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Section 6(a) of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) provides authority for EPA to ban or restrict the manufacture (including import), processing, distribution in commerce, and use of chemical substances, as well as any manner or method of disposal. In the June 2014 TSCA Work Plan Chemical Risk Assessment for TCE, EPA identified risks associated with commercial degreasing and some consumer uses. EPA determined that these are unreasonable risks. On December 16, 2016, EPA proposed to prohibit the manufacture, processing, distribution in commerce, or use of TCE as a spotting agent in dry cleaning and in commercial and consumer aerosol spray degreasers. A separate Regulatory Agenda entry (RIN 2070-AK11), published on January 19, 2017, proposes to address the unreasonable risks from TCE in vapor degreasing operations.