On April 6, 2010, EPA took an important step toward providing communities with additional information about toxic chemicals being released to the environment. The Agency announced that it is proposing to add 16 chemicals to the TRI list of reportable chemicals. The Agency’s proposal is part of its ongoing efforts to examine the scope of TRI chemical coverage and provide communities with more complete information on toxic chemical releases, and is the first TRI program chemical expansion in over a decade.

The chemicals that EPA is proposing to add have been classified as “reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen” by the National Toxicology Program (NTP) in their Report on Carcinogens (RoC) document. Based on a review of the NTP RoC data, EPA believes that these 16 chemicals meet the EPCRA section 313(d)(2)(B)statutory listing criteria because they can reasonably be anticipated to cause cancer in humans. Additionally, four of the chemicals are being proposed for addition to the polycyclic aromatic compounds (PACs) category. The PACs category is a category of special concern, because PACs are persistent, bioaccumulative, toxic (PBT) chemicals, and as such, they are likely to remain in the environment for a very long time, are not readily destroyed, and may build up or accumulate in body

1-Amino-2,4-dibromoanthraquinone

2,2-bis(Bromomethyl)-1,3-propanediol

Furan

Glycido

Isoprene

Methyleugenol

o-Nitroanisole

Nitromethane

Phenolphthalein

Tetrafluoroethylene

Tetranitromethane

Vinyl Fluoride

Additions to the Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds (PACs) category:

1,6-Dinitropyrene1,

8-Dinitropyrene,

6-Nitrochrysene,

4-Nitropyrene