OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
      Memorandum Report

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Report Contributors:             Anthony Chixigotis
                                 Linda Fuller
                                 Ira Brass
Abbreviations

EPA         Environmental Protection Agency

OEI         Office of Environmental Information

OIG         Office of Inspector General

POTW       Publicly Owned Treatment Works

TRI         Toxics Release Inventory

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                        UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
                                      WASHINGTON, D.C. 20460
                                                                               OFFICE OF
                                                                            INSPECTOR GENERAL
                                      February 2,2004

MEMORANDUM

SUBJECT:    EPA Should Take Steps to Improve Industrial Reporting to the
              Toxics Release Inventory System
              Report No. 2004-P-00004
FROM:       DanEngelberg/s/
              Director of Program Evaluation, Water Issues
              Office of Program Evaluation (2460T)

TO:          Kim T. Nelson
              Assistant Administrator
              Office of Environmental Information (2810A)
This is our final report on the subject evaluation conducted by the Office of Inspector General (OIG) of
Hie U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).  This evaluation report contains findings fliat
describe the problems the OIG has identified and corrective actions the OIG recommends. This   ,
evaluation report represents the opinion of the OIG and the findings contained in this report do not
necessarily represent the final EPA position. Final  determinations on matters in this evaluation report
will be made by EPA managers in accordance with established audit resolution procedures.

While conducting a review of the EPA's pretreatment program, the OIG identified errors in industrial
user reporting, hi some cases, these errors overstated the amount of pollutants reported as being
transferred to wastewater treatment facilities, with a dramatic impact on overall national results.
Additionally, EPA's Toxics Release inventory (TRI) Explorer database had not specifically identified
metals transferred to wastewater treatment facilities, to better show that these pollutants of concern are
being received by the facilities and eventually being discharged to tie receiving waters.  According to
EPA, Federal, State, and local governments have used TRI to set priorities, measure progress, and
target areas of special and immediate concern.  Also, the public has used the TRI data to understand
their local environment and to participate in debates of concern. Therefore, it is important to have
accurate and clearly described data for use by both the public and government agencies.

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The overall purpose of our review, which is still ongoing, is to determine how effective the pretreatment
program has been in reducing the transfer of industrial pollutants to wastewater treatment facilities (also
referred to as publicly owned treatment works, or POTWs). As part of this review, we have used
EPA's TRI database system to develop national trends in Ihe transfer of pollutants to POTWs.  An
additional report on our review of the pretreatment program is planned, with recommendations to be
directed to the Office of Water.  Details on background, as well as our scope and methodology, are in
Appendix A.

We are issuing this separate report to offer recommendations to assist your staff in preventing further
errors of the type identified in this report. We also wish to document these errors for others who may
be using the TRI database.  EPA's Office of Water, which planned to use TRI as one of its data
sources in developing a new plan for effluent guidelines, has already  contacted us to discuss the scope
of our work.  Because we did not conduct an audit of the TRI system, we cannot express an opinion on
the overall reliability of TRI  data quality.

The Office of Environmental Information's (OEI's) Director of the Office of Information Analysis and
Access responded to our draft report on December 17,2003. The Director said action will be taken
to obtain corrected data from the cited companies. Additionally, a column identifying metals transferred
to POTWs was added to Ihe TRI Explorer database in November 2003. OEI's response to the issues
and recommendations in our draft, as well as our comments on that response, are contained in this
report. An exit conference was held on January 13,2004.

Action Required
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In accordance with EPA Manual 2750, you are required to provide a written response to this report
within 90 calendar days of the date of this report You should include a corrective actions plan for
agreed upon actions, including milestone dates. We have no objections to the further release of this
report to the public.  For you convenience, this report will  be available at http://www.epa.gov/oig. In
addition to providing a written copy of your response, please e-mail an electronic version to
Fuller.Linda@epagov.

If you or your staff have any questions, please contact me at (202) 566-0830 or Linda Fuller, Project
Manager, at (617) 918-1485.

Issues

Incorrect Completion of TRI Form R

Seven industrial users incorrectly reported transfers of copper, lead, chromium, and silver to private
recovery or recycling companies as transfers to POTWs.  As a result, reports from EPA database
systems were overstated by 1,165,258 pounds. Six of the seven companies contacted confirmed that
their TRI Form Rs were in error, we could not verify the TRI error with the seventh firm directly.
Nevertheless, the facility, identified as the POTW receiving transfers from the seventh firm on Form R,

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confirmed they are a pretreatment facility that accepts transfers from die seventh firm for treatment and
that they are not a POTW. The Acting Associate Director of EP A's TRI Program Division stated that
"these errors would not necessarily get caught because we have no reason to dispute what the facilities
have reported." As already noted, this office as well as other EPA offices use TRI data for program
analysis, and such errors will affect conclusions.

We documented the transfer to POTWs of six metals that are potentially of concern to all POTWs
(cadmium, chromium, copper, lead, nickel, and zinc); three additional pollutants that all POTWs should
presume to be of concern (arsenic, mercury, and silver); and a conventional pollutant (ammonia).  EPA
identified metals as pollutants of concern because they are often found in POTW sludge and effluent,
while ammonia was included because of its large amounts of loading to POTWs and the potential
environmental affects when in excess. For the period 1991 to 2000, we sampled the years 1991,
1993,1995,1997,1999, and 2000.  We found significant increases overtime and  spikes (one-year
increases) in some of the metals transferred, as seen in the following chart
                         Copper

                         Silver
                          42%

                         126%
Copper

Silver
                                                    9%

                                                   63%
                            :       Spikes in 1999

                         Lead                     850%

                         Chromium              •  167%
Upon further analysis to determine the reason for the increases or spikes, we discovered that the source
documentation had not been correctly completed by seven industrial users.  These users entered the
name of the private recovery or recycling company receiving the waste on line 6.1 of Form R, which is
reserved for POTWs, rafter than line 6.2, which is for transfers to other off-site locations. Appendix B
provides details for each facility.

On June 6,2003, we notified the Directors of the TRI Division and the Toxics and Pesticides
Enforcement Division of the errors made by the first five companies listed in Appendix B. We
subsequently found two other facilities with similar errors, which are also in Appendix B.  The TRI
Division staff advised us that they had contacted the five companies and requested revised Form Rs.
As of October 7,2003, EPA's TRI Data Processing Center had received only one revised Form R
from the facilities, so the system had yet to be completely updated.  In our opinion, it is important to

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promptly correct the TRI database, and the Agency needs to be more aggressive in obtaining corrected
Form Rs. We verified that the companies that received the metals were metals recovery, recycling, or
pretreatment facilities, not POTWs, and followup by TRI Division staff did not dispute this conclusion.

The errors resulted in overstatements of metal transfers to POTWs as seen in the following chart:
Pofiufant
Chromium (1999)
Copper (1999)
Copper (2000)
Lead (1999)
Silver (1999)
Silver (2000)
Total Pounds
Pounds P
tfverstsited
81,092
430,000
492,969
160,000
250
947
1,165,258
V
epeeptage of
Difference
176%
289%
355%
890%
22%
74%

While Ihe number of errors noted was small, they made a significant impact on determining trends in
transfers to POTWs. As an example, the following chart shows a significant increase in copper
transfers to POTWs per the erroneous data when in fact transfers declined.
                     Copper Transfers to POTWs
    700
    600
    500
    400
    300
    200
    100
        1991       1993       1995      1997       1999
                                 Year

                   "•* Corrected errors *** Incorrect data
2000
believe TRI Division staff can also do this to enhance data quality reviews.
Although our work did not
constitute a formal or
comprehensive audit of the
TRI submissions, we were
able to easily note these
errors by simply identifying
significant increases/spikes.
We then determined where
the transfers were going; the
receiving facilities' names
usually indicated whether or
not they were POTWs.
With the assistance of
auditing software to flag
significant changes, we

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Need to Identify Metals/Metal Compounds Transferred to POTWs
TRI Explorer reports did not specifically identify metals/metal compounds transferred to POTWs.
Such a category would be useful to both (1) die public, which is interested in knowing what is being
transferred to its local POTW; and (2) EPA program staff conducting various evaluations. Past limited
funding prevented the development of such a category, according to OEI staff.

Metals 1hat are transferred to POTWs are included in the grand total for "Off-site Releases."
However, this category may also include transfers to non-POTW facilities; there is no column showing
a further breakdown of metals transferred to POTWs. There is a column, 'Transfers to POTWs," on
TRI Waste Transfer: Facility Reports, but metals are not included because they are considered a
release rather than a transfer.  According to EPA's "The Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) and Factors
to Consider When Using TRI Data" guide, metals are not included in transfers to POTWs because they
cannot be destroyed by a POTW; Ihe metals  will be either disposed of in landfills or discharged to
receiving waters.  Therefore, the amounts that industrial users report as transfers to POTWs on TRI
Form R are entered by EPA to Ihe "Off-site Releases" column of its Releases: Facility Reports.

To get a full picture of what pollutants are being transferred to POTWs, we used EPA's Envirofacts
database, which reports metals transferred to POTWs. The information in Envirofacts is obtained from
TRI Form R.  The following chart for one company shows  that Envirofacts reported all the pollutants,
including metals discharged to the local POTW, while TRI  Explorer could not
Transfers of Pollutants from Sheldahl, Inc. to
Northfield, MN POTW, 1987 - 2001
Pollutants Transferred to POTW
^gPA>$-&$tt?»tr*e& $*&&«$* •
Ammonia
Certain Glycol Ethers
Thiourea
Hydrochloric Acid
Sulfuric Acid
Nitric Acid
Nitrate Compounds
Copper Compounds
Lead Compounds
PvButantS TVtfrtsfematf & POTW :
Ammonia
Certain Glycol Ethers
Thiourea
Hydrochloric Acid
Sulfuric Acid
Nitric Acid
Nitrate Compounds


Region 1 's Pretreatment Coordinator commented that he would like to use TRI for pretreatment
studies, but the system did not show metals being transferred to POTWs. On September 10,2003, the
TRI Division Computer Specialist/Database Administrator agreed that an additional column clearly

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showing metal transfers to POTWs was needed, and Ihe Division's staff had previously identified it as a
problem He said "money is the reason it hasn't already been corrected," and anticipated that it would
be fixed in 2003. In responding to our draft, OEI stated that this column was added in November
2003.

Recommendations

We recommend that the Assistant Administrator, Office of Environmental Information:

1.   Provide a schedule showing actions taken and planned, along with milestones for obtaining by July
    2004 corrected TRI Form Rs, for the seven cases identified in our report

2.   Note on web site that the figures in TRI reports using the erroneous data identified in this report are
    subject to change until corrected TRI Form Rs are received.

3.   Determine why the current software did not flag 1he spikes and increases identified by the OIG and
    explain how the software will be enhanced.

4.   Determine whether TRI Form R should be revised to reduce industry completion errors during the
    next Information Collection Renewal period

OEI Comments and OIG Evaluation

OEI agreed that theses types of errors decreased TRI data quality and utility.  While noting that it is the
responsibility of the facilities who file TRI Form Rs to ensure that Ihe information is correct, OEI
identified some examples of compliance assistance provided to facilities to minimize reporting errors.
The full text of OEI's response, including these examples, are in Appendix C.

OEI stated that it cannot correct the TRI database without corrected TRI Form Rs from the
companies. Within the past year, OEI staff said 1hey had called the seven companies and requested
revised Form Rs. As of December 17, 2003, only one company had submitted a revised Form R.
OEI stated that it will try to contact the facilities again to encourage them to correct their reports.

OEI also stated that they do have audit software to identify spikes, etc., for further evaluation, but will
enhance this functionality specifically for facilities that report transfers of metals/metal compounds to
POTWs.  OEI will also try to identify and propose changes to Form R during the next Information
Collection Renewal period.

The OIG has revised Recommendation 1 to acknowledge Ihat OEI cannot change the TRI database
without corrected Form Rs from the seven companies. However, while it is 1he responsibility of the
reporting companies to submit accurate forms, OEI does conduct data quality reviews to ensure that
reported data are accurate and may refer recalcitrant companies to the Office of Enforcement and
Compliance Assurance for enforcement  We now recommend that OEI be more aggressive in

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Mowing its procedure for obtaining accurate data We added another recommendation that OEI note
on its web site that TRI reports using the erroneous data identified in this report are subject to revision.

The OIG concurs with OEI's response to enhance its software to identity the types of errors found in
tins report and to review Form R for revision during the next Information Collection Renewal period

Since issuance of our draft report, the column identifying metals transferred to POTWs has been added
to the TRI Explorer Reports. As a result, we have deleted our recommendation regarding this issue.

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                                                                          Appendix A

              Background,  Scope, and Methodology
Background

The Toxics Chemical Release Inventory System is a database that contains the information submitted
by facilities under Section 313 of foe Emergency Planning Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986. A
facility that is required to report must submit either a Toxics Chemical Release Inventory Form R or, if
the facility did not exceed certain threshold requirements, a Form A for each TRI-listed chemical.
Form R reports basic identifying information on the facility as well as the amounts of toxic chemicals
released and transferred from the facility. Copies of the TRI Forms must be submitted to both the
appropriate State agency and to EPA Headquarters by July 1 of each year for the previous reporting
year. Information from the reporting forms is entered into the Toxics Chemical Release Inventory
System database only by EPA Headquarters, not by State agencies.

Facilities that report to TRI must meet the following three criteria:

    1.  Fit a specific Standard Industrial Classification or other selected industrial category. Federal
       facilities must report to TRI regardless of the classifications.

    2.  Have 10 or more full-time employee equivalents.

    3.  For all but certain persistent bioaccumulative toxic chemicals, manufacture or process more
       than 25,000 pounds or otherwise use more lhan 10,000 pounds of any listed chemical during
       the calendar year.

The TRI list for 2001  included more than 600 chemicals and 30 chemical categories.

Scope and Methodology

During the course of our evaluation of EPA's pretreatment program (June 2002 to October 2003), we
reviewed TRI data to develop national trends in transfer of pollutants to POTWs.  We also obtained
data on selected POTWs wilh industrial users from Regions 2, 5, and 6. We reviewed annual
pretreatment reports prepared by the POTWs, which sometimes identified pollutants being transferred
to the POTWs from influent data

We conducted our review in accordance with Government Auditing Standards, issued by the
Comptroller General of the United States. For our segment on TRI, we gained a basic understanding
of how Ihe system works.  Since TRI was only one source of data we were to use in reaching our
conclusions, an overall data reliability assessment of TRI was not conducted. Data verification was

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limited to specific cases under review. Therefore, we never intended, and do no express, an opinion on
TRI data reliability in general.

The following sections describe how we identified the issues in this report.

Incorrect Completion of TRI Form R

The Computer Specialist/Database Administrator of the TRI Division provided us with a file based on
TRI data contained within Envirofacts from industries identified by their 4-digit Standard Industrial
Classification codes associated with the original industries reporting to TRI.  The. data were limited to
POTW transfer information from these industries, with the exception of fee variable for ''metal
compounds," for the reporting years of 1991 through 2000. This information was used to identify
general trends in industrial transfers of pollutants of concern to POTWs.  A pollutant of concern is a
pollutant that might reasonably be expected to be discharged to the POTW in amounts to pass through
or interfere with the works, contaminate sludge, cause problems in the collection system, or jeopardize
workers.

We prepared spreadsheets of transfers to POTWs for the following 11 pollutants of concern: ammonia,
arsenic, cadmium, chromium, copper, lead, mercury, nickel, selenium, silver, and zinc. Total transfer
amount and subsequent trends for industries identified by their 4-digit Standard Industrial Classification
code were scheduled in 2-year increments. The years selected were 1991,1993,1995,1997,1999,
and 2000.

The spreadsheets identified spikes for chromium, lead, and selenium, and increases for arsenic, copper,
mercury, and silver. For these spikes and increases, we reviewed TRI Form R, Section 6.1,
'Discharges to Publicly Owned Treatment Works (POTWs)," to identify the POTWs receiving the
reported increase. For chromium, lead, copper, and silver, we noted that the names included in
Section 6.1 were not for POTWs but private companies. We then verified that the company receiving
wastes was not a POTW by Internet or by phone calls and e-mails requesting verification. The feet
that we identified errors in these reports cannot be taken as evidence that those are the only errors in
this database.

Need to Identify Metals/Metal Compounds Transferred to POTWs

We noted that metals that were transferred to our selected POTWs as reported in POTW annual
pretreatment reports and EPA's Envirofacts database did not appear in TRI Explorer Waste Transfer
Reports. For criteria, we reviewed EPA's "The Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) and Factors to
Consider When Using TRI Data," and report definitions found at the end of TRI Explorer reports. We
also discussed this issue with the Computer Specialist/Database Administrator of the TRI Division. We
reviewed TRI Explorer Waste Transfer and Release reports and TRI Form Rs prepared by industrial
users.
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                                        Appendix B
  Identification of Industrial Users
Erroneously Completing TRI Form R
*•,.*• *•- ••
TRi Facility iD No.
f "^
Faetiify NUtrte
Year
Metal Reported
Transferred to
POUW
Aniouftt ; -
Reported as \
Tfansfstr&t*
Form R Completion Errors Initially Noted
30318LLDFD1450H
29693STLHDPOBOX
06497BRDGP514SU
75461 CMPBL500NW
76110HYSST3521H

25143CTLYS1580F
02703NGNRD39PER
Allied Foods, LLC,
Atlanta, GA
Ulbrich Precision
Flat Wire,
Westminster, SC
Bridgeport Insulated
Wire Co.,
Stratford, CT
Campbell Soup
Supply Co.,
Paris, TX
Hayes & Stolz Indl.
Mfg. Co., Inc.,
Fort Worth, TX
1999
2000
1999
2000'
2000
1999
1999
Copper
Copper
Copper
Copper
Copper
Lead
Chromium
Additional Form R Completion Errors
Catalyst Refiners,
Nitro, WV
Engineered
Materials Solutions,
Inc., Attleboro, MA
1999
2000
2000
Silver
Silver
Silver
330,000 Ibs.
352,261 Ibs.
100,000 Ibs.
100,000 Ibs.
40,708 Ibs.
160,000 Ibs.
81 ,092 Ibs.

250 Ibs.
250 Ibs.
697 Ibs.
    ' The actual transfers to POTWs in each case was zero.
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                                                                          Appendix C
                OEI's Response to OIG Draft Report
MEMORANDUM

SUBJECT:    Response to Memorandum: 'Toxics Release Inventory System Can Improve Industrial
              User Reporting and Metal Transfers Identification" (Assignment No. 2002-0000933),
              November 17, 2003

FROM:       Elaine G. Stanley, Director
              Office of Information Analysis and Access (2841T)

TO:           DanEngelberg
              Director of Program Evaluation, Water Issues
              Office of Program Evaluation (2460T)
              Office of Inspector General

       Thank'you for your memorandum of November 17, 2003, to Kimberly T. Nelson, Assistant
Administrator, Office of Environmental Information (OEI) regarding concerns about fee quality of the
Toxics Release  Inventory (TRI) data for industries reporting transfers  of metals to publicly owned
treatment works (POTWs). The Assistant Administrator has requested that I respond on her behalf

       Your memorandum describes findings of an audit by the Office of Inspector General (OIG) that
indicate that some facilities make errors in their annual TRI reporting of transfers of certain metals listed
on the TRI list of toxic chemicals. To illustrate these findings, the memorandum specifically describes
an example for  reporting years 1999 and 2000 where seven facilities  incorrectly reported transfers
totaling 1,165,258 pounds of copper, lead, chromium, and silver as sent to POTWs when in fact these
transfers were actually sent to privately owned recovery or recycling companies. As you clearly
pointed out, these types  of reporting errors decrease Ihe quality of TRI data as well as Ihe utility of the
data in making informed decisions. This is important since TRI data are used to identify national trends
in the transfer of toxic substances to POTWs to determine how effective EPA's Pretreatment Program
has been in reducing the transfer of these substances to POTWs.

       I appreciate your concerns. While it is the responsibility of the facilities who file TRI release
reports to make sure that the information contained in the reports is correct EPA's TRI Program has
for many years been proactive in providing compliance assistance to facilities to help minimize reporting
errors and improve the quality of TRI data  Some examples of the TRI Program's compliance
assistance efforts include:
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       •      conducting compliance assistance workshops (held annually throughout the country);

       •      developing materials that provide instructions on how to complete and submit a release
              report;

       •      providing a "hotline," which is designed to provide direct answers to questions posed
              by facilities;

       *      developing facility data profiles to allow facilities tie opportunity to review and correct
              the data they have submitted prior to it being made available to the public;

       •      reviewing submitted Form R release reports (prior to making data available to the
              public) to see if data appear correct, and conducting data quality calls to those facilities
              who appear to have made errors in their reports.

       Your memorandum provides four recommendations for the TRI Program to follow to correct
the reporting error described in your memorandum, and to prevent this error from occurring in the
future. The following are OEI responses to your recommendations:

1.     Correct the TRI database using QIG work as support for the changes.

   Response: EPCRA section 313 (j) requires that the TRI database be based on data submitted to
the Agency under section 313.  It is Ihe TRI Program's long-standing interpretation of section 313(j)
that die TRI database should reflect data as submitted by facilities pursuant to the TRI reporting
requirements. Consistent with this interpretation, the TRI Program does not believe that it should
unilaterally make substantive changes to the database without receipt of a certified revision or
withdrawal from the reporting facility. Changing data in one section of the Form R can cause
discrepancies in other sections. For example, should EPA change an incorrectly designated transfer to
a POTW from Section 6.1 to an Off-Site Transfer in Section 6.2, certain information would be missing
such as the RCRA ID number of the off-site location.  There may also be effects in Section 8 of Ihe
Form R which records source reduction and recycling activities. The TRI Program believes it is better
for the reporting facility to make these corrections through a certified revision.

   Within the past year, the TRI Program staff has called each of the seven facilities about these
errors. Though all the facilities promised to send revised reports to the TRI Program, thus far only one
revised report (from Hayes & Stolz Industrial Manufacturing Co., Inc., Fort Worth, Texas) has been
received. The TRI Program will again try to contact these facilities to encourage them to correct their
reports.  The TRI Program will continue to track the progress of this effort
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2.  Use auditin software to fla  sikes and overall ollutant increases or decreases for further
    Response: The TRI Program currently does perform this evaluation, but will try to enhance this
    functionality specifically for facilities that report transfers of metals/metal compounds to POTWs.
    The TRI Program is continuously evaluating ways to improve their data quality verification process.

    Also, the TRI-Program has recently developed an E-Gov award winning reporting software
product called the Toxics Release Inventory - Made Easy (TRI-ME). TRI-ME is an interactive,
intelligent, user-friendly software tool that guides facilities through the TRI reporting experience. By
leading prospective reporters through a series of logically ordered questions, TRI-ME streamlines the
user's analysis needed to determine if a facility must complete a Form R report or Form A Certification
Statement for a particular chemical.  TRI-ME will check the data for common errors and then prepare
the forms, on paper, or magnetic media format, or electronically over the Internet via the EPA's Central
Data Exchange (CDX) for submission to EPA

3.     Determine whether TRI Form R should be revised to reduce industry completion errors.

       Response: EPA is always considering modifications to the TRI Form R to make completion of
       the form easier and to reduce the likelihood of making reporting errors. As part of the
       Information Collection Request (ICR) renewal process, the Form R is periodically renewed,
       often wilh some modificatioa   EPA and OMB are currently well into the renewal process of
       the current Form R However, for 1he next ICR renewal period, EPA will try to identify and
       propose changes to the Form R that deal wilh preventing the type of error described in the OIG
       memorandum.

       The TRI Program is committed to making the completion of the Form R easier for facilities,
while at the same time improving tie quality of the submitted data Also, as mentioned in the response
above, the TRI-ME software product plays a big role toward achieving these goals.

4.     Add a column to TRI Explorer reports showing metals/metals compound transfers to POTW.

       Response:  TRI Explorer already contains a column for facility-specific, industry-specific, or
       chemical-specific transfer quantities of metal, metal compound, or other listed toxic chemicals
       to POTWs. This information can be sorted on the state, county or zip code geographic level,

       In addition to the TRI Program's activities and responses mentioned above, the TRI Program
will consider implementing the following measures to help prevent the reporting error described in your
memorandum from occurring in the future:
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       *      Make an announcement on the EPA TRI website alerting facilities not to make this type
              of reporting error;

       •      Alert facility representatives who attend TRI training workshops about this type of
              reporting error; and

       •      Contact stakeholders and trade associations, and inform them that this type of error has
              occurred

   Thank you again for your memorandum.  If you need more information, or have
any other questions please contact me at (202) 566-0600, or have your staff contact John
Dombrowski of the TRI Program at (202) 566-0742.
cc: Kimberly T. Nelson, OEI (mail code 281OA)
   JeffWorthington, OE1/OPRO (mail code 2812T)
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                                                                      Appendix D

                               Distribution
Assistant Administrator for Water (4101M)
Assistant Administrator for Research and Development (8101R)
Comptroller (2731 A)
Agency Audit Followup Coordinator (2724A)
Audit Followup Coordinator for Office of Environmental Information (2812T)
Associate Administrator for Congressional and Intergovernmental Relations (1301 A)
Associate Administrator, Office of Public Affairs (1101 A)
Director, Office of Information Analysis and Access (2841T)
Director, Toxics Release Inventory Program Division (2844T)
Inspector General (2410)
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