Tier II Regulatory Reporting

Note: This feature requires the Tier II Regulatory Reporting module licensed at your site.

Also Note: When the Tier II module is licensed at any site in the corporation, any site with the Chemical Inventory module automatically has its chemical database (see Viewing and Working with Chemicals) augmented with many new chemicals representing substances referenced in Tier II regulatory reporting. This provides not only a database of reportable substances, but also a method to control the substance names appearing on the "Federal Tier II by Chemical" report (for details, see Tier II Reports > Federal Tier II by Chemical).

For sites operating in the United States, regulatory reporting modules facilitate yearly reporting to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). One of these, the Tier II Regulatory Reporting module, adds tools to Comply Plus that organize and ease the process of identifying chemical substances in need of Tier II reporting and compiling the information needed to complete and submit these reports.

The Tier II Regulatory Reporting module identifies each substance in a local site's inventory that both:

● Is cited by the EPA's SARA (Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act) Section 302 EHS (Extremely Hazardous Substances) list; and

● Has been on site in quantities exceeding the official thresholds, and thus requires the submission of Tier II reports.

The module uses recorded transactions to calculate how much of each regulated product has been on site in the past year. These quantities are derived from both recorded detail transactions (receipts, usages, disposals, and so on) and Tier II summary transactions, specifically:

● Maximum transactions, each indicating the greatest on-hand quantity reached by a product during a period of time.

● Average transactions, each indicating the average on-hand quantity of a product during a period of time.

The Maximum quantities of the products’ ingredients are totalled, and a cited ingredient's quantity requires Tier II reporting if its total breaches the threshold listed for it by the SARA Section 302 EHS list. If the module finds no thresholds have been breached, this confirms no Tier II reporting is required of your facility for this reporting year.

Note: The EPA's SARA Section 302 EHS list is provided as a standard chemical list in Comply Plus. To view the full content of this list, see Administration: Chemical Lists.

See the following topics for more information on the process and tools provided by the Tier II module:

● Annual Tier II Reporting Procedure: Learn the yearly sequence of actions necessary for updating your system data with current standards and inventory information, identifying reportable substances and breaches of thresholds, and generating Tier II reporting data.

● Selecting a Product for Tier II Operations: Use the available searching and filtering features to select a product for Tier II operations focused on an individual product.

● Assigning Tier II Exemptions to Locations: Designate which site locations' inventory quantities are exempt from Tier II reporting.

● Assigning Tier II Exemptions to Products: Designate which products' inventory quantities are exempt from Tier II reporting.

● Assigning Tier II Exemptions to Product Ingredients: Designate specific ingredients in specific products as exempt from Tier II reporting.

● Entering Tier II Maximum and Average Transactions: Fill in any missing inventory quantities by entering Tier II Maximum and Average summary transactions. Each of these summary transactions covers a product's maximum (greatest) or average on-hand quantity during any period of time.

● Assigning SARA Hazards to a Product: Select appropriate SARA hazards for products requiring Tier II reporting. This helps to complete the information required by the reporting agency.

● Assigning Storage Conditions to a Product: Select appropriate storage conditions (pressures, temperatures, and types) for products requiring Tier II reporting. This helps to complete the information required by the reporting agency.

● Completing Tier II State Forms for a Product: Fill in necessary regional data for products requiring Tier II reporting at a regional level. This helps to complete the information required by the reporting agency.