Notice outlines changes in reporting requirements with respect to substances on the NPRI for 2020 and 2021

This notice sets out the requirements for reporting to the National Pollutant Release Inventory (NPRI) for two individual calendar years - 2020 and 2021. Information for the 2020 calendar year must be submitted by June 1, 2021. Information for the 2021 calendar year must be submitted by June 1, 2022. Changes to reporting requirements, summarized below, are in effect as of the 2020 and 2021 calendar years.

 Changes in effect as of the 2020 calendar year

• Deletion of substances: Two substances have been deleted from the Part 1, Group A, list: C.I. Disperse Yellow 3 (CAS RN 2832-40-8); and Decabromodiphenyl oxide (CAS RN 1163-19-5). Three substances have been deleted from the Part 5 list: Adipic acid (CAS RN 124-04-9); Heavy alkylate naphtha (CAS RN 64741-65-7); and White mineral oil (CAS RN 8042-47-5).
• Change to previously listed substance: All isomers of propylene glycol methyl ether acetate (CAS RN 108-65-6) must now be reported.
• Addition of substances: One substance has been added to the Part 1, Group A list: Naphthenic acid fraction compounds and their salts (no specific CAS RN applies). Three substances have been added to the Part 1, Group B, list: 2-Propanone, reaction products with diphenylamine, also known as PREPOD (CAS RN 68412-48-6); 1,4-Benzenediamine, N,N'-mixed phenyl and tolyl derivatives, also known as BENPAT (CAS RN 68953-84-4); and Azo disperse dyes (27 CAS RNs apply).
• Changes to the requirements for reporting Part 3 substances: Facilities that produce iron ore pellets using an induration furnace are now required to report for: dioxins, furans and hexachlorobenzene. In addition, the toxic equivalency factors for five dioxin and furan congeners have been updated.

 Changes in effect as of the 2021 calendar year

• Pollution prevention information: Beginning with the 2021 calendar year, facilities will be required to link their pollution prevention activities to specific substances. 

Changes planned for the 2022 calendar year

Environment and Climate Change Canada intends to make changes to the reporting requirements for Part 4 and 5 substances beginning with the 2022 calendar year, including, among other changes:

• requiring reporting from more individual stacks by lowering the stack height threshold and increasing the stack air release thresholds;
• requiring stack or point releases of criteria air contaminants and speciated volatile organic compounds to be reported separately by combustion and non-combustion sources; and
• requiring the fuel type(s) associated with combustion releases to be reported.

More information on these changes can visit the NPRI website or contact the NPRI at:
ec.inrp-npri.ec@canada.ca.

Access the Gazette Notice at: http://gazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p1/2020/2020-02-15/html/sup1-eng.html

Canadian Water and Wastewater Association