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EPA Celebrates New Chemical Safety Milestones on 2nd Anniversary of Lautenberg Chemical Safety Act
The Agency will reduce animal testing, track mercury imports and manufacturing, and facilitate sharing of Confidential Business Information with emergency responders
WASHINGTON (June 22, 2018) ‰?? On the two-year anniversary of the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act (Lautenberg Chemical Safety Act), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it has met its statutory responsibilities to release guidance and policy on confidential business information, a strategy to reduce animal testing, and a final mercury reporting rule.
EPA has completed the following milestones at this two-year anniversary:
EPA has completed the following milestones at this two-year anniversary:
‰?˘ Finalized strategy to reduce animal testing. The strategy promotes the development and implementation of alternative test methods and strategies to reduce, refine, or replace vertebrate animal testing. It also incorporates input from public meetings and written comments.
‰?˘ Final rule on reporting mercury manufacturing and imports. The information collected through the new reporting requirements will be used to develop future inventories of mercury and mercury-containing product supply, use, and trade in the United States.
‰?˘ Guidance for state, tribal, and local governments, and medical personnel and emergency responders on sharing confidential business information (CBI). These guidances specify the process that will enable other governmental entities and medical and emergency personnel to request CBI information.
‰?˘ Policy and procedures for assigning unique identifiers to better publicly track information on chemicals while protecting CBI. An identifier will be applied to a substance, whose identity is protected as CBI, as well as to other related information or submissions concerning the same substance. This will allow the public to connect information related to the same substance, even while the specific identity is protected as confidential.
‰?˘ Guidance on structurally descriptive generic names. This guidance will allow EPA to share more information with the public about the structure of substances while protecting the confidential elements of the substance‰??s specific chemical identity. TSCA Submitters claiming the specific chemical identity of a chemical substance as CBI are required to supply a structurally descriptive generic name that can be disclosed to the public.
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