Staff Urges OPPT Leaders To Maintain TRI Program In Reorganization

摘要

EPA staff is urging leaders of the agency's Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics (OPPT) to maintain the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) program as a distinct unit in the ongoing effort to reorganize OPPT - either by continuing to have a TRI division within OPPT, or making TRI a distinct branch within a new division. "TRI program is a very unique 'right-to-know' program that is continuing to improve data quality and only beginning to find ways to increase the use of the TRI data and subsequent analysis," say written comments from TRI staff to OPPT leaders - obtained by Inside EPA. "TRI staff have been working to support [multiple environmental statutes] and many other program issues - we have not been an insular or isolated program."