Notification requirements

Quantities, and Notification Requirements for Ha2ardous Substances under CERCLA," Table 302.4, "Lists of Ha2ardous Substances and Reportable Quantities " EPCRA Section 304 Reportable Releases 40 CFR 355, "The List of Extremely Ha2ardous Substances and their Threshold Planning Quantities," Appendix A, Alphabetical Order, and Appendix B, CAS Number Order. 

Solveat users and formulators may choose to avoid notification requirements for their workplaces and products by selecting solvents that do not contain Proposition 65 substances. As a result. Proposition 65 considerations can also influence the composition of solvents used ia iadustrial processes and solvent-containing products. 

Supplier Notification. In 1989 and subsequent years, suppliers of facilities in SIC codes 20-39 are required to develop and distribute a notice if the mixtures or trade name products that they manufacture or process, and subsequently distribute, contain listed toxic chemicals. These notices are distributed to other companies in SIC codes 20-39 or to companies that sell the product to facilities in SIC codes 20-39. tf a Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) is not required for the mixture or trade name product, the notification must be in written form (i.e., letter or attachment to a MSDS). Otherwise, the notice must be incorporated into or attached to the MSDS for that product. The supplier notification requirement began with the first shipment of a product in 1989 and must accompany the first shipment each year thereafter. In addition, a new or revised notice must be sent if a change occurs in the product which affects the weight percent of a listed chemical or if it is discovered that a previous notice did not property identify the chemicals or the percentage by weight. For more information on supplier notification, see Appendix E. 

The language of the supplier notification requirements covers mixtures or trade name products that are sold or otherwise distributed. The "otherwise distributes" language applies to intra-company transfers. However, if the company has developed an internal communications procedure that alerts their other facilities to the presence and content of covered toxic chemicals in their products, then EPA would accept this. 

Indicates if notification requirements apply to the chemical released Identifies notification requirements for release of reportable quantities of chemicals (e.g., CERCLA, SARA). 

SARATRAX irr Research institute, Maryland Technology Center Dr. Quon Y. Kwan Sr. Env. Engineer 4600 Forbes Blvd Lanham, MD 20706 (800) 4S8-1564 (301) 459-3711 Assists with delcrminalion of facility reporting responsibilities under Sections 301-303, 304, and 311-312. Assists with notification requirements and definitions of responsibilities. Maintains lists of chemicals, quantities, locations, and properties to assist with the preparation of Tier I and Tier 11 reports. Generates Form R. 

Emergency notification should include chemical name and identification of the chemical by number estimation of quantity released time and duration of release mode of release (air, water, or soil) known health risks associated with the emergency applicable precautions and name and phone number of a contact person. All emergency notifications require a written follow-up as soon as possible [2]. 

EPA. 1985a. Notification requirements reportable quantity adjustments. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Federal Register 40 13456. 

This series of prohibitions restricts how wastes subject to LDR requirements are handled. The most visible aspect of the LDR program is the disposal prohibition, which includes treatment standards, variances, alternative treatment standards (ATSs), and notification requirements. Land disposal means placement in or on the land, except in a corrective action unit, and includes, but is not limited to, placement in a landfill, surface impoundment, waste pile, injection well, land treatment facility, salt dome formation, salt bed formation, underground mine or cave, or placement in a concrete vault, or bunker intended for disposal purposes. The other two components work in tandem with the disposal prohibition to guide the regulated community in proper hazardous waste management. The dilution prohibition ensures that wastes are properly treated, and the storage prohibition ensures that waste will not be stored indefinitely to avoid treatment. 

Generators must send a notification with the initial shipment of every waste. If the waste, process, or receiving facility changes, another notification is required. The information that the notification must include varies according to the status of the waste. For example, the notification requirements will differ slightly if the waste meets its treatment standard or is subject to a national capacity variance. 

Reilly Tar Chemical Corporation, "Proposed Premanufacture Notification Requirements and Review Procedures. Comments for The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency", March 21, 19/9. 

The Sixth Amendment s premarket notification requirements differ markedly from TSCA in three important respects. First, new substances in the EEC always will be considered "new" under the Sixth Amendment, because the notification requirements are person-specific — i.e. when one company submits a PMN for a particular substance, this does not relieve any other company from the requirement to submit its own PMN before that second company may place the same substance on the EEC market.(J3) Second, the Directive includes a scheme for regular follow-up reporting on the commercial development of new substances, with progressively more extensive (and expensive) testing requirements. Finally, the Sixth Amendment creates a one-time notification for each company (for each new substance), throughout the EEC. Thus, once a Member State has completed its review of a company s PMN (without taking any action to require further testing or to impose limitations upon production or use), that company is not required to provide a PMN to any other EEC country in which it subsequently markets the substance.(9)... 

Because the Sixth Amendment itself exempts most of the chemicals that are subject to EPA s current rulemaking, In general the Commission does not need to commence any exemption activities analogous to EPA s efforts. Thus, the EEC s premarket program covers only those new polymers that contain 2% or more of a monomer(s). (Any new monomer iis subject to the notification requirements.) Further, because PMN s must be submitted only for new substances that are "placed on the [Community] market," the EEC s PMN requirements generally do not apply to the manufacture and use of intermediates (or of any other new substances, for that matter) by one company at one site.(13)... 

The U.S. premanufacture notification (PMN) requirements have been in effect for approximately three years, and more than 1250 PMN s have been submitted to EPA. The EEC s premarket notification requirements took effect in September 1981,... 

See the discussion concerning EPA s intention to impose followup reporting or notification requirements upon the producers of some PMN ed substances. 

Similarly, if one person is exempt from the EEC s notification requirements, this does not relieve any other person from the requirement to submit a PMN if that second person is not also entitled to the exemption. 

Another important provision under Section 5 of TSCA is the "significant new use" notification requirement (called "SNUR"). A "SNUR" is designed to notify EPA when a chemical, that has undergone PMN review, presents a significant new distribution in... 

The administrator may upon application exempt any person from the notification requirements of section 5(a) or (b) if the substance in question is limited to test marketing... 

Anon. Toxic Substances Control Premanufacture Notification Requirement and Review Procedures FR. 

EPA. 1987a. Environmental Protection Agency. Extremely hazardous substances list and threshold planning quantities Emergency planning and release notification requirements. Federal Register 52 13378-13410. 

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