The Interagency Testing Committee

The ITC was formed pursuant to TSCA 4(e), which established a committee to make recommendations to the EPA for prioritizing chemicals for testing. The ITC meets every other month, and each May and November publishes a report listing its recommendations for testing. In its reports, the ITC lists chemicals that it recommends considering for 4 test rules, and those it designates for 4 test rules, and this combined list of chemicals is called the Priority Testing List.  

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See generally the ITC reports available through http //www.epa.gov/opptintr/itc. 

The statute sets out the ITC s responsibilities for prioritizing chemical substances for testing in detail.  

The EPA can decide not to initiate a 4 rulemaking on a designated chemical only if it finds that the statutory preconditions are not met, or if it has entered into a binding consent agreement.  

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EPA. 1991. Twenty-seventh report of the Interagency Testing Committee to the administrator receipt of report and request for comments regarding priority list of chemicals. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Federal Register 56(44) 9534. 

Department of Labor Antimony metal antimony trioxide and antimony sulfide response to the interagency testing committee. Fed Reg 48 717-724, 1983... 

Few data, especially recent data, are available on occupational exposure levels of pyridine. In 1978, the United States P Tidine Task Force of the Interagency Testing Committee reported that in United States workplaces where pyridine was manufactm-ed or used as a chemical intermediate or as a solvent, workers were exposed to 8-h time-weighted average (TWA) pyridine concentrations ranging from 0.008 to 1.0 ppm [0.026 to 3.24 mg/m ]. Technicians working in quality control and research and development laboratories of one of the pyridine manufacturers were exposed to TWA concentrations (measiu ed over 6-h periods) of no more than 0.09 ppm [0.29 mg/m ] (Santodonato etal, 1985). 

EPA. 1989b. Environmental Protection Agency Testing consent order for 1,1,1-trichloroethane and response to the Interagency Testing Committee. Fed Regist 54 34991-34995. 

U.S. Fmvironmental Protection Agency (1988), Twenty-third repon of the interagency testing committee to (he administrator Receipt of report and request for comments regarding priority list of chcmicaks. Fed. Reg. 53,46244—46272. 

Congress created the Interagency Testing Committee (ITC) to come up with a list of priority chemicals for 4 testing. ... 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA). 1986a. Nineteenth Report on the Interagency Testing Committee to the Administrator Receipt and Request for Comments Regarding List of Chemicals, 51 PR. pp. 41417-41432, November 14. 

Two quinacridone pigments and two quinacridone intermediate compounds appear on the Interagency Testing Committee (ITC) data submission list. The ITC reviews chemicals in commerce for potential data collection rules under TSCA. The... 

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