The TSCA Interagency Testing Committee (ITC) -- influencing science, technology and public policy
- ITC, Washington, DC (United States)
The purpose of this presentation is to briefly describe the ITC and how the ITC`s work over the past 17 years has influenced science, technology and public policy. In 1976, under section 4(e) of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), the US Congress created the ITC to implement the initial phases of testing TSCA-regulable chemicals. Congress directed the ITC to: (1) make testing decisions on about 70,000 chemicals, (2) develop the TSCA Section 4(e) Priority Testing List, (3) coordinate chemical testing and (4) revise the List at least every six months. The creation, structure, functions and contributions of the.ITC from 1977 to 1992 have been previously described. The ITC has made testing decisions on about 50,000 chemicals. Most chemicals on domestic and international regulatory lists have ITC testing decisions. Science has been influenced by the ITC`s testing decisions to add chemicals to the List, to designate or recommend the added chemicals, to recommend different types of testing, to defer chemicals for testing or to remove chemicals on the List. Technology has been influenced because test methods were developed, laboratory equipment designed, etc. Public Policy has been influenced by ITC`s suggestions to the Civil Service Commission that registers be created for toxicologists and environmental scientists, ITC`s discussions of a National Testing Policy, by EPA`s decisions to publish over 200 Federal Register notices requesting that manufacturers of ITC chemicals submit unpublished data or conduct testing and by chemical manufacturers submission of over 25,000 unpublished studies and conduct of over 900 tests.
- OSTI ID:
- 49493
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9410273-; TRN: IM9523%%316
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 15. annual meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC), Denver, CO (United States), 30 Oct - 3 Nov 1994; Other Information: PBD: 1994; Related Information: Is Part Of Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 15th annual meeting: Abstract book. Ecological risk: Science, policy, law, and perception; PB: 286 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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