Supporters of pending legislation to reform the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) appear to be eyeing informal discussions on how to reconcile a House TSCA measure with a Senate version approved Dec. 17, which could help lead to streamlined conference negotiations resulting in a final bill that Congress could vote on early next year. However, it is unclear what form the pending conference talks will take, and Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) - a critic of earlier versions of the Senate bill, S. 697 - is vowing to "stay intimately involved" in the process. Boxer's objections to various parts of the upper chamber's legislation, including language preempting state chemicals programs, prompted her to call on lawmakers to instead move the much narrower House TSCA bill, H.R. 2576.
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