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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPPT–2012–0298; FRL–9349–9] 

Seventieth Report of the TSCA 

Interagency Testing Committee to the 

Administrator of the Environmental 

Protection Agency; Receipt of Report 

and Request for Comments 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Toxic Substances Control 

Act (TSCA) Interagency Testing 

Committee (ITC) transmitted its 70th 

ITC Report to the EPA Administrator on 

May 3, 2012. Under TSCA, the ITC is 

required to prepare and submit a report 

to the EPA Administrator every 6 

months even if there are no changes to 

the TSCA section 4(e) Priority Testing 

List. In the 70th ITC Report, which is 

included with this notice, the ITC is not 

making any changes to the TSCA 

section 4(e) Priority Testing List. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before July 11, 2012. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

identified by docket identification (ID) 

number EPA–HQ–OPPT–2012–0298, by 

one of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the online 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Mail: Document Control Office 

(7407M), Office of Pollution Prevention 

and Toxics (OPPT), Environmental 

Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460–0001. 

• Hand Delivery: OPPT Document 

Control Office (DCO), EPA East Bldg., 

Rm. 6428, 1201 Constitution Ave., NW., 

Washington, DC. Attention: Docket ID 

Number EPA–HQ–OPPT–2012–0298. 

The DCO is open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., 

Monday through Friday, excluding legal 

holidays. The telephone number for the 

DCO is (202) 564–8930. Such deliveries 

are only accepted during the DCO’s 

normal hours of operation, and special 

arrangements should be made for 

deliveries of boxed information. 

Instructions: Direct your comments to 

docket ID number EPA–HQ–OPPT– 

2012–0298. EPA’s policy is that all 

comments received will be included in 

the docket without change and may be 

made available online at http:// 

www.regulations.gov, including any 

personal information provided, unless 

the comment includes information 

claimed to be Confidential Business 

Information (CBI) or other information 

whose disclosure is restricted by statute. 

Do not submit information that you 

consider to be CBI or otherwise 

protected through regulations.gov or 

email. The regulations.gov Web site is 

an ‘‘anonymous access’’ system, which 

means EPA will not know your identity 

or contact information unless you 

provide it in the body of your comment. 

If you send an email comment directly 

to EPA without going through 

regulations.gov, your email address will 

be automatically captured and included 

as part of the comment that is placed in 

the docket and made available on the 

Internet. If you submit an electronic 

comment, EPA recommends that you 

include your name and other contact 

information in the body of your 

comment and with any disk or CD–ROM 

you submit. If EPA cannot read your 

comment due to technical difficulties 

and cannot contact you for clarification, 

EPA may not be able to consider your 

comment. Electronic files should avoid 

the use of special characters, any form 

of encryption, and be free of any defects 

or viruses. 

Docket: All documents in the docket 

are listed in the docket index available 

at http://www.regulations.gov. Although 

listed in the index, some information is 

not publicly available, e.g., CBI or other 

information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. Certain other 

material, such as copyrighted material, 

will be publicly available only in hard 

copy. Publicly available docket 

materials are available electronically at 

http://www.regulations.gov, or, if only 

available in hard copy, at the OPPT 

Docket. The OPPT Docket is located in 

the EPA Docket Center (EPA/DC) at Rm. 

3334, EPA West Bldg., 1301 

Constitution Ave., NW., Washington, 

DC. The EPA/DC Public Reading Room 

hours of operation are 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 

p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding 

legal holidays. The telephone number of 

the EPA/DC Public Reading Room is 

(202) 566–1744, and the telephone 

number for the OPPT Docket is (202) 

566–0280. Docket visitors are required 

to show photographic identification, 

pass through a metal detector, and sign 

the EPA visitor log. All visitor bags are 

processed through an X-ray machine 

and subject to search. Visitors will be 

provided an EPA/DC badge that must be 

visible at all times in the building and 

returned upon departure. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

technical information contact: Dr. John 

D. Walker, Interagency Testing 

Committee (7401M), Office of Pollution 

Prevention and Toxics, Environmental 

Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460–0001; 

telephone number: (202) 564–7527; fax 

number: (202) 564–7528; email address: 

walker.johnd@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. General Information 

A. Does this Action Apply to Me? 

This notice is directed to the public 

in general. It may, however, be of 

particular interest to you if you 

manufacture (defined by statute to 

include import) and/or process TSCAcovered chemicals and you may be 

identified by the North American 

Industrial Classification System 

(NAICS) codes 325 and 32411. Because 

this notice is directed to the general 

public and other entities may also be 

interested, the Agency has not 

attempted to describe all the specific 

entities that may be interested in this 

action. If you have any questions 

regarding the applicability of this action 

to a particular entity, consult the 

technical person listed under FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. 

B. What Should I Consider as I Prepare 

My Comments for EPA? 

1. Submitting CBI. Do not submit this 

information to EPA through 

regulations.gov or email. Clearly mark 

the part or all of the information that 

you claim to be CBI. For CBI 

information in a disk or CD–ROM that 

you mail to EPA, mark the outside of the 

disk or CD–DOM as CBI and then 

identify electronically within the disk or 

CD–ROM the specific information that 

is claimed as CBI. In addition to one 

complete version of the comment that 

includes information claimed as CBI, a 

copy of the comment that does not 

contain the information claimed as CBI 

must be submitted for inclusion in the 

public docket. Information so marked 

will not be disclosed except in 

accordance with procedures set forth in 

40 CFR part 2. 

2. Tips for preparing your comments. 

When submitting comments, remember 

to: 

i. Identify the document by docket ID 

number and other identifying 

information (subject heading, Federal 

Register date and page number). 

ii. Follow directions. The Agency may 

ask you to respond to specific questions 

or organize comments by referencing a 

Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) part 

or section number. 

iii. Explain why you agree or disagree; 

suggest alternatives and substitute 

language for your requested changes. 


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iv. Describe any assumptions and 

provide any technical information and/ 

or data that you used. 

v. If you estimate potential costs or 

burdens, explain how you arrived at 

your estimate in sufficient detail to 

allow for it to be reproduced. 

vi. Provide specific examples to 

illustrate your concerns and suggest 

alternatives. 

vii. Explain your views as clearly as 

possible, avoiding the use of profanity 

or personal threats. 

viii. Make sure to submit your 

comments by the comment period 

deadline identified. 

II. Background 

The Toxic Substances Control Act 

(TSCA) (15 U.S.C. 260l et seq.) 

authorizes the EPA Administrator to 

promulgate regulations under TSCA 

section 4(a) requiring testing of 

chemicals and chemical groups in order 

to develop data relevant to determining 

the risks that such chemicals and 

chemical groups may present to health 

or the environment. Section 4(e) of 

TSCA established the ITC to 

recommend chemicals and chemical 

groups to the EPA Administrator for 

priority testing consideration. Section 

4(e) of TSCA directs the ITC to revise 

the TSCA section 4(e) Priority Testing 

List at least every 6 months. 

You may access additional 

information about the ITC at http:// 

www.epa.gov/opptintr/itc. 

A. The 70th ITC Report 

The ITC is not making any changes to 

the TSCA section 4(e) Priority Testing 

List. 

B. Status of the Priority Testing List 

The Priority Testing List includes 2 

alkylphenols; 16 chemicals with 

insufficient dermal absorption rate data, 

and 164 High Production Volume (HPV) 

Challenge Program orphan chemicals; a 

category of cadmium compounds 

including any unique chemical 

substance that contains cadmium as part 

of that chemical’s structure; 6 nonphthalate plasticizers; 25 phosphate 

ester flame retardants; 2 other flame 

retardants; 9 chemicals to which 

children living near hazardous waste 

sites may be exposed; and a category of 

69 diisocyanates and related 

compounds (including 14 Action Plan 

chemicals and 55 related compounds). 

List of Subjects 

Environmental protection, Chemicals, 

Hazardous substances. 

Dated: June 1, 2012. 

Wendy C. Hamnett, 

Director, Office of Pollution Prevention and 

Toxics. 

Seventieth Report of the TSCA 

Interagency Testing Committee to the 

Administrator of the Environmental 

Protection Agency 

Table of Contents 

Summary 

I. Background 

II. ITC’s Activities During this Reporting 

Period (December 2011 to May 2012) 

III. The TSCA Interagency Testing Committee 

Summary 

The ITC is not making any changes to 

the Toxic Substances Control Act 

(TSCA) section 4(e) Priority Testing List. 

The TSCA section 4(e) Priority Testing 

List is Table 1 of this unit. 

TABLE 1—TSCA SECTION 4(e) PRIORITY TESTING LIST (MAY 2012) 

ITC Report Date Chemical name/group Action 

31 ............................ January 1993 ................. 2 chemicals with insufficient dermal absorption rate data, 

methylcyclohexane and cyclopentane.

Designated. 

32 ............................ May 1993 ....................... 10 chemicals with insufficient dermal absorption rate data ........................... Designated. 

35 ............................ November 1994 ............. 4 chemicals with insufficient dermal absorption rate data, cyclopentadiene, 

formamide, 1,2,3-trichloropropane, and m-nitrotoluene.

Designated. 

37 ............................ November 1995 ............. Branched 4-nonylphenol (mixed isomers) ...................................................... Recommended. 

41 ............................ November 1997 ............. Phenol, 4-(1,1,3,3-tetramethylbutyl)- .............................................................. Recommended. 

55 ............................ December 2004 ............. 161 High Production Volume (HPV) Challenge Program orphan chemicals Recommended. 

56 ............................ August 2005 ................... 3 HPV Challenge Program orphan chemicals ............................................... Recommended. 

68 ............................ May 2011 ....................... Cadmium ......................................................................................................... Recommended. 

69 ............................ November 2011 ............. Cadmium compounds ..................................................................................... Recommended. 

69 ............................ November 2011 ............. 6 non-phthalate plasticizers ............................................................................ Recommended. 

69 ............................ November 2011 ............. 25 phosphate ester flame retardants ............................................................. Recommended. 

69 ............................ November 2011 ............. 2 other flame retardants ................................................................................. Recommended. 

69 ............................ November 2011 ............. 9 chemicals to which children living near hazardous waste sites may be 

exposed.

Recommended. 

69 ............................ November 2011 ............. 69 diisocyanates and related compounds ...................................................... Recommended. 

I. Background 

The ITC was established by section 

4(e) of TSCA ‘‘to make 

recommendations to the Administrator 

respecting the chemical substances and 

mixtures to which the Administrator 

should give priority consideration for 

the promulgation of rules for testing 

under section 4(a). * * * At least every 

six months * * *, the Committee shall 

make such revisions to the Priority 

Testing List as it determines to be 

necessary and transmit them to the 

Administrator together with the 

Committee’s reasons for the revisions’’ 

(Public Law 94–469, 90 Stat. 2003 et 

seq., 15 U.S.C. 2601 et seq.). ITC reports 

are available from the ITC’s Web site 

(http://www.epa.gov/opptintr/itc) 

within a few days of submission to the 

EPA Administrator and from 

regulations.gov (http:// 

www.regulations.gov) after publication 

in the Federal Register. The ITC 

produces its revisions to the Priority 

Testing List with administrative and 

technical support from the ITC staff, ITC 

members, and their U.S. Government 

organizations, and contract support 

provided by EPA. ITC members and 

staff are listed at the end of this report. 

II. ITC’s Activities During this 

Reporting Period (December 2011 to 

May 2012) 

During this reporting period, the ITC 

discussed actions taken during previous 

reporting periods. 

III. The TSCA Interagency Testing 

Committee 

Statutory Organizations with 

Representatives 

Department of Commerce 

National Institute of Standards and 

Technology, Dianne L. Poster, 

Alternate 


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Environmental Protection Agency 

Robert W. Jones, Member 

John E. Schaeffer, Alternate 

National Institute of Environmental 

Health Sciences 

Nigel Walker, Member 

Scott Masten, Alternate 

National Institute for Occupational 

Safety and Health 

Gayle DeBord, Member 

Dennis W. Lynch, Alternate 

Occupational Safety and Health 

Administration 

Janet Carter, Member 

Thomas Nerad, Alternate 

Liaison Organizations with 

Representatives 

Agency for Toxic Substances and 

Disease Registry 

Glenn D. Todd, Member 

Consumer Product Safety Commission 

Dominique Johnson, Member 

Department of Agriculture 

Clifford P. Rice, Member 

Cathleen J. Hapeman, Alternate 

Department of Defense 

Laurie E. Roszell, Member 

Department of the Interior 

Barnett A. Rattner, Member 

Food and Drug Administration 

Kirk Arvidson, Member 

Ronald F. Chanderbhan, Alternate 

ITC Staff 

John D. Walker, Director 

Carol Savage, Administrative Assistant 

(NOWCC Employee) 

TSCA Interagency Testing Committee 

(7401M), Office of Pollution Prevention 

and Toxics, Environmental Protection 

Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., 

Washington, DC 20460–0001; email 

address: savage.carol@epa.gov; url: 

http://www.epa.gov/opptintr/itc. 

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