Revised Policy for Amending Form R and Form A Submissions; Toxic Chemical Release Inventory Reporting; Community Right-to-Know

EPA is making a minor administrative change to the Agency's management of data submitted each year to EPA under the Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) reporting program pursuant to section 313 of the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA) and section 6607 of the Pollution Prevention Act (PPA) of 1990. Specifically, EPA is revising the period during which the Agency will accept voluntary revisions to Form R and Form A submissions each year for inclusion in the annual data release for that year. Facilities must now submit voluntary revisions to their Form R and Form A submissions to EPA within 30 days of the reporting deadline each year. The statutory annual reporting deadline is July 1. Therefore, revisions received after July 31 of each year, will not be included in the annual release of the TRI data for that year. EPA will, however, continue to accept these revisions for inclusion in the TRI data base. This administrative change in the annual revisions deadline is necessary to ensure that the data can be set, or locked by a date certain, thereby allowing the Agency to complete the preparation of the annual release of the TRI data in a timely fashion.