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Risk Evaluation Procedural Rule under TSCA section 6(b)(4)

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Environmental Defense Fund filed 1 comment on this docket between Aug 30, 2016 and Aug 30, 2016. 29 other organizations filed here. The comment window closed 3625d ago.

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Aug 30, 2016· Comment submitted by Richard A. Denison, PhD, Lead Senior Scientist et al., Environmental Defense Fund (EDF)· EPA-HQ-OPPT-2016-0400-0026

Attached please find comments of the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) on the Risk Evaluation Procedural Rule EPA is developing.

Abstract

Under TSCA section 6(b)(4), EPA must promulgate a final rule within 1 year of enactment to establish EPA’s process for evaluating the risk of existing chemical substances and determining whether they present an unreasonable risk of injury to health or the environment, without consideration of costs or other non-risk factors, including an unreasonable risk to a potentially exposed or susceptible subpopulation identified as relevant to the risk evaluation by the Administrator, under the conditions of use.

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