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EPA Lessens TRI Requirements
January 5, 2007 |Estimated reading time: 1 minute
BANNOCKBURN, Ill. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized a legislative decision to lessen the burden of reporting for Toxics Release Inventory (TRI). Qualifying small businesses, those that focus on limiting emissions through recycling, and those that use small amounts of TRI-registered chemicals can use a shorter reporting form, Form A, than in the past.
IPC Association Connecting Electronics Industries contends that EPA increased the burden of TRI reporting through reinterpreting regulations, expanding forms, adding chemicals to the registry, and other methods. TRI, which does not restrict chemical use, requires companies to file annual reports for each chemical used above reporting thresholds. IPC reports that the standard Form R was filed by 2,025 electrical and electronic equipment manufacturing facilities in 2002.
TRI reporting will continue as a requirement for many electronic-manufacturing facilities. However, under the new format, facilities that eliminate bio-accumulative and toxic chemical (PBT) including lead emissions, and recycle and treat 500 or fewer pounds of such chemicals, can use the shorter form for TRI reporting. Businesses not processing PBTs can use simpler reporting forms if annual chemical releases are 2,000 or fewer pounds, within other parameters. IPC influenced this decision through meetings, congressional lobbying, online dialogues, and other engagements with EPA, said Fern Abrams, IPC director of environmental policy, who applauded the decision as a balance of public right-to-know and industry freedom-to-operate.