EPA Releases Preliminary 'Active-Inactive' List of TSCA Chemicals; Over 40,000 Set to Require Notification
The Environmental Protection Agency recently published a list of Toxic Substances Control Act chemicals reported as active or inactive for the purposes of upcoming notification requirements for manufacturers and importers. Products listed as inactive in the eventual final version of this list will require a submission to EPA at least 30 days prior to importation or manufacture beginning in 2019.
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Required by a 2017 final rule that was in turn mandated by the TSCA reform legislation passed by Congress (see 1708110018 and 1706270026), the preliminary list includes chemicals reported as active by manufacturers before EPA’s Feb. 7 deadline, as well as chemical reporting from other EPA sources. Chemical processors have until October to send EPA their reports on whether they use chemicals identified on the preliminary list.
The preliminary list shows half of the over 80,000 chemicals on the existing TSCA inventory were manufactured, imported and processed from June 2006 through June 2017, and may be deemed active, according to an alert from the law firm Wiley Rein. “This means that 44,036 previously listed chemicals are currently marked ‘Inactive’ and it will be illegal to manufacture, import, or process them starting in 2019 without first notifying EPA,” the firm said. EPA will update the list monthly, the agency said.