EPA TRI Facility · Petroleum
Knife River Billings East Site
Billings, MT
- Total releases
- 750 lbs
- Chemicals reported
- 5
- Carcinogens
- 1
- Primary pathway
- Land Disposal
LAND Form-R mix
Knife River Billings East Site: how the 750 lbs splits
750 lbs across all reported pathways
- Land Disposal 747 lbs 99.6%
- Air Releases 3 lbs 0.4%
Knife River Billings East Site's 750 lbs Form-R total is LAND - land disposal is 99.6% of the bar. Next segment: air releases at 0.4%. Leading chemical by pounds: Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution).
TRACE volume LAND pathway TRACE-CARC
Knife River Billings East Site is an EPA Toxics Release Inventory reporter in Billings, MT, in the petroleum sector. It reported 140 lbs of releases across 3 chemicals in 2023, and 750 lbs in total across its 2019-2023 reporting years. That ranks 14,278 of 25,986 TRI facilities nationwide by cumulative reported pounds, counting each facility over however many years it has filed. In Montana's 67 reporting TRI sites, pounds #1 is not chemical-count #1. Knife River Billings East Site is pounds #49 and chemical-count #30 at 750 lbs. Montana Resources LLC leads reported pounds (215.2M lbs) at 12 chemicals (chemical-count #11). Phillips 66 Co Billings Refinery leads chemical count at 39 chemicals (465.0K lbs, pounds #16). Reported volume fell against 2022. Pounds reported are not a measure of toxicity or health risk. Nearest other TRI reporters: Par Montana Billings Refinery; Montana Sulphur & Chemical Co; Loveland Products Inc-Billings (formerly Transbas); Cityservicevalcon LLC Billings Bulk Facility. Similar-scale Petroleum peers outside Montana: Omni Speciality Packaging Inc.; Cornejo Cmc Ready Mix Plant 1; Phillips 66 Selmer Lubricants Plant; Black Warrior Roofing. Largest disclosed chemicals by pounds: Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution); Polycyclic aromatic compounds; Lead And Lead Compounds; Lead compounds.
Knife River Billings East Site stamps TRACE volume with a dominant LAND pathway (99.6% land disposal) across 5 chemicals · 1 carcinogen-classified. Cumulative Form-R extract: 750 lbs (2019–2023). All figures are self-reported EPCRA §313 estimates, not measured stack emissions or a health-risk score. Scale peers include Omni Speciality Packaging Inc. and Cornejo Cmc Ready Mix Plant 1.
Knife River Billings East Site vs. every reporting TRI facility
Cumulative reported release pounds, with this facility marked in the national distribution
750 lbs 45th percentile higher than 45% of 25,986 reporting TRI facilities
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Source U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Toxics Release Inventory · 2023 reporting year
Knife River Billings East Site in the Petroleum sector extract
Among the 902 Petroleum facilities in this database, Knife River Billings East Site reports the 340th-largest volume (750 lbs). Scale peers outside Montana include Omni Speciality Packaging Inc. and Cornejo Cmc Ready Mix Plant 1.
Sector rank uses reported TRI pounds only. Share callouts need ≥1,000 lbs so tiny totals cannot mint a false signal.
Annual disclosure change
What changed: EPA TRI 2023 reporting year
- Knife River Billings East Site's total reported releases fell from 160 lb in 2022 to 140 lb in 2023, based on EPA TRI filings.
- Knife River Billings East Site's land releases fell from 159 lb in 2022 to 140 lb in 2023, based on EPA TRI filings.
Knife River Billings East Site Form-R facts
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How does this facility release toxic chemicals?
How Knife River Billings East Site releases toxic chemicals into the environment. Total: 750 lbs.
Emissions Trend Summary
From 2019 to 2023, total releases decreased by 7% (151 lbs to 140 lbs).
Knife River Billings East Site: annual Form-R pounds
TRACE site · LAND pathway · TRI years 2019–2023
- 2019 0
- 2020 0
- 2021 0
- 2022 0
- 2023 0
What this shows Knife River Billings East Site year-over-year reported totals (decreased by 7% from 2019 to 2023). TRI figures are self-reported estimates and can swing with production, waste handling, and reporting changes, not only with controls. Lead chemical in the extract: Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution).
| Year | Total | Chemicals |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 151 lbs | 3 |
| 2020 | 149 lbs | 3 |
| 2021 | 151 lbs | 4 |
| 2022 | 160 lbs | 3 |
| 2023 | 140 lbs | 3 |
Chemical Releases
Aggregated across all reporting years (2019–2023). 1 of 5 chemicals are carcinogens. Sorted by total release volume.
| Chemical | Total | Flags |
|---|---|---|
| Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) | 747 lbs | - |
| Polycyclic aromatic compounds | 1 lbs | Carcinogen |
| Lead And Lead Compounds | 1 lbs | - |
| Lead compounds | 0 lbs | - |
| Benzo[g,h,i]perylene | 0 lbs | - |
Knife River Billings East Site · LAND-pathway site
Nearest TRI Facilities to Knife River Billings East Site
Closest other reporters in Montana - including Par Montana Billings Refinery, Montana Sulphur & Chemical Co, Loveland Products Inc-Billings (formerly Transbas), ordered by distance.
Showing 8 of 66 other reporting facilities in Montana.
Similar Petroleum Facilities
Other Petroleum facilities with similar total release volumes (±80%), outside Montana - e.g. Omni Speciality Packaging Inc., Cornejo Cmc Ready Mix Plant 1, Phillips 66 Selmer Lubricants Plant.
About TRI Data
Data as of 2023 reporting year. Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Toxic Release Inventory.
On this page the largest disclosed chemicals include Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), Polycyclic aromatic compounds, Lead And Lead Compounds, Lead compounds; nearby reporters include Par Montana Billings Refinery. Knife River Billings East Site stamps TRACE volume · LAND pathway · TRACE-CARC carcinogen-lbs on this Form-R extract. Totals are self-reported estimates under EPCRA §313, not measured stack emissions or a health-risk score.
Use and verify this record
This Knife River Billings East Site TRI extract (TRACE · LAND · TRACE-CARC · lead Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution)) joins EPA Form-R filings with facility identity - reported pounds, not a health-risk rating.
Knife River Billings East Site totals are self-reported EPCRA §313 estimates for Billings, MT, latest year 2023. Form-R rows span 2019–2023 (5 years). NAICS 324121 · Petroleum. 0.0% of Yellowstone TRI pounds in this extract. Nearest ABS peer: Alloy Polymers (Δ 0 lbs). Pounds ≠ exposure.
Knife River Billings East Site stamps TRACE volume · LAND pathway · TRACE-CARC · lead Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution). PlainEnviro renders this EPA Form-R extract from its pipeline; no figure is typed in by an editor. Corrections: editorial policy.
All federal data sources used on this page
- EPA Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) Basic Data Files - annual self-reported chemical-release filings. epa.gov
- EPA TRI Program reference - how chemicals and reported releases are counted. epa.gov
- EPA Facility Registry Service - facility location and identity. epa.gov
- EPA ECHO - regulatory and compliance context. epa.gov
- EPA Envirofacts - the EPA data warehouse exposing these datasets. epa.gov