SARA Reports

Use

This report program (REHS_SARA31X) makes available the data you need for the reports prescribed by the U.S. Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA). In the standard system, the report program supplies the data for the reports SARA 311, SARA 312 Tier I, and SARA 312 Tier II.

Caution Caution

SAP hereby emphasizes that this report program is intended only as a support tool for creating the required reports. SAP does not therefore guarantee that the report program provides all the data that is required by the regulations in a specific jurisdiction. With the SAP enhancement EHSSARA, you can adapt the data output of the report program to your requirements.

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Note Note

On the subject of Generating SARA Reports and Calculating the Stock Data, see SAP Note 1133352.

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Integration

In the SARA reports, companies must list hazardous substances that belong to specific hazard categories and whose quantities on site exceed prescribed threshold levels:

For this purpose, the report program REHS_HAZARD_AMNT_DET (see Determination of Hazardous Substance Quantities for SARA Reports) determines the relevant hazardous substances and their quantities in inventory management and transfers these values to risk assessments.

Note Note

Report REHS_HAZARD_AMNT_DET_NEW determines the quantities of hazardous substances in environmentally relevant materials in inventory controlling. The data is determined from the information structures S039 and S033.

For more information about reports REHS_HAZARD_AMNT_DET and REHS_HAZARD_AMNT_DET_NEW, see the following SAP Notes:

  • 1001922: Determining hazardous substance quantities

  • 998577: Material quantities from inventory controlling

  • 978362: Application log and error handling

  • 1015494: Calculation with alternative unit of measure

  • 1036160: Converting quantities of warehouse stock

  • 1043811: Monthly update

  • 1046728: Select specification

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Prerequisites

  • In Customizing for Hazardous Substance Management, you have processed the following activities:

    • You have scheduled the report program REHS_HAZARD_AMNT_DET in accordance with the requirements in the Customizing activity Schedule Report to Determine Hazardous Substance Quantities so that it determines the hazardous substance quantities daily.

    • You have set up the value assignment type for SARA hazard classification in accordance with the requirements in the Customizing activity Set Up Value Assignment Type for SARA Hazard Classification and specified it in the environment parameter IHS_HAZ_AMNT_HAZARD_CAT_PROP.

    • You have made the necessary settings in accordance with the requirements in the Customizing activity Configure Customizing of Other Components for SARA Reports.

  • You have entered the SARA hazard category and the threshold value in the specifications for the hazardous substances in the value assignment type for the SARA hazard classification. These specifications must be assigned to the materials for which you have entered the stock data (see Prerequisites under Determination of Hazardous Substance Quantities for SARA Reports).

Features

Selection

  1. The report program determines the risk assessment in accordance with the selection criteria you entered when you accessed the selection screen. It takes into account work areas of the type SL (storage location) and FC (site).

    Note Note

    The report program takes into account all risk assessments that match the selection criteria, meaning it takes manually created risk assessments into account in addition to the risk assessments created by the report program REHS_HAZARD_AMNT_DET .

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  2. The report program determines the hazardous substance specifications and quantities from the risk assessment.

  3. The report program determines the hazard category and the threshold values for the specification from the value assignment type for the SARA hazard classification.

    Note Note

    The report program takes into account only the first value assignment instance.

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  4. The report program determines the specifications in which the amount in the risk assessment exceeds the threshold value or for which no threshold value was specified.

  5. The report program takes into account only these specifications in further processing and determines the following other data for these specifications from the risk assessment:

    • For the average daily amount in the specified time period and the maximum amount that occurred on one day in the specified time period, the values are used that were entered on the Mass tab page and belong to the measured value/reference value category DAV (daily average) and DMX (daily maximum).

    • For the number of days on which the hazardous substance was on site, the value is used that was entered on the Time tab page and belongs to the measured value/reference value category DOS (days on site).

  6. The report program displays the specifications with the determined data in accordance with the report category you selected before you started the program.

Output

The following report categories are available in the standard system:

  • SARA 311

    This report category lists the specifications determined for the specified plants or work areas, that is the hazardous substances whose quantities exceed the threshold value. Three identifiers and the hazard categories are displayed for each specification.

  • SARA 312 Tier I

    This report category lists the hazard categories for the specified plants or work areas and displays the hazardous substance quantity and other data for each category.

  • SARA 312 Tier II

    This report category lists the specifications determined for the specified plants or work areas, that is the hazardous substances whose quantities exceed the threshold value. The following data is displayed for each specification:

    • Three identifiers

    • Hazard categories

    • Maximum stock level that occurred on any single day in the specified time period (maximum amount)

    • Average daily stock level in the specified time period (average daily amount)

    • Number of days on which the hazardous substance was present in the company (number of days on site)

In the report categories SARA 311 and SARA 312 Tier II, the identification listing D_SARA controls which identifiers are output. For more information, see Customizing for Hazardous Substance Management, under Configure Customizing of Other Components for SARA Reports.

Note Note

You cannot do the following with this report program:

  • Print data automatically on the prescribed forms

  • Inform the persons responsible in your company automatically, for example, when the threshold value for a hazardous substance was first exceeded

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Note Note

The hazard categories are saved in the system as phrases. The phrases are assigned to a phrase set that can be selected in the value assignment type SARA Hazard Classification. In SARA reports 311 and 312 Tier II, the order of the hazard categories is determined by the order of the phrases in the phrase set. If a sort sequence has not been specified in the phrase set, the phrase key is used for sorting. In this case, the display may be incorrect or incomplete.

Therefore, specify the sort sequence that you want to use for the phrases in the phrase set.

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Activities

  1. In the Hazardous Substance Management menu, choose Reporting → Risk Assessment → SARA Reports 311 and 312.

  2. Enter the required data and choose Execute (Execute).