DeKalb County LEPC

Local Emergency Planning Committee

Tier2Submit Software

Attention facilities:  Please download the Tier2Submit2004 program from the EPA's website.  Prior years' versions of Tier2Submit will not work for 2004 reporting.  Thanks.

The EPA has created a comprehensive list of substances that are potentially hazardous if released into the environment. For each substance there is an amount specified. Under EPCRA, if any facility has on hand more than the specified amount of any of these substances, it must submit an annual report to various state and county agencies, including the LEPC. This report can be done on paper, but there is a free program that does the same thing much more efficiently. It's a Windows program called "tier2submit.exe".

This page is intended primarily for those who are responsible for managing a facility which must report the hazardous substances. If you are one of those people, we'd like to show you why it makes sense for you and your people to use this program instead of manually filling out and mailing forms. It helps you, it helps us. So we present ...

Reasons to use Tier2Submit:

• Illinois accepts it.
• DeKalb Co. LEPC accepts it (via floppy, CD or even e–mail to dekalblepc@juno.com).
• A submittal by a facility goes to the State of IL, DeKalb LEPC, or any other agency EXACTLY as it's prepared. The data inputter can't make typos, change information, or miss important information that's on the original submission.
• The program will generate a hard copy if you wish, to keep on file and accompany what goes to the various agencies.
• Tier2Submit has a "validation" feature that will point out omissions in the report before you submit it. If something needs to be changed, it can be done before it's submitted.
• Rather than having a facility fill out a Tier II form, sending it, and the receiving data input person spending time (and possibly making errors) putting it into the computer, WHAT YOU SEND is WHAT GOES IN, in SECONDS!
• A new Tier2Submit software package is developed for each reporting year. Copies of prior year submissions can be copied into the new year, changes made if needed, and sent in. Save yourself a lot of time and effort. And of course that means money.

You can get the Tier2Submit program version customized for Illinois here. Also, if you have questions about Tier II reporting, or Tier2Submit software, you can get them answered at the EPA website.

Note: For reporting year 2003, we noticed that several reporting facilities used the Tier2Submit program, but only submitted the hard copy. Once they complete the Tier2Submit input and validate it, a facility can export the Tier II data into a zip file (named say, xyzchemicalRepYr2003.zip) and send it, along with the hard copy, to the agencies. If only a hardcopy is sent in, much work (and possible errors) will result. So, please send the electronic copy. Again, our chemical database, CAMEO, will quickly import your Tier II report, just as you completed it.

It couldn't be easier!

To show you how simple the entire procedure is, and to help you in setting up your own Tier2Submit, we have prepared a series of pictures. We don't know what kind of Internet connection you have, so we are providing two slightly different ways of looking at these.

If your Internet connection is high–speed — say a T1 line out of your company, a DSL line, or a cable modem — you can load the entire sequence of pictures in one gulp, and scroll through it easily. Here are all the screenshots from a sample submission.

On the other hand, if you have a relatively slow connection, such as a dialup, the following will show you the same sequence of pictures in several smaller pieces, that are individually quicker to load.

If after viewing this you have questions, call the LEPC Information Coordinator, Frank Beierlotzer, at 815–758–5788.

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