Code of Massachusetts Regulations › 310 CMR - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › Title 310 CMR 50.00 - Toxics Use Reduction › Section 50.32 - Reporting Requirements

Current through Register 1525, July 5, 2024
(1) On or before
			 July 1st of each year, toxics users shall submit a
			 toxics use report including information associated with each covered toxic
			 manufactured, processed, or otherwise used at a facility in accordance with
			 310 CMR
			 50.00.
(2)
			 For facilities that consist of more than one establishment, and that
			 manufacture, process, or otherwise use a covered toxic, the toxics user may
			 submit a separate report for each establishment or for each group of
			 establishments, provided that information associated with the manufacturing,
			 processing, or other use of that covered toxic at all the establishments within
			 the facility is reported in accordance with
			 310 CMR
			 50.00, including, without limitation,
			 310
			 CMR 50.20 and
			 310 CMR 50.30.
			 If each establishment or group of establishments files separate reports then
			 for all other covered toxics at that facility they must also submit separate
			 reports.
(3) With respect to
			 activities at a facility involving a covered toxic, when more than one
			 threshold amount applies to the activities, the report shall include
			 information associated with all activities involving that covered toxic at the
			 facility. Such information shall be reported in accordance with 310 CMR 30.50,
			 including, without limitation,
			 310
			 CMR 50.20 and
			 310 CMR
			 50.30.
(4) With respect to metal compounds that are
			 covered toxics, the toxics user need only include in the report information
			 associated with the parent metal, and need not include in the report
			 information associated with other components of the metal compound in the metal
			 compound category.
(5) A senior
			 management official of the facility shall certify the accuracy and completeness
			 of the report by signing a certification statement that accurately identifies
			 the report. Falsification of information in the report, including the
			 certification statement, shall be a violation of
			 310 CMR
			 50.00 for which the Department may take an enforcement
			 action.
(6) A toxics use report
			 shall include information based on the quantity of each covered toxic
			 manufactured, processed, or otherwise used at the facility during the calendar
			 year preceding the date on which the toxics use report is due.
(7) In calculating, measuring, or estimating
			 quantities of a toxic or hazardous substance to be reported pursuant to
			 310 CMR 50.30,
			 toxic users shall report with the maximum accuracy that is feasible and
			 practicable. Toxics users shall report quantities with accuracy to two
			 significant digits.
(8) If a toxics
			 user discovers, after submitting a report, that there is a gross error in any
			 or all of the information contained in the report, the toxics user shall, in
			 writing, so notify the Department within 14 days of the date of discovery. The
			 toxics user shall submit corrections to the report within 30 days of such
			 notification. Nothing in 310 CMR 50.32(8) shall preclude the Department from
			 taking any other appropriate action, including, without limitation, an
			 enforcement action.
(9) The
			 Department may require the toxics user to amend or supplement any report
			 submitted prior to the current reporting year if the toxics user changes any of
			 the following:
(a) the unit of
			 product;
(b) an estimating method
			 used to determine information in the toxics use report if using the new method
			 would significantly alter information in a previously submitted report. Nothing
			 in 310 CMR 50.32(9) shall preclude the Department from taking any other
			 appropriate action, including, without limitation, an enforcement
			 action.