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Naval Training Center Orlando Site Spotlight

Monthly feature to highlight a superfund site that has been put in reuse.

OPP Guidance for Submission of State and Tribal Water Quality Monitoring Data

This guidance describes the process to submit state and tribal surface and groundwater monitoring data for consideration in exposure characterizations for ecological and and human health risk assessments and in risk management decisions for pesticides.

Bees and Wasps and Schools

There are more than 20,000 bee species. Some bees and wasps can be issues around schools. Learn about IPM strategies for bees.

TSCA Section 21 Petition Requesting EPA to Establish Regulations Prohibiting the Use and Distribution in Commerce of Hevea Brasiliensis Baled Natural-Rubber for the Manufacture of Tires

This petition requests EPA to “establish regulations prohibiting the use and distribution in commerce of Hevea brasiliensis baled natural-rubber for the manufacture of tires.

TSCA Section 21 Petition Requesting EPA to Regulate Lead in Fishing Tackle

This petition requests EPA to promulgate regulations under section 6 of TSCA to protect the "environment from fishing tackle containing lead including fishing weights, sinkers, lures, jigs, and/or other tackle.

TSCA Section 21 Petition Requesting EPA to Take Action Concerning PCBs - Navy SINKEX

This petition requested EPA to take certain actions to protect human health and the marine environment from PCBs that leach from ships sunk through the U.S. Navy's sinking exercises (SINKEX) program.

Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers (PBDEs) Project Plan, March 2006

This Project Plan provides a brief summary of relevant information on PBDEs, and outlines the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s activities regarding PBDEs and related chemicals.

TSCA Section 21 Petition Requesting EPA to Regulate Lead in Shot and Bullets

This petition requests EPA to regulate bullets and shot containing lead for use in hunting and shooting sports.

Bisphenol A (BPA) Summary

A summary of EPA's review of Bisphenol A (BPA).

TSCA Section 21 Petition Requesting EPA to Ban Lead for Shot, Bullets, and Fishing Sinkers

This petition requests EPA to promulgate regulations to "prohibit the manufacture, processing, and distribution in commerce of lead for shot, bullets, and fishing sinkers."

EPA Letter Denying TSCA Section 21 Petition

Letter denying TSCA Section 21 petition requesting EPA to regulate Anthropogenic Emissions Carbon Dioxide.

TSCA Section 21 Petition Requesting EPA to Regulate Cadmium in Consumer Products, Especially Toy Metal Jewelry

This petition requests EPA to require producers, importers, and processors of cadmium and cadmium compounds to provide health and safety reporting.

EPA Response to TSCA Section 21 Petition

This document provides the reasons for EPA’s denial of a petition it received under section 21 of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).

TSCA Section 21 Petition to Prohibit the Use of Hydrofluorosilicic Acid (HFSA) as a Water Fluoridation Agent

This petition requested that EPA take action under section 6 of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) to prohibit the use of hydrofluorosilicic acid (HFSA) as a water fluoridation agent.

Fact Sheet: Alkanes, C12-13, chloro (CAS No. 71011-12-6)

EPA's existing chemicals programs address pollution prevention, risk assessment, hazard and exposure assessment and/or characterization, and risk management for chemicals substances in commercial use.

Toluene Diisocyanates (TDI) Action Plan

This Action Plan addresses the use of toluene diisocyanate (TDI) and related compounds
in products that may result in consumer and general population exposures, particularly in or around buildings, including homes and schools.

Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers (PBDEs) Action Plan

Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) have been widely used as flame retardants in a number of applications. EPA is concerned that some of the component congeners are persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic.

TSCA Section 21 Petition Requesting EPA to Lower Lead Dust Hazard Standards and Modify the Definition of Lead-based Paint in its Regulations

This petition requests EPA to lower lead dust hazard standards and modify the definition of lead-based paint in its regulations promulgated under sections 401 and 403 of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).

TSCA Work Plan: 2012 Scoring of Potential Candidate Chemicals Entering Step 2

In 2012, EPA scored these chemicals based on hazard, exposure and persistence/bioaccumulation criteria as part of Step 2 in the Work Plan methodology in order to identify candidate chemicals for near-term review and assessment under TSCA.

OPPT Antimony Trioxide (ATO) Risk Assessment - Draft Comments of Seven-Member Peer Review Panel

Comments on the draft risk assessment for Antimony Trioxide (ATO).