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Programme

  1. Registration and coffee

  2. Welcome and introduction

  3. Session 1: TSCA section 6 developments

  4. Update on EPA’s TSCA section 6 activities

    • an explanation of EPA’s TSCA section 6 risk evaluation process for existing chemicals;
    • a status update on current risk evaluation activities; and
    • a discussion of EPA's efforts to gather and review chemical information earlier in the risk evaluation process

  5. Industry perspectives on section 6, focusing on risk evaluations and ECELs

  6. NGO viewpoint including risk management

  7. Legal perspectives including scientific issues and key points in litigation

  8. Extended Q&A session

  9. Refreshment break

  10. SESSION 2: TSCA developments continued

  11. Overview of TSCA enforcement

    • overview of the TSCA enforcement program priorities and focus areas;
    • description of recent developments in TSCA enforcement and litigation; and
    • significant recent enforcement case resolutions

  12. Updates on TSCA Section 8 reporting rules

    • recurring reporting requirements;
    • ongoing reporting requirements;
    • PFAS reporting rule; and
    • reporting rules under development.

  13. TSCA New Chemicals from industry's perspective

    Challenges facing industry in the New Chemicals review process

      • pre-submission meetings
      • industry submissions and EPA review
        • what is reasonably foreseeable
        • customer uses
        • challenges with PMNs vs. LVEs
      • EPA decision / regulatory determination
        • reasonably foreseeable uses
        • base assumption
        • significant new use rules

  14. New Chemicals from EPA’s perspective

    VIRTUAL PRESENTATION

    • New chemicals program overview
    • background
    • review process
    • program Improvements
    • program statistics
    • looking ahead

  15. Q&A session

  16. Lunch and networking

  17. Enhesa Product Intelligence service presentation

  18. Welcome back with the moderator

  19. Session 3: State regulatory trends

  20. US state regulatory trends for 2024 and beyond

    • highlights of the 2024 legislation year so far;
    • what trends are we seeing; and
    • what can we expect moving forward?

  21. California’s Safer Consumer Products (SCP) program: where we’ve been, what’s on the horizon

    • brief overview of California’s Safer Consumer Products regulatory framework;
    • summary of our current work regulating chemicals in consumer products—identifying new Priority Products, evaluating industry Alternatives Analysis submittals, selecting regulatory responses; and
    • looking ahead: the 2024-26 Priority Product Work Plan, new initiatives.

  22. State vs. federal chemical regulation: compliment or conflict?

    • review of state regulatory action on specific substances;
    • contrast with federal efforts to regulate those same substances;
    • case studies with substances such as 1,4 Dioxane and 6PPD; and
    • lessons learned and path forward

  23. Q&A session

  24. Refreshment break

  25. Session 4: Other developments

  26. State-level PFAS legislation updates

    • most significant state-level PFAS legislation trends in 2024;
    • impact on companies of state-level legislation; and
    • looking ahead: state legislation ahead in 2025 (and beyond)

  27. Comparing articles in TSCA/GHS/OSHA (when is an article not an article?)

    • review the definitions of article according to various regulations of TSCA, OSHA, GHS; and
    • explore some recent changes in scope for the definitions

  28. Loper Bright and TSCA: Will the demise of Chevron matter?

    • what is Chevron Deference?;
    • the Loper Bright decision; and
    • implications for EPA, and TSCA in particular.

  29. Q&A session

  30. Networking drinks reception

    Join us for relaxed networking, drinks and appetizers with our speakers and attendees.

  31. Close of day one