As 2019 moves into its closing months, US EPA activity under the
amended Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) remains front and
center. As part of US EPA's three-step process of
prioritization, risk evaluation and risk management for existing
chemicals, as we previously
reported, EPA began in 2016 by identifying the first ten chemicals for risk
evaluation under TSCA, which set forth a three-year deadline for
completing the evaluations that is supposed to come to a close this
December under the statute. TSCA gives US EPA the ability to extend
the deadline for finishing the risk evaluations by up to six months
if needed, and the Agency has indicated that it likely will do
so.
Over the last three years, US EPA has taken action under the
amended TSCA in a number of ways, including the following:
