Register for the Third and Final TSCA Engineering Initiative Webinar
Released on February 13, 2023
Join EPA’s New Chemicals Program on Feb. 28 from 1-2 p.m. EST for a webinar on EPA’s process for assessing the potential risks of new chemicals under section 5 of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) and the types of data the Agency considers in this assessment.
Specifically, the upcoming webinar will cover commonly missed information in section 5 submissions and how EPA evaluates environmental release information for operations that occur at non-submitter sites.
In June 2022, EPA announced outreach to describe how EPA evaluates engineering (i.e., environmental release and worker exposure) data for new chemical submissions and common causes of the Agency having to reconduct risk assessments (i.e., “rework”). The goal of this effort is to prevent delays of EPA’s new chemical reviews caused by rework.
This is the third and final webinar in a series to increase the efficiency and transparency of EPA’s new chemical determinations. The first two webinars, held in July and October 2022, focused on common issues that cause EPA to rework risk assessments, clarifications of common misconceptions in EPA’s new chemical assessments, and other information related to TSCA section 5 submissions. Meeting materials are available for those who missed these webinars.