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RIN: 2060-AU75

Publication ID: Spring 2021

Title: Petition to Delist Hazardous Air Pollutants: 2-Butoxyethyl Benzoate (2-BEB)
Abstract: The Clean Air Act (CAA) requires EPA to regulate substances listed as hazardous air pollutants (HAP) under CAA section 112(b). The HAP list includes substances that are air pollutants, and for which emissions, ambient concentrations, bioaccumulation or deposition of the substance are known or reasonably anticipated to cause adverse effects to human health or adverse environmental effects. The CAA requires EPA to consider petitions to add or remove substances from the HAP list. EPA reviews a petition to determine whether it provides adequate data and can be determined complete. If EPA decides that information is not adequate, the Administrator may use any authority available to them to acquire such information. If the petition is determined complete or EPA acquires adequate information through other means of its authority, EPA must, within 18 months, technically review the petition and then either grant or deny the petition. On September 30, 2019, the Dow Chemical Company submitted a petition to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to remove 2-butoxyethyl benzoate (2-BEB) from the category of glycol ethers in the list of hazardous air pollutants (HAP) under section 112(b)(3) of the Clean Air Act (CAA), 42 U.S.C. 7412(b)(3). Dow views 2-BEB as a potential replacement for ethylene glycol monobutyl ether (EGBE) and some other chemicals for specific applications. EGBE was delisted as a HAP by EPA on November 29, 2004. The EPA completed the initial review of the petition and found that it is insufficient. The EPA provided the petitioner with a list of additional information to provide and received a response in January 2021. EPA is currently reviewing this information to determine if it is sufficient.
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency(EPA)	Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
RIN Status: Previously published in the Unified Agenda	Agenda Stage of Rulemaking: Proposed Rule Stage
Major: No	Unfunded Mandates: No
CFR Citation: 40 CFR 63
Legal Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7412 Clean Air Act

Legal Deadline:

Action	Source	Description	Date
None

Timetable:

Action	Date	FR Cite
Notice	05/00/2021
NPRM	To Be Determined
Final Rule	To Be Determined

Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: No	Government Levels Affected: Federal
Small Entities Affected: No	Federalism: No
Included in the Regulatory Plan: No
Sectors Affected: 325 Chemical Manufacturing
RIN Data Printed in the FR: No
Agency Contact: Jodi Howard Environmental Protection Agency Office of Air and Radiation E143-01, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711 Phone:919 541-4991 Fax:919 541-0246 Email: howard.jodi@epa.gov Hillary Ward Office of Air and Radiation Environmental Protection Agency E143-01, 109 T.W. Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711 Phone:919 541-3154 Email: ward.hillary@epa.gov