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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 49 / Tuesday, March 16, 2021 / Proposed Rules
Dated: March 10, 2021.
David Gray, Acting Regional Administrator, Region 6.

associated with these final rules; and whether to consider additional or alternative measures or approaches. In particular, EPA is seeking comment on specifics of recently raised issues regarding the compliance date for the prohibition on the processing and distribution of PIP 3:1 for use in articles, and PIP 3:1-containing articles.

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Regulation of Persistent, Bioaccumulative, and Toxic Chemicals Under TSCA Section 6h; Request for Comments Environmental Protection Agency EPA.
ACTION: Proposed rule.
AGENCY:

In accordance with the January 21, 2021, Executive Order entitled Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science to Tackle the Climate Crisis and other Biden-Harris Administration Executive orders and other direction, the Environmental Protection Agency EPA
is requesting additional public comments on five final rules recently issued under the Toxic Substances Control Act TSCA. On January 6, 2021, EPA issued final rules to address its obligations under TSCA for five persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic PBT chemicals that EPA determined met the criteria for expedited action under TSCA. These chemicals are 2,4,6tristert-butylphenol 2,4,6-TTBP
CASRN 732263; decabromodiphenyl ether decaBDE CASRN 1163195;
phenol, isopropylated phosphate 3:1
PIP 3:1 CASRN 68937417;
pentachlorothiophenol PCTP CASRN
133493; and hexachlorobutadiene HCBD CASRN 87683. PBT
chemicals are of particular concern in the Agencys efforts to protect human health and the environment because they are toxic and remain in the environment for long periods of time and can build up or accumulate in the body. As a first step in its efforts to immediately review these rules to determine whether they are consistent with the Administration policy to limit exposure to dangerous chemicals and to determine whether and how these rules should be revised, EPA invites public comment on the final rules, including whether there are further exposure reductions that could be achieved, including exposure reductions for potentially exposed or susceptible subpopulations and the environment; implementation issues
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Comments must be received on or before May 17, 2021.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by docket identification ID
number EPAHQOPPT20210202, through the Federal eRulemaking Portal at http www.regulations.gov. Follow the online instructions for submitting comments. Do not submit electronically any information you consider to be Confidential Business Information CBI
or other information whose disclosure is restricted by statute. To make special arrangements for hand delivery or delivery of boxed information, please follow the instructions at http
www.epa.gov/dockets/contacts.html.
Please note that due to the public health emergency the EPA Docket Center EPA/DC and Reading Room were closed to public visitors on March 31, 2020. Our EPA/DC staff will continue to provide customer service via email, phone, and webform. For further information on EPA/DC services, docket contact information and the current status of the EPA/DC and Reading Room, please visit https
www.epa.gov/dockets.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
For technical information contact:
Cindy Wheeler, Existing Chemicals Risk Management Division Mail Code 7404T, Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 204600001; telephone number: 202 5660484; email address:
TSCA-PBT-rules@epa.gov.
For general information contact: The TSCA-Hotline, ABVI-Goodwill, 422
South Clinton Ave., Rochester, NY
14620; telephone number: 202 554
1404; email address: TSCA-Hotline@
epa.gov.
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I. General Information A. Does this apply to me?
This document is directed to the public in general and may be of interest to persons who currently or may manufacture including import, process, distribute, use, and/or dispose of the five PBT chemicals: 2,4,6-tristertbutylphenol 2,4,6-TTBP CASRN 732
263; decabromodiphenyl ether
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decaBDE CASRN 1163195; phenol, isopropylated phosphate 3:1 PIP 3:1
CASRN 68937417;
pentachlorothiophenol PCTP CASRN
133493; and hexachlorobutadiene HCBD CASRN 87683. The action may also be of interest to persons who currently or may manufacture including import, process, distribute, use, and/or dispose of products and articles containing these PBT chemicals.
Non-governmental organizations in the environmental and public health sectors, state and local government agencies, and members of the public may also be interested in this action.
Since other entities may also be interested, EPA has not attempted to describe all the specific entities that may be affected by this action.
B. What is EPAs authority for taking this action?
EPA issued the final rules under TSCA section 6h, 15 U.S.C. 2601 et seq., for five persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic PBT
chemical substances that met the statutory criteria. More specifically, under TSCA section 6h, EPA must take expedited action on those chemical substances identified in the 2014
Update to the TSCA Work Plan for Chemical Assessments Ref. 1 that, among other factors, EPA has a reasonable basis to conclude are toxic and that with respect to persistence and bioaccumulation score high for one and either high or moderate for the other, pursuant to the TSCA Work Plan Chemicals: Methods Document Ref. 2.
The chemical substances that meet these criteria are 2,4,6-TTBP, decaBDE, PIP
3:1, PCTP, and HCBD. Under TSCA, if EPA determines that exposure is likely to a chemical meeting these criteria, EPA must issue a rule that addresses the risks of injury to health or the environment that the Administrator determines are presented and reduces exposure to the chemical to the extent practicable. Based on the Exposure and Use Assessment of Five Persistent, Bioaccumulative and Toxic Chemicals Assessment Ref. 3, EPA determined that exposure was likely to all five of the PBT chemicals. On January 6, 2021, EPA issued a final rule for each of the five chemicals under TSCA section 6h, meeting the Agencys obligation to promulgate the rules within 18 months of issuance of the proposed rules Refs.
48. With the obligation to promulgate these rules, the Agency also has the authority to amend them if circumstances change, including in relation to the receipt of new information.

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