Implementation of the Toxic Substances Control Act: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Toxic Substances and Environmental Oversight of the Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States Senate, Ninety-seventh Congress, Second Session, August 4, 1982 |
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Page 41 - ... authority over chemical substances and mixtures should be exercised in such a manner as not to impede unduly or create unnecessary economic barriers to technological innovation while fulfilling the primary purpose of this Act to assure that such innovation and commerce in such chemical substances and mixtures do not present an unreasonable risk of injury to health or the environment.
Page 40 - Introduction The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is a national non-profit environmental organization supported by...
Page 54 - Where the harm envisaged is cancer, courts have recognized the need for action based upon lower standards of proof than otherwise applicable. Certified Color Manufacturers Association v. Mathews, 543 F.
Page 53 - Upon the receipt of— (1) any test data required to be submitted under this Act, or (2) any other information available to the Administrator, which indicates to the Administrator that there may be a reasonable basis to conclude that a chemical substance or mixture presents or will present a significant risk of serious or widespread harm to human beings from cancer, gene mutations, or birth defects...
Page 53 - Act, or (2) any other information available to the Administrator, which indicates to the Administrator that there may be a reasonable basis to conclude that a chemical substance or mixture presents or will present a significant risk of serious or widespread harm to human beings from cancer, gene mutations, or birth defects, the Administrator shall, within the 180-day period beginning on the date of the receipt of such data or information, initiate appropriate action under section...
Page 46 - The provisions of the section reflect the conferees' recognition that the most desirable time to determine the health and environmental effects of a substance, and to take action to protect aqainst any potential adverse effects occurs before commercial production begins..
Page 106 - ... pending acquisition of additional data. If the manufacturer files objections to the order, the Administrator may seek a court injunction to prevent marketing of the chemical until data are developed which indicate that the substance does not present an unreasonable risk. The Administrator may find that there is a reasonable basis to conclude that a new chemical presents or will present an unreasonable risk of injury to health or the environment. In that event, he may follow similar procedures...
Page 41 - TSCA is to prevent unreasonable risks of injury to health and the environmeht from exposure to toxic substances. The basic objectives of . the law, as set forth in §2, are that adequate data on the effects of chemicals should be developed by those who produce them; that EPA should have adequate authority to regulate chemical substances which present an unreasonable risk of injury to health and the environment...
Page 108 - ... manufacture, processing, use, or disposal of each such substance or mixture. (E) All existing data concerning the environmental and health effects of such substance or mixture. (F) The number of individuals exposed, and reasonable estimates of the number who will be exposed, to such substance or mixture in their places of employment and the duration of such exposure. (G) In the initial report under paragraph (1) on such substance or mixture, the manner or method of its disposal, and in any subsequent...
Page 115 - Indeed, the use of TSCA authorities to develop such a follow-up program was clearly anticipated by Congress. Senator Magnuson, Chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, stated in the Senate consideration of the Conference Report: "The requirement that manufacturing and processing notices be given for significant new uses of chemical substances is extremely important. As chemical substances frequently are not manufactured in large volumes or for a large number of uses initially, the authority to...