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1. Introduction
Pages 9-14

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... New Jersey and several local governments already had enacted or developed right-to-know laws before SARA was passed in 1986. e SARA SECTION 313 Section 313 of Title III under SARA requires industrial manufacturing facilities using toxic chemicals to report release information to EPA.
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From page 10...
... . to inform persons about releases of toxic chemicals to the environment; to assist government agencies, researchers, and other persons in the conduct of research and data gathering; to aid in the development of appropriate regulations, guidelines, and standards; and for other similar purposes.
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From page 11...
... · Engineering calculations and/or judgment based on physical and chemical properties and relationships, such as the ideal gas law. PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY The Senate version of the bill that led to SARA required reporting mass balance information in addition to information submitted by each facility reporting to the TRI.
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... [mass balance information collected by states] , including implications of the use of such collection as part of a national annual quantity toxic chemical release program." The implications of mass balance information collection on a national scale relate not only to the three other purposes mentioned in the charge but also to any other relevant implications of national collection.
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... MA data are usually what is meant by proponents of nationwide collection of industrial "mass balance data." For example, at the workshop organized by the committee, representatives from EPA and various state governments described MA data to be what they meant when referring to mass balance data. An MA approach to collection of mass balance data was also described during the Senate deliberations leading to SARA.
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