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Technical Barriers to Trade | G/TBT/N/USA/1938 | United States of America | 2022 | Climate change mitigation and adaptation, Ozone…
Climate change mitigation and adaptation, Ozone layer protection
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Technical regulation or specifications | Chemicals, Manufacturing | Phasedown of Hydrofluorocarbons: Allowance…
Phasedown of Hydrofluorocarbons: Allowance Allocation Methodology for 2024 and Later Years: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to amend existing regulations to implement certain provisions of the American Innovation and Manufacturing Act, as enacted on 27 December 2020. This rulemaking proposes to establish the methodology for allocating hydrofluorocarbon production and consumption allowances for the calendar years of 2024 through 2028. EPA is also proposing to amend the consumption baseline to reflect updated data and to make other adjustments based on lessons learned from implementation of the hydrofluorocarbon phasedown program thus far, including proposing to: codify the existing approach of how allowances must be expended for import of regulated substances; revise recordkeeping and reporting requirements; and implement other modifications to the existing regulations.
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Technical Barriers to Trade | G/TBT/N/USA/1944 | United States of America | 2022 | Chemical, toxic and hazardous substances…
Chemical, toxic and hazardous substances management
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Technical regulation or specifications | Chemicals, Energy | Fees for the Administration of the Toxic…
Fees for the Administration of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA): The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is issuing this document to modify and supplement its proposed rule issued on 11 January 2021, in which the Agency proposed updates and adjustments to the 2018 Fee Rule established under the TSCA. (...) the purpose of this document is to propose narrowing certain proposed exemptions for entities subject to the EPA-initiated risk evaluation fees and propose exemptions for the test rule fee activities; to propose modifications to the self- identification and reporting requirements for EPA-initiated risk evaluation and test rule fees; to propose a partial refund of fees for premanufacture notices withdrawn at any time after the first 10 business days during the assessment period of the chemical; to propose modifications to EPA's proposed methodology for the production volume- based fee allocation for EPA-initiated risk evaluation fees in any scenario where a consortium is not formed; to propose expanding the fee requirements to companies required to submit information for test orders; to propose modifying the fee payment obligations to require payment by processors subject to test orders and enforceable consent agreements (ECA); to propose extending the timeframe for test order and test rule payments; as well as to propose changes to the fee amounts and the estimate of EPA's total costs for administering TSCA.
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Technical Barriers to Trade | G/TBT/N/USA/1947 | United States of America | 2022 | Air pollution reduction, Chemical, toxic and…
Air pollution reduction, Chemical, toxic and hazardous substances management
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Conformity assessment procedures, Technical…
Conformity assessment procedures, Technical regulation or specifications
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Chemicals | The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is…
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing amendments to the Standards of Performance for secondary lead smelters per the Agency's periodic review of the new source performance standards required by the Clean Air Act (CAA). In this action, we are proposing updates to the current New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) for secondary lead smelters and proposing a new NSPS subpart that applies to affected sources constructed, reconstructed, or modified after the date of this proposed rule. For the current NSPS subpart, we are proposing to revise the definitions of blast furnace, reverberatory furnace, and pot furnace to more closely align with the equipment definitions used in the National Emissions Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) for secondary lead smelting. We are also proposing requirements for periodic performance tests for particulate matter (PM) and incorporating revised monitoring, recordkeeping, and reporting requirements, including electronic reporting of performance tests, to be more consistent with the NESHAP. For the new subpart, we are proposing updated PM and opacity emissions limits for blast, reverberatory, and pot furnaces that reflect the performance achieved by the best system for emissions reductions (BSER). In the new subpart, we are proposing PM and opacity emissions limits that apply at all times, including during periods of startup, shutdown, and malfunction (SSM), and proposing initial and periodic PM and opacity performance testing and the same equipment definitions, recordkeeping, and reporting requirements proposed for current NSPS subpart.
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Technical Barriers to Trade | G/TBT/N/USA/1949 | United States of America | 2022 | Chemical, toxic and hazardous substances…
Chemical, toxic and hazardous substances management
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Technical regulation or specifications | Chemicals, Manufacturing | The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is…
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing significant new use rules (SNURs) under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) for chemical substances that were the subject of premanufacture notices (PMNs) and are also subject to Orders issued by EPA pursuant to TSCA. The SNURs would require persons who intend to manufacture (defined by statute to include import) or process any of these chemical substances for an activity that is proposed as a significant new use by this rule to notify EPA at least 90 days before commencing that activity. The required notification initiates EPA's evaluation of the use, under the conditions of use for that chemical substance, within the applicable review period. Persons may not commence manufacture or processing for the significant new use until EPA has conducted a review of the notice, made an appropriate determination on the notice, and has taken such actions as are required in association with that determination.
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Technical Barriers to Trade | G/TBT/N/USA/1950 | United States of America | 2022 | Chemical, toxic and hazardous substances…
Chemical, toxic and hazardous substances management, Waste management and recycling
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Technical regulation or specifications | Chemicals, Other | The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is…
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to add per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) subject to reporting under the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA) and the Pollution Prevention Act (PPA) pursuant to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 (NDAA) to the list of Lower Thresholds for Chemicals of Special Concern (chemicals of special concern). These PFAS already have a lower reporting threshold of 100 pounds. The addition of these PFAS to the list of chemicals of special concern will cause such PFAS to be subject to the same reporting requirements as other chemicals of special concern (i.e., it would eliminate the use of the de minimis exemption and the option to use Form A and would limit the use of range reporting for PFAS). Removing the availability of these burden-reduction reporting options will result in a more complete picture of the releases and waste management quantities for these PFAS. (...)
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Technical Barriers to Trade | G/TBT/N/USA/1954 | United States of America | 2022 | Ozone layer protection | Ban/Prohibition, Technical regulation or…
Ban/Prohibition, Technical regulation or specifications
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Chemicals, Manufacturing | The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is…
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to issue regulations to implement certain provisions of the American Innovation and Manufacturing Act, as enacted on 27 December 2020. This rulemaking proposes to: restrict the use of hydrofluorocarbons in specific sectors or subsectors in which they are used; establish a process for submitting technology transitions petitions; establish recordkeeping and reporting requirements; and address certain other elements related to the effective implementation of the American Innovation and Manufacturing Act. The proposed restrictions on the use of hydrofluorocarbons would, in part, address petitions granted on 7 October 2021, and 19 September 2022. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is also seeking advance information on certain topics that may be helpful to developing a future proposed rule including on restrictions on the use of hydrofluorocarbons for certain other sectors and subsectors and on a third-party auditing program to verify substances used in products.
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Technical Barriers to Trade | G/TBT/N/USA/1955 | United States of America | 2022 | Chemical, toxic and hazardous substances…
Chemical, toxic and hazardous substances management
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Risk assessment | Chemicals | The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is…
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing the availability of the final revision to the risk determination for the n-methylpyrrolidone (NMP) risk evaluation issued under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). The revision to the NMP risk determination reflects the announced policy change to ensure the public is protected from unreasonable risks from chemicals in a way that is supported by science and the law. EPA determined that NMP, as a whole chemical substance, presents an unreasonable risk of injury to health when evaluated under its conditions of use. (...)
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Technical Barriers to Trade | G/TBT/N/VNM/236 | Viet Nam | 2022 | Chemical, toxic and hazardous substances…
Chemical, toxic and hazardous substances management
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Technical regulation or specifications | Chemicals, Manufacturing | This draft of technical regulation provides…
This draft of technical regulation provides technical requirements, testing methods and quality control for the allowable content limits of a number of hazardous chemicals in electrical and electronic products specified in Appendix II of this Regulation, corresponding test methods and requirements on managing the quality of electrical and electronic products produced domestically, imported and traded in the territory of Vietnam. (...)
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Technical Barriers to Trade | G/TBT/N/VNM/238 | Viet Nam | 2022 | Chemical, toxic and hazardous substances…
Chemical, toxic and hazardous substances management
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Technical regulation or specifications | Chemicals, Manufacturing | This draft National Technical Regulation…
This draft National Technical Regulation prescribes the allowed maximum limit (threshold) of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in articles, products, commodities and equipment, and specific parts of articles, products, commodities and equipment containing POPs. (...)
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Quantitative Restrictions | G/MA/QR/N/MAC/6 | Macao, China | 2022 | Air pollution reduction, MEAs implementation and…
Air pollution reduction, MEAs implementation and compliance, Ozone layer protection
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Export licences, Import licences, Export quotas,…
Export licences, Import licences, Export quotas, Import quotas
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Chemicals | 3. Non-automatic licence and quota for the import…
3. Non-automatic licence and quota for the import and export of the ozone-depleting substances
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