xvEPA
United States
Environmental Protection
Agency
March 2008
EPA530-F-08-003
www.epa.gov/osw
NPEP Partners  Help EPA Reduce
Priority  Chemicals
         Action
            The Environmental Protection Agency has released its National Priority
         Chemicals Trends Report. The report shows that, between 2002 and August 2007, the
         National Partnership for Environmental Priorities (NPEP) partners have reduced more
         than 3 million pounds of priority chemicals from products and waste. This year's
         report is the first to show progress towards EPA's new Government Performance
         and Results Act (GPRA) goal of reducing 4 million pounds of priority chemicals as
         measured by NPEP partner contributions.
            EPA also uses the Trends Report to identify where priority chemicals are
         generated and managed and how the use of these chemicals has changed over a five-
         year period. The report uses newly available data (data reported between 2001 and
         2005) from the Toxics Release Inventory to analyze 24 of the 31 priority chemicals
         found in industrial wastes. TRI is a publicly available database with information on
         the use, release, and management of more than 650 toxic chemicals within industrial
         and federal facilities.
            The Trends Report assists EPA in identifying opportunities  for encouraging
         industrial and federal facilities to voluntarily reduce their use of priority chemicals in
         products and wastes.
         For More Information
            For a complete listing of findings and an electronic version of the National
         Priority Chemicals Trends Report, please visit us on the web at:
         http ://www. epa. gov/epaoswer/hazwaste/minimize/trends .htm.

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