G/TBT/N/USA/1617  
6 May 2020  
(20-3456) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6  
 
1. Notifying Member:  UNITED STATES OF AME RICA  
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:  Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) [1645]  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers , email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated i f different from above:   
Please submit comments to: USA WTO TBT Enquiry Point, Email: usatbtep@nist.gov  
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [   ], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [   ], 5.7.1 [   ], other  [X]:  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  Chemical 
substances, risk evaluation; Environmental protection (ICS 13.020), Protection against 
dangerous goods (I CS 13.300), Production in the chemical industry (ICS 71.020), 
Products of the chemical industry (ICS 71.100)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Draft Scopes of 
the Risk Evaluations To Be Conducted for Seven Chemical Substa nces Under the Toxic 
Substances Control Act (3 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:   
Notice - As required by the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), which was amended by 
the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act in June 2016, EPA is 
announcing the availability of the draft scope documents for the risk evaluations to be 
conducted for 7 of 20 High -Priority Substances designated in December 2019. The draft 
scope document for each chemical substance includes the conditions of  use, hazards, 
exposures, and the potentially exposed or susceptible subpopulations the EPA plans to 
consider in conducting the risk evaluation for that chemical substance. EPA is also opening 
a 45-calendar day comment period on these draft scope documents  to allow for the public 
to provide additional data or information that could be useful to the Agency in finalizing 
the scope of the risk evaluations; comments may be submitted to this docket and the 
individual dockets for each of the chemical substances.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Prevention of deceptive practices and consumer protection; Protection of 
human health or safety; Protection of the environment  
8. Relevant documents:   
• 85 Federal Register (FR) 22733, 23 April 2020:  
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2020-04-23/html/2020 -08613.htm  
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2020-04-23/pdf/2020 -08613.pdf  G/TBT/N/USA/1617  
 
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  • The docket folder on Regulations.gov provides access to primary  and supporting 
documents for this notice as well as the comments received: 
https://www.regula tions.gov/docket?D=EPA -HQ-OPPT-2019-0131.  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  To be determined  
Proposed date of entry into force:  To be determined  
10. Final date for comments:  8 June 2020  
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available , of other body:   
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2020/TBT/USA/20_3095_00_e.pdf