THE DEMOCRATIC minority in the House of Representatives has circulated a redline version of the April 22, 2014, discussion draft of the Chemicals in Commerce Act (CICA2) legislation intended to reform the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). A copy of the redline version is available at http://goo.gl/bkRzbD KEY CHANGES The redline version, referred here as CICA2-D, proposes important changes from a legal and policy perspective in several TSCA Sections, including: 1. broaden definition of "intended conditions of use" to include "reasonably foreseeable unintended exposure conditions ... which may foreseeably occur as a result" of manufacture, processing, etc.; 2. add definition of "unreasonable risk," including concepts of "significant risk," "aggregate exposure" (an undefined term), and "vulnerable population," and specify that "unreasonable risk" doesn't include "consideration of the availability of substitutes or cost"; and 3. replace the term "potentially exposed subpopula-tion" with "vulnerable population."
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