Environmental Protection Agency January 28, 2008 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Interagency Testing Committee (ITC) transmitted its 61\st\ ITC Report to the Administrator of EPA on December 18, 2007. In the 61\st\ ITC Report, which is included with this notice, the ITC is revising the TSCA section 4(e) Priority Testing List by adding 4 cresols and removing 35 High Production Volume (HPV) Challenge Program orphan chemicals. The cresols were added to obtain dermal sensitization data. To obtain dermal sensitization data, including case reports of workers and any in vivo animal sensitization test data, the ITC is asking EPA to add the 4 cresols to the TSCA section 8(d) Health and Safety Data Reporting (HaSDR) rule. The 35 HPV Challenge Program orphan chemicals are being removed from the Priority Testing List either because: Commitments were made to sponsor these chemicals under the EPA's HPV Challenge Program, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) HPV Screening Information Data Set (SIDS) Program, and/or the International Council of Chemical Associations (ICCA) HPV Initiative, or because the substances were determined by EPA to be ``no longer'' HPV chemical substances.