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Part IV
Environmental Protection Agency
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Seventy-First Report of the TSCA Interagency Testing Committee to the
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency; Receipt of Report
and Request for Comments; Notice
Federal Register / Vol. 77 , No. 244 / Wednesday, December 19, 2012 /
Notices
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OPPT-2012-0820; FRL-9370-9]
Seventy-First Report of the TSCA Interagency Testing Committee to
the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency; Receipt of
Report and Request for Comments
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Interagency Testing
Committee (ITC) transmitted its 71st ITC Report to the EPA
Administrator on November 14, 2012. In the 71st ITC Report, which is
included with this notice, the ITC is revising the TSCA section 4(e)
Priority Testing List by removing 16 High Production Volume (HPV)
Challenge Program orphan chemicals. The ITC is removing these 16
chemicals because actions have been taken to assess their hazardous
potential.
DATES: Comments must be received on or before January 18, 2013.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by docket identification
(ID) number EPA-HQ-OPPT-2012-0820, by one of the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov.
Follow the online instructions for submitting comments.
Mail: Document Control Office (7407M), Office of Pollution
Prevention and Toxics (OPPT), Environmental Protection Agency, 1200
Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460-0001.
Hand Delivery: OPPT Document Control Office (DCO), EPA
East Bldg., Rm. 6428, 1201 Constitution Ave. NW., Washington, DC. ATTN:
Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-OPPT-2012-0820. The DCO is open from 8 a.m. to
4 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding legal holidays. The telephone
number for the DCO is (202) 564-8930. Such deliveries are only accepted
during the DCO's normal hours of operation, and special arrangements
should be made for deliveries of boxed information.
Instructions: Direct your comments to docket ID number EPA-HQ-OPPT-
2012-0820. EPA's policy is that all comments received will be included
in the docket without change and may be made available online at http://www.regulations.gov, including any personal information provided,
unless the comment includes information claimed to be Confidential
Business Information (CBI) or other information whose disclosure is
restricted by statute. Do not submit information that you consider to
be CBI or otherwise protected through regulations.gov or email. The
regulations.gov Web site is an ``anonymous access'' system, which means
EPA will not know your identity or contact information unless you
provide it in the body of your comment. If you send an email comment
directly to EPA without going through regulations.gov, your email
address will be automatically captured and included as part of the
comment that is placed in the docket and made available on the
Internet. If you submit an electronic comment, EPA recommends that you
include your name and other contact information in the body of your
comment and with any disk or CD-ROM you submit. If EPA cannot read your
comment due to technical difficulties and cannot contact you for
clarification, EPA may not be able to consider your comment. Electronic
files should avoid the use of special characters, any form of
encryption, and be free of any defects or viruses.
Docket: All documents in the docket are listed in the docket index
available at http://www.regulations.gov. Although listed in the index,
some information is not publicly available, e.g., CBI or other
information whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Certain other
material, such as copyrighted material, will be publicly available only
in hard copy. Publicly available docket materials are available
electronically at http://www.regulations.gov, or, if only available in
hard copy, at the OPPT Docket. The OPPT Docket is located in the EPA
Docket Center (EPA/DC) at Rm. 3334, EPA West Bldg., 1301 Constitution
Ave. NW., Washington, DC. The EPA/DC Public Reading Room hours of
operation are 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding
legal holidays. The telephone number of the EPA/DC Public Reading Room
is (202) 566-1744, and the telephone number for the OPPT Docket is
(202) 566-0280. Docket visitors are required to show photographic
identification, pass through a metal detector, and sign the EPA visitor
log. All visitor bags are processed through an X-ray machine and
subject to search. Visitors will be provided an EPA/DC badge that must
be visible at all times in the building and returned upon departure.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
For technical information contact: John D. Walker, TSCA Interagency
Testing Committee (7401M), Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics,
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW.,
Washington, DC 20460-0001; telephone number: (202) 564-7527; fax
number: (202) 564-7528; email address: [email protected].
For general information contact: The TSCA-Hotline, ABVI-Goodwill,
422 South Clinton Ave., Rochester, NY 14620; telephone number: (202)
554-1404; email address: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. General Information
A. Does this action apply to me?
This notice is directed to the public in general. It may, however,
be of particular interest to you if you manufacture (defined by statute
to include import) and/or process TSCA-covered chemicals and you may be
identified by the North American Industrial Classification System
(NAICS) codes 325 and 32411. Because this notice is directed to the
general public and other entities may also be interested, the Agency
has not attempted to describe all the specific entities that may be
interested in this action.
B. What should I consider as I prepare my comments for EPA?
1. Submitting CBI. Do not submit this information to EPA through
regulations.gov or email. Clearly mark the part or all of the
information that you claim to be CBI. For CBI information in a disk or
CD-ROM that you mail to EPA, mark the outside of the disk or CD-DOM as
CBI and then identify electronically within the disk or CD-ROM the
specific information that is claimed as CBI. In addition to one
complete version of the comment that includes information claimed as
CBI, a copy of the comment that does not contain the information
claimed as CBI must be submitted for inclusion in the public docket.
Information so marked will not be disclosed except in accordance with
procedures set forth in 40 CFR part 2.
2. Tips for preparing your comments. When submitting comments,
remember to:
i. Identify the document by docket ID number and other identifying
information (subject heading, Federal Register date and page number).
ii. Follow directions. The Agency may ask you to respond to
specific questions or organize comments by referencing a Code of
Federal Regulations (CFR) part or section number.
iii. Explain why you agree or disagree; suggest alternatives and
substitute language for your requested changes.
iv. Describe any assumptions and provide any technical information
and/or data that you used.
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v. If you estimate potential costs or burdens, explain how you
arrived at your estimate in sufficient detail to allow for it to be
reproduced.
vi. Provide specific examples to illustrate your concerns and
suggest alternatives.
vii. Explain your views as clearly as possible, avoiding the use of
profanity or personal threats.
viii. Make sure to submit your comments by the comment period
deadline identified.
II. Background
The Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) (15 U.S.C. 260l et seq.)
authorizes the EPA Administrator to promulgate regulations under TSCA
section 4(a) requiring testing of chemicals and chemical groups in
order to develop data relevant to determining the risks that such
chemicals and chemical groups may present to health or the environment.
Section 4(e) of TSCA established the ITC to recommend chemicals and
chemical groups to the EPA Administrator for priority testing
consideration. Section 4(e) of TSCA directs the ITC to revise the TSCA
section 4(e) Priority Testing List at least every 6 months.
You may access additional information about the ITC at http://www.epa.gov/oppt/itc.
A. The 71st ITC Report
The ITC is revising the TSCA section 4(e) Priority Testing List by
removing 16 HPV Challenge Program orphan chemicals.
B. Status of the Priority Testing List
The Priority Testing List includes 16 chemicals with insufficient
dermal absorption rate data, 2 alkylphenols, 148 HPV Challenge Program
orphan chemicals, cadmium, a category of cadmium compounds including
any unique chemical substance that contains cadmium as part of that
chemical's structure, 6 non-phthalate plasticizers, 25 phosphate ester
flame retardants, 2 other flame retardants, 9 chemicals to which
children living near hazardous waste sites may be exposed, and a
category of 69 diisocyanates and related compounds.
List of Subjects
Environmental protection, Chemicals, Hazardous substances.
Dated: December 11, 2012.
Wendy C. Hamnett,
Director, Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics.
Seventy-First Report of the TSCA Interagency Testing Committee to the
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency
Table of Contents
Summary
I. Background
II. ITC's Activities During This Reporting Period (June to October
2012)
III. HPV Challenge Program Orphan Chemicals Removed From the TSCA
Section 4(e) Priority Testing List
IV. References
V. The TSCA Interagency Testing Committee
Summary
The ITC is revising the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) section
4(e) Priority Testing List by removing 16 High Production Volume (HPV)
Challenge Program orphan chemicals.
The TSCA section 4(e) Priority Testing List is Table 1 of this
unit.
Table 1--TSCA Section 4(e) Priority Testing List
[October 2012]
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ITC report Date Chemical name/group Action
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31..................... January 1993............. 2 Chemicals with insufficient Designated.
dermal absorption rate data,
methylcyclohexane and
cyclopentane.
32..................... May 1993................. 10 Chemicals with Designated.
insufficient dermal
absorption rate data.
35..................... November 1994............ 4 Chemicals with insufficient Designated.
dermal absorption rate data,
cyclopentadiene, formamide,
1,2,3-trichloropropane, and
m-nitrotoluene.
37..................... November 1995............ Branched 4-nonylphenol (mixed Recommended.
isomers).
41..................... November 1997............ Phenol, 4-(1,1,3,3- Recommended.
tetramethylbutyl)-.
55..................... December 2004............ 147 High Production Volume Recommended.
(HPV) Challenge Program
orphan chemicals.
56..................... August 2005.............. 1 HPV Challenge Program Recommended.
orphan chemical, naphtha
(petroleum), clay-treated
light straight-run.
68..................... May 2011................. Cadmium...................... Recommended.
69..................... November 2011............ Cadmium compounds............ Recommended.
69..................... November 2011............ 6 Non-phthalate plasticizers. Recommended.
69..................... November 2011............ 25 Phosphate ester flame Recommended.
retardants.
69..................... November 2011............ 2 Other flame retardants..... Recommended.
69..................... November 2011............ 9 Chemicals to which children Recommended.
living near hazardous waste
sites may be exposed.
69..................... November 2011............ 69 Diisocyanates and related Recommended.
compounds.
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I. Background
The ITC was established by TSCA section 4(e) ``to make
recommendations to the Administrator respecting the chemical substances
and mixtures to which the Administrator should give priority
consideration for the promulgation of rules for testing under section
4(a) * * *. At least every six months * * *, the Committee shall make
such revisions to the Priority Testing List as it determines to be
necessary and transmit them to the Administrator together with the
Committee's reasons for the revisions'' (Public Law 94-469, 90 Stat.
2003 et seq., 15 U.S.C. 2601 et seq.). ITC reports are available from
the ITC's Web site (http://www.epa.gov/oppt/itc) and from
regulations.gov (http://www.regulations.gov) after publication in the
Federal Register. The ITC produces its revisions to the Priority
Testing List with administrative and technical support from the ITC
staff and ITC members. ITC members and staff are listed at the end of
this report.
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II. ITC's Activities During This Reporting Period (June to October
2012)
During this reporting period, the ITC discussed the 164 High
Production Volume (HPV) Challenge Program orphan chemicals remaining on
the TSCA section 4(e) Priority Testing List. As a result of these
discussions, the ITC removed 16 HPV Challenge Program orphan chemicals
from the TSCA section 4(e) Priority Testing List. Orphan chemicals are
those HPV chemicals for which no sponsors have volunteered to develop
and submit robust summaries of basic hazard and fate testing data to
the EPA. The hazard and fate testing data requested by the ITC for HPV
Challenge Program orphan chemicals are necessary to establish a
screening level understanding of their potential human health and
environmental impacts.
III. HPV Challenge Program Orphan Chemicals Removed From the TSCA
Section 4(e) Priority Testing List
The Chemical Abstract Service (CAS) Registry numbers and names of
the 16 HPV Challenge Program orphan chemicals being removed from the
Priority Testing List are listed in Table 2 of this unit. Also listed
in Table 2 of this unit are the ITC reports in which the HPV Challenge
Program orphan chemicals were added to the Priority Testing List and
the rationale for their removal. The Universal Resource Locators (URLs
or Web site addresses) provide additional information about the
disposition of these chemicals and are included as footnotes to Table 2
of this unit.
Table 2--HPV Orphan Chemicals Being Removed From the Priority Testing List in This 71st ITC Report
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CAS No. Chemical name ITC report Removal rationale
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62-56-6......................... Thiourea.................. 55 EPA NPRM.\a\
81-16-3......................... 1-Naphthalenesulfonic 55 OECD SIDS.\b\
acid, 2-amino-.
84-69-5......................... 1,2-Benzenedicarboxylic 55 EPA NPRM.\a\
acid, 1,2-bis(2-
methylpropyl) ester.
91-68-9......................... Phenol, 3-(diethylamino)-. 55 Sponsored chemical.\c\
110-18-9........................ 1,2-Ethanediamine, 55 Sponsored chemical.\d\
N1,N1,N2,N2-tetramethyl-.
119-33-5........................ Phenol, 4-methyl-2-nitro-. 55 OECD SIDS program.\e\
121-69-7........................ Benzenamine, N,N-dimethyl- 55 Sponsored chemical.\c\
131-57-7........................ Methanone, (2-hydroxy-4- 55 EPA NPRM.\a\
methoxyphenyl)phenyl-.
870-72-4........................ Methanesulfonic acid, 1- 55 EPA NPRM.\a\
hydroxy-, sodium salt
(1:1).
6473-13-8....................... 2-Naphthalenesulfonicacid, 55 EPA NPRM.\a\
6-[2-(2,4-
diaminophenyl)diazenyl]-3-
[2-[4-[[4-[2-[7-[2-(2,4-
diaminophenyl)diazenyl]-1-
hydroxy-3-sulfo-2-
naphthalenyl]diazenyl]phe
nyl]amino]-3-
sulfophenyl]diazenyl]-4-
hydroxy-, sodium salt
(1:3).
28188-24-1...................... Octadecanoic acid, 1,1'-2- 55 EPA NPRM\a\
(hydroxymethyl)-2-[[(1-
oxooctadecyl)oxy]methyl]-
1,3-propanediyl ester.
61788-44-1...................... Phenol, styrenated........ 56 Sponsored chemical.\f\
68334-01-0...................... Disulfides, alkylaryl 55 Sponsored chemical.\g\
dialkyl diaryl, petroleum
refinery spent caustic
oxidn. products.
68457-74-9...................... Phenol, isobutylenated 56 Sponsored chemical.\f\
methylstyrenated.
68915-39-9...................... Cyclohexane, oxidized, aq. 55 Analog to
ext., sodium salt. CAS No. 68915-38-8.\h\
90640-80-5...................... Anthracene oil............ 55 OECD SIDS program.\i\
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Footnotes:
\a\ EPA Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM). Federal Register (65 FR 81658, December 26, 2000) (FRL-6758-4).
\b\ http://webnet.oecd.org/hpv/UI/Result.aspx?Q=2e64bf75-689c-4499-95c8-bb0a5616c03d.
\c\ http://www.epa.gov/chemrtk/pubs/summaries/aroamin/c13310tc.htm.
\d\ http://www.epa.gov/HPV/pubs/summaries/nnnntetr/c14715rs.pdf.
\e\ http://webnet.oecd.org/hpv/UI/Result.aspx?Q=df187798-b971-44f0-8323-b841fff85856.
\f\ http://www.epa.gov/HPV/pubs/summaries/hndrdphn/c13382tp.pdf.
\g\ http://www.epa.gov/HPV/pubs/summaries/resbscat/c14906.pdf.
\h\ http://www.epa.gov/chemrtk/pubs/summaries/cyclhxox/c15012tc.htm.
\i\ http://webnet.oecd.org/hpv/UI/SIDS_Details.aspx?id=289cb585-0b2f-4d84-bece-59184368cc20.
Note: OECD SIDS program = Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Screening Information Data Set
program.
Fourteen of the HPV Challenge Program orphan chemicals that were
removed from the Priority Testing List in this 71st ITC Report were
added to the Priority Testing List in the 55th ITC Report (Ref. 1). Two
of the HPV Challenge Program orphan chemicals that were removed from
the Priority Testing List in this 71st ITC Report were added to the
Priority Testing List in the 56th ITC Report (Ref. 2). Six of the HPV
Challenge Program orphan chemicals were removed because they were added
to a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that proposed to require
manufacturers and processors of these chemicals to conduct testing for
acute toxicity, repeated dose toxicity, developmental and reproductive
toxicity, genetic toxicity, ecotoxicity, and environmental fate (Ref.
3). Three of the HPV Challenge Program orphan chemicals were removed
because they were in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and
Development (OECD) Screening Information Data Set (SIDS) program
(http://www.epa.gov/opptintr/chemtest/pubs/oecdsids.html). The URLs for
the three OECD SIDS chemicals are provided as footnotes b, e, and i to
Table 2 of this unit. Six of the HPV Challenge Program orphan chemicals
were removed because their testing was sponsored by the chemical's
producers. The URLs for the six sponsored chemicals are provided as
footnotes c, d, f, and g to Table 2 of this unit. One chemical was
removed because it was an analog to a chemical with robust summaries
and test plans. The URL for that chemical is provided as footnote h to
Table 2 of this unit.
IV. References
1. ITC. Fifty-Fifth Report of the ITC; Notice. Federal Register (70
FR 7364, February 11, 2005) (FRL-7692-1). Available online at:
http://www.regulations.gov. Docket ID Number: EPA-HQ-OPPT-2012-0820.
2. ITC. Fifty-Sixth Report of the ITC; Notice. Federal Register (70
FR 61520, October 24, 2005) (FRL-7739-9). Available online at:
http://www.regulations.gov. Docket ID Number: EPA-HQ-OPPT-
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2012-0820.
3. EPA. Testing of Certain High Production Volume Chemicals;
Proposed Rule. Federal Register (65 FR 81658, December 26, 2000)
(FRL-6758-4). Available online at: http://www.regulations.gov.
Docket ID number: EPA-HQ-OPPT-2012-0820.
V. The TSCA Interagency Testing Committee
Statutory Organizations With Representatives
Department of Commerce
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Dianne L. Poster, Alternate
Environmental Protection Agency
Robert W. Jones, Member
John E. Schaeffer, Alternate
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Nigel Walker, Member
Scott Masten, Alternate
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
Gayle DeBord, Member
Dennis W. Lynch, Alternate
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Janet Carter, Member
Thomas Nerad, Alternate
Liaison Organizations With Representatives
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
Glenn D. Todd, Member
Consumer Product Safety Commission
Dominique Johnson, Member
Department of Agriculture
Clifford P. Rice, Member
Cathleen J. Hapeman, Alternate
Department of Defense
Laurie E. Roszell, Member
Department of the Interior
Barnett A. Rattner, Member
Food and Drug Administration
Kirk Arvidson, Member
Ronald F. Chanderbhan, Alternate
ITC Staff
John D. Walker, Director
Carol Savage, Administrative Assistant (NOWCC Employee)
TSCA Interagency Testing Committee (7401M), Office of Pollution
Prevention and Toxics, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200
Pennsylvania Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460-0001; email address:
[email protected]; url: http://www.epa.gov/oppt/itc.
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