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EHS Software Eases Increased Chemical Tracking and Reporting Requirements Burden

MICHIGAN, ANN ARBOR, Mar. 23 -/E-Wire/-- A V Systems, Inc., announced the April release of MIRSâ¢ (Material Inventory Report System) v. 7.10, to contain all EPA SARA Title III, Section 313, Toxic Release Inventory changes for Report Year 2000. The EPA has announced several major changes to Section 313 reporting (Form R) requirements. A group of previously regulated chemicals and additional new chemicals have been classified as Persistent Bioaccumulative Toxics, or PBTs. With this new classification comes significantly lower thresholds and even a newly-defined compound category for 17 highly-regulated Dioxin and Dioxin-like compounds that require reporting in different units of measurement.

"These EPA changes create tremendous challenges for companies that have manually tracked and reported SARA Section 313 listed chemical releases," said Andrew Rudnik, President and CEO of A V Systems, Inc. "The newly added chemicals and the varied thresholds make the TRI reporting process increasingly complex. The MIRSâ¢ FORM R module provides the necessary step-by-step guidance to ensure accurate Form R and Form A reporting."

"When a MIRSâ¢ user tracks his or her chemical inventory throughout the year, a Form R report can be completed in as little as 20 minutes. That's a very attractive number as compared to the EPA's recent estimate of 52.1 hours per Form R response, published in this year's Toxic Chemical Release Inventory Reporting Forms and Instructions," Rudnik adds.

MIRSâ¢ software provides the EPA-certified Form R report--the only Form R software approved before the reporting deadline every year since 1988.

MIRSâ¢, a flexible, integrated modular software package, collects environmental data and produces agency-mandated and ad hoc reports for SARA, TRI, CAA, CWA, RCRA and DOT waste handling, MSDS management and OSHA Hazard Communication. Celebrating more than a decade as the easy-to-use EHS modular software package, MIRSâ¢ offers 20+ modules, multi-user and multi-facility management in LAN or WAN installations, and data import from existing corporate systems.

About A V Systems Ann Arbor based A V Systems, Inc. was incorporated in 1981, at the advent of environmental compliance software development. Founding members combined extensive backgrounds in applied computer technology in the pharmaceutical, chemical and private industry, as well as 15 years legislative compliance experience gained with the EPA.

A V Systems, Inc., 4657 Platt Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48108-9726, telephone (734) 973-3000, fax (734) 677-4480, e-mail [REDACTED-EMAIL], or visit us on web at www.MIRSinfo.

http://www.MIRSinfo.com

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