Procedures for Requesting a Chemical Risk Evaluation Under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) (Proposed Rule)

This ICR is related to a requirement contained in a proposed rule to implement provisions outlined in the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety of the 21st Century Act which passed in June 2016 and amended the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to amend the process for conducting risk evaluations under the TSCA to determine whether a chemical substance presents an unreasonable risk of injury to health or the environment under the known, intended, or reasonably foreseen conditions of use, without consideration of costs or non-risk factors, including unreasonable risk to potentially exposed or susceptible subpopulations. EPA has reconsidered the procedural framework rule for conducting such risk evaluations and determined that certain aspects of that framework should be revised to align with applicable court decisions and the statutory text, to reflect the Agency’s experience implementing the risk evaluation program following enactment of the 2016 TSCA amendments, and to allow for consideration of scientific advances in the risk evaluation process without need to further amend the Agency’s procedural rule. Revisions to this rule also includes changes to the process by which a manufacture may request that EPA conduct a risk evaluation on a chemical for which they manufacture. This proposed rule outlines the criteria and information chemical manufacturers must provide for EPA to consider a chemical substance for risk evaluation. Also included is Agency’s process and timing to review the request to determine whether to grant or deny. The information collection activities covered by this ICR are those carried out by a chemical manufacturer in requesting a specific chemical risk evaluation under TSCA be conducted by EPA.

The latest form for Procedures for Requesting a Chemical Risk Evaluation Under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) (Proposed Rule) expires 2027-06-30 and can be found here.

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