Bona Fide Request for Inventory Listing

Model Bona Fide Request for Inventory Listing 

All instructions in italics should be deleted for the final letter. 

Re Bona fide intent to manufacture or import a chemical substance Dear Sir or Madam  

We intend to submit a Premanufacture Notice (PMN) around [insert month and date] for this substance if EPA informs us that the substance is not on the Inventory. 

Most likely we will manufacture or process the substance at the facility we control at [insert the address of the facility [[For an imported substance, only provide this information if the importer will be processing the substance and delete the word manufacture otherwise delete this bullet point]. 

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III. Model Bona Fide Request for Inventory Listing 785... 

Company name] plans to use a chemical substance for commercial purposes that is not listed by specific chemical name in the pubHc portion of the Inventory. We are therefore submitting this bona fide request in accordance with 40 C.F.R. 720.25 to determine if this substance is in included on the... 

A PMN must be made to the H A, under Section 5 of TSCA, 90 d before a new chemical substance is manufactured or imported into the USA. A new substance is one not on the Chemical Substances Inventory, which is the list of existing and previously-notified substances. A notification is also required for a new use of a listed substance which is subject to a Significant New Use Rule (SNUR). Notified substances are listed in the TSCA inventory only afto- being supplied and the mandatory Notice of Commencement of Manufacture or Import is filed with the EPA. Notified substances can be placed in the confidential section of the TSCA inventory, on justified request. Howev, potential suppliers can establish from the EPA whether the substance of concern is listed and hence is not notifiable by filing a bona fide intent to manufacture or import... 

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