Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) Program
Guidance Documents
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General Guidance
- Reporting Forms & Instructions
- Frequent Questions
- Revised 1998 EPCRA Section 313 Questions and Answers (PDF) (306pp, 4.3MB)
- Addendum to 1998 Q&A Document (PDF) (63pp, 609K)
- EPCRA Section 313 Questions and Answers Addendum for Federal Facilities (PDF) (79pp, 315K)
Title III List of Lists (PDF) (July 2011)(98pp, 4.69MB)
- Clearinghouse for Inventories and Emission Factors (CHIEF)
- Emissions Factors / AP-42
- WebFIRE
- Emissions Factors Software & Tools
- Locating & Estimating Documents
- Waste Management Activities: Recycling, Combustion for Energy Recovery, Treatment for Destruction, Waste Stabilization and Release (PDF) (19pp, 39K)
Industry-Specific / Process Specific Guidance
- Electricity Generating Facilities (PDF) (148 pp, 428K)
- Metal Mining Facilities (PDF) (112 pp, 657K)
- Summary of and EPA's Response to the National Mining Association (NMA) Lawsuit (PDF) (146 pp, 462K)
- Summary and Qs & As of EPA's Analysis of the Decision in the Barrick Goldstrike Mines Lawsuit
- Coal Mining Facilities (PDF) (146 pp, 462K)
- Presswood and Laminated Products Industry (PDF) (164 pp, 1.4MB)
- RCRA Subtitle C TSD Facilities and Solvent Recovery Facilities (PDF) (134 pp, 709K)
- Food Processors (PDF) (160 pp, 1.6MB)
- Spray Application and Electrodeposition of Organic Coatings (PDF) (173pp, 1.3MB)
- EPCRA Section 313 Industry Guidance: Chemical Distribution Facilities (PDF) (108 pp, 676K)
- Look-up Tables for Estimating Toxic Release Inventory Air Emissions from Chemical Distribution Facilities (PDF) (78 pp, 613K)
- Rubber and Plastics Manufacturing (PDF) (208pp, 1.0MB)
- Printing, Publishing, and Packaging Industry (PDF) (162pp, 1.9MB)
- Textile Processing Industry (PDF) (165 pp, 2.5MB)
- Leather Tanning and Finishing Industry (PDF) (179pp, 4.96MB)
- Semiconductor Industry (PDF) (187 pp, 2.0MB)
- Petroleum Terminals and Bulk Storage Facilities (PDF) (109 pp, 306K)
Chemical-Specific Guidance
- Lead and Lead Compounds (PDF) (216 pp, 523K)
- Mercury and Mercury Compounds (PDF) (49 pp,97K)
- Polycyclic aromatic compounds (PACs) (PDF) (40pp, 74K)
- Pesticides and Other Persistent Bioaccumulative Toxic (PBT) Chemicals (PDF) (33 pp, 174K)
- Dioxin and Dioxin-like Compounds Category (PDF) (78pp, 180K) The default emission factors in the dioxin and dioxin-like compounds category guidance document were developed from three primary references:
- EPA's Dioxin Environmental Assessment
- An Inventory of Sources of Dioxin-Like Compounds in the United States
- Estimating Exposure to Dioxin-Like Compounds; Volume 2: Sources of Dioxin-Like Compounds in the United States (PDF) (23 pp, 172K)
- Aqueous Ammonia (PDF) (17 pp, 42K)
- Nitrate compounds (PDF) (15 pp, 35K)
- Hydrochloric acid aerosols (PDF) (31pp, 254K)
- Sulfuric acid aerosols (PDF) (21pp, 96K)
- Certain glycol ethers (PDF) (209pp, 462K)
- Chlorophenols (November 2005 update) (PDF) (6pp, 24K)
- List of Toxic Chemicals within Ethylenebisdithiocarbamic Acid, Salts and Esters Category and List of Mixtures that Contain the Individually listed Chemicals Maneb, Metiram, Nabam, and Zineb (PDF) (43pp, 299K)
- Nicotine and salts (PDF) (15pp, 66K)
- Polychlorinated alkanes (PDF) (14pp, 38K)
- Strychnine and salts (PDF) (18pp, 81K)
- Warfarin and salts (PDF) (6pp, 21K)