TSCA Reform Supporters Tout Fee Rule To Help Offset EPA Budget Cuts

摘要

EPA's acting toxics chief and supporters of the agency's efforts to reform the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) say the pending draft rule imposing fees on the chemical sector could help to offset proposed EPA funding cuts in fiscal year 2018 that environmentalists and others have warned might risk hindering implementation of the law. "Fees remain very, very important as part of that budget for the chemicals program and the pesticides program. There's some uncertainty there, when will we have a final fees rule in place, will it adequately fund what it needs to fund? That's a question that's out there," acting toxics chief Wendy Cleland-Hamnett reminded attendees at a recent Environmental Law Institute conference on TSCA reform held in Washington, D.C.