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###### Environmental Protection Agency

          - [EPA-HQ-OPPT-2013-0677; FRL-9987-50]

# AGENCY:

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

# ACTION:

Notice.

# SUMMARY:

                        EPA is announcing its receipt of information submitted pursuant to a rule, order, or consent agreement issued under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). As required by TSCA, this document identifies each chemical substance and/or mixture for which information has been received; the uses or intended uses of such chemical substance and/or mixture; and describes the nature of the information received. Each chemical substance and/or mixture related to this announcement is identified in Unit I. under                         **SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION**                        .                    

# FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

*For technical information contact:*                         John Schaeffer, Chemical Control Division (7405M), Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460-0001; telephone number: (202) 564-8173; email address:                         *schaeffer.john@epa.gov.*

*For general information contact:*                         The TSCA-Hotline, ABVI-Goodwill, 422 South Clinton Ave., Rochester, NY 14620; telephone number: (202) 554-1404; email address:                         *TSCA-Hotline@epa.gov.*

# SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

## I. Chemical Substances and/or Mixtures

                    Information received about the following chemical substance(s) and/or mixture(s) is provided in Unit IV.:                     *Acetaldehyde, reaction products with formaldehyde, by-products from (CASRN 68442-60-4).*

## II. Authority

                    Section 4(d) of TSCA (15 U.S.C. 2603(d)) requires EPA to publish a notice in the                     **Federal Register**                     reporting the receipt of information submitted pursuant to a rule, order, or consent agreement promulgated under TSCA section 4 (15 U.S.C. 2603).                

## III. Docket Information

                    A docket, identified by the docket identification (ID) number EPA-HQ-OPPT-2013-0677, has been established for this                     **Federal Register**                     document, which announces the receipt of the information. Upon EPA's completion of its quality assurance review, the information received will be added to the docket identified in Unit IV., which represents the docket used for the TSCA section 4 rule, order, and/or consent agreement. In addition, once completed, EPA reviews of the information received will be added to the same docket. Use the docket ID number provided in Unit IV. to access the information received and any available EPA review.                

                    EPA's dockets are available electronically at                     *http://www.regulations.gov*                     or in person at the Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics Docket (OPPT Docket), Environmental Protection Agency Docket Center (EPA/DC), West William Jefferson Clinton Bldg., Rm. 3334, 1301 Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC. The Public Reading Room is open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding legal holidays. The telephone number for the Public Reading Room is (202) 566-1744, and the telephone number for the OPPT Docket is (202) 566-0280. Please review the visitor instructions and additional information about the docket available at                     *http://www.epa.gov/​dockets.*

## IV. Information Received

                    As specified by TSCA section 4(d), this unit identifies the information received by EPA:                     *Acetaldehyde, reaction products with formaldehyde, by-products from (CASRN 68442-60-4).*

                    1.                     *Chemical use(s):*                     Acetaldehyde, reaction products with formaldehyde, by-products from, is a chemical intermediate used in processing as a reactant in the construction industrial sector.                

                    2.                     *Applicable rule, Order, or Consent agreement:*                     Chemical testing requirements for third group of high production volume chemicals (HPV3), 40 CFR 799.5089.                

                    3.                     *Information received:*                     EPA received the following information:                

a. Physical-Chemical Properties: Boiling point.

b. Physical-Chemical Properties: Melting point.

c. Physical-Chemical Properties: Vapor pressure.

d. Physical-Chemical Properties: Partition coefficient.

e. Physical-Chemical Properties: Water solubility.

f. Biodegradation.

g. Acute toxicity to fish.

h. Daphnia immobilization study.

i. Acute oral, skin and eye irritation.

j. Chromosomal aberrations assay with Chinese hamster ovary cell.

k. Micronucleus test in bone marrow cells of CD-1 mice.

l. Rationale for conducting both the in vitro and in vivo chromosome aberration test.

m. Repeated dose oral toxicity study in rats.

n. Reproduction/Developmental toxicity screening test in rats.

o. Rationale for use of alternate data to address F1 data requirements in rats.

p. Ames test report.

The docket ID number assigned to this information is EPA-HQ-OPPT-2009-0112.

Authority:15 U.S.C. 2601*et seq.*

Dated: December 7, 2018.

Lynn Vendinello,

Acting Director, Chemical Control Division, Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics.

[FR Doc. 2018-27479 Filed 12-18-18; 8:45 am]

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