State sheet · VA
Tier II reporting requirements in Virginia
- Deadline
- 1 March, yearly
- Takes our file
- Yes
- Own thresholds
- No — federal
- Fee
- None
- Filing route read
- 2026-09-06
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How Virginia takes it
Virginia takes the Tier2 Submit file as an email attachment to va-epcra@deq.virginia.gov, and asks for delivery confirmation.
Virginia charges no filing fee — the state says so itself.
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. Virginia 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 Virginia asks for
Send a signed certification letter with the file — Virginia’s page links a template. Virginia expects you to reach your LEPC and your local fire department yourself, and how they want it differs by locality — DEQ points you at them rather than passing it on.
Does Virginia set its own limits?
Virginia'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.
Virginia keeps the federal numbers, so the answer here is the federal answer. Your report goes to the Virginia Emergency Response Council, and copies go to your LEPC and your local fire department.
The words we read
Virginia sets no thresholds of its own — the federal ones apply, and we went looking before saying so (2026-09-07). Three places: (1) Code of Virginia, Title 44 — the only hazardous-materials chapter is ch. 3.5, the Virginia Hazardous Materials Emergency Response Program (§§ 44-146.34 to 44-146.40), whose sections cover purpose and definitions, the powers of the Department of Emergency Management, agreements with political subdivisions, the Disaster Response Fund, local hazardous materials coordinators and joint planning committees — none of them imposes a chemical inventory report or a threshold. (2) Virginia Administrative Code, Title 9 (Environment) — its agencies are the State Air Pollution Control Board, the Department of Environmental Quality and the State Water Control Board; there is no right-to-know or chemical inventory chapter. (3) Virginia DEQ’s own Community Right-to-Know page, which points at the federal rule rather than a state one: exemptions “are provided in Subpart B of EPA’s Hazardous Chemical Reporting: Community Right-to-Know regulations,” the threshold for OSHA hazardous chemicals is “10,000 pounds,” and for extremely hazardous substances it is “either the chemical’s Threshold Planning Quantity (TPQ) or 500 pounds, whichever is less.” Reports are due 1 March and must also go to the LEPC and the local fire department.
Va. Code tit. 44 ch. 3.5 · 9VAC (Title 9) agency list · Virginia DEQ Community Right-to-Know (all read 2026-09-07)
Where we read this
- Virginia DEQ, “Community Right-to-Know” / SARA Title III pages and VDEM’s hazardous materials page (read 2026-09-06): “The Tier2Submit software generates a file that must be saved to the computer (locally) and then attached to an email for submission to the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality”, to va-epcra@deq.virginia.gov, due March 1 each year, delivery confirmation preferred. On the local copies: “Tier II Report submissions must be made to the Local Emergency Planning Committee (LEPC) for your site and the local fire department. Submission instructions for your LEPC and fire department will vary depending on your site’s location.” Tier II administration sits with VA DEQ SARA Title III Program, Richmond.Virginia DEQ, Community Right-to-Know page (deq.virginia.gov), read 2026-10-12 through the Internet Archive snapshot dated 2026-07-22 because the live page refuses our requests with HTTP 403: “send your .t2s file to va-epcra@deq.virginia.gov, along with a signed copy of your certification letter.”Checked 2026-09-06
- Virginia sets no thresholds of its own — the federal ones apply, and we went looking before saying so (2026-09-07). Three places: (1) Code of Virginia, Title 44 — the only hazardous-materials chapter is ch. 3.5, the Virginia Hazardous Materials Emergency Response Program (§§ 44-146.34 to 44-146.40), whose sections cover purpose and definitions, the powers of the Department of Emergency Management, agreements with political subdivisions, the Disaster Response Fund, local hazardous materials coordinators and joint planning committees — none of them imposes a chemical inventory report or a threshold. (2) Virginia Administrative Code, Title 9 (Environment) — its agencies are the State Air Pollution Control Board, the Department of Environmental Quality and the State Water Control Board; there is no right-to-know or chemical inventory chapter. (3) Virginia DEQ’s own Community Right-to-Know page, which points at the federal rule rather than a state one: exemptions “are provided in Subpart B of EPA’s Hazardous Chemical Reporting: Community Right-to-Know regulations,” the threshold for OSHA hazardous chemicals is “10,000 pounds,” and for extremely hazardous substances it is “either the chemical’s Threshold Planning Quantity (TPQ) or 500 pounds, whichever is less.” Reports are due 1 March and must also go to the LEPC and the local fire department.State guidance — the code wins where they differ · Va. Code tit. 44 ch. 3.5 · 9VAC (Title 9) agency list · Virginia DEQ Community Right-to-Know (all read 2026-09-07)
- Virginia’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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