EPA Announces Chemical Safety Milestones

To celebrate the one-year anniversary of the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt announced on June 22, 2017, that the Agency has met its first-year statutory responsibilities under the law. This includes the following actions:

• Issuing a rule to establish EPA’s process and criteria for identifying high-priority chemicals for risk evaluation and low-priority chemicals not requiring risk evaluation. http://www.epa.gov/assessing-and-managing-chemicals-under-tsca/prioritizing-existing-chemicals-risk-evaluation
• Issuing a rule to establish EPA’s process for evaluating high-priority chemicals to determine whether they present an unreasonable risk to health or the environment. https://www.epa.gov/assessing-and-managing-chemicals-under-tsca/risk-evaluations-chemicals-under-tsca
• Issuing a rule to require industry reporting of chemicals manufactured or processed in the U.S. over the past 10 years. https://www.epa.gov/tsca-inventory/tsca-inventory-notification-active-inactive-rule
• Releasing scope documents for the initial ten chemicals for risk evaluation under the amended law. https://www.epa.gov/assessing-and-managing-chemicals-under-tsca/risk-evaluations-chemicals-under-tsca#ten
• Releasing guidance for external parties interested in submitting draft risk evaluations to the EPA for consideration. https://www.epa.gov/assessing-and-managing-chemicals-under-tsca/guidance-assist-interested-persons-developing-and

Read the EPA press release: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-marks-chemical-safety-milestone-1st-anniversary-lautenberg-chemical-safety-act