EPA Publishes Final Rule Adding 12 Chemicals to TRI List

Today, the EPA published a final rule in the Federal Register (87 FR 73475-73488) for “Addition of Certain Chemicals; Community Right-to-Know Toxic Chemical Release Reporting”. The Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) list change is the result of a petition from the Massachusetts Toxics Use Reduction Institute (TURI) to add 25 chemicals to the list.

The chemicals added to the TRI include:

• Dibutyltin dichloride; 683-18-1,

• 1,3-Dichloro-2-propanol; 96-23-1,

• Formamide; 75-12-7,

• 1,3,4,6,7,8-Hexahydro-4,6,6,7,8,8-hexamethylcyclopenta[g]-2-benzopyran; 1222-05-5,

• N-Hydroxyethylethylenediamine; 111-41-1,

• Nitrilotriacetic acid trisodium salt; 5064-31-3,

• p-(1,1,3,3-Tetramethylbutyl)phenol; 140-66-9,

• 1,2,3-Trichlorobenzene; 87-61-6,

• Triglycidyl isocyanurate; 2451-62-9;

• Tris(2-chloroethyl) phosphate; 115-96-8,

• Tris(1,3-dichloro-2-propyl) phosphate; 13674-87-8, and

• Tris(dimethylphenol) phosphate; 25155-23-1.

 

The effective date for this new rule is November 30^th, 2022. It will apply to the reporting year beginning January 1, 2023 (reports are due July 1, 2024).