H. R. 2576 
One Hundred Fourteenth Congress 
of the 
United States of America 
AT THE SECOND SESSION 
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Monday, 
the fourth day of January, two thousand and sixteen 
An Act 
To modernize the Toxic Substances Control Act, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Frank R. 
Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents of this Act 
is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
TITLE I—CHEMICAL SAFETY 
Sec. 2. Findings, policy, and intent. 
Sec. 3. Definitions. 
Sec. 4. Testing of chemical substances and mixtures. 
Sec. 5. Manufacturing and processing notices. 
Sec. 6. Prioritization, risk evaluation, and regulation of chemical substances and 
mixtures. 
Sec. 7. Imminent hazards. 
Sec. 8. Reporting and retention of information. 
Sec. 9. Relationship to other Federal laws. 
Sec. 10. Exports of elemental mercury. 
Sec. 11. Confidential information. 
Sec. 12. Penalties. 
Sec. 13. State-Federal relationship. 
Sec. 14. Judicial review. 
Sec. 15. Citizens’ civil actions. 
Sec. 16. Studies. 
Sec. 17. Administration of the Act. 
Sec. 18. State programs. 
Sec. 19. Conforming amendments. 
Sec. 20. No retroactivity. 
Sec. 21. Trevor’s Law. 
TITLE II—RURAL HEALTHCARE CONNECTIVITY 
Sec. 201. Short title. 
Sec. 202. Telecommunications services for skilled nursing facilities. 
TITLE I—CHEMICAL SAFETY 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS, POLICY, AND INTENT. 
Section 2(c) of the Toxic Substances Control Act (15 U.S.C. 
2601(c)) is amended by striking ‘‘proposes to take’’ and inserting 
‘‘proposes as provided’’. 
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 
Section 3 of the Toxic Substances Control Act (15 U.S.C. 2602) 
is amended—
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(1) by redesignating paragraphs (4) through (14) as para-
graphs (5), (6), (8), (9), (10), (11), (13), (14), (15), (16), and 
(17), respectively; 
(2) by inserting after paragraph (3) the following: 
‘‘(4) The term ‘conditions of use’ means the circumstances, 
as determined by the Administrator, under which a chemical sub-
stance is intended, known, or reasonably foreseen to be manufac-
tured, processed, distributed in commerce, used, or disposed of.’’; 
(3) by inserting after paragraph (6), as so redesignated, 
the following: 
‘‘(7) The term ‘guidance’ means any significant written guidance 
of general applicability prepared by the Administrator.’’; and 
(4) by inserting after paragraph (11), as so redesignated, 
the following: 
‘‘(12) The term ‘potentially exposed or susceptible subpopula-
tion’ means a group of individuals within the general population 
identified by the Administrator who, due to either greater suscepti-
bility or greater exposure, may be at greater risk than the general 
population of adverse health effects from exposure to a chemical 
substance or mixture, such as infants, children, pregnant women, 
workers, or the elderly.’’. 
SEC. 4. TESTING OF CHEMICAL SUBSTANCES AND MIXTURES. 
Section 4 of the Toxic Substances Control Act (15 U.S.C. 2603) 
is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘standards’’ each place it appears and 
inserting ‘‘protocols and methodologies’’; 
(2) in subsection (a)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘If the Administrator finds’’ and 
inserting ‘‘(1) If the Administrator finds’’; 
(B) in paragraph (1), as so designated— 
(i) by striking ‘‘(1)(A)(i)’’ and inserting ‘‘(A)(i)(I)’’; 
(ii) by striking ‘‘(ii)’’ each place it appears and 
inserting ‘‘(II)’’; 
(iii) by striking ‘‘are insufficient data’’ and 
inserting ‘‘is insufficient information’’ each place it 
appears; 
(iv) by striking ‘‘(iii)’’ each place it appears and 
inserting ‘‘(III)’’; 
(v) by striking ‘‘such data’’ and inserting ‘‘such 
information’’ each place it appears; 
(vi) by striking ‘‘(B)(i)’’ and inserting ‘‘(ii)(I)’’; 
(vii) by striking ‘‘(I)’’ and inserting ‘‘(aa)’’; 
(viii) by striking ‘‘(II)’’ and inserting ‘‘(bb)’’; 
(ix) by striking ‘‘(2)’’ and inserting ‘‘(B)’’; and 
(x) in the matter following subparagraph (B), as 
so redesignated— 
(I) by inserting ‘‘, or, in the case of a chemical 
substance or mixture described in subparagraph 
(A)(i), by rule, order, or consent agreement,’’ after 
‘‘rule’’; 
(II) by striking ‘‘data’’ each place it appears 
and inserting ‘‘information’’; and 
(III) by striking ‘‘and which are relevant’’ and 
inserting ‘‘and which is relevant’’; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following: