New TSCA: A Guide to the Lautenberg Chemical Safety Act and Its Implementation - Lynn L. Bergeson

New TSCA: A Guide to the Lautenberg Chemical Safety Act and Its Implementation Lynn L. Bergeson ISBN 9781634258333

Congress’s sweeping revisions to the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) in 2016 marked the culmination of decades of effort to reform the nation’s approach to industrial chemical regulation and ushered in a new regulatory era. Enacted through the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act, the “New TSCA” fundamentally reshaped how the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency evaluates, manages, and regulates chemicals in commerce.

This book is the first comprehensive resource devoted to the modernized TSCA framework. It identifies and explains the statute’s significant revisions and highlights the key changes that directly affect legal and regulatory practitioners. Bringing together a team of experienced scientific and regulatory professionals—including former EPA regulators and scientists—this authoritative manual reflects deep expertise in the law, policy, and science underlying TSCA. The authors clearly explain the law’s fundamental shifts while offering practical insight and detailed analysis of its most consequential provisions, including those addressing definitions, testing, review and regulation of new and existing chemicals, information reporting, confidential business information (CBI), preemption, fees, and enforcement.

Covering every major aspect of the New TSCA, the book addresses:

• An overview of the reforms mandated by the New TSCA, core statutory provisions, key scientific concepts, and the legislative history of the Act

• Testing of chemical substances and mixtures (Section 4)

• Procedures for new chemical and significant new use notifications, review, and regulation (Section 5)

• Chemical substances exempt from premanufacture notice (PMN) requirements, including microbial products of biotechnology and nanoscale materials

• Regulation of chemical substances and imminent hazards (Sections 6 and 7)

• Reporting and recordkeeping requirements (Section 8)

• The relationship between TSCA and other federal laws, as well as export (Section 12) and import (Section 13) requirements

• Confidential business information, inspections, enforcement, and penalties (Sections 11, 15, 16, and 17)

• State–federal preemption and coordination (Section 18)

• Judicial review (Section 19)

• Citizen suits and petitions (Sections 20 and 21)

• Administrative provisions, fees, timelines, and statutory deadlines

Designed as both a reference and a practical guide, this book equips practitioners with the knowledge and analysis needed to navigate the transformed TSCA landscape with confidence.

New TSCA: A Guide to the Lautenberg Chemical Safety Act and Its Implementation Lynn L. Bergeson ISBN 9781634258333, 978-1634258333 & 9781634258340

Editors
Lynn L. Bergeson
Charles M Auer