State sheet · ND
Tier II reporting requirements in North Dakota
- Deadline
- 1 March, yearly
- Takes our file
- No
- Own thresholds
- No — federal
- Fee
- Per chemical, max $950
- Filing route read
- 2026-09-11
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How North Dakota takes it
North Dakota files through its own online system, which the state calls the ND Tier II Reporting System and runs at northdakota.hazconnect.com. We have not found anything from the state saying it imports an EPA Tier2 Submit file — so plan on typing from our worksheet.
This state does not take the file. Our answer works as the worksheet you type from, with the rule behind every number.
The filing is due 1 March each year and covers the calendar year before it. North Dakota does not pass it on for you — we checked. Filing closes the state’s copy only; your local committee and fire department each need their own from you.
Before you send it — what else North Dakota asks for
The fee grows with your list: North Dakota charges per chemical and caps the site at $950, and the money is due by 1 March, the same day as the report. The state’s own 2025 handbook puts the rate at $25 a chemical; the statute no longer fixes that figure, but it does stop the division raising it by more than $5 in a year and requires a year’s notice first. Family farms that are not in the business of selling hazardous chemicals, and sites owned by the state or a local government, pay nothing. Late costs twice over — the director may charge a late fee for the filing and another for the payment, each up to the fee you owed, and after six months it is treated as a wilful violation carrying a civil fine of up to $15,000 per offence per day. Half of what you pay goes to your county’s own preparedness account, so it funds the people who read your filing. North Dakota also does not want a Tier I report: its handbook says the Tier II carries everything Tier I would.
Does North Dakota set its own limits?
North Dakota's own agency says it uses the federal thresholds, and we read that page rather than assuming it. We have not gone behind it to the state code, so we say that too.
North Dakota keeps the federal thresholds. Its Century Code says so: “The federal requirements must be used for completing the tier II form, including the threshold amounts.”
The words we read
North Dakota Department of Emergency Services (SERC), Haz-Chem preparedness and response page, read 2026-09-05: thresholds stated as the federal ones — 10,000 lb, and 500 lb or TPQ (whichever is less). North Dakota Century Code 37-17.1, read 2026-09-11 through the Internet Archive because ndlegis.gov refuses our connections: “The federal requirements must be used for completing the tier II form, including the threshold amounts.” 37-17.1-07.1 caps the annual hazardous chemicals fee at “nine hundred fifty dollars” per facility, due “by March first of each year”. We grade this as guidance rather than codified because we have read the code only through an archive copy, not on the legislature’s own site.
Where we read this
- North Dakota Department of Emergency Services (SERC), Haz-Chem preparedness and response page (des.nd.gov), read 2026-09-05 and 2026-09-10: thresholds stated as the federal ones — 10,000 lb, and 500 lb or TPQ (whichever is less); “Storage fees collected are divided equally between NDDES to cover program expenses and the Local Emergency Planning Commissions (LEPCs) located in each county”. In every capture we checked from 2025-05-28 to 2026-08-14 the page links northdakota.hazconnect.com as the “ND Tier II Reporting System”.North Dakota Century Code 37-17.1, read in full 2026-09-11 through the Internet Archive because ndlegis.gov refuses our connections. 37-17.1-07.1: “Each owner and operator of a facility, as defined in SARA title III, shall pay an annual hazardous chemicals fee … (1) The fee must be paid by March first of each year. (2) The fee is levied on a per chemical basis … (3) The maximum fee for a facility under this section is nine hundred fifty dollars.” “An increase to fees levied on a per chemical basis made after January 1, 2026, may not exceed five dollars per year”, with a year’s notice. Exemptions: “family farm enterprises that are not engaged in the retail or wholesale of hazardous chemicals and facilities owned by the state or local governments are exempt from the fee.” Lateness: the director “may impose fees for both late filing of reports and late payment of fees”, each capped at the fee owed, and “after six months the director shall process further violations under willful violations”, which carry “a civil fine of not more than fifteen thousand dollars for each separate offense”, each day a separate offence. Thresholds: “The federal requirements must be used for completing the tier II form, including the threshold amounts.”North Dakota 2025 Local Emergency Planning Committee Handbook, published by NDDES (des.nd.gov, 86 pages), read in full 2026-09-11 through the Internet Archive. Page 8: “North Dakota does not require Tier I reports because the Tier II provides the required information and more … The reports are due March 1 of each year and are for the previous calendar year. The facility must send copies of the report to the SERC, LEPC, and local fire department.” Page 10: “The fee, set by statute, is $25 per reportable substance per facility with a maximum of $950 per facility … Family farmers and government entities are specifically exempted from the fee.” The $25 rate is the handbook’s; the current code fixes only the $950 cap and how the rate may change, and the statute copy in the handbook’s appendix is an older version with a $475 cap.Checked 2026-09-11
- North Dakota Department of Emergency Services (SERC), Haz-Chem preparedness and response page, read 2026-09-05: thresholds stated as the federal ones — 10,000 lb, and 500 lb or TPQ (whichever is less).North Dakota Century Code 37-17.1, read 2026-09-11 through the Internet Archive because ndlegis.gov refuses our connections: “The federal requirements must be used for completing the tier II form, including the threshold amounts.” 37-17.1-07.1 caps the annual hazardous chemicals fee at “nine hundred fifty dollars” per facility, due “by March first of each year”. We grade this as guidance rather than codified because we have read the code only through an archive copy, not on the legislature’s own site.State guidance — the code wins where they differ
- North Dakota’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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