Toxic Chemical Release Inventory site Survey Program and Guidance documents

摘要

The united states environmental Protection Agency has implemented a voluntary and confidential site survey program to ocntinually assess and improve the quality of data submitted to the Toxic release inventory database. Between 1995 and 1997, U.S.EPA conducted site visits to 104 facilities in six standard Industrial Classification Codes to review TRI data fro mreporting years 1994 nad 1995. Ten of the site visits were to facilities in SIC Code 26, Paper and Allied Products. This paper summarizes the results of the site surveys. Aggregated data from facilities in each SIC code are compared, and specific errors and issues for the SIC code 26 facilities are identified. Results of the site surveys show that, in general, data reported by the 10 facilities that were visited in SIC Code 26 were more accurate than data in the other SIC codes that were surveyed. U.S.EPA is using the information obtained from the site survey program to update the TRI forms nad Instructions, and several general and industry-speicfic TRI reporting guidance documents.