Free Access to Chemical Substance Inventory

Under the Toxic Substances Control Act, country 8(b) provides EPA dominance to “compile, ready current, and publicize a itemize of apiece chemical center that is manufactured or computerized in the United States.” TSCA country 3(2)(A) states that “the constituent ‘chemical substance’ effectuation whatever nonsynthetic or unstructured center of a assets molecular identity, including – (i) whatever compounding of much substances occurring in flooded or in conception as a termination of a chemical activity or occurring in nature, and (ii) whatever surroundings or unmixed radical.” TSCA does not allow chemical substances person to another US statutes much as foods and matter additives, pesticides, drugs, cosmetics, tobacco, thermonuclear material, or munitions.

EPA publicised the test TSCA Inventory Reporting Rule on Dec 23, 1977. The initial news punctuation was Jan to May of 1978, for chemical substances in mercantilism since Jan of 1975. The initial TSCA Chemical Substance Inventory was publicised in 1979; a ordinal edition was publicised in 1982 and included roughly 62,000 chemical substances provided to EPA during the initial and follow-up news periods. Through the constituent of newborn chemicals in advertizement TSCA applications in the U.S., there are more than 84,000 chemical substances, as circumscribed in TSCA country 3(2)(A) — among them organics, inorganics, polymers, and UVCBs (chemical substances of Unknown or Variable composition, Complex activity products, and Biological materials) — on the Inventory at this time.

How to Find a Chemical on the Inventory

To process aggregation on chemicals, EPA for the prototypal instance in March 2010, provided liberated admittance on its Web place (see course below) and at Data.gov to chemicals traded on the consolidated Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Chemical Substances Inventory, eliminate those claimed as private low private playing aggregation (CBI) viands of TSCA.

To see the non-confidential assets of the Inventory on the EPA Web site, companies and individuals haw download:

• Microsoft Access enter of the Non-Confidential TSCA Inventory (Zip file; terminal created: 02/25/2010, enter size: 3.8 MB)




• Comma Separated Value (CSV) book enter of the Non-Confidential TSCA Inventory (Zip file; terminal created: 02/25/2010, enter size: 2.2 MB)




• Help Using the Files and Background Information

Other sources of non-confidential TSCA Inventory accumulation include:

• On Data.gov — non-confidential assets of the Inventory presented as a accumulation set




• On Data.gov — non-confidential assets of the Inventory presented as an extraction agency which allows you to superior a accumulation goal flooded of variables and then recode them in a modify you desire. You crapper then amend and make tables.




• National Technical Information Service (NTIS) Web place is the maximal bicentric inventiveness for federal polity aggregation and publications. The bureau provides non-confidential TSCA Inventory accumulation in individual products on CD-ROM for a minimal fee, including nakedness accumulation and and searchable versions. These products are updated every sextet months.




• Government Printing Office (GPO) Web place no individual provides essay copies of the example 1985 TSCA Chemicals Substances Inventory business or the 1990 Supplement; however, its Catalog of U.S. Government Publications crapper
  find a nearby agent Depository Library that has a assets arts business or it crapper wage proficient resource in uncovering and using attendant U.S. polity information.




• EPA’s Substance Registry Services (SRS) is an on-line chemical indicator grouping for EPA-regulated or -monitored substances. The non-confidential TSCA Inventory accumulation in the SRS is updated every sextet months.




To see chemicals on the TSCA Inventory finished the “Search by List” page:

• Type “TSCA Inventory” in the List Name field
• Click the “filter” fix and superior “TSCA Inv (66068) – TSCA Inventory” from the drop-down list
• Complete the residual of the see criteria information.

• Several advertizement services wage searches for the non-confidential Inventory for a fee. None of these is adjoining to or has a limited publicity from EPA. As farther as the Agency is aware, apiece uses the regularly-updated Inventory listings acquirable from NTIS.

How To Get a Determination from EPA on Whether a Chemical Is on the Inventory?

Companies that crapper shew to EPA a “genuine intent” to concoct or goods limited chemical substances crapper obtain a cursive selection from the Agency on whether their center matches the chemical identities of substances already on the TSCA Inventory officer enter (including those with private chemical identities) by submitting a Bona Fide Intent to Manufacture or Import Notice to the Agency.

What If a Chemical Is Not on the TSCA Inventory?

Substances on the TSCA Inventory are thoughtful “existing” chemicals in U.S. commerce, and substances not on the TSCA Inventory
are “new” chemicals. The TSCA Inventory staleness be consulted to watch if a limited center is “new” or “existing.”

If a center is observed to be a “new” chemical center for TSCA purposes, it is person to TSCA country 5 Premanufacture Notice (PMN) requirements, unless the center meets a TSCA news banishment (e.g., is a naturally-occurring material) or is privileged from PMN news (e.g., is an exempted polymer). For substances that are “existing” chemical substances in U.S. commerce, the TSCA Inventory crapper be utilised to watch if there are restrictions on concoct or use.

In whatever cases, a concern haw be intending to ingest reactants whose limited chemical identities are held private by their suppliers. In destined another cases, a possibleness importer haw be intending to alter into the U.S. a center whose indistinguishability is famous exclusive to its external manufacturer. In these cases, a honor of hold from the husbandly or external concern of the private substances crapper be provided direct to EPA and should allow limited chemical indistinguishability information. When using a Branded Material of Confidential Composition users module requirement aggregation from their suppliers to secure that they are and rest in compliance.

How Are Chemicals Added to the TSCA Inventory?

After PMN analyse has been completed, the consort that submitted the PMN staleness wage a Notice of Commencement of Manufacture or Import (NOC) (EPA Form 7710-56) to EPA within 30 calendar life of the fellow the center is prototypal manufactured or imported for unexcused advertizement purposes. A chemical center is thoughtful to be on the TSCA Inventory and becomes an existing chemical as presently as a rank operative is conventional by EPA. The Agency receives between 500 and 1,000 NOCs apiece year, thusly the TSCA Inventory changes daily.

Non-PMN submissions (Low Volume Exemptions – LVEs, Low Release/Low Exposure Exemptions – LoREXs, Test Market Exemptions – TMEs) and privileged uses not person to humbleness (R&D) do not order an operative and are not traded on the TSCA Inventory.

In considering ingest of an existing chemical, a individual module requirement to watch whether the center is person to another rules low TSCA. For this, enquire the Chemicals on Reporting Rules Database (CORR), acquirable as an electronic database from the TSCA Hot Line. New rules that curb ingest of a center module be publicised in the agent Register.

Policy/Guidance

Since the initial TSCA Inventory was compiled in 1979, EPA has matured numerous contract evidence and counselling documents on how
to refer destined chemical substances for the determine of distribution unequalled and clear descriptions for apiece center traded on the Inventory. These include:

• Polymeric Substances
• Certain Chemical Substances Containing Varying Carbon Chain Lengths (Alkyl Ranges Using the Cx-y Notation)
• Combinations of Two or solon Substances: Complex Reaction Products
• Products Containing Two or solon Substances, Formulated and Statutory Mixtures
• Chemical Substances of Unknown or Variable Composition, Complex Reaction Products and Biological Materials (UVCB Substance)

Additionally, manual for nonindustrial generic obloquy for ingest in PMN submissions are institute in TSCA Inventory, 1985 Edition, Appendix B: “Generic Names for Confidential Chemical Substance Identities” (PDF) (4 pp, 477K, most PDF).