5 Key Features Of Impending TSCA Inventory ‘Reset' Rule

In short order, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will issue a final regulation to which all manufacturers, importers and processors of chemical substances should pay close attention. Failing to do so could adversely affect numerous businesses that over the years probably have not worried too much about the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).

The TSCA requires the EPA to compile and maintain a list (the inventory) of chemical substances manufactured, imported or processed in the United States. The initial inventory was first compiled in 1979. In 2016, Congress amended the TSCA to, among other things, require the EPA to (1) designate chemical substances on the inventory as either "active" or "inactive" in U.S. commerce; and (2) issue a final regulation by June 22, 2017, establishing the process by which manufacturers, importers and processors must provide the EPA the information needed to update the inventory in this manner (TSCA inventory reset rule). On Jan.