On May 10, 2007, the EPA issued a revision to the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) reporting requirements for dioxin and dioxin-like compounds under the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act. Facilities that are required to report under TRI must report the mass quantities for each of the 17 members of the compound categories. The agency has developed a Form R Schedule 1 for reporting purposes. This will allow the EPA to convert the mass quantities into toxic equivalency quantities (TEQs) and more accurately characterize the toxicity of the category. The agency, rather than the facility, is required to do the calculation. The new reporting requirements apply to the TRI reporting year beginning Jan. 1, 2008 for which reports are due July 1, 2009. Visit www.epa.gov/tri/tridata/teq/index.html for more information.

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• www.epa.gov/tri/tridata/teq/index.html