EPA Claims 'Proportional' TSCA Fees Rule But EDF Faults Cost Estimates

摘要

EPA has issued a proposed a rule allowing the agency to collect industry fees to help defray costs of implementing aspects of the revised Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), claiming to have answered industry calls for fees that are proportional to the agency's costs, though an environmentalist says EPA is underestimating those costs. "We're going to need to look at it a lot more closely but it does look at first blush that EPA is underestimating the costs associated with information management," says Richard Denison, lead senior scientist at the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF).