Regulacje i polityka gospodarcza · 01/10/1996

Addition of Reporting Elements; Toxic Chemical Release Reporting; Community Right-to-Know

EPA intends to expand its Community Right-to-Know initiatives to increase the information available to the public on chemical use. This Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking is intended to give notice of EPA's consideration of this issue and to solicit comments on all aspects of chemical use and the collection of chemical use data and is an initial step in the regulatory development process. In the context of this action, EPA is considering all potential components of ``chemical use.'' For the purposes of this Notice, the term ``chemical use'' refers to the information most commonly described as materials accounting data: amounts of a toxic chemical coming into a facility, amounts transformed into products and wastes, and the resulting amounts leaving the facility site. EPA believes that the collection of additional chemical use information beyond that already provided by the Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) data base would provide a more detailed and comprehensive picture to the public about environmental performance and about toxic chemicals in communities. TRI is the data base in which information collected under section 313 of the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act