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The authors of the TSCA reform bill (S 697) are confident that it will hit the Senate floor this year and could be on the president’s desk by the end of the year. The House overwhelmingly approved its own TSCA bill in June of this year. However, in the Senate there has been an absence of any action on the TSCA bill in August. The authors of the bill Tom Udall (D-New Mexico) and David Vitter (R-Louisiana) rejected the idea that the Senate’s failure to take action on the bill before the recess was a setback. Phil Klein, executive vice president of legislative and public affairs at the Consumer Specialty Products Association, stated “with over half of the Senate co-sponsoring the bill we have no reason to doubt TSCA modernization will happen this year.” For now we will cross our fingers and hope this very outdated act gets the serious update it needs!

 

https://chemicalwatch.com/36713/senate-tsca-bills-authors-confident-of-passage-this-year


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FEATURED PROJECT


PROBLEM

A local company engaged in manufacturing imported a small amount of a chemical substance defined under TSCA. Faced with a potential EPA enforcement action with penalties assessed for noncompliance under TSCA of up to $32,500 per day per violation, the company called SMG for help.


SMG'S APPROACH

SMG analyzed the company’s current TSCA procedures and assisted the company in developing a proactive, cost-effective compliance procedure. SMG also facilitated a training program to educate employees about TSCA.

MG worked with the company to develop mechanisms that assured adherence with the policies that were being implemented for compliance. Procedures to promptly correct any potential violations and prevent future violations were also put into place.


RESULTS

SMG was able to show that the company complied with the relevant TSCA regulations and was improving their TSCA policies and procedures to assure that future issues were less likely to occur. The company was not subjected to the proposed penalties and now has mechanisms in place to maintain TSCA compliance.