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  1. 1. General Guidance

    1. Reporting Forms & Instructions
    2. Frequent Questions
    3. Questions & Answers
      1. Revised 1998 EPCRA Section 313 Questions and Answers (PDF) (December 1998) (306 pp, 4.3MB, About PDF)
      2. Addendum to 1998 Q&A Document (PDF) (December 2004) (63 pp, 609K, About PDF)
      3. EPCRA Section 313 Questions and Answers Addendum for Federal Facilities - Revised 1999 Version (PDF) (May 2000) (79 pp, 315K, About PDF)
    4. Title III List of Lists (PDF) (November 1998 Revision) (105 pp, 587K, About PDF)
    5. CHIEF (Clearinghouse for Inventories and Emission Factors)
      1. Emissions Factors / AP-42
      2. WebFIRE
      3. Emissions Factors Software & Tools
      4. Locating & Estimating Documents
    6. Waste Management Activities: Recycling, Combustion for Energy Recovery, Treatment for Destruction, Waste Stabilization and Release (PDF) (August 1999 Revision) (19 pp, 39K, About PDF)
    7. EPCRA Section 313 Release Reporting Requirements "blue brochure" (PDF) (February 2001 Revision) (32 pp, 614K, About PDF)

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    2. Industry Specific / Process Specific Guidance

    1. Electricity Generating Facilities (PDF) (February 2000) (148 pp, 428K, About PDF)
      1. ERRATA Sheets for certain industry specific guidance documents (PDF) (2 pp, 19K, About PDF)
    2. EPCRA Section 313 Industry Guidance: Metal Mining Facilities (PDF) (January 1999) (112 pp, 657K, About PDF)
      1. Summary of and EPA's Response to the National Mining Association (NMA) Lawsuit (PDF) (146 pp, 462K, About PDF)
      2. Summary and Qs & As of EPA's Analysis of the Decision in the Barrick Goldstrike Mines Lawsuit
    3. Coal Mining Facilities (PDF) (February 2000) (146 pp, 462K, About PDF)
      1. ERRATA Sheets for certain industry specific guidance documents (PDF) (2 pp, 19K, About PDF)
    4. Presswood and Laminated Products Industry (PDF) (August 2001) (164 pp, 1.4MB, About PDF)
    5. EPCRA Section 313 Industry Guidance: RCRA Subtitle C TSD Facilities and Solvent Recovery Facilities (PDF) (January 1999) (134 pp, 709K, About PDF)
    6. Food Processors (PDF) (September 1998) (160 pp, 1.6MB, About PDF)
    7. Spray Application and Electrodeposition of Organic Coatings (PDF) (December 1998) (173 pp, 1.3MB, About PDF)
    8. EPCRA Section 313 Industry Guidance: Chemical Distribution Facilities (PDF) (January 1999) (108 pp, 676K, About PDF)
      1. The National Association of Chemical Distributors developed Tables for Estimating TRI Air Emissions from Chemicals Distribution Facilities which was peer reviewed by EPA. (PDF) (78 pp, 613K, About PDF) This document provides an estimate of air releases (fugitive and stack) ONLY for selected listed toxic chemicals (11 chemicals in glycol ether category, and 43 listed chemicals) to assist establishments and facilities in standard industrial classification code 5169.
    9. Rubber and Plastics Manufacturing (PDF) (August 10, 2000) (208 pp, 1.0MB, About PDF)
    10. Printing, Publishing, and Packaging Industry (PDF) (June 2000) (162 pp, 1.9MB, About PDF)
    11. Textile Processing Industry (PDF) (June 2000) (165 pp, 2.5MB, About PDF)
    12. Leather Tanning and Finishing Industry (PDF) (April 2000) (179 pp, 4.96MB, About PDF)
    13. Semiconductor Industry (PDF) (July 1999) (187 pp, 2.0MB, About PDF)
    14. Petroleum Terminals and Bulk Storage Facilities (PDF) (February 2000) (109 pp, 306K, About PDF)
      1. ERRATA Sheets for certain industry specific guidance documents (PDF) (2 pp, 19K, About PDF)

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    3. Chemical Specific Guidance

    1. Lead and Lead Compounds: Guidance for Reporting Releases and Other Waste Management Quantities of Toxic Chemicals: Lead and Lead Compounds (PDF) (December 2001) (216 pp, 523K, About PDF)
    2. Mercury and Mercury Compounds (PDF) (August 2001) (49 pp, 97K, About PDF)
    3. Polycyclic aromatic compounds (PACs) (PDF) (August 2001) (40 pp, 74K, About PDF)
    4. Pesticides and Other Persistent Bioaccumulative Toxic (PBT) Chemicals (PDF) (August 2001) (33 pp, 174K, About PDF)
    5. Dioxin and Dioxin-like Compounds Category (December 2000) (78 pp, 180K, About PDF) The default emission factors in the dioxin and dioxin-like compounds category guidance document were developed from three primary references:
      1. EPA's Database of Sources of Environmental Releases of Dioxin-Like Compounds in the United States, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Center for Environmental Assessment, Office of Research and Development, Washington, DC 20460, EPA/600/P-98/002B, September, 2000.
      2. The Inventory of Sources of Dioxin in the United States, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Center for Environmental Assessment, Office of Research and Development, Washington, DC 20460, EPA/600/P-98/002Aa.
      3. Estimating Exposure to Dioxin-Like Compounds; Volume 2: Sources of Dioxin-Like Compounds in the United States (PDF) EPA/600/)-00/001, Draft Final, September, 2000 (23 pp, 172K, About PDF)
    6. Aqueous Ammonia (PDF)(December 2000) (17 pp, 42K, About PDF)
    7. Nitrate compounds (PDF) (December 2000) (15 pp, 35K, About PDF)
    8. Hydrochloric acid aerosols (PDF) (December 1999) (31pp, 254K, About PDF)
    9. Sulfuric acid aerosols (PDF) (March 3, 1998 Revision) (21pp, 96K, About PDF)
    10. Certain glycol ethers (PDF) (December 2000) (209pp, 462K, About PDF)
    11. Chlorophenols (June 1999) (PDF) (6pp, 24K, About PDF)
    12. EBDC (Ethylenebisdithiocarbamic Acid, Salts and Esters Category and List of Mixtures that Contain the Individually listed Chemicals Maneb, Metiram, Nabam, and Zineb) (PDF)(September 2001) (43pp, 299K, About PDF)
    13. Nicotine and salts (PDF) (June 1999) (15pp, 66K, About PDF)
    14. Polychlorinated alkanes (PDF) (June 1999) (14pp, 38K, About PDF)
    15. Strychnine and salts (PDF) (June 1999) (18pp, 81K, About PDF)
    16. Warfarin and salts (PDF) (June 1999) (6pp, 21K, About PDF)

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