Complete Tier II Reporting Using the Environmental Module in SMS

Purpose

The Tier II Reference feature provides information and guidance for understanding and complying with Tier II Reporting under EPCRA. The reference content includes Fact Files, Forms, Charts, and How-to Guides. SMS helps maintain required Tier II information and generates supporting documents for each chemical to support online submission of the Tier II Report.

Steps to Follow

Tier II submissions must include: Facility details, Certification by facility owner or operator, Chemical descriptions (including EHS constituents of mixtures), Physical/health hazards, Maximum and average daily amounts on-site, Storage Types, Conditions, and Locations, and Additional information verifying reporting status.

Step 1 — Update Your Location Records

1. Complete the EPA Information Section for each of your Locations. (See the Locations documentation.)
2. Add your Tier II Contacts for each Location. Select the Contact Type, then enter Address and Contact Information for each Contact.

Step 2 — Add Annual Tier II Reporting Information in Your Chemical Product List

Collect the Year, Location, Days on Site, Amounts, and Storage Conditions. This information must be added annually for each hazardous chemical in your Product List. Visit the Import/Export Center for a template for importing your product and Tier II information.

Step 3 — Track Hazardous Chemicals Exceeding Reporting Thresholds

Reporting thresholds are:

• A pure chemical or mixture that does not contain an Extremely Hazardous Substance (EHS): equal to or greater than 10,000 lbs.
• A pure chemical or mixture that does contain an EHS: equal to or greater than 500 lbs OR the Lower TPQ value for the EHS.

Inclusion of chemicals and ingredients is driven by SDSs sourced by J. J. Keller only:

• A pure chemical — any product where the Primary SDS record contains a single ingredient with a max value of 100%. When the volume exceeds the threshold for a single Location, the pure chemical appears in the Tier II grid with its CAS No and the amount reported as a maximum amount range code per EPCRA §370.43.
• A mixture — any product where the Primary SDS record contains multiple ingredients. Weight is calculated by multiplying the ingredient max percent value and the maximum amount for that product. If the aggregate of that ingredient at a single Location exceeds the threshold, each mixture appears in the grid with the amount reported as a maximum amount range code per EPCRA §370.43.

Step 4 — Print Your Tier II Output

1. Filter the list by Location and Year (if necessary).

2. Select the chemicals to output. You can select one-by-one or use the Select All function above the grid.

3. Select Print Report from the Actions panel. The output is in PDF format with a page break between each chemical product. Use this output to support the completion of your online Tier II Report submission.