Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics

The TSCA program is federally managed, run by US-EPA and is not delegated to any state agency. The law is overseen by the US-EPA Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics (OPPT). 

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (US-EPA) was established in 1970. The US-EPA is responsible for regulation of chemicals in air, water, and soil (US-EPA 2006a). 

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Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics U.S. Envhonmental Protection Agency (EPA)... 

Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxic Substances (OPPT) Databases and Software... 

EPA (2007) Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics. Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards, www.epa.gov/greenchemistry/pubs/pgcc/presgcc.html... 

The EPA s Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics developed Chemical Fact sheets to summarize information on a particular chemical including exposure, environment and human health hazard, environmental fate, regulatory information, and whom to contact for additional information. 

The Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics (OPPT) has developed a series of methods, databases, and predictive models to help in evaluating what happens to chemicals when they are used and released into the environment. These tools are intended to be used by scientists and engineers famihar with exposure assessment principles. 

EPA = Environmental Protection Agency NIOSH = National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health OPPT = Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics OSHA = Occupational Safety and Health Administration OSW = Office of Solid Waste STEL = Short Term Exposure Limit TWA = Time-Weighted Average USCG = U.S. Coast Guard... 

United States Environmental Protection Agency (2011) Methodology document for the ecological Structure-Activity Relationship Model (ECOSAR) Class Program MS-Windows Version 1.1 Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics, Washington, DC. http //www.epa.gov/ oppt/newchems/tools/ecosartechfinal.pdf. Accessed 09 Mar 2012... 

Craig, D.K., and J.Frye. 1988. Acute LC50 Nose Only Inhalation Toxicity Studies of Arsine in Rats [final report with cover letter to the Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics, dated Feb. 21, 1992], Battelle, Columbus, OH. 

EPA. 1995f. Toxics Chemical Release Inventory Reporting Form R and instructions Revised 1994 version. EPA 745-K-95-051. Washington DC U. S. EPA. Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics. 

EPA. 1992c. Di-w-octylphthalate exposure report for delisting petition. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC. Memorandum from Annett Nold, Exposure Assessment Branch, Exposure Evaluation Division, Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics to Ken Mitchell, Toxics Release Inventory Management Staff, Economics and Technology Division, Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics. September 21, 1992. 

EPA (1991) Toxics release inventory-public data release. US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics, Washington DC... 

The US-EPA s Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics (OPPT) uses a tiered approach to exposure assessment (US-EPA 2007a). Exposure assessments may use measured data or model estimates. Representative measured data of known quahty are preferred over model estimates and are needed to vahdate and improve models. The US-EPA Guidelines for Exposure Assessment... 

Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics, US EPA, OSHA, Div of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations and Field Studies, NIOSH, CDC Occupational fatalities associated with 2,4-dichlorophenol (2,4-DCP) exposure, 1980-1998. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 49(23) 516-518,Jun 16, 2000... 

Within a year of the act s adoption, the EPA had assigned responsibility for its implementation to the Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics, formed in 1977 to administer the Toxic Substances Control Act, and had begun the first federally funded green chemistry programs. By 1992, the National Science Foundation had also begun funding research on "environmentally benign [chemical] syntheses and processes."... 

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