On Developing Recommendations for Global Comparability
of PRTR Datasets
Stephen C. DeVito, Ph.D., R.Ph.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Washington, DC
October, 2012
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Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
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• PRTR Task Force developing recommendations for PRTR comparability;
• Intended mainly for emerging and future PRTR systems;
To make their data more comparable with:- one another, and- with older PRTR systems.
The Approach
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• Develop a list of chemicals to be covered;
• Develop a list of sectors to be covered;
• Develop reporting elements, e.g.;• Reporting thresholds;• Quantities to be reported
• onsite releases, offsite releases;• transfers
• Pollution prevention-specific information
The Approach
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Used Five PRTR Systems and Kiev Protocol on PRTRs asa Starting Point:• Australia’s National Pollutant Inventory (NPI);
• Canada’s National Pollutant Release Inventory (NPRI);
• European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (E-PRTR);
• Japan’s Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (JPRTR)
•United States’ Toxics Release Inventory (TRI);
• Kiev Protocol on PRTRs
Progress to Date
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• Developed Long Chemical List;
• Developed Short Chemical List
• Developing Long Reporting Sector List
• Developing Short Reporting Sector List
Next Steps
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• Complete Long Reporting Sector List;
• Complete Short Reporting Sector List;
• Integrate chemical and sector work;
• Begin to develop guidance on global comparability of PRTRs.