VCCEP

Step 2 Tier 1 Commitment. A manufacturer or importer of a VCCEP chemical submits a letter to the U.S. EPA indicating their commitment to sponsoring a chemical. 

Step 3 Submission of Tier 1 Data. A VCCEP chemical sponsor submits to the U.S. EPA a Tier 1 Hazard Assessment, a Tier 1 Exposure Assessment, a Tier 1 Risk Assessment, and a Data Needs Assessment. 

Step 5 U.S. EPA Review of Peer Consultation. The U.S. EPA reviews the sponsor s submission and the third-party contract report and announces a the Tier 2 Data Needs Decision. If the U.S. EPA disagrees with the conclusions from the third-party peer consultation report, sponsors and other stakeholders are given 60 days to comment on the U.S. EPA s Tier 2 Data Needs Decision. EoUowing a review of comments, the U.S. EPA mails its final decision to the sponsor and posts the decision on the VCCEP website. 

If the U.S. EPA requires further testing under Tier 2 or Tier 3, steps 2 through 5, above, are repeated with consideration of the appropriate tier s testing requirements. If a chemical is recommended for Tier 2 or Tier 3 testing, but is not sponsored by a manufacturer or importer of the chemical, the U.S. EPA may require the data by issuing a TSCA Section 4 test rule. A summary of the submissions on VCCEP chemicals is available at the following URL http //www.epa.gov/oppt/vccep/pubs/ chemmain.html. 

This is known as the Voluntary Childrens Chemical Evaluation Program (VCCEP). 

A component of EPA s Chemical Right-to-Know Initiative, the Voluntary Children s Chemical Evaluation Program (VCCEP) was intended to encourage the development of information about the health effects, exposures and risks of industrial chemicals to children. While the VCCEP is a voluntary program that focuses on the development of data and assessments, as with the HPV program, EPA indicated that it would consider whether a test rule... 

Materials on the VCCEP are available at http //www.epa.gov/oppt/vccep/indexJitmL... 

EPA has announced that is negotiating an enforceable consent agreement to obtain biodegradation and environmental fate testing for decabromodi-phenyl ether. EPA had requested this information under the VCCEP, but had not received any commitment to conduct the testing. ... 

As part of the initial announcement of the VCCEP pilot in 2000, EPA had stated it would evaluate the pilot three and six years after its start to determine... 

In response to its request for comments, EPA received 138 comments from 11 organizations. Those comments are siunmarized in an interim report. Based on these comments, and its own review of the pilot, EPA announced some proposed modest changes, dealing primarily with timeliness and efficiency issues, to the VCCEP. 

EPA. Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics, Chemical Information and Testing Branch, Compiled by Eastern Research Group, Inc. Interim VCCEP Evaluation, Summary of Comments on the VCCEP Pilot Program, (Mar. 18,2007), available at http //www.epa.gov/ oppt/vccep/pubs/summaryrpt.pdf. 

United States in lower quantities. While these programs had not yet reached any critical mass, the underlying assumption was that much of this work might be done in a cooperative way with industry, mirroring the HPV and VCCEP initiatives. ChAMP has now been superseded by a new enhanced chemical management program currently being rolled out by the EPA. ... 

Fed. Reg. 67121 (Nov. 20,2006) Implementation of the Pilot Voluntary Children s Chemical Evaluation Program Request for Comment 71 FR 67121 VCCEP 11-20-06... 

Fed. Reg. 36512 (June 27, 2008) Modification of the Voluntary Children s Chemical Evaluation Program Notice of Public Meeting 73 FR 36512 VCCEP mods 6-27-08... 

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