State sheet · VT
Tier II reporting requirements in Vermont
- Deadline
- 1 March, yearly
- Takes our file
- Yes
- Own thresholds
- Yes — see below
- Fee
- $40–$880 a chemical
- Filing route read
- 2026-09-11
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How Vermont takes it
Vermont wants the Tier2 Submit file and only that. You register at the SERC’s Tier II Submit Portal (vtdfs.powerappsportals.us/tier-ii) and upload the .t2s we build — the state names the software version it expects each year. The window opens 1 January and closes 1 March; there is no paper route.
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. Vermont 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 Vermont asks for
The portal is one of three stops, not the only one. Vermont names all three in the same sentence. The state commission gets it through the portal. Your local emergency planning committee gets it by email to DPS.StatewideLEPC@vermont.gov. Your local responding fire department gets a hard copy, or however that jurisdiction wants it. Vermont also invoices you after the fact rather than at filing time. The fee is calculated from what you reported, and an invoice follows by email. You pay it by post or by eCheck in the portal. A safety data sheet has to go with the file for any chemical you did not report last year. That is the section 311 duty arriving at the same door.
Does Vermont set its own limits?
Vermont sets the threshold itself lower than the federal one. That changes the answer for a smaller facility.
The numbers Vermont applies to any hazardous material: liquids 100 lb · solids 100 lb · gases 100 lb. The federal rule’s general line is 10,000 lb.
Research laboratories are stricter still — 10 pounds of extremely hazardous substances in aggregate, 100 pounds of everything else. We do not yet ask whether you are one.
The words we read
Code Vt. R. 28-000-002, “Vermont Table I” (E.P.A. Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act, Title III program rule), read 2026-09-11. Research laboratories report at “10 pounds or greater-aggregate of all extremely hazardous substances” and “100 pounds or grater aggregate of all hazardous chemicals/substances” [sic]. The same table sets the thresholds for all other facilities — extremely hazardous substances and all other hazardous chemicals at “100 pounds or the Threshold Planning Quantity (TPQ): whichever is lower”, and petroleum products, fuels and road salts at “10,000 pounds or greater”. The word “aggregate” appears only in the research-laboratory row. Vermont Emergency Management, “VT 2025 EPCRA Tier II Package” (vem.vermont.gov), read 2026-10-12, reprints the same “Vermont Table I”: for “All facilities handling or storing hazardous chemicals/substances for which an SDS is required”, “100 pounds or the Threshold Planning Quantity (TPQ): whichever is lower”; petroleum products, fuels and road salts “10,000 pounds or greater”; known human carcinogens “Any amount”; explosives needing a Department of Public Safety licence in any amount, and initiators from 100 pounds. It adds that facilities report chemicals present “at levels that equal or exceed these thresholds, based on the total tank/container storage amount.”
effective 1991-10-14, amended 1994-12-30 and 1995-10-09
Where we read this
- Vermont Emergency Management, “Emergency Planning & Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA)” (vem.vermont.gov/programs/epcra), read 2026-09-09: “The Tier II File in .T2S Format be submitted to the following: State Emergency Response Commission (SERC) – TIER II Submit Portal at https://vtdfs.powerappsportals.us/tier-ii/ - Complete Registration – Follow the prompt and upload your .t2s file”, and “Vermont is requiring that all facilities use the Tier2 Submit 2025 software to submit the Tier2 report for calendar year 2025 between January 1 and March 1, 2026.” Questions go to dps.tierIIsubmit@vermont.gov.Vermont Community Right-To-Know Program, memo for calendar year 2025 dated 30 December 2025, read 2026-09-11: “The Tier II Report/File, a Safety Data Sheet (SDS) for each reported hazardous material, if required (new chemical not reported in the previous year) must be submitted to the following: 1. State Emergency Response Commission (SERC) – TIER II Submit Portal … 2. Local Emergency Planning Committee (LEPC) … (Electronic File Only) – Emailed to DPS.StatewideLEPC@vermont.gov 3. Local Responding Fire Department - (Hard Copy or as required by local jurisdiction).” The same memo says “Electronic submission via .t2s file will be the only means of accepted submission.”Vermont Rules and Regulations for Community Right to Know, §5.4: inventory forms “shall be submitted to the Department (acting for SERC) … the Local Emergency Planning Committee; and the local fire department having jurisdiction.” Those rules let the SERC “temporarily receive information on behalf of any LEPC” — a power the state may use, not a relief the filer can assume.Checked 2026-09-11
- Code Vt. R. 28-000-002, “Vermont Table I” (E.P.A. Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act, Title III program rule), read 2026-09-11. Research laboratories report at “10 pounds or greater-aggregate of all extremely hazardous substances” and “100 pounds or grater aggregate of all hazardous chemicals/substances” [sic]. The same table sets the thresholds for all other facilities — extremely hazardous substances and all other hazardous chemicals at “100 pounds or the Threshold Planning Quantity (TPQ): whichever is lower”, and petroleum products, fuels and road salts at “10,000 pounds or greater”. The word “aggregate” appears only in the research-laboratory row.Vermont Emergency Management, “VT 2025 EPCRA Tier II Package” (vem.vermont.gov), read 2026-10-12, reprints the same “Vermont Table I”: for “All facilities handling or storing hazardous chemicals/substances for which an SDS is required”, “100 pounds or the Threshold Planning Quantity (TPQ): whichever is lower”; petroleum products, fuels and road salts “10,000 pounds or greater”; known human carcinogens “Any amount”; explosives needing a Department of Public Safety licence in any amount, and initiators from 100 pounds. It adds that facilities report chemicals present “at levels that equal or exceed these thresholds, based on the total tank/container storage amount.”The state’s own code · effective 1991-10-14, amended 1994-12-30 and 1995-10-09
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