That Is Not Reportable

The statutory language of TSCA 8(e) relieves a person from the obligation to report substantial risk information if such person has actual knowledge that the Administrator has been adequately informed of such information. It is prudent to interpret that exception quite literally regulated companies should report under TSCA 8(e) unless they have proof that the EPA has received or will receive the same reports. 

MTBE was a citizens suit under TSCA 20 seeking to compel oil companies to report certain information concerning methyl tertiary butyl ether under TSCA 8(e). As the MTBE case makes clear, people bringing citizens suits are not bound by EPA guidance that purports to relax strict compliance with the statutory language. Similarly, there is no reason why any other federal agency would be compelled to interpret TSCA the way the EPA does in the guidances.  

The first category includes the following descriptions in the 2003 Reporting Guidance of situations when substantial risk information does not need to be reported under TSCA 8(e) because the EPA has already been adequately informed  

For example, there is no reason why a conspiracy charge could not be predicated on a failure to report substantial risk information to the EPA even if the information had been reported to a state agency. See infra W.R. Grace. 

The statutes administered by the EPA are Usted at http //www.epa.gov/lawsregs/laws/index. html. 

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In some cases (written agreement with the client) the results may be reported in a simplified way, but any information listed in 5.10.2 to 5.10.4 (see following slides) that is not reported to the client shall be readily available in the laboratory. 

The stability of LEDs is a critical parameter for commercialization that is not reported in most academic studies of polymer LEDs. In this aspect, polyfluorenes have proven to be exceptional. Fig 10.29 shows the lifetime plot of a red polymer... 

The communication of ideas is an important part of the work of scientists. A discovery that is not reported will not advance the scientific community s understanding or knowledge. Communication among scientists also is important as a way of improving their investigations. 

Besides the two main streams of the CEA programme, S/I cycle and HIE studies and development, a limited programme considers alternative cycle that could backup these two if optimization fails. In a first part, a methodology is being studied, that can be applied to each process and could lead to a more standardise comparison of advantages and disadvantages. Another point concerns economic evaluation of the cycles that is not reported here. Finally, several cycles are presented with a first set of analysis. 

There are numerous other possible situations in which a company can obtain information that is not reportable solely because the subject chemical is not subject to TSCA. For example, a report concerning a chemical that is... 

Crude canola oil seems to be a high source of canolol in industrially processed canola oils. In addition, there are options for the use of pre-treatments such as heating and steaming that can be used to elevate canolol levels in oils. Another way is to use deo-distillates as a source of nutraceutical canolol. The results obtained in our laboratory seems to be the only study to the best of our knowledge that seems to be successful in reporting canolol to a very high level that is not reported until now with its scope as a nutraceutical. 

The elongation of a stretched fiber is best described as a combination of instantaneous extension and a time-dependent extension or creep. This viscoelastic behavior is common to many textile fibers, including acetate. Conversely, recovery of viscoelastic fibers is typically described as a combination of immediate elastic recovery, delayed recovery, and permanent set or secondary creep. The permanent set is the residual extension that is not recoverable. These three components of recovery for acetate are given in Table 1 (4). The elastic recovery of acetate fibers alone and in blends has also been reported (5). In textile processing strains of more than 10% are avoided in order to produce a fabric of acceptable dimensional or shape stabiUty. 

Industrial screening is used essentially for separations over 0.2 mm and in conjunction with cmshers because the efficiency decreases rapidly as particle size decreases. The main objective is to remove undersize material that should not be circulated back to the cmshers, or to remove (scalp) oversize material or trash that should not report to the subsequent processing step. Other appHcations of screening include production of a specification size material (as in quarrys), dewatering, and trash removal from processed material. 

Plant and Animal Nutrient. Copper is one of seven micronutrients that has been identified as essential to the proper growth of plants (87). Cereal crops are by far the most affected by copper deficiency (see Wheat and other cereal grains). Greenhouse studies have shown yield increases from 38% to over 500% for wheat, barley, and oats (88) using copper supplementation. A tenfold increase in the yield of oats was reported in France (89). Symptoms of copper deficiency vary depending on species, but often it is accompanied by withering or chlorosis in the leaves that is not ammenable to iron supplementation. In high concentrations, particularly in low pH sods, copper can be toxic to plants. 

The effluent from the isolation wash belt is the principal wastewater stream from the polymerization process. It contains highly diluted acetic acid and a surfactant that is not biodegradable. The wastewater streams are sent to sewage treatment plants where BOD is reduced to acceptable levels. Alternative biodegradable surfactants have been reported in the Hterature (173). 

The current widespread interest in MFC techniques was initiated by pioneering research performed by two industrial groups in the 1970s. Shell Oil (Houston, TX) reported their Dynamic Matrix Control (DMC) approach in 1979, while a similar technique, marketed as IDCOM, was published by a small French company, ADERSA, in 1978. Since then, there have been over one thousand applications of these and related MFC techniques in oil refineries and petrochemical plants around the world. Thus, MFC has had a substantial impact and is currently the method of choice for difficult multivariable control problems in these industries. However, relatively few applications have been reported in other process industries, even though MFC is a veiy general approach that is not limited to a particular industiy. 

A complete report for any listed toxic chemical that is not claimed trade secret consists of the following completed parts ... 

As far as topics and learning needs typically addressed during mentoring sessions are concerned, Bernard Wynne states that . .. there seems to be very little that is not discussed and when meetings take place, they are clearly productive. Some of the needs that were discussed can be gauged from the evaluation outcomes reported below. 

There is always the possibility that there may come a time when a laboratory discovers itself doing work in connection with illegal activities, such as drug manufacturing. Here is where the whistle must be blowm. If the case is not reported to authorities, the laboratory could become a co-defendant in a prosecution. 

The work itself can now begin, but that is not the end of the security procedure, because it must be maintained and reviewed constantly in the light of unforeseen dangerous situations. Any incident must be reported and the procedure employed should be analysed in order to draw lessons that can be incorporated in a revised pre-vention/protection plan. 

If testing involves a new product that is not yet in commercial trade, the manufacturer should ship products from the same batch of the same formulation to each test location. The most recent product quality analysis and an appropriate Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) must accompany the product shipment. The shipping documents and the certificate of analysis for each shipment must be archived in the raw data for the report. If the residue testing is being done to register a new use for a commercial product, the Study Director must make sure that the product available in each location is the same formulation and that each different batch encountered has its own certificate of analysis to be archived along with a copy of the label and product quality analysis of the material used for the test. Material shipped in noncommercial containers must... 

Hydrogen bonding between an SiOH group and fluorine occurs in the platinum complex 44 [prepared by hydrolysis of a bis(alkylidene)-silacyclopropane] in which the SbF6 anion hydrogen bonds to the platinum-containing cation (O - F distance 2.77(2) A) (249). The platinum complex 45 is not reported (250) to form hydrogen bonds, and a more recent study (210) has confirmed that there do not appear to be any OH OH or OH tt interactions. 

The cyclotrisilazane (R = Me) produced in reaction (14) is recycled at 650°C [by reaction with MeNHo) the reverse of reaction (14)] to increase the yield of processible polymer. Physicochemical characterization of this material shows it to have a softening point at 190°C and a C Si ratio of 1 1.18. Filaments 5-18 pm in diameter can be spun at 315°C. The precursor fiber is then rendered infusible by exposure to air and transformed into a ceramic fiber by heating to 1200°C under N2- The ceramic yield is on the order of 54% although, the composition of the resulting amorphous product is not reported. The approach used by Verbeek is quite similar to that employed by Yajima et al. (13) in the pyrolytic preparation of polycarbosilane and its transformation into SiC fibers. 

Because of the extreme sensitivity of monolayers to contamination and the resulting likelihood of erroneous results, every precaution must be taken to ensure that all materials and instruments are clean. A great bonus for the stereochemical studies reported here is that comparison of the properties of enantiomers provides a rigorous check for internal consistency and purity that is not available to studies of achiral systems. Details have been given elsewhere and will not be included here (Thompson, 1981). 

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