EPA Plans To Extend PBT Rules’ Deadlines By September, Agenda Says

EPA’s newly unveiled regulatory agenda says it will set new compliance deadlines for some or all of its five TSCA rules governing persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic (PBT) chemicals in September, just as a “no-action” order averting what industry says would be devastating impacts from enforcing one of the rules is set to expire. The latest version of EPA’s semi-annual Unified Agenda, released early June 11, sets new timelines for several other Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) actions and rulemakings, such...