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Highlights
ePMN: After April 6, 2012, all new PMNs and SNUNs, as well as support documents (for notices submitted after April 6, 2010), must be provided to EPA via CDX. Optical discs for these documents will no longer be accepted. Read requirements for submitting electronic PMNs under the new rule.View EPA's ePMN 2.0 Webinar given on February 16, 2012.
February 8, 2012 -- A federal enforcement action requires Dover Chemical to pay $1.4 million and to cease manufacturing certain PBT chemicals, known as short-chain chlorinated paraffins (SCCPs), and to submit pre-manufacture notices to EPA for various medium- and long-chain chlorinated paraffins, which also are persistent and bioaccumulative. SCCPs are used in metalworking operations, as plasticizers and flame retardants in plastics, and as an additive in paints. Read more and read the press release.
In response to public requests, EPA is providing the public more time to comment on two new chemicals proposed Significant New Use Rules (SNURs), both published on 12/28/11. The comment period will be extended for one SNUR at 76 FR 81441 for two chemical substances, until 2/26/2012. For another SNUR at 76 FR 81447 for 17 chemical substances, the comment period is being reopened until 45 days following publication of the new notice (until March 19).
The PMN Status page, which had included only PMNs and Low Volume Exemptions, has been revised to now include SNUNs and all other exemption notices. Also, please follow the new format to enter the information in the search form on the Status page.
Important Information
WARNING - DO NOT e-mail any Confidential Business Information (CBI) to EPA. EPA's e-mail system is NOT secured to protect CBI.
SNUN reminder: When submitting a Significant New Use Notice (SNUN), companies should include a cover letter. Read more information about SNUNs and what the cover letter should include.
Note: Having a Chemical Abstract Services Registry Number (CASRN) for a chemical does not equate to that chemical being listed on the TSCA Inventory.
Mandated by section 5 of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), EPA's New Chemicals Program helps manage the potential risk to human health and the environment from chemicals new to the marketplace. The program functions as a "gatekeeper" that can identify conditions, up to and including a ban on production, to be placed on the use of a new chemical before it is entered into commerce. Anyone who plans to manufacture or import a new chemical substance for a non-exempt commercial purpose is required by section 5 of TSCA to provide EPA with notice before initiating the activity. This premanufacture notice, or PMN, must be submitted at least 90 days prior to the manufacture or import of the chemical.
This Web site provides information on how the PMN process works and on related programs, including the existing chemicals programs under TSCA and the Sustainable Futures Initiative, which shows how to use the new chemicals program's computer models to screen your PMNs or exemption notices before you submit them to EPA.
Find out more about various parts of the program:
Before the PMN Process Starts- Who is required to Notify?
- PMN Forms and Information
- PMN Instruction Manual (PDF) (51 pp, 721K, about PDF)
- TSCA Inventory
- Filing exclusions/exemptions
- Chemistry Assistance Manual
- What information to submit
- PMN Fees
- Confidential Business Information
- Mailing/Courier Instructions
- Rejection Policy for Incompletes
- What happens to my PMN?
- Meetings and Review Process
- People to Contact
- Exposure-Based Policy
- PBT Policy
- High Molecular Weight Polymers Policy
- Handling proprietary information
- Assessing potential risk
- Exposure Assessment Tools/Models
- Chemical Categories
- Possible outcomes
- Consent Orders/SNURs
- Significant New Use Notices (SNUNs)
- Consent Order boilerplates
- New Chemical Exposure Limits (NCELs)
- Notice of Commencement
- Successor Transfer
- EPA-OCSPP harmonized test guidelines
- Summary of Accomplishments
- Existing Chemicals
- Nanotechnology under the Toxic Substances Control Act
- Biotechnology
- Sustainable Futures Initiative
- Pollution Prevention and New Chemicals
- P2 Recognition
- Design for the Environment
- Green Chemistry
- Waste and Chemical Enforcement Division
- OECD New Chemicals
Directory
- OECD test guidelines
For more information: The Toxic Substances Control Act Hotline (tsca-hotline@epa.gov) is available to answer general questions about the PMN process or filing a PMN form. The TSCA hotline operates Monday through Friday, from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Eastern time. Call (202) 554-1404. FAX requests for documents are received every day, at all times, on (202) 554-5603.