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Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA)

• http://www.epa.gov/oecaagct/lcra.html
• http://www.epa.gov/osweroe1/content/epcra/

EPCRA Section 313 Toxic Chemical Release Inventory Requirements
http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/waisidx_02/40cfr372_02.html

Pollution Prevention Act of 1990
http://www.epa.gov/oppt/p2home/pubs/p2policy/act1990.htm

See also Tools, Guidance, and Training bullet below for tools to access data.

EPA Preliminary 2010 TRI Dataset
http://www.epa.gov/tri/tridata/preliminarydataset/index.html

EPA’s Basic Plus TRI Dataset 1987-2009
http://www.epa.gov/tri/tridata/current_data/basicplus/index.html

EPA’s Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) Program
http://www.epa.gov/tri/

• Communities for a Better Environment
• Comité Civico del Valle
• Connecticut Coalition for Environmental Justice
• Environmental Warrior Wilma Subra
• Fresno Metro Ministry
• GreenAction for Health and Environmental Justice
• Louisiana Bucket Brigade
• Literacy for Environmental Justice
• Nuestras Raíces
• Oregon Toxics Alliance
• WE ACT for Environmental Justice

National Institute of Health’s Environmental Health TOXMAP
http://toxmap.nlm.nih.gov/toxmap/main/index.jsp

EPA’s 2009 TRI National Analysis
http://www.epa.gov/tri/tridata/tri09/nationalanalysis/index.htm

• West Eugene Industrial Corridor Environmental Health Project
• The Air is Always Cleaner on the Other Side: Race, Space, and Ambient Air Toxics Exposures in California
• Measuring Corporate Environmental Justice Performance

Tools for Accessing Data

EPA’s TRI Information Center
Publicly accessible service that provides up-to-date information on TRI and other EPA programs
http://www.epa.gov/superfund/contacts/infocenter/

EPA’s TRI NET
Application which helps to perform complex queries to help the user better understand TRI information.
http://www.epa.gov/tri/tridotnet/

EPA’s EnviroFacts
One stop source for environmental information including TRI.
http://www.epa.gov/enviro/index.html

TRI Explorer
 http://iaspub.epa.gov/triexplorer/tri_release.chemical

TRI Comparative Analysis Tool
compare records from the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) with those from the Air Facility System (AFS)
http://www.epa-echo.gov/echo/tricomparative/

TRI-CHIP (Chemical Hazard Information Profile)
Search a single or set of chemicals plus search TRI chemical category of interest.
http://www.epa.gov/tri/tri-chip/index.html

myRight-to-Know
mobile phone application
http://www.epa.gov/tri/myrtk/index.htm

Training:

EPA’s TRI Training Module Basic Concepts (part 1)

http://www.epa.gov/tri/training/2011/EPA-RY10-Basic/index.html

EPA’s TRI Training Module Advanced Concepts (part 2)
http://www.epa.gov/tri/training/2011/EPA-RY10-Advanced/index.html

• BP Oil Spill Environmental Justice Grant Opportunity
• EJView Mapping Tool Now Available
• Toxic 100 Names Top Corporate Air Polluters; Includes Environmental Justice Report Cards
• ECOS Awards Three Grants Under TRI Cooperative Agreement with EPA