EPA submits TSCA CBI proposal for White House review

EPA has submitted its proposed trade secret Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) inventory review rule for White House Office of Management & Budget (OMB) pre-publication review, a rule that will detail how the agency plans to review confidential business information (CBI) claims for chemicals on the inventory. The proposed rule was triggered by a statutory deadline in TSCA as revised by Congress in 2016. The updated TSCA requires that within one year of EPA's publication of the final TSCA inventory...