2070-AK70 202010 The Regulatory Plan and the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions 2070 Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention OCSPP 2000 Environmental Protection Agency EPA Methylene Chloride; Rulemaking Under TSCA Section 6(a)

Section 6 of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) requires EPA to address unreasonable risks that the Administrator has determined are presented by a chemical substance under the conditions of use. Following a risk evaluation carried out under the authority of TSCA section 6, EPA has determined that methylene chloride presents unreasonable risks of injury to health. EPA is initiating rulemaking under TSCA section 6 to address these unreasonable risks. EPA's risk evaluation, describing the conditions of use and presenting EPA's determinations of unreasonable risk, is in docket EPA-HQ-OPPT-2019-0437, with additional information in docket EPA-HQ-OPPT-2016-0742.

]]> Other Significant First Time Published in The Unified Agenda Proposed Rule Stage Undetermined No Regulatory 40 CFR 751 15 U.S.C. 2605 Toxic Substances Control Act Statutory Final 06/24/2022 TSCA section 6(c) NPRM to publish in the FR not later than 1 year after publication of the final risk evaluation, 40 CFR 702.49(b)(3) Statutory NPRM 06/24/2021 TSCA section 6(c) NPRM to publish in the FR not later than 1 year after publication of the final risk evaluation, 40 CFR 702.49(b)(3) Yes NPRM 06/00/2021 Final Rule 06/00/2022 Undetermined Federal Local State Tribal Yes No https://www.epa.gov/assessing-and-managing-chemicals-under-tsca/risk-management-methylene-chloride 324 Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing 325 Chemical Manufacturing No No Ingrid Feustel 2070 Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention OCSPP 202 564-3199 feustel.ingrid@epa.gov Mail Code 7404M, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington DC 20460 Joel Wolf 2070 Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention OCSPP 202 564-0432 wolf.joel@epa.gov 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Mail Code 7404M, Washington DC 20460