EPA Questions On Key TSCA Terms’ Definitions Could Narrow Evaluations

EPA is seeking comments on whether and how to define key TSCA terms in its replacement to the Biden-era “framework” rule that sets procedures for TSCA risk evaluations, which could narrow the breadth of future evaluations and rules through first-time descriptions of terms Congress added to the reformed law but that remain in question. “Probably the most surprising thing in the [proposed] rule, is that EPA asks commenters, ‘Should EPA define what is reasonably foreseeable?’” an industry source tells Inside...