Senators spearheading efforts to reform the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) are revising a bill released late last year, focusing on crafting "more refined" legislation that is likely to narrow the provisions that would preempt state chemical authority in an effort to gain broader bipartisan support, sources tracking the issue say. The issue of preempting state chemicals programs has long been a major hurdle to advancing TSCA reform, with previous Republican-led bills drawing opposition from Democrats for blocking state efforts. Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) is working with Sen. Tom Udall (D-NM) to revise a draft of the S. 1009 bill introduced in 2013 by Vitter and the late Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), seen as a landmark compromise to reforming the decades-old chemical safety law.
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