All Others,
10%
Metal Mining, 28%
Electric Utilities, 25%
Primary Metals,
12%
Chemicals, 12%
Paper, 5%
FIGURE 3.1 U.S. TRI releases for 2007 by industry category.
• Basic information identifying the facility, including name, location, type of
business, and name of parent company
• Name and telephone number of a contact person
• Environmental permits held
• Amounts of each listed chemical disposed of or released to the environment
at the facility
• Amounts of each chemical sent from the facility to other locations for
recycling, energy recovery, treatment, or disposal or other release
• Amounts of each chemical recycled, burned for energy recovery, or treated
at the facility
• Maximum amount of chemical present on site at the facility during the year
• Types of activities conducted at the facility involving the toxic chemical
• Source reduction activities
• General information about the manufacture, process, and otherwise use of
the listed chemical at the facility
• Information about methods used to treat waste streams containing the toxic
chemicals at the site and the efficiencies of those treatment methods
• Information regarding the amount of toxic chemicals sent off site for further waste management, facilities, and the destination of these transfers
There are two different reporting forms, Form R and Form A. The simplified
Form A can be used if the chemicals in question are not PBTs and when the amount
manufactured, processed, or otherwise used is less than or equal to 1 million pounds
and the reportable amount is less than or equal to 500 lb/yr.
Toxic Chemical Release Reporting
Food, 4%
Hazardous Waste, 5%
All Others,
10%
Metal Mining, 28%
Electric Utilities, 25%
Primary Metals,
12%
Chemicals, 12%
Paper, 5%
FIGURE 3.1 U.S. TRI releases for 2007 by industry category.
• Basic information identifying the facility, including name, location, type of
business, and name of parent company
• Name and telephone number of a contact person
• Environmental permits held
• Amounts of each listed chemical disposed of or released to the environment
at the facility
• Amounts of each chemical sent from the facility to other locations for
recycling, energy recovery, treatment, or disposal or other release
• Amounts of each chemical recycled, burned for energy recovery, or treated
at the facility
• Maximum amount of chemical present on site at the facility during the year
• Types of activities conducted at the facility involving the toxic chemical
• Source reduction activities
• General information about the manufacture, process, and otherwise use of
the listed chemical at the facility
• Information about methods used to treat waste streams containing the toxic
chemicals at the site and the efficiencies of those treatment methods
• Information regarding the amount of toxic chemicals sent off site for further waste management, facilities, and the destination of these transfers
There are two different reporting forms, Form R and Form A. The simplified
Form A can be used if the chemicals in question are not PBTs and when the amount
manufactured, processed, or otherwise used is less than or equal to 1 million pounds
and the reportable amount is less than or equal to 500 lb/yr.