Conference

TSCA Developments 2023

7 Mar 2023Virtual conference

The latest TSCA updates and what they mean for you

TSCA Developments 2023

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Agenda

10:15 GMT

Chemical Watch platform demonstration

10:30 GMT

Welcome

Terry Hyland, Chemical Watch News & Insight, by Enhesa

10:40 GMT

High level overview

  • Brief summary of the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act
  • Overview of key sections of TSCA

Kelly Franklin, Chemical Watch News & Insight, By Enhesa

10:55 GMT

Update from the EPA

  • Budget for the TSCA program and what that means for upcoming actions
  • Reimagining TSCA risk evaluations
  • Future of TSCA implementation

Michal Ilana Freedhoff, Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention, EPA

11:20 GMT

Test orders update

  • Statutory requirements for TSCA test orders
  • EPA's test orders and its testing plans
  • Best practices

Mark Duvall, Beveridge & Diamond, P.C.

11:45 GMT

PFAS reporting rules under TSCA and PFAS testing strategy

  • Learn the latest on how the U.S. is approaching PFAS regulation
  • How companies can prepare for PFAS testing and other regulations
  • Strategies for managing the changing regulatory landscape

Alexandra Dapolito Dunn, Baker Botts

12:10 GMT

Q&A

12:30 GMT

Break

12:45 GMT

TSCA fees update

  • Understanding the Methodology and Approach
  • Fee Collection, Exemptions and Refinement Opportunities

Kimberly Wise White, American Chemistry Council (ACC)

13:10 GMT

TSCA litigation

  • Overview of Ongoing TSCA litigation
  • Observations Regarding Likely Areas of Dispute
  • Overview of TSCA Section 21 Petitions

Lynn L. Bergeson, Bergeson & Campbell, United States

13:35 GMT

NGO perspectives on TSCA litigation

  • Citizens enforcement suits under section 20
  • The role of the courts in the section 21 petition process
  • Legal challenges to section 4 testing orders

Bob Sussman, and Principal, Sussman and Associates, United States

14:00 GMT

Q&A

14:15 GMT

Lunch

14:45 GMT

Sponsor workshop brought to you by Assent: Litigation, Fines & Fees: What to Expect From TSCA Developments

Companies must demonstrate due diligence to the EPA through recordkeeping and customer communication if certain substances are present in parts or products sold in the U.S. Having a solution that goes deeper to get the data about what's material in your products, allows you to reduce risk associated with fines and fees, while being cost-effective and comply with TSCA requirements.

Cally Edgren, Assent

15:15 GMT

Chemical Data Reporting rule (TSCA CDR) updates

Maryann Sanders, ERM, USA

15:40 GMT

Preparing for risk evaluation

  • Evolving risk evaluation policies and practices
  • EPA's unreasonable risk determinations for the "whole chemical"
  • Other anticipated changes in the remaining two years of the current Administration and how they will impact risk evaluations of existing chemicals

David B. Fischer, Keller & Heckman, US

16:05 GMT

Risk management options

  • What risk management rules to expect in 2023
  • How the rules will affect entire supply chains
  • Strategies for engagement

Martha E. Marrapese, Wiley Rein LLP, USA

16:30 GMT

Q&A

16:40 GMT

Practical solutions to the challenges faced with new chemical notifications

  • Key learnings from numerous notifications and interactions with the EPA
  • A review of some of the key missing pieces that the EPA needs, upfront, to avoid re-work and delays in the assessments

Rose Passarella, Intertek

17:10 GMT

Q&A

17:15 GMT

Break

17:30 GMT

Enforcement issues

  • Recent developments in TSCA enforcement
  • Cases/actions
  • Results
  • Priorities

Greg Sullivan, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

17:55 GMT

Confidential Business Information (CBI) updates

  • What were the changes on CBI claims originated by the Lautenberg Act?
  • CBI Proposed Rule summary

Nidia Mariana Calvo Mendez, Enhesa Product

18:20 GMT

Q&A

18:30 GMT

Close of virtual conference