The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has apparently abandoned plans to provide an early release of the 2001 Toxic Release Inventory, as OMB Watch reported in a previous Watcher article. While EPA originally intended to release the preliminary data in February or March, organizational delays pushed the likely release back into April. Evidently, the agency determined that expending resources on an early release this year would be wasteful since the full public data release is scheduled for two months later in June. However, EPA appears to be considering utilizing the early release plan next year, with a possible release date as early as November. OMB Watch will continue to push for EPA to release the TRI data earlier so the public can gain access to valuable right-to-know information.