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ChAMP Resources
Highlights

Read about ChAMP’s January 2007 – June 2008 accomplishments.

EPA has held a wide array of stakeholder meetings, including a public meeting May 2, 2008, to encourage input from stakeholders on development of ChAMP initiatives, including:

View the EPA Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics' Director's presentations about ChAMP (PDF) (21 pp, 192KB, about PDF), inorganic HPV chemicals (PDF) (7 pp, 46KB, about PDF), and resetting the TSCA Inventory (PDF) (12 pp, 86KB, about PDF).

March 18, 2008 - In his keynote address at the Global Chemical Regulation Conference in Baltimore, Md., EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson announced ChAMP as the name for the program that will implement SPP commitments and outlined several program enhancements.

This Web site provides information on EPA’s new Chemical Assessment and Management Program (ChAMP) and EPA’s efforts under ChAMP.

Under ChAMP, EPA is fulfilling U.S. commitments made under the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP). The SPP of North America Leaders’ Summit, held in Montebello, Canada, in August 2007, called for cooperation on chemicals and outlined commitments on behalf of the United States, Canada, and Mexico to work together to ensure the safe manufacture and use of industrial chemicals. Each country is sharing scientific information and approaches to chemical testing and risk management.

To fulfill its part of the SPP commitment, the United States will, by 2012, complete screening-level risk characterizations and take action, as appropriate, on more than 6,750* chemicals produced above 25,000 pounds per year. The U.S. commitment to complete assessments and initiate needed action on these chemicals will apply the results of EPA’s work on High-Production Volume (HPV) chemicals - those chemicals produced or imported in the United States in quanties of 1 million pounds or more per year - and extend its efforts to moderate production volume chemicals - those produced or imported in quantities above 25,000 and less than 1 million pounds per year.

As part of the efforts under ChAMP, EPA is developing screening-level documents that summarize basic hazard and exposure information on HPV chemicals, identify potential risks, note scientific issues and uncertainties, and indicate the initial priority being assigned by the Agency for potential future appropriate action. EPA has begun posting hazard characterizations and has posted an initial set of risk-based prioritizations.

EPA is considering potential enhancements to ChAMP including:

This site offers:

Basic Information - Read about ChAMP, SPP’s purpose, and the three North American countries’ commitments under the SPP.

EPA Chemical Efforts under ChAMP - Read about EPA’s ongoing chemical regulatory efforts, including possible program enhancements.

*Based on preliminary statistics from 2006 Inventory Update Reporting data

 

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