Notification: administrative changes to requirements for reporting to the National Pollutant Release Inventory for 2022

This page provides a notification for six changes to National Pollutant Release Inventory (NPRI) reporting requirements. The following changes took effect as of the 2022 reporting requirements:

• require reporting facilities to provide a reason when reporting a substance for the first time
• require reporting facilities to indicate any applicable provincial permit numbers and provincial facility identification numbers
• add “remote quantification” to the list of estimation methods that facilities can use for the purposes of reporting to the NPRI
• change the description, in the list of activities that are excluded from reporting, from “research or testing” to “research or development”
• change the name of three categories of releases to air
• change the duration of the NPRI Canada Gazette Notice from  two years  to three years starting with the 2022 to 2024 NPRI Notice

To obtain the full notifications, please contact the NPRI.