EPA Rethinks Chemical Action Plans To Bolster TSCA Regulatory Actions

摘要

Officials in EPA's toxics office are struggling to obtain adequate data from their chemical action plans to make precedent-setting regulatory decisions under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), prompting plans for new risk assessments to justify chemical management efforts and the possible slowing of development of new plans, sources say. "The whole 'chemical action plan' plan is being re-thought," an EPA source says. "We are finding that chemical action plans are not providing the information we need to act."