EPA Proposes To Extend Compliance Dates For PCE And CTC TSCA Risk Management Rules

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on March 24, 2026, that it will propose to extend certain compliance dates in the December 2024 final risk management rules for perchloroethylene (PCE) and carbon tetrachloride (CTC) under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). According to EPA, it continues to revise the final rules "to ensure they are practical and implementable to protect human health and the environment and maintain uses that power the U.S. economy." Until EPA issues a final rule extending the compliance dates, the current deadlines remain effective. EPA notes that it intends to focus its resources on compliance with the new compliance dates that will be established by this rulemaking. EPA states that "[c]onsistent with the March 12, 2025, memo entitled 'Implementing National Enforcement and Compliance Initiatives Consistently with Executive Orders and Agency Priorities,' concurrence from the Assistant Administrator for the Office of Enforcement and