TSCA Acryonyms
What does PBT stand for in the context of TSCA regulations?
What is Persistent, Bioaccumulative, and Toxic?
Under TSCA, what is the term used to describe a chemical substance that is listed in the TSCA Inventory?
What is an existing chemical substance?
change
What is 1952?
What does TSCA Section 12 cover regarding chemicals?
What is export notification?
Under TSCA, what kind of notice must manufacturers provide EPA before producing or importing a new chemical substance?
What is a Premanufacture Notice (PMN)?
Enforces most of the federal environmental statutes.
What is the Environmental Protection Agency(EPA)?
What term under TSCA describes the process of evaluating the potential hazards of chemicals before they are manufactured or imported?
What is risk assessment?
In what year was the TSCA originally enacted?
What is 1976?
Which section of TSCA mandates the EPA to monitor and keep records of chemical substance production?
What is Section 8?
What TSCA section requires EPA to compile a list of substances that present unreasonable risks?
What is Section 5?
Regulates the disposal of pollution or dredged materials in water.
What is the Army Corp of Engineers?
Under TSCA, what is the definition of "LCSA"?
What is the Lautenberg Chemical Safety Act?
In what year was the Lautenberg Chemical Safety Act, amending TSCA, signed into law?
What is 2016?
Under TSCA, what is the primary standard for determining the safety of a chemical substance?
What is "unreasonable risk"?
The toxic substances control act was created in this year.
What is 1979?
Has sub agencies such as US fish and wildlife services, the bureau of ocean energy management, the bureau of safety and environmental enforcement, and the office of surface mining reclamation and enforcement.
What is the Department of the Interior?
What are the two 2% rules under the Polymer Exemption?
1. A monomer or other reactant must be part of the chemical identity if it is incorporated/charged at >2%.
1. Monomers/reactants at >2% weight percent must be listed on the TSCA Inventory.
Who was TSCA named after, full name required?
Who is Frank R. Lautenberg?
What type of evaluation process was introduced in the Lautenberg Act amendment for prioritizing chemical substances?
What is risk-based screening?
Enacted in 1948 as the federal water pollution control act, and had a name change in 1972.
What is the clean water act?
The pipeline and hazardous material safety administration is a sub agency of this administration.
What is the US Department of Transportation?
What are the three criteria of an article under TSCA?
(1) Which is formed to a specific shape or design during manufacture;
(2) Which has end use function(s) dependent in whole or in part upon its shape or design during end use; and
(3) Which has either no change of chemical composition during its end use or only those changes of composition which have no commercial purpose separate from that of the article.
What is the Largest Ever TSCA Penalty for Violation Imposed by EPA?
What is $20.75 million? (Home Depot U.S.A., Inc., on December 17, 2020 for Violation of Lead Paint Regulations)
The chemicals that caused these peoples diseases?
What is trichloroethylene and perchloroethylene?
This river caught on fire in Akron Ohio in 1969.
What is the Cuyahoga river fire?