Tri Sheet Metal Exemptions

These exemptions allow for a facility to not consider quantities of toxic chemicals for certain threshold determinations and waste management calculations.

Tri sheet metal exemptions.

In this example only the sheet metal in storage is exempt under section 311 e 2 because it does not create a potential for exposure to a hazardous chemical. Off site transfers for disposal are considered to be a release of the chemical into the environment. The articles exemption states that if a toxic chemical is present in an article at a covered facility that facility is not required to consider the amount of the toxic chemical s contained in the article when calculating reportable quantities of tri listed chemicals. Chromium nickel manganese lead cobalt.

Cutting welding brazing or otherwise altering the form of the sheet metal does create a potential for exposure thus negating the exclusion under section 311 e 2. To learn more about an exemption please click on the exemption title below. If your raw materials contain one or more tri chemicals now you have to determine if you manufacture process or otherwise use any tri chemicals above threshold quantities. Tri reported chemical transfers are sent to off site facilities for energy recovery recycling disposal or treatment.

Tri chemicals and chemical categories con t common metals and metal categories for machining operations. Epa created this very limited exemption to simplify reporting requirements. Once an operation is performed on a metal that causes a release which is not recycled.