Multi-Association Comments to EPA on Designation of Ten Chemical Substances for Initial Risk Evaluations under TSCA

TO:Ms. Sheila Canavan
Mail Code 7405M
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics
William Jefferson Clinton Building
1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20460

RE: Comments on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Initial 10 Chemicals for Risk Evaluation
EPA-HQ-OPPT-2016-0723, EPA-HQ-OPPT-2016-0725, EPA-HQ-OPPT-0732, EPA-HQ-OPPT-2016-0733, EPA-HQ-OPPT-2016-0735, EPA-HQ-OPPT-2016-0736, EPA-HQ-OPPT-0737, EPA-HQOPPT-2016-0741, EPA-HQ-OPPT-2016-0742, and EPA-HQ-OPPT-0743

Ms. Canavan:

The undersigned organizations represent a broad spectrum of American businesses throughout the manufacturing and distribution supply chain that have aligned in an effort to better understand and communicate the impacts of legislative and regulatory chemical management issues at the federal, state, and local levels. The undersigned supported passage of the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act (LCSA), amending the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA ), and are committed to working with EPA to achieve the full, timely and reasonable implementation of the Act.

The undersigned have a broad understanding of the uses of chemicals in the U.S. marketplace. They provide these general comments relevant to EPA's February 14, 2017, Public Meeting on Risk Evaluation Scoping under TSCA for Ten Chemical Substances and the Preliminary Information on Manufacturing, Processing, Distribution, Use and Disposal documents EPA has included in the docket for each of the initial ten Work Plan chemicals. These comments are also intended to inform EPA's approach going forward for the development of preliminary Information of chemicals beyond the first 10 that are prioritized for Risk Evaluation under TSCA...