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Due annually by July 1st to EPA and AERC

 

Section 313: Facilities that use or produce toxic chemicals above specific thresholds are required to submit a Toxics Release Inventory (TRI). The TRI are used to inform the public and government officials of on-site and off-site releases, off-site transfers, and other waste management activities at each facility. Toxic release inventories must be sent to the USEPA by using TRI-MEweb. The AERC encourages the use of the TRI-MEweb software available on the EPA’s Website to complete and submit this information by July 1 annually for the previous reporting year.

Copied from: https://www.epa.gov/toxics-release-inventory-tri-program/basics-tri-reporting

 

Reporting Criteria



Facilities that meet the three reporting criteria above must:
 

  • Submit a TRI Form R by using TRI-MEweb for each TRI-listed chemical a facility manufactures, processes, or otherwise uses in quantities above the reporting threshold.

TRI Forms are required to be submitted annually to both EPA and the state in which the facility is located (or to the appropriate tribe, if located in Indian country).

  • Submittal through TRI-MEweb fulfills both the EPA and Alabama’s TRI reporting obligations.
  • If a facility submitted successfully through the TRI-MEweb there is no need to mail or e-mail ADEM a copy.

Note:

  • Federal facilities are required to report if they meet the employee and chemical use thresholds regardless of their industry sector.
  • Persistent, Bioaccumulative, Toxic chemicals (PBTs) have lower reporting thresholds.
  • Facilities may be eligible to submit a shorter version of a TRI form (Form A) if all three of these criteria are met:
  1. The chemical being reported is NOT a PBT chemical;
  2. The chemical has not been manufactured, processed, or otherwise used in excess of 1,000,000 lbs.; and
  3. The total annual waste management (i.e., recycling, energy recovery, treatment, and disposal or other releases) of the chemical does not exceed 500 lbs