EPA proposes adding 12 chemicals to the TRI

Written By: Atanu Das on Tuesday, November 9, 2021

On October 18th, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a notice of a proposed rule that may add 12 chemicals to the Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) list. A public comment period is open until December 17, 2021. In 2014, the Toxics Use Reduction Institute (TURI) filed a petition with the EPA under the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA). The original petition listed 25 chemicals and the EPA evaluated available data and proposed a rule adding 12 of the 25 chemicals to the TRI. The original petition listed 25 chemicals can be found on the notice. EPA believes that one chemical should be classified as a
persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic (PBT) chemical and designated as a chemical of special concern with a 100-pound reporting threshold.

The 12 chemicals that are listed on the proposed rule:

• Dibutyltin dichloride; 683-18-1
• 1,3-Dichloro-2-propanol; 96-23-1
• Formamide; 75-12-7
  
• 1,3,4,6,7,8-Hexahydro-4,6,6,7,8,8-hexamethylcyclopenta[g]-2-benzopyran; 1222-05-5
  
• N-Hydroxyethylethylenediamine; 111-41-1
  
• Nitrilotriacetic acid trisodium salt; 5064-31-3
  
• p-(1,1,3,3-Tetramethylbutyl)phenol; 140-66-9
  
• 1,2,3-Trichlorobenzene; 87-61-6
  
• Triglycidyl isocyanurate; 2451-62-9
  
• Tris(2-chloroethyl) phosphate; 115-96-8
  
• Tris(1,3-dichloro-2-propyl) phosphate; 13674-87-8
  
• Tris(dimethylphenol) phosphate; 25155-23-1