2070-AL22 202504 Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions 2070 Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention OCSPP 2000 Environmental Protection Agency EPA Formaldehyde; Regulation Under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)

This rulemaking will address the unreasonable risk of injury to health from formaldehyde. Section 6(a) of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) requires that EPA, when it determines in a TSCA risk evaluation that a chemical substance presents unreasonable risk of injury to health or the environment, apply one or more requirements under TSCA section 6(a) by rule to the extent necessary so the chemical substance no longer presents unreasonable risk. EPA’s final risk evaluation for formaldehyde, describing formaldehyde’s conditions of use and presenting EPA’s determination of unreasonable risk is in docket EPA-HQ-OPPT-2018-0438, with additional information including the draft risk evaluation and public comments received in docket EPA-HQ-OPPT-2023-0613.

]]> Other Significant First Time Published in The Unified Agenda Proposed Rule Stage Undetermined Undetermined Regulatory 40 CFR 751 15 U.S.C. 2605 Toxic Substances Control Act Statutory NPRM 01/03/2026 TSCA section 6(c) Statutory Final 01/03/2027 TSCA section 6(c) Yes NPRM 05/00/2026 Final Rule 04/00/2027 Undetermined Federal Yes Undetermined https://www.epa.gov/assessing-and-managing-chemicals-under-tsca/risk-evaluation-formaldehyde 325 Chemical Manufacturing No Yes Jeffrey Putt 2070 Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention OCSPP 202 564-3703 putt.jeffrey@epa.gov 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Mail Code 7404M, Washington DC 20460 Ana Corado 2070 Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention OCSPP 202 564-0140 corado.ana@epa.gov 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Mail Code 7404M, Washington DC 20460