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TSCA in 2023: There’s a Lot Coming

Last year was busy with regulatory actions under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). This year promises to be even busier. Companies should make sure they are paying attention, including to comment deadlines for proposed...more

Maine Adopts Broad Ban of PFAS-Containing Products (Updated)

Maine DEP Issues Second Concept Draft of Proposed PFAS Regulation; Schedules Stakeholder Meeting Oct. 27 Maine’s Department of Environmental Protection (Maine DEP) issued a revised “Second Concept Draft” of proposed...more

California Restricts PFAS in Clothing and Cosmetics; Governor Vetoes PFAS Reporting Bill

On September 29, 2022, California Governor Newsom signed California AB 1817, which bans the manufacture and sale of clothing and textile items containing PFAS, and AB 2771, which restricts PFAS in cosmetics. Both prohibitions...more

TSCA in 2022: Fasten Your Seatbelt

A year into the Biden Administration’s implementation of the 2016 amendments of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), EPA is planning an ambitious suite of actions under sections 4, 5, 6, 8, 14, and 23. Companies and trade...more

New TSCA Section 8(d) Rule Adds 50 Chemicals to Reporting Requirements (Updated)

EPA has issued a prepublication version of a final rule to extend the submission deadline for the TSCA Health and Safety Data Reporting rule to December 1, 2021 for the 20 High Priority Substances, and to January 25, 2022 for...more

Maine Adopts Broad Ban of PFAS-Containing Products

Key Takeaways - • What is Happening? On July 15, 2021, Maine adopted a law that will ban the use of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in products. While the law takes a phased approach over the next few...more

New TSCA Section 8(d) Rule Adds 50 Chemicals to Reporting Requirements

Section 8(d) of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) had been effectively a dead provision of TSCA for over a decade. EPA has just revived it by adopting an immediate final rule mandating the submission of health and...more

Article Importers May Face Another TSCA Obligation, This One Related to PFAS

Do any of the articles, or article components, that your company imports contain PFAS? If so, your company may become subject to extensive reporting requirements proposed by EPA under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)....more

2020 TSCA CDR Deadline Extended; Reporting Rules Finalized

Chemical manufacturers and importers may now begin preparation of their 2020 TSCA Chemical Data Reporting (CDR) submissions in earnest. In two separate pre-publication Federal Register notices, EPA has finalized its 2020 CDR...more

Many Companies Face Obligations Under the TSCA Fees Rule

Who is subject to the upcoming obligation to self-identify as a manufacturer of a high-priority substance and pay a portion of a fee of more than a million dollars under EPA’s Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) fees rule? ...more

New York, California, and EPA Tackle 1,4-Dioxane

The chemical 1,4-dioxane has become a hot topic for EPA and state regulators. New York recently adopted a law banning more than trace amounts of the chemical in cosmetics, personal care products, and cleaning products....more

EPA Issues First TSCA Section 6 Final Rule in Thirty Years

Until today, EPA had not adopted a final risk management rule under section 6 of the Toxic Substances Control Act in 30 years. That drought has ended, now that EPA has published a final rule restricting consumer use of...more

First 40 Candidate Chemicals for Prioritization Under TSCA Announced

EPA has taken another step in implementing the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). It has announced the first set of 20 candidate chemicals for possible designation as high-priority substances and the first (possibly only)...more

Calendar of TSCA Developments in 2019 and Beyond

EPA faces many TSCA statutory and regulatory deadlines for actions in 2019 and 2020. It has also announced plans to take numerous actions not subject to such a deadline. Industry should anticipate upcoming developments and be...more

Ten Things PMN Submitters Need to Know

Does your company plan to submit a premanufacture notice (PMN) under section 5 of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)? Has it done so recently? If so, you need to know the answers to ten key questions: - 1. What are...more

TSCA Reform Implementation and Expected 2018 Developments

Some 20 months have passed since the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act (LCSA) was signed into law, making wide and significant changes to the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). During that time,...more

The TSCA Inventory Reset Clock to Start Ticking

Virtually all manufacturers and importers of chemicals for the past 11 years are now subject to a new TSCA reporting requirement known informally as the TSCA Inventory Reset. Reports will be due six months after the final...more

EPA’s Risk Evaluation Framework Rule Incorporates Key Industry Suggestions

Under the 2016 TSCA amendments, risk evaluation is the critical step toward EPA banning or restricting chemicals, or else determining that they will not be regulated. As required by those amendments, EPA has promulgated a...more

Unique Identifiers: A Little-Noticed TSCA Provision Could Have a Big Impact on CBI

Protection for confidential business information (CBI) could be at risk under one provision of the amended Toxic Substance Control Act (TSCA) now under consideration by EPA. TSCA’s little-noticed section 14(g)(4) requires...more

TSCA Reform Implementation Update

Eight months have now passed since President Obama signed into law the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act (LCSA), Pub. Law 114-182, on June 22, 2016. This historic legislation overhauled the Toxic...more

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