U.S. Chemical Cooperation Commitments Under SPP

1. U.S. Chemical Cooperation Commitments Under SPP Charles M. Auer U.S. Environmental Protection Agency October 22, 2007

2. U.S. Commitments Under SPP • By the end of 2012: • Assess and initiate needed action on the over 9,000 existing chemicals produced above 25,000 lbs/yr in the U.S. • Includes organic High Production Volume (HPV) and Moderate Production Volume (MPV) chemicals • Screening level prioritization decisions

3. Ongoing Work and SPP Commitments

4. Screening Decision Process Development – HPV Chemicals • Prioritize HPV chemicals based on available risk/hazard/exposure information • Where No Further Action Needed At This Time: • Document decision rationale and post to web • Likely to be most common decision • Where Additional Info or Action Is Needed: • Simple Measures: • Contact producers with request for info, informal action • Literature search, data from other offices, Canada, OECD • Mid-Range: • Batch TSCA §8 rules for exposure, release data • Engage with stakeholders on voluntary action • More Complicated: • TSCA §4 test rules • Develop/implement more formal risk reduction actions

5. HPV Decision Making Process

6. Important HPV Work Remains to Ensure Success of SPP • HPV Challenge Program Status • Initial test plans have been submitted for 1,356 (97%) of the 1,397 sponsored chemicals. • Fourteen sponsors who have yet to submit information for 41 “overdue" chemicals. • ICCA Status • Dossiers for 411 (48%) of the 857 ICCA sponsored- chemicals have been presented at an OECD SIAM (through April 2007's SIAM 24). • EHPV Status • Only 231 out of 574 EHPV chemicals have been sponsored. EPA has received data for 2 of the 231. • HPV Test Rules Status • A second HPV Test Rule will issue soon and will utilize 2006 IUR data for the exposure findings.

7. Screening Decision Process Development – MPV Chemicals • Exploring approach to assess Moderate Production Volume Chemicals • Produced or imported at quantities ≥ 25,000 lb/yr and < 1 million lb/yr • Apply available data, Canadian categorization plus SAR, and HPV Challenge categories to assess hazard and fate • Basic exposure/use data are available only for MPVs produced at > 300,000 lb at a site • Use hazard characterization to identify MPVs that require follow-up, initiate actions • Gather additional data • Risk management • Initiate stakeholder dialogues on both HPV and MPV assessment processes

8. Meeting the Goal • 2007 • Developed process for screening-level Hazard Characterizations (HCs) and Risk Characterizations (RCs), and Risk-Based Decisions (RBDs) on HPV chemicals • Posted initial set of 101 HCs on HPVs in late September • Post several hundred additional HCs and initial set of RBDs by the end of 07 • 2008 • Continue developing and posting HCs but move toward posting integrated RBDs, instead of HCs followed by RDBs • Utilize HPV process and other approaches to develop process for characterizing MPV chemicals • Post initial set of MPV Characterizations • 2009 • Continue posting RBDs for HPV chemicals and significantly ramp up posting MPV characterizations

9. Timing of Actions: SPP and REACH • Parallel schedules for priority chemical assessments should allow the U.S. and Canada to share/coordinate timing of data and assessments to some extent • Because the first REACH registration deadline (HPV chemicals) is Dec. 2010, REACH submitters and evaluators can benefit from U.S. and Canadian work • REACH registration dossiers can help meet follow-up testing needs for U.S. HPVs and MPVs • Schedule for completion of North American assessment work (2012) compares favorably to REACH registration schedule (2010-2018)

10. Mexico Commitments under SPP • By the end of 2012: • Information System for Dangerous Materials • By 2020: • Enhanced capacity to assess and manage chemicals • Develop inventory

11. Mexico’s Chemicals Inventory • First phase completed: workshop to discuss scope and available information • Participation of multiple government agencies • Participation of industry, academia and other NGOs • SMOC funding commitment for 2008 to: • Develop guidance document • Collect a “list of lists” of current regulated chemicals in Mexico

12. Regional Commitments under SPP • By the end of 2012: • Enhance appropriate coordination in areas including testing, research, information gathering, assessment and risk management actions • By 2020: • Inventories of chemicals in commerce have been established and updated • Sound Management of Chemicals in North America • Reaffirms WSSD 2020 • Reaffirms SAICM commitment

13. Relationship with CEC SMOC • Strategy to 2020 Focus Areas: • Foundation to help develop comparable chemicals management tools • Mexican chemicals inventory • Joint focus on chemicals of mutual concern • Sustainable regional monitoring effort • biomonitoring • Sector-based partnerships • Complements SPP Commitments • Provides Another Mechanism to Realize Progress

14. Regional Model for the Sound Management of Chemicals USA OECD, UNEP, FAO, UNITAR, UNDP, World Bank, etc. POPs, PIC, Basel, etc. SPP SMOC Canada Mexico

15. Thank you For more information, please visit: http://www.epa.gov/chemrtk/index.htm Charles M. Auer Director Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics, U.S. EPA 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W. Washington, DC 20460 Email auer.charles@epa.gov Phone (202) 564-3810 Fax (202) 564-0575