 Today, EPA finalized a rule to add natural gas processing facilities to the scope of the industrial sectors covered by the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI). This rule will provide communities with important information about how toxic chemicals are being managed by nearby facilities. This information can be especially important to fence line communities, where releases to water, air, or land could be of a greater impact. In total, there are approximately 1.4 million people living within three miles of at least one of the 482 NGP facilities identified, including communities where there are potential EJ considerations. Natural gas processing facilities receive gas from off-site wells, and then further process the gas to meet industrial or pipeline specifications and extract heavier liquid hydrocarbons from the prepared field natural gas. Prior to this rule, natural gas processing facilities that primarily recover sulfur from natural gas were already covered under TRI. This rule expands such coverage to include all facilities that process natural gas. These facilities collectively deal with=E2=80-at least 21 TRI-listed chemicals, and EPA estimates that at least 321 natural gas processing facilities in the United States and its territories would meet the TRI reporting thresholds for at least one of these chemicals. Natural gas processing facilities should begin tracking their releases and other waste management quantities in January 2022 and will submit TRI data beginning in 2023. | 
