3.0.0 725 2023-01-11T13:27:52Z 2023-01-11T13:27:52Z Senate S 2015-03-12 114 ssev00 Environment and Public Works Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2015-03-12T16:11:21Z Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act 114 697 S 2015-06-18 By Senator Inhofe from Committee on Environment and Public Works filed written report. Report No. 114-67. Minority views filed. Related bill CRS 2015-03-12 ssev00 Environment and Public Works Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. IntroReferral 2015-03-12 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress B000711 Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA] BARBARA BOXER D CA N M000133 Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA] Edward Markey D MA J. 2015-03-12 True S000033 Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT] Bernard Sanders I VT 2015-03-12 True G000555 Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY] Kirsten Gillibrand D NY E. 2015-03-23 False B001277 Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT] Richard Blumenthal D CT 2015-03-23 False M000702 Sen. Mikulski, Barbara A. [D-MD] BARBARA MIKULSKI D MD ANN 2015-04-15 False Environmental Protection Administrative law and regulatory procedures Administrative remedies Advisory bodies Child health Congressional oversight Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Environmental assessment, monitoring, research Environmental health Environmental regulatory procedures Government information and archives Hazardous wastes and toxic substances Health programs administration and funding Health promotion and preventive care Judicial review and appeals Manufacturing Public participation and lobbying Women's health Worker safety and health Environmental Protection 00 2015-03-12 Introduced in Senate 2016-07-14T18:06:19Z Alan Reinstein and Trevor Schaefer Toxic Chemical Protection Act

This bill amends the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) to revise the regulation of chemicals.

A safety standard is established to ensure with reasonable certainty that no harm to human health or the environment will result from exposure to a chemical under the intended or reasonable foreseeable conditions of use. The standard includes the protection of potentially exposed or susceptible populations. The standard does not take cost or other non-risk factors into consideration.

The bill expands the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) authority to require the development of new information about a chemical.

By specified deadlines, the EPA must designate a certain number of existing chemicals as high or low priority for safety assessments and determinations and conduct risk-based safety assessments and determinations for high priority chemicals. Low-priority designations are subject to judicial review.

The EPA must prohibit or restrict the manufacture, processing, use, distribution, or disposal of a new chemical, or a significant new use of an existing chemical, if the chemical will not likely meet the safety standard, or additional information is necessary to make a safety determination.

If a chemical does not meet the safety standard, the EPA must impose restrictions to assure that it meets the standard, or ban or phase out the chemical when the safety standard cannot be met with the application of those restrictions.

The EPA may declare a proposed rule effective upon publication to protect the public interest when certain activities involving chemicals are likely to result in a significant risk of serious or widespread injury to health or the environment.

The EPA must: (1) list all forms of asbestos as high-priority chemicals; and (2) expedite identification, assessment, and action on persistent, bio-accumulative, and toxic chemicals.

Confidential business information claims to protect information related to chemicals must be substantiated by manufacturers or processors and reviewed by the EPA. The bill sets forth the types of information that are protected from disclosure and the duration of such protection.

The EPA must require manufacturers of chemical substances to pay fees to defray the cost of administering this bill.

The EPA must operate Regional Disease Cluster Information and Response Centers and Regional Disease Cluster Information and Response Teams and may award grants for technical assistance for the investigation and mitigation of a community-based disease cluster. A "disease cluster" means the occurrence of a greater-than-expected number of cases of a particular disease within a group of individuals, a geographic area, or a period of time.

]]> Alan Reinstein and Trevor Schaefer Toxic Chemical Protection Act Display Title Alan Reinstein and Trevor Schaefer Toxic Chemical Protection Act Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the Toxic Substances Control Act, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Alan Reinstein and Trevor Schaefer Toxic Chemical Protection Act Introduced in Senate 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-114s725is/xml/BILLS-114s725is.xml 2015-03-12 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.