December 27, 2004—To better inform communities, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for the first time is releasing facility information about toxic chemical releases as reported to the agency. In the past, this data was received, quality-checked, analyzed, and released in the annual Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) report.
However, many stakeholders have requested that the agency share TRI data sooner and in the basic format received, without waiting for further analysis. In response to these concerns, EPA is launching the first annual electronic release of facility-level TRI data, the Electronic-Facility Data Release (e-FDR).
The data is presented for each facility as received by EPA, one reporting form for each chemical. The traditional Public Data Release, which includes more quality checks, national trends, and analysis, is expected in Spring 2005.
