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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 trichloroethylene, EPA characterized risks from the use of TCE in commercial degreasing and in some consumer uses. EPA determined that these are unreasonable risks. On January 19, 2017, EPA proposed to prohibit the manufacture, processing, distribution in commerce, or commercial use of TCE in vapor degreasing. A separate action (RIN 2070-AK03), published on December 16, 2016, proposes to address the unreasonable risks from TCE when as a spotting agent in dry cleaning and in commercial and consumer aerosol spray degreasers.