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Purpose
What is the TRI Explorer?
The TRI Explorer provides access to the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) data to help communities identify facilities and chemical disposal or other release patterns that warrant further study and analysis. Combined with hazard and exposure information, the TRI Explorer can be a valuable tool for risk identification.
Typically between September and December of each year, the data which TRI facilities are legally required to submit to EPA by July is made available in TRI Explorer. Throughout the year, EPA receives revisions and withdrawals by facilities to previous data submissions. Around March of each year this updated data is made available in TRI Explorer.
For information on generating TRI Explorer reports, see the TRI Explorer Background page. For information on the TRI program see http://www.epa.gov/tri/triprogram/whatis.htm.
What are the limitations of TRI Data?
TRI data do have certain limitations. TRI data reflect disposal or other releases and other waste management of chemicals, and not exposures of the public to those chemicals. TRI data alone are not sufficient to determine exposure or to calculate potential adverse effects on human health and the environment. TRI data, in conjunction with other information, can be used as a starting point in evaluating exposures that may result from disposal or other release and other waste management activities which involve toxic chemicals.
More Information
Contacts: Gives the names, addresses, and phone numbers of people in EPA and state environmental agencies to contact about TRI.
General Information: Explains more about the TRI Program and other resources available.
Regulations/Policy/Statute Page: Provides links to TRI regulations, recent chemical petition responses, EPCRA section 313, and the Pollution Prevention Act.
Metadata: Provides basic metadata information.