Tier 2 Chemical Inventory

Under the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA), a federal law, the Utah Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) receives, processes and manages hazardous chemical information and notices, and its Division of Environmental Response and Remediation (DERR) keeps the database. Facilities whose hazardous chemicals reach certain amounts file a Tier 2 report each year, due by March 1 for the chemicals on site in the year before. The report goes to the State Emergency Response Commission (SERC) through DEQ's portal, and separately to the Local Emergency Planning Committee and the fire department.

In a Phase I ESA

ASTM E1527-21 does not name Tier 2 reports among its standard record sources. A Tier 2 record shows what a facility stored, not that anything was released.

Four Utah details shape how to read one.

• Small amounts are not reported. DERR's page says EPCRA Section 312 applies to facilities that must keep a Safety Data Sheet for a hazardous chemical under OSHA's Hazard Communication Standard, and that a report is due at 10,000 pounds of a hazardous chemical, or at 500 pounds or the threshold planning quantity of an extremely hazardous substance, whichever is lower. A retail gas station's thresholds are 75,000 gallons of gasoline and 100,000 gallons of diesel, where the tanks were entirely underground and met the UST requirements all year. A facility with no report may still have stored chemicals below those amounts.
• No added Utah rules. DERR says Utah currently has no Tier 2 requirements beyond the federal ones in 40 CFR Part 370, and currently charges no filing fee.
• One number per place. Each facility has a Utah Tier 2 ID number, written UT followed by six digits, tied to an address or latitude and longitude. DERR says the number stays the same through changes of owner or name, so search by it to follow a site across owners.
• Owners report their own months. When a facility changes hands during a year, DERR says each owner or operator reports the chemicals on site while it owned and ran the facility. A facility that closes sends the Tier 2 Coordinator a letter with its name, address, ID number and the date it closed or the chemicals were removed. Ask whether the file holds that letter.

Where to look a site up

• DERR's Search Tier 2 facilities, which DERR calls a GRAMA Search; it can be searched by Tier 2 ID number. DERR's answers to filers say a filer can download its own report as a PDF, Word or Excel file from the Tier 2 Submission Portal's GRAMA Search option.
• The Tier 2 Coordinator's mailbox is eqderrtier2@utah.gov.

Getting the file

For reports not found in the search, DERR takes records requests on DEQ's GRAMA request form at errgrama@utah.gov or (801) 536-4157. The routes are on the GRAMA requests page.

Sources

Utah Department of Environmental Quality pages, read October 13, 2026:

• Tier 2 Chemical Inventory Submission, last modified May 15, 2026.
• Site Assessment and Environmental Response Program, last modified July 2, 2026.
• Environmental Quality Records Request (GRAMA), last modified April 21, 2026.