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Toxic Substances Control Act15 U.S.C. s/s 2601 et seq. (1976)The Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) of 1976 was enacted by Congress to give EPA the ability to track the 75,000 industrial chemicals currently produced or imported into the United States. EPA repeatedly screens these chemicals and can require reporting or testing of those that may pose an environmental or human-health hazard. EPA can ban the manufacture and import of those chemicals that pose an unreasonable risk. Also, EPA has mechanisms in place to track the thousands of new chemicals that industry develops each year with either unknown or dangerous characteristics. EPA then can control these chemicals as necessary to protect human health and the environment. TSCA supplements other Federal statutes, including the Clean Air Act and the Toxic Release Inventory under EPCRA Full text of
the Toxic Substances Control Act About the TSCA
Chemical Substances Inventory The full text version of this law is hosted by
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recent version of the U.S. Code released in electronic form contains the laws
in effect as of January 16, 1996. For more recent laws, please see the uncompiled
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