State sheet · NY
Tier II reporting requirements in New York
- Deadline
- 1 March, yearly
- Takes our file
- Via E-Plan
- Own thresholds
- No — local rules vary
- Fee
- $25 a site
- Filing route read
- 2026-09-11
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How New York takes it
New York takes it through E-Plan, and E-Plan imports the file we build.
The file we build is the one this state works from.
The filing is due 1 March each year and covers the calendar year before it. Filing with New York closes the state’s side only. Whether your local committee and fire department also get it is up to your county — ask them, and post each a copy if they do not take the electronic filing.
Before you send it — what else New York asks for
New York charges a $25 filing fee per facility. If your site is inside New York City limits, there is a city filing as well as the state one. The city’s Department of Environmental Protection takes the local copy, with its own list, its own fee and a copy for the fire department.
Does New York set its own limits?
New York itself follows the federal thresholds. A city or county inside it may be stricter, and that is decided locally.
Outside the five boroughs the federal thresholds are what applies. Inside them the city’s own list governs, and where the city has not set a quantity for a substance the trigger falls to ten pounds — far below the federal 10,000. Two things catch people out there: you file with the city as well, by 1 March, and you must file an update within thirty days whenever a reported amount goes up by a quarter or more.
The words we read
New York State itself uses the federal Tier II thresholds. The strict rule is New York City’s Community Right-to-Know Law (NYC Administrative Code title 24, ch. 7), read 2026-09-07. § 24-703: “If the commissioner fails to set a specific threshold reporting quantity by March first, nineteen hundred ninety-one, then each of the hazardous substances without a specific threshold reporting quantity shall be reported to the commissioner if ten or more pounds are present at a facility.” § 24-706: a responsible party must file a facility inventory update “if an already reported quantity of a hazardous substance increases by twenty-five percent or more, within thirty days of the occurrence of such event.” NYC DEP’s own Tier II Filing System brochure (nyc.gov/dep/tier2filing, read 2026-09-07): filing is “DUE YEARLY BY MARCH 1ST,” you must register online to get a facility ID, and a hard-copy compliance package costs a $20.00 fee.
NYC Admin. Code §§ 24-703, 24-706 (read 2026-09-07)
Where we read this
- New York State Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services, Tier II reporting, read 2026-09-01: “As of 2014, there is a $25 filing fee per facility”; “For industries located within the city limits of New York City, local Tier II submissions and questions should be sent to DEP”. On who reaches the local two, EPA’s state list carries New York’s own instruction: “By using E-Plan, those required to report will satisfy the Tier II submission to the State. The decision to accept online reporting to LEPCs and fire departments has been left up to each individual jurisdiction.” DHSES’s own page, read 2026-09-11 through the Internet Archive because dhses.ny.gov refused our requests that day: “County Local Emergency Planning Committees (LEPCs) and fire departments will determine whether or not electronic submission is a process that they are willing to accept for compliance with EPCRA Section 312.” The same page links a County LEPC contact list.New York City’s Community Right-to-Know Law (Local Law 26 of 1988) is run by the NYC Department of Environmental Protection. DEP’s Right-to-Know programme page, read 2026-09-11: owners and operators at or above the city’s threshold reporting quantity “must file a Tier II report each year with the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) by March 1”, with copies to the Fire Department and the state commission.E-Plan, User’s Guide, read 2026-09-07: “You can use the Import Tier2 function to import an existing Tier2 Submit export file (ZIP), Tier2 submission file (T2S), or CAMEO export file (ZIP) into your E-Plan account,” and its FAQ has a page for exactly that. So the file we build goes across instead of being retyped; you still complete the fields New York adds and pass E-Plan’s validation before submitting.NYC Department of Environmental Protection, “Local Law 26 — Guidelines for Reporting Chemical Inventory” (nyc.gov/assets/dep), read 2026-10-12: a facility with a hazardous chemical at or over the federal threshold must “Submit a completed Facility Inventory Form (FIF) along with all required documentation i.e. SDS’s, to the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), the NYC DEP Right to Know Program and the NYC Fire Department by March 1st of each year.” Under the city law the inventory goes “to the NYC DEP Right to Know Program and to NYC Fire Department by March 1st of each year”, with a filing fee under § 24-706(d).Checked 2026-09-11
- New York State itself uses the federal Tier II thresholds. The strict rule is New York City’s Community Right-to-Know Law (NYC Administrative Code title 24, ch. 7), read 2026-09-07. § 24-703: “If the commissioner fails to set a specific threshold reporting quantity by March first, nineteen hundred ninety-one, then each of the hazardous substances without a specific threshold reporting quantity shall be reported to the commissioner if ten or more pounds are present at a facility.” § 24-706: a responsible party must file a facility inventory update “if an already reported quantity of a hazardous substance increases by twenty-five percent or more, within thirty days of the occurrence of such event.” NYC DEP’s own Tier II Filing System brochure (nyc.gov/dep/tier2filing, read 2026-09-07): filing is “DUE YEARLY BY MARCH 1ST,” you must register online to get a facility ID, and a hard-copy compliance package costs a $20.00 fee.The state’s own code · NYC Admin. Code §§ 24-703, 24-706 (read 2026-09-07)
- New York’s own Tier II pageWe can be right today and the state can change tomorrow. This link does not go stale.
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