The Partial Update of the TSCA Section
8(b) Inventory Data Base, Production and Site Reports, based on the
TSCA Inventory Update Rule (IUR), is an information collection that
takes place every four years, requiring manufacturers and importers
of organic chemicals and other chemicals subject to final or
proposed TSCA rules, regulations and orders to provide
facility-specific information on chemicals. Respondents must
provide manufacturing, processing, and use exposure-related data,
including the volume of the chemical substance used on the
reporting site; the volume of the chemical substance directly
exported; whether the chemical substance is being recycled,
remanufactured, reprocessed or reused; and the production volume
above a certain threshold for each of the preceding calendar years.
Respondents to the IUR are required to use e-CDRweb (the
Agency-provided reporting tool) to submit a completed Form U (EPA
Form 7740-8) electronically via the Internet. The data obtained
under this collection helps EPA identify what chemicals the public
may be exposed to as consumers or in commercial and industrial
settings and to better assess routes of potential exposure to those
chemicals. The Agency is thereby able to identify, assess, and
control potential risks to human health and the environment posed
by commercial chemical substances.
US Code:
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USC 2607 Name of Law: Toxic Substances Control Act/Section
8(b)
Adjustment Changes: The
currently approved ICR used data from the 2006 IUR to estimate the
number of sites and partial and full reports submitted to EPA. It
estimated that a total of 4,153 sites would submit 3,696, partial
reports and 23,838 full reports over the ICR period. EPA has
adjusted the number of sites and reports using data from the April
2013, 2012 CDR database where a total of 4,753 sites submitted
12,010 partial reports and 20,348 full reports. The previous ICR
assumed all reporters would complete CDX registration activities;
however, because CDX registration is a one-time action, EPA assumes
that after a site's first reporting cycle, submitters will not
incur any burden or cost for this IC activity. Therefore, this ICR
calculates separate costs for new submitters who incur CDX
registration and electronic signature burdens and for old
submitters who have already incurred these costs. The previous ICR
covered parts of the 2012 and 2016 reporting cycles, therefore EPA
assumed that all submitters would incur the larger "new" submitter
burden in the first two years of the analysis and all submitters
would incur the smaller "old" submitter burden in the last year of
the analysis. For this ICR EPA assumed that approximately 95% of
submitters would incur the lower "old" submitter burden for all
three years. In addition, annual burden for the previous ICR
partially covered portions of two reporting cycles, including two
years of 2012 cycle reporting and one year of 2016 cycle reporting.
The burden for the previous ICR averaged the annual burden over a
six year period for 2012 reporting cycle and over a four year
period for the 2016 burden and included a portion of the hours for
each of those cycles. Because the 2016 and 2020 reporting cycles
are 4 years, EPA adjusted the baseline burden estimates be averaged
over a four year period only. All costs were inflated from 2008$ to
2012$, which slightly increased the costs associated with the rule.
The total of all of the adjustments results in an increase of the
baseline total burden of 2,573 hours and an increase in the annual
burden of 858 hours. Program Changes: Beginning with the 2016
reporting cycle, EPA is lowering the reporting threshold for
chemicals subject to certain TSCA orders from 25,000 pounds to
2,500 pounds, requiring that sites must report on chemicals
exceeding the reporting threshold in any calendar year since the
last principle reporting year, and is lowering the threshold for
reporting downstream processing and use information from 100,000
pounds to 25,000 pounds. After accounting for all these changes,
EPA expects that the number of sites and full reports submitted
will increase, and there will be a decrease in the number of
partial reports submitted, for a total of 4,991 sites submitting
39,337 reports (36,352 full reports and 2,985 partial reports). In
addition, beginning with the 2016 reporting cycle, sites will be
required to submit production volumes for all years in the
reporting cycle, as opposed to the production volume for just the
reporting year. This will slightly increase the burden for
completing Part II of Form U. The program changes results in an
increase of the baseline total burden of 942,684 hours and an
increase in the annual burden of 314,228 hours.
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that
the collection of information encompassed by this request complies
with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR
1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding
the proposed collection of information, that the certification
covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a
benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control
number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of
these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked
and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.
Form EPA Form 7740-8 Report Preparation, Form U, Part I
1884ss08_Attach5_consultmsg.docx
1884ss08_Attach4b_responses.pdf
Compliance Determination