In Landmark TRI Expansion, EPA Rejects Industry Plea To Drop NTP Data

摘要

EPA is, for the first time since the Clinton administration, expanding the list of chemicals whose releases must be reported to the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI), while rejecting industry requests to drop its use of National Toxicology Program (NTP) cancer risk data as the basis for listing compounds. In a final rule issued Nov. 26, the agency added 16 chemicals to TRI that were identified by NTP, a branch of the National Institute of Health, in its 1 lth annual Report on Carcinogens (RoC) to be "reasonably anticipated" to cause cancer in humans. "The conclusions regarding the potential for chemicals in the NTP RoC to cause cancer in humans are based on established sound scientific principles," EPA said in the final rule. "EPA believes that the NTP RoC is an excellent and reliable source of information on the potential for chemicals covered therein to cause cancer in humans."