Environmental Protection Agency March 8, 2016 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

With this notice, EPA is announcing the availability of and opening the public comment period for the draft TSCA Work Plan Chemical risk assessment for 1-Bromopropane (1-BP). EPA develops TSCA Work Plan Chemical assessments using the best available information and approaches. These assessments focus on those TSCA uses of the chemical with significant potential for exposure to humans and/or the environment. EPA issues draft risk assessments for public review and comment, followed by independent peer review in accordance with Agency peer review guidelines. The Agency considers all public and peer review comments as it revises and finalizes the risk assessment. Based on the final TSCA risk assessment, the Agency may either initiate risk reduction actions that are necessary to address the potential risks identified, or may conclude its work on the chemical uses being assessed if no risks are found.

There will be a 3-day meeting of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act Scientific Advisory Panel (FIFRA SAP) to consider and review Chlorpyrifos: Analysis of Biomonitoring Data.

EPA issued a document in the Federal Register of November 20, 2015, concerning the removal of the entry ``Rice, straw'' from the table in 40 CFR 180.361(a). EPA subsequently issued a document in the Federal Register of December 21, 2015, which redesignated 40 CFR 180.361(a) as 40 CFR 180.361(a)(1). This document corrects the document published on November 20, 2015, to remove the entry ``Rice, straw'' from the table in paragraph (a)(1).