Agenda
Timings are in EDT (Washington DC)
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Registration
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TSCA Section 5 New Chemical Notification Process
- Instructors will outline changes to TSCA Section 5, as amended by the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act, and highlight regulatory actions taken by the U.S. EPA. This session will teach regulatory specialists how staying informed and providing a robust notification package can expedite the review process.
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Refreshment Break
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Physical-Chemical Properties and Environmental Fate
- Instructors will teach participants how to interpret physical-chemical and environmental fate properties to determine potential endpoints of concern and inform testing needs prior to new chemical submissions.
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Lunch
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US EPA EPISuite Software Hands-On Session
- Instructors will lead a hands-on session with the US EPA software and example chemicals to teach participants how to anticipate environmental fate concerns in the absence of measured data and anticipate potential regulatory concerns.
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Ecological Hazard Assessment
- Instructors will teach participants approaches for creating a screening level hazard assessment for the primary environmental media of concern in industrial chemical regulation.
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Refreshment Break
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US EPA ECOSAR Software Hands-On Session
- The instructs will lead a hands-on session with the US EPA software and example chemicals to show participants how to predict hazard concerns in the absence of measured data and identify data gaps and data needs for a chemical.
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Human Health Hazard Assessment
- Instructors will provide insight on approaches for creating a screening level human health hazard assessment and will focus on principles for analogue analysis and read across to fill data gaps.
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Close of day one
