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The Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) is a United States law, passed by the 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 regulation of chemicals is the legislative intent of a variety of national laws or international initiatives such as agreements, strategies or conventions.These international initiatives define the policy of further regulations to be implemented locally as well as exposure or emission limits.
For example, in Bluebook style, "Title 16 of the United States Code Section 580p" becomes "16 U.S.C. § 580p". [4] The section sign is frequently used along with the pilcrow (or paragraph sign ), ¶ , to reference a specific paragraph within a section of a document.
The inventory was first proposed in a 1985 New York Times op-ed piece written by David Sarokin and Warren Muir, researchers for an environmental group, Inform, Inc. [2] Congress established TRI under Section 313 of the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986 (EPCRA), and later expanded it in the Pollution Prevention Act of 1990 (PPA).
Sandoval sued under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Two sections of Title VI would prove important to her lawsuit. The first was section 601, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of "race, color, or national origin" by programs or agencies that receive federal funding, such as the Alabama Department of Public Safety. [3]
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). Parts of the regulation may be updated annually on July 1. [1]
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