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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.
TSCA as reformed by the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act TSCA pre-reform Mandatory duty on EPA to evaluate existing chemicals with clear and enforceable deadlines: No duty to review, no deadlines for action Chemicals assessed against a risk-based safety standard: Risk-benefit balancing standard
The Hazardous Waste Control Act of 1972 [3] established legal standards for hazardous waste. Accordingly, in 1972, the Department of Health Services (now called the California Health and Human Services Agency) created a hazardous waste management unit, staffing it in 1973 with five employees concerned primarily with developing regulations and setting fees for the disposal of hazardous waste.
Title 40 is a part of the United States Code of Federal Regulations.Title 40 arranges mainly environmental regulations that were promulgated by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), based on the provisions of United States laws (statutes of the U.S. Federal Code).
(C) Certification of training— After completing the training, each hazmat employer shall certify, with documentation the Secretary may require by regulation, that the hazmat employees of the employer have received training and have been tested on appropriate transportation areas of responsibility, including at least one of the following:
Facilities are required to report to the TRI if they meet all of the following requirements: The facility is included in a TRI-covered North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code, or is a federal facility; The facility has 10 or more full-time employee equivalents (i.e., a total of 20,000 hours or greater) [6] and
an ever increasing number of chemicals registered for use and difficulty of regulatory agencies to keep track. Many producers use the term 'confidential business information' to withhold information, so exposure data are per se unavailable even though under TSCA, the US EPA may as of 2016, review and determine if a company´s claim is valid. [13]
The Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Modernization Act of 2015 (H.R. 2576), passed the House of Representatives on June 23, 2015. [10] Revised legislation, which resolved differences between the House and Senate versions, was forwarded to the President on June 14, 2016. [11] President Obama signed the bill into law on June 22, 2016.