UNITED STATES POLLUTANT RELEASE AND TRANSFER REGISTER (PRTR) MOVING FORWARD TO MEET THE NEEDS OF THE NATION

摘要

This paper is reported by the US Environmental Protection Agency. It illustrates the history of the PRTR with focusing on how the PRTR has been evolved. The author also describes important issues, including threshold values for reporting in PRTR, on PBT(Persistent .Bio-accumulative, Toxic Chemicals) substances, which have important implication in chemical substances management in the US.