EPA Requests Public Comments on Candidates for Membership on the TSCA Science Advisory Committee on Chemicals
Released on March 8, 2023
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is opening a 30-day comment period to request input from the public on nominations for candidates to serve on the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Science Advisory Committee on Chemicals (SACC). This public comment period follows a November 2022 call for nominations of candidates to serve on the SACC. The Agency received nominations for 44 candidates with one nomination later withdrawn.
Currently, there are 17 SACC members, with eight membership terms that will soon expire. Comments received will be used to assist EPA in selecting new members of the SACC by June 2023.
The SACC serves as a scientific peer review mechanism of EPA’s Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention. It provides independent scientific advice and recommendations to EPA on the scientific basis for risk assessments, methodologies and pollution prevention measures and approaches for chemicals regulated under TSCA.
Biographies for all candidates under consideration are available via www.regulations.gov [Docket no. EPA-HQ-OPPT-2022-0843] and through the SACC website. In addition, biographies for current SACC members are available on the TSCA SACC website.
The public comment period will be open from March 8, 2023, until April 7, 2023. Comments should be submitted through the Federal eRulemaking Portal (www.regulations.gov) to docket EPA-HQ-OPPT-2022-0843. When providing comments, do not submit any information you consider to be confidential business information or other information whose disclosure is restricted by statute.
For further information, please contact, Tamue L. Gibson, MS, Acting Executive Secretary, (gibson.tamue@epa.gov).