‘‘(5) CONSOLIDATION OF NOTICES.—With re-
spect to any pre-export notice requirement under 
this subsection, the Administrator shall allow any 
such requirement, and any pre-export notice require-
ment in other provisions of this Act, to be satisfied 
by a single notice. 
‘‘(6) TRACE CONCENTRATIONS.—The Adminis-
trator shall allow the export of trace concentrations 
of otherwise restricted or banned chemicals without 
notification if the Administrator finds that the ex-
port of such concentrations without notification does 
not pose a significant threat to human health or the 
environment and is not inconsistent with the PIC 
Convention, the POPs Convention, and the LRTAP 
POPs Protocol.’’. 
SEC. 6. CONFORMING AMENDMENTS. 
(a) The table of contents in section 1 of the Toxic 
Substances Control Act is amended by adding at the end 
the following: 
‘‘TITLE V—IMPLEMENTATION OF INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS 
‘‘Sec. 501. Definitions 
‘‘Sec. 502. Implementation of POPs Convention and LRTAP POPs Protocol 
‘‘Sec. 503. Notice, information, rulemaking, and exemptions 
‘‘Sec. 504. Amendments and consultation 
‘‘Sec. 505. International cooperation and notice of meetings 
‘‘Sec. 506. Effect of requirements 
‘‘Sec. 507. Rules of construction’’. 
(b) Section 11 of the Toxic Substances Control Act 
(15 U.S.C. 2610) is amended in subsections (a) and (b) 
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by striking ‘‘title IV’’ each place it appears and inserting 
‘‘title IV or title V’’. 
(c) Section 15 of the Toxic Substances Control Act 
(15 U.S.C. 2614) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (1), by inserting ‘‘or any re-
quirement prescribed under title V or rule or order 
promulgated or issued under title V’’ after ‘‘under 
title II’’; and 
(2) in paragraph (2), by inserting ‘‘, or any re-
quirement prescribed under title V or rule or order 
promulgated or issued under title V’’ after ‘‘under 
section 5 or 7’’. 
(d) Section 17 of the Toxic Substances Control Act 
(15 U.S.C. 2616) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)(1)— 
(A) by striking subparagraph (B) and in-
serting the following: 
‘‘(B) restrain any person from taking any ac-
tion prohibited by section 5 or 6, or title IV or V 
(or a rule or order issued under any of those sec-
tions or titles);’’; 
(B) in subparagraphs (A) and (C), by 
striking the comma at the end and inserting a 
semicolon; and 
(C) in subparagraph (D)— 
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(i) by striking ‘‘title IV manufac-
tured’’ and inserting ‘‘title IV or V manu-
factured’’; and 
(ii) by striking ‘‘section 5, 6, or title 
IV’’ each place it appears and inserting 
‘‘section 5 or 6, or title IV or V’’; and 
(2) in the first sentence of subsection (b), by in-
serting ‘‘or V’’ after ‘‘title IV’’. 
(e) Section 18 of the Toxic Substances Control Act 
(15 U.S.C. 2617) is amended— 
(1) by amending subsection (a)(2)(B) to read 
as follows: 
‘‘(B) if— 
‘‘(i) the Administrator prescribes a rule or 
order under section 5 or 6 (other than a rule 
imposing a requirement described in subsection 
(a)(6) of section 6) which is applicable to a 
chemical substance or mixture, and which is de-
signed to protect against a risk of injury to 
health or the environment associated with such 
substance or mixture; or 
‘‘(ii) the United States has consented to be 
bound under the POPs Convention or LRTAP 
POPs Protocol with respect to a POPs chemical 
substance or mixture or LRTAP POPs chem-
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ical substance or mixture (as defined in section 
501), and a rule or order under section 503(e) 
has become effective, 
no State or political subdivision of a State may, 
after the effective date of such rule or order or con-
sent, establish or continue in effect any requirement, 
which is applicable to such substance or mixture, or 
an article containing such substance or mixture, and 
which is designed to protect against a risk of injury 
to health or the environment associated with such 
substance or mixture that the rule, order, or consent 
is designed to protect against, unless such require-
ment is identical to the requirement prescribed by 
the Administrator, is adopted under the authority of 
the Clean Air Act or any other Federal law, or pro-
hibits the use of such substance or mixture in such 
State or political subdivision (other than its use in 
the manufacture or processing of other substances 
or mixtures).’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following new sub-
section: 
‘‘(c) SAVINGS.—Nothing in this section shall be con-
strued to authorize a State to act in a manner that causes 
the United States to be out of compliance with its obliga-
tions under the POPs Convention or LRTAP POPs Pro-
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tocol. For purposes of this section, the terms ‘POPs Con-
vention’ and ‘LRTAP POPs Protocol’ have the meaning 
given those terms in section 501.’’. 
Æ 
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