Environmental Protection Agency August 20, 2019 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Office of Air and Radiation, Office of Atmospheric Programs, is giving notice that it proposes to create a new system of records pursuant to the provisions of the Privacy Act of 1974. This system of records contains personally identifiable information collected from approved Clean Air Act section 608 technician certification programs that are withdrawing from the program or having their approval revoked. The system will maintain the information necessary for EPA to assist certified air-conditioning and refrigeration technicians who have lost or damaged their certification cards in obtaining replacement cards when the original cards were obtained from certification programs that have withdrawn from the program or have had their approval revoked.

EPA is issuing significant new use rules (SNURs) under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) for 145 chemical substances which are the subject of premanufacture notices (PMNs). The chemical substances are subject to Orders issued by EPA pursuant to section 5(e) of TSCA. This action requires persons who intend to manufacture (defined by statute to include import) or process any of these 145 chemical substances for an activity that is designated as a significant new use by this rule to notify EPA at least 90 days before commencing that activity. The required notification initiates EPA's evaluation of the use, under the conditions of use for that chemical substance, within the applicable review period. Persons may not commence manufacture or processing for the significant new use until EPA has conducted a review of the notice, made an appropriate determination on the notice, and has taken such actions as are required by that determination.