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EPA Announces Steep Increases in TSCA Fees
February 22, 2024 |EPA

EPA is finalizing increased fees for significant new use notices, pre-manufacture notices and other actions under the Toxic Substances Control Act, it said in a final rule Feb. 22. The rule, which also revises the agency’s cost estimates and methods for calculating future fees, roughly doubles current fees for many types of TSCA activities. It also finalizes six exemptions from some TSCA fees, including for importers of articles containing a chemical substance. The final rule takes effect April 22.

EPA Allows More Time for Electronic TSCA Polymer Exemption Reports
February 20, 2024 |EPA

EPA will give importers and manufacturers additional time to submit reports on polymers manufactured under an exemption from the Toxic Substances Control Act. The agency is extending the deadline to March 31, after technical difficulties affected a switch to electronic submission procedures, giving importers and manufacturers only days to submit reports prior to the original Jan. 31 deadline. The extension will “allow manufacturers additional time to submit their reports and accompanying claims to EPA using the electronic reporting tool,” the agency said.

EPA Releases Guidance on Absence of Ingredient Claims on Pesticide Labeling
February 8, 2024 |EPA

EPA recently released a new guidance document on “absence of an ingredient” claims in products regulated under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act. The agency said it will review such claims on pesticide labeling on a “case-by-case basis,” and provided examples of acceptable and unacceptable “absence of an ingredient claims” for bleach, phosphates and N,N-diethyl-meta-toluamide (DEET). The guidance document also “outlines the actions that may be taken by applicants and registrants who wish to modify their registrations or applications based on this guidance.”

EPA Sets New Reporting, Notification Requirements in SNURS for 329 Out-of-Use PFAS
January 10, 2024 |EPA

The Environmental Protection Agency is setting new significant new use rules (SNURs) under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) for 329 per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) that have not been imported, manufactured or processed for many years and are designated as inactive on the TSCA Chemical Substance Inventory, it said in a final rule released Jan. 10. As a result of the SNURs, anyone planning to manufacture, import or process any of the chemical substances for an activity designated as a significant new use by this rule are required to notify EPA at least 90 days in advance. Importers of chemicals subject to these SNURs will need to certify their compliance with the SNUR requirements, and exporters of these chemical substances will now become subject to export notification requirements. The final rule takes effect March 11.