or continue in effect any regulation or any other measure
relating to any substance or mixture or article containing
a substance or mixture, including consumer products.
TITLE 
II—PUBLIC 
RIGHT 
TO
KNOW ABOUT TOXIC CHEM-
ICAL USE
SEC. 201. DISCLOSURE OF TOXIC CHEMICAL USE.
(a) FORM.—(1) Section 313(g)(1)(C) of the Emer-
gency Planning and Community Right-To-Know Act of
1986 (42 U.S.C. 11023(g)(1)(C)) is amended by inserting
at the end the following:
‘‘(v) Number of employees, including contrac-
tors, at the reporting facility; number of employees,
including contractors, at the reporting facility ex-
posed to the chemical; and an estimate of occupa-
tional exposures to the chemical. Within 24 months
after the date of enactment of the Children’s Envi-
ronmental Protection and Right to Know Act of
1999, the Administrator shall promulgate rules re-
garding the information to be provided under this
clause.
‘‘(vi) The following annual materials accounting
information:
‘‘(I) A description of the uses of the chem-
ical at the facility.
‘‘(II) The starting inventory of the chem-
ical at the facility.
‘‘(III) The quantity of the chemical pro-
duced at the facility.
‘‘(IV) The quantity of the chemical
brought into the facility and the mode of trans-
portation.
‘‘(V) The quantity of the chemical con-
sumed at the facility.
‘‘(VI) The quantity of the chemical shipped
out of the facility as or in products and the
quantities intended for industrial use; commer-
cial use; and consumer use; and for additional
categories of use that the Administrator may
designate.
‘‘(VII) The quantity of the chemical enter-
ing any waste stream (or otherwise released
into the environment) prior to recycling, treat-
ment, or disposal.
‘‘(VIII) The ending inventory of the chem-
ical at the facility.
‘‘(IX) The amount of the chemical recycled
at the facility that is subsequently used at the
facility.
‘‘(X) The ‘toxic chemical use’ of the chem-
ical, which shall be calculated by adding the
quantities reported under subclauses (II), (III),
(IV), and (IX) and subtracting the quantity re-
ported under subclause (VIII).
Quantities reported under this clause shall be com-
plete and verifiable by computations under conven-
tional materials accounting practices. If the sum of
the quantities reported under subclauses (II), (III),
(IV), and (IX) does not equal the sum of the quan-
tities reported under subclauses (V), (VI), (VII), and
(VIII), an explanation of the difference shall be pro-
vided.
‘‘(vii) The reduction (from the prior calendar
year) in the quantity of the toxic chemical entering
any waste stream (or otherwise released to the envi-
ronment) prior to recycling, treatment, or disposal
(as reported under section 6607(b)(1) of the Pollu-
tion Prevention Act of 1990), as a result of the fol-
lowing: equipment or technology modifications; proc-
ess or procedure modifications; reformulation or re-
design of products; substitution of raw materials;
and improvements in housekeeping, maintenance,
training, or inventory control.
‘‘(viii) The reduction (from the prior calendar
year) in the quantity of toxic chemical use as defined
in subclause (X) as a result of the following: equip-
ment or technology modifications; process or proce-
dure modifications; reformulation or redesign of
products; substitution of raw materials; and im-
provements in housekeeping, maintenance, training,
or inventory control.’’.
(2) Section 313(g)(1)(C) of such Act is amended by
inserting ‘‘for the preceding calendar year’’ after ‘‘items
of information’’ and by striking ‘‘the preceding calendar
year’’ in clause (ii) and inserting ‘‘the calendar year con-
cerned’’.
(b) OTHER REQUIREMENTS.—The Administrator of
the Environmental Protection Agency shall integrate the
reporting requirements under the Emergency Planning
and Community Right-To-Know Act of 1986 (42 U.S.C.
11001 et seq.), the Pollution Prevention Act of 1990 (42
U.S.C. 12101 et seq.), and this Act.
SEC. 202. DISCLOSURE OF TOXIC CHEMICAL USE BY COM-
PARABLE FACILITIES.
Section 313(b)(1)(B) of the Emergency Planning and
Community Right-To-Know Act of 1986 (42 U.S.C.
11023(b)(1)(B)) is amended as follows:
(1) By striking ‘‘(B) The Administrator’’ and
inserting ‘‘(B)(i) The Administrator’’.
(2) By adding at the end the following:
‘‘(ii) Effective beginning with the 2000 report-
ing year, facilities identified by the Standard Indus-
trial Codes listed in the Federal Register notice at
61 Fed. Reg. 33587–33619 shall be subject to the
requirements of this section.
‘‘(iii) Within 24 months after the date of enact-
ment of this clause, the Administrator shall promul-
gate a final regulation that adds all additional cat-
egories of facilities that used or released toxic chemi-
cals in volumes similar to the uses or releases of fa-
cilities that are covered by this section as of such
date of enactment. This clause shall not apply to
any farm.’’.
SEC. 203. STREAMLINING ENVIRONMENTAL REPORTING
AND PUBLIC ACCESS TO INFORMATION.
(a) STREAMLINED DATA COLLECTION AND DISSEMI-
NATION.—Section 313 of the Emergency Planning and
Community Right-To-Know Act of 1986 (42 U.S.C.
11023) is amended by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(m) STREAMLINED DATA COLLECTION AND DIS-
SEMINATION.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—To enhance public access
and use of information resources, to facilitate com-
pliance with reporting requirements, and to promote
multimedia permitting, reporting, and pollution pre-
vention, the Administrator shall, within 36 months
after the enactment of this subsection, take each of
the following actions:
‘‘(A) Create standard data formats for in-
formation management.
‘‘(B) 
Integrate 
information 
resources,
using common company, facility, industry, geo-
graphic, and chemical identifiers, and other
identifiers as the Administrator deems appro-
priate.
‘‘(C) Establish a system for indexing, lo-
cating, and obtaining agency-held information
about parent companies, facilities, industries,
chemicals, geographic locations, ecological indi-
cators, and the regulatory status of chemicals
and entities subject to agency regulation.
‘‘(D) Consolidate all annual reporting re-
quirements, pursuant to this title and other
Federal environmental laws, for small busi-
nesses. Such consolidated reporting require-
ments shall allow reporting to one point of con-
tact using one form or electronic reporting sys-
tem.
‘‘(E) Provide members of the public one
point of contact for access to all the publicly
available information gathered by the Environ-
mental Protection Agency for any one regulated
entity.
‘‘(2) 
CONSOLIDATION.—The 
Administrator
shall, within 5 years after the enactment of this sub-
section, consolidate all annual reporting pursuant to
this title and other Federal environmental laws for
each entity subject to such reporting. Such consoli-
dated reporting requirements shall allow reporting to
one point of contact using one form or electronic re-
porting system.
‘‘(3) UNDERSTANDABLE
LANGUAGE.—In im-
proving the means by which the Administrator pro-
vides information to the public and requires informa-
tion be reported by regulated entities, as required by
paragraphs (1) and (2), the Administrator shall use
language and methods of communication that the
Administrator believes to be clear and understand-
able.’’.
(b) DISCLOSURE OF USES OF TOXIC CHEMICALS.—
(1) Section 313(a) of the Emergency Planning and Com-
munity Right-To-Know Act of 1986 is amended by strik-
ing ‘‘releases’’ and inserting ‘‘toxic chemical uses and re-
leases’’.
(2) Section 313(h) of the Emergency Planning and
Community Right-To-Know Act of 1986 is amended by
inserting ‘‘the uses of toxic chemicals at covered facilities
and’’ before ‘‘the releases of toxic chemicals to the envi-
ronment’’.
SEC. 204. TRADE SECRET PROTECTION.
Section 322 of the Emergency Planning and Commu-
nity Right-To-Know Act of 1986 is amended as follows:
(1) In subsection (a)(1) by adding the following
at the end thereof:
‘‘(C) Any person required to submit mate-
rials accounting information under section
313(g)(1)(C)(vi) may withhold an element or
portion of such information, as defined in regu-
lations prescribed by the Administrator under
subsection (c) of this section, if the person com-
plies with paragraph (2) with respect to the in-
formation to be withheld. This subparagraph
shall not provide authority to withhold any in-
formation referred to in the Pollution Preven-
tion Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 13101 and fol-
lowing).’’.
(2) Subsection (b)(4) is amended by inserting
‘‘or other information withheld’’ after ‘‘The chemical
identity’’.
(3) Subsection (d)(1) is amended by inserting
‘‘or other information’’ after ‘‘toxic chemical’’.
(4) Subsection (d)(2) is amended by inserting
‘‘or other information withheld’’ after ‘‘specific
chemical identity’’.
(5) Subsection (d)(3)(A) is amended by insert-
ing ‘‘or other information withheld’’ after ‘‘specific
chemical identity’’.
(6) Subsection (d)(3)(B) is amended by insert-
ing ‘‘or other information withheld’’ after ‘‘chemical
identity’’.
(7) Subsection (d)(3)(C) is amended by insert-
ing ‘‘or other information withheld’’ after ‘‘chemical
identity’’ in each place it appears.
(8) Subsection (d)(4)(A) is amended by insert-
ing ‘‘or other information withheld’’ after ‘‘chemical
identity’’.
(9) Subsection (f) is amended by inserting ‘‘or
other information withheld under subsection (a)(1)’’
after ‘‘specific chemical identity’’.
(10) Subsection (h)(1) is amended by inserting
‘‘or other information withheld’’ before ‘‘is claimed
as a’’.
(11) Subsection (h)(2) is amended by inserting
‘‘or other information withheld’’ after ‘‘identity of a
toxic chemical’’.
SEC. 205. CIVIL ACTIONS.
Section 326(a)(1)(A) of the Emergency Planning and
Community Right-To-Know Act of 1986 (42 U.S.C.
11046(a)(1)(A)) is amended by inserting ‘‘any past or on-
going’’ after ‘‘An owner or operator of a facility for’’.
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