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The Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) is a United States law, passed by the 94th United States Congress in 1976 and administered by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), that regulates chemicals not regulated by other U.S. federal statutes, [1] including chemicals already in commerce and the introduction of new chemicals.
In addition, chemicals of higher concern or toxicity also have to meet the 2010 deadline. About 143,000 chemical substances marketed in the European Union were pre-registered by the 1 December 2008 deadline. Although pre-registering was not mandatory, it allows potential registrants much more time before they have to fully register.
Section 304(a)(1) of the Clean Water Act is the Water Quality Criteria (WQC) developed for the protection of aquatic life and human health. [4] The MATC and ACR are used in a sequence of calculations to obtain the Criterion Maximum Concentration and Criterion Continuous Concentration (CMC and CCC, respectively) for the chemicals being regulated ...
The EPA on Tuesday, March 14, 2023, proposed limiting the amount of harmful “forever chemicals” in drinking water to the lowest level that tests can detect. (Travis Long/The News & Observer ...
Public water systems can use an equation provided by the EPA to determine whether the cumulative concentrations of the chemicals exceed the agency’s threshold. The EPA proposed limits to PFAS in ...
Orange Water and Sewer Authority is testing ion exchange resin and granular activated carbon to reach the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s new drinking water standards for several forever ...
EU: Chemicals in Europe are managed by the REACH [13] [14] (Registration, Evaluation and Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals) and the CLP [15] (Classification, Labeling and Packaging) regulations. Specific regulations exist for specific families of products such as Fertilizers, Detergents, Explosives, Pyrotechnic Articles, Drug Precursors.
Council members also adopted updated versions of its 2019 water conservation and drought contingency plans to curb water waste as the region’s surging population strains its natural resources.