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404-245-8255 

AM 10: 35 Mayl, 2011 

Document Control Office (7407M) 

Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics (OPPT) 

Environmental Protection Agency 

1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW 

Washington, DC 20460-0001 

(Attention : TSCA Section 4) 

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Subject: Declaration of Intent to Manufacture by Import 9, 10-Anthracenedione, CAS 

Number 84-65-1, Docket ID : EPA-HQ-OPPT-2005-0033 ; Application for an Exemption 

to its Test Rule 

Dear Sir or Madam: 

Declaration of Intent to Manufacture by Imyort 

Custom Polymers intends to import the chemical anthraquinone and process it into a 

useable form for use as pulping aid in paper mill digesters. Custom Polymers may make 

anthraquinone products either for direct sale or for sale by Bastech LLC, and SSC 

Industries, LLC for whom we intend to process and blend products containing ~--

anthraquinone. Z 

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Application for an Exemption to the Test Rule 

Custom Polymers requests an exemption from the testing requirements pursuant to 49 Q 

CFR 790.80(b)(2): Custom Polymers intends to import (manufacture) after the effective 

date of May l, 2011 but after the end of the reimbursement period . The following 

information is detailed below pursuant to 40 CFR 790.82 : 

(a) The identity of the test rule, the chemical identity and the CAS number of the 

test substance on which the application is based. 

" Identification of Test Rule; EPA's final rule under TSCA published in the 

the March 16 Federal Register, Volume 71, Number 51, pages 13708 

through 13735 entitled "Testing of Certain High Production Volume 

Chemicals" and under docket ID number EPA-HQ-OPPT-2005-0033; 

FRL-7335-2 

" Chemical identity : 9, 10-Anthracenedione 

" CAS Registry Number; 84-65-1 

(b) The specific testing requirements from which an exemption is sought and the 

basis for the exemption request: 

" Tests 

1 . Melting Point: ASTM E 324 (capillary tube) 

2. Boiling Point : ASTM E 1719 (ebulliometry) 

3 . Vapor Pressure: ASTM E 1782 (thermal analysis) 

CONTAINS NO Ce, 
4. n-Octanol/Water Partition Coefficient (log 10 basis) or Log 

Kow (to the extent required under the test rule) 

5. Water Solubility (to the extent required under the test rule) 

6. Reproductive/Developmental Toxicity Screening Test: 40 

CFR 799 .9355 . 

" Basis 

The bases for this request are : 

1 . The due date indicated in 40 CFR 799.5085(i) for the test 

results have passed . A final report for each specific test was to 

be received by EPA by May 17, 2007 unless an extension was 

granted in writing by EPA. 

2. The test results have already been filed with EPA. 

(c) Name, address and telephone number of the applicant: 

James Nolen 

Custom Polymers, LLC 

1550 Taylor Ave. 

East Point, GA 30344 USA 

(404-245-8255) 

As required by 40 CFR 790.99 Custom Polymers swears or affirms as follows: 

Custom Polymers understands that if this application is granted after the reimbursement 

period described in Section 4(c)(3)(B) of TSCA expires, Custom Polymers must pay fair 

and equitable reimbursement to the person or persons who incurred or shared in the costs 

of complying with the requirement to submit data and upon whose data the granting of 

my application was based. 

If you have further questions concerning this exemption application, please contact either 

of the numbers listed above. 
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