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Robust Summaries and Test Plans
As the Agency receives data from Challenge Program participants, it will post notice of and links to those data here for public review and comment. Companies and consortia are requested to defer any proposed new testing on their chemicals for a period of 120 days from when their Test Plans and Robust Summaries are posted to the Internet, in order to allow for technical public comment regarding the possible provision of additional existing data or other technical information which might address or eliminate the need for some new testing. The posting date and the date by which comments must be received will appear on the table below. Please be advised that Test Plans and Robust Summaries will be very technical. If you would like to be notified whenever new data are posted, please subscribe to our automatic email Update Notification service. We intend to allow people eventually to search for information on the EPA site using chemical CAS numbers, posting dates, comment due dates, and company or consortium names. Initially, however, while all of the database elements are under construction, this information will appear in a simple, non-searchable table on this page, with jumplinks to the related robust summaries and test plans. As the number of data submissions increase, and as the database structure is refined and completed, all of the information will be shifted into a database format that will be searchable and viewable online, and may be downloaded to your computer for use with your own database software. All submitted robust summary data will reside eventually in an on-line EPA database, allowing much more flexibility in searching and reporting. We will link technical public comments on test plans and robust summaries from the Index page provided for each subscriber shown on the table. All comments received will be retained in the Docket (AR-201), but multiple comments raising the same points will not be repeated on the website. In those circumstances, we will post one illustrative set of comments, and note that other commenters raised the same points. Please note that there may be a time lag between the date the Agency officially receives an HPV Challenge Program test plan and robust summary submission and the date the submission is posted to this website. Such delays may be due to the submission of an incomplete package by the sponsor (for example, one or more robust summaries may have inadvertently been omitted from the submission) and the time it takes the sponsor to submit the missing information. It is essential that a complete package be made publicly available for the 120-day review of submissions, and it is for this reason that EPA conducts an initial completeness review of the package prior to posting it on the website.
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