Petitions to the Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention
This page makes available petitions for rulemaking received by the Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention on or after January 1, 2013. For the purposes of this page, the agency has posted incoming communications styled as "petitions" for generally applicable, national rulemakings. Petitions provided as comments in a publicly available rulemaking docket are not reproduced here. Additional petitions will be added on an ongoing basis as they are received or identified; petitions on this page were last updated on January 18, 2017.
The presence of a petition on this page does not indicate an EPA decision to grant or deny the petition. Any regulatory action that follows as a result of a petition for rulemaking would still be shaped by the typical outreach used by the agency to gather stakeholder input, and is still subject to any applicable notice and comment requirements. Petitions for rulemaking from other offices.
| Date Received | Petitioners | Related Statutes | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| December 21, 2016 | National Association of State Departments of Agriculture and the American Farm Bureau Federation | Agricultural Worker Protection Standard | The petition asks that the Agency amend the Agricultural Worker Protection Standard by postponing the effective date. Read the petition. |
| July 28, 2016 | Center for Biological Diversity |
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) |
The petition asks that the Agency require all applicants and registrants to provide data on the potential synergistic effects of pesticides during the registration and registration review processes. Read the petition. |
| October 7, 2015 | Biobased and Renewable Products Advocacy Group | TSCA Section 21 | The petition asks that the Agency initiate a rulemaking under TSCA to establish a process to amend the list of natural sources of oil and fat in the Soap and Detergent Association (SDA) nomenclature system. Read the petition. |
| June 30, 2015 | Center for Biological Diversity and Donn J. Viviani, Ph.D. | TSCA Section 21 | The petition asks that the Agency regulate anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide under TSCA. Read the petition. |
| June 24, 2015 | Natural Resources Defense Council and Northeast Waste Management Officials’ Association | TSCA Section 21 | The petition asks that the Agency promulgate reporting rules for mercury manufacturing, processing, and importation under TSCA. Read the petition. |
| January 23, 2015 | American Chemistry Council (ACC) Ethylene Glycol Ethers Panel | Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986 (EPCRA) | The petition asks that the Agency remove ethylene glycol monobutyl ether (EGBE) from the “Certain Glycol Ethers” chemical category of the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) chemical list. Read the petition. |
| October 21, 2014 | Biobased Renewable Products Advocacy Group | TSCA Section 21 | The petition asks that the Agency initiate a rulemaking to amend the TSCA Section 8 Chemical Data Reporting (CDR) partially exempted chemical list to add “biodiesel” as a chemical category for partial exemption. Read the petition. |
| July 29, 2014 | Center for Biological Diversity | TSCA Section 21 | The petition asks that the Agency promulgate regulations governing the safe treatment, storage and disposal of polyvinyl chloride (PVC), vinyl chloride and associated dialkyl- and alkylarylesters of 1,2-benzenedicarboxylic acid, commonly known as phthalate plasticizers. Read the petition. |
| October 31, 2013 | National Center for Healthy Housing, International Union of Painters and Allied Trades, Lead and Environmental Hazards Association, and National Association of Lead and Healthy Homes Grantees | TSCA Section 21 | The petition asks that the Agency promulgate a rule pursuant to TSCA Section 8(d) requiring property managers, building owners, and contractors disturbing paint on public and commercial buildings to submit to EPA certain records related to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s construction standard for lead. Read the petition. |
| April 22, 2013 | J. William Hirzy | TSCA Section 21 | The petition asks that the Agency exercise authority under TSCA to prohibit the use of Hydrofluosilicic Acid (HFSA) as a water fluoridation agent in the U.S. Read the petition. |