Petitions Practice Under TSCA

A Freedom of Information Act request by the authors dated July 17,2009 resulted in a list from EPA of approximately fifty petitions from the enactment of TSCA through January 28, 2001. There was no indication in the response why the list ended at the beginning of 2001. A search in the EPA s Federal Register documents collection returned notices of approximately ten more petitions filed from 2001 to 2008. Two more were filed through August 2009. Until the EPA granted two petitions relating to lead in 

Lynn Bergeson, TSCA Toxic Substances Control Act 108 (American Bar Association, 2000). 

See http //www.epa.gov/oppt/chemtest/pubs/petitions.html. 

Petition from Carl Pope, Sierra Club and others, to Stephen Johnson, Administrator, US. EPA (Mar. 20,2008), available at http //www.epa.gov/oppt/chemtest/pubs/petition3.pdf. 73 Fed. Reg. 22369 (Apr. 25, 2008). 

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