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Document Control Office (7407M) Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics (OPPT) Environmental Protection Agency 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC20460-0001 (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 CustomPolymers intends to import the chemical anthraquinone and process it into a useable form

for use as pulping aid in paper mill digesters. CustomPolymers may make anthraquinone products either for direct sale or for sale by Bastech LLC, and SSC Industries, LLCfor whom we intend to process and blend products containing ~-- anthraquinone. Z m Application for an Exemption to the Test Rule CustomPolymers requests an exemption fromthe testing requirements pursuant to 49 Q CFR 790 .80(b)(2) : CustomPolymers intends to import (manufacture) after the effective date of May l, 2011 but after the end ofthe reimbursement period. The following information is detailed below pursuant to 40 CFR790 .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 fromwhich 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 NOCe,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 CFR799.9355. " Basis The bases for this request are:

1 . The due date indicated in 40CFR 799 .5085(i) for the test results have passed. Afinal report for each specific test was to be received by EPAby 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 CustomPolymers, LLC 1550 Taylor Ave. East Point, GA 30344 USA (404-245-8255) As required by 40CFR790 .99 CustomPolymers swears or affirms as follows: CustomPolymers understands that if this application is granted after the reimbursement period described in Section 4(c)(3)(B) of TSCA expires, CustomPolymers 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.p. 3