Petitions to the Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention

This page makes available petitions for rulemaking received by the Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention on or after January 1, 2013. For the purposes of this page, the agency has posted incoming communications styled as "petitions" for generally applicable, national rulemakings. Petitions provided as comments in a publicly available rulemaking docket are not reproduced here. Additional petitions will be added on an ongoing basis as they are received or identified. Petitions on this page were last updated on January 7, 2021.

The presence of a petition on this page does not indicate an EPA decision to grant or deny the petition. Any regulatory action that follows as a result of a petition for rulemaking would still be shaped by the typical outreach used by the agency to gather stakeholder input, and is still subject to any applicable notice and comment requirements. Petitions for rulemaking from other offices.


Date Received	Petitioners	Related Statutes	Description
December 4, 2020	Alianza Nacional de Campesinas, Comité de Apoyo a los Trabajadores Agricolas (CATA), Farmworker Association of Florida, Migrant Clinicians Network, Pineros y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste (PCUN), Rural Coalition, Rural & Migrant Ministry, United Farm Workers, and United Farmworkers Foundation	Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA)	Petitioners request that EPA allow for an administrative stay of the effective date of the Agricultural Worker Protection Standard, Revision of the Application Exclusion Zone final rule. Read the petition.
October 14, 2020	Center for Environmental Health, Cape Fear River Watch, Clean Cape Fear, Democracy Green, Toxic Free NC, and the NC Black Alliance	TSCA Section 21	Petitioners request that EPA require health and environmental effects testing on 54 Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) manufactured by The Chemours Company (Chemours) at its chemical production facility in Fayetteville, North Carolina.  The petition also seeks issuance of a rule or order under Section 4 of TSCA compelling Chemours to fund and carry out this testing under the direction of a panel of independent scientists. Read the petition.
June 3, 2020	American Coatings Association, National Association of Home Builders, National Association of Manufacturers, Toy Association, & U.S. Chamber of Commerce	Administrative Procedures Act; TSCA	Petitioners request that EPA issue a procedural risk management rule under Section 6 of TSCA. Read the petition.
February 20, 2020	Center for Biological Diversity	Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) Section 18	Petitioner requests that the Agency initiate rulemaking to limit specific emergency exemptions for pesticide use to two years under Section 18 of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act, 7 U.S. C. § 136p. Read the petition.
August 7, 2019	Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility	TSCA Section 21, Administrative Procedures Act	This petition requests that EPA promulgate a TSCA section 6(a) rule to prohibit oil refineries from using hydrofluoric acid in manufacturing processes and to require a phase-out within 2 years. EPA was also petitioned under the Administrative Procedures Act (APA) to prohibit the use of hydrofluoric acid at oil refineries under Clean Air Act (CAA) section 112(r). Read the petition.
January 31, 2019	Attorneys General of 14 states and the District of Columbia	TSCA Section 21	This petition requests that EPA initiate rulemaking under section 8(a) of TSCA for the reporting of the manufacture, import, and processing of asbestos. Read the petition.
October 10, 2018; amendment received April 4, 2019	Zach Wilkinson, COO Tidal Vision Products, LLC	Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA)	This petition requests that Chitosan (CAS # of 9012-76-4) be added to both EPA’s Minimum Risk Pesticide list of Active Ingredients and Inert Ingredients lists, 40 CFR Part 152.25(f). FIFRA Section 25(b). Read the petition. Read the petition.
September 27, 2018	Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization and five other non-governmental organizations	TSCA Section 21	This petition asks that EPA initiate rulemaking under section 8(a) of TSCA to amend the Chemical Data Reporting (CDR) rule, 40 C.F.R. Part 711, to increase reporting of asbestos to CDR. Read the petition.
July 10, 2017	Center for Food Safety, Pacific Northwest and West Coast offices	Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA)	This petition seeks revised testing requirements for pesticides prior to registration. Read the petition.
April 28, 2017	Center for Food Safety, et al	Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA)	This petition from 11 petitioners, dated April 26, 2017, asks that EPA amend or issue a formal re-interpretation of, the Treated Article Exemption, 40 C.F.R. §152.25(a), to clearly communicate that systemic pesticidal seeds intended to kill insect pests of the plants are not included under the Treated Article Exemption and are therefore subject to FIFRA’s requirements. Read the petition.
January 6, 2017	Earthjustice and six other non-governmental organizations	TSCA Section 21	The petition asks that EPA issue an order under TSCA Section 4 requiring that exposure and hazard testing be conducted by manufacturers and processors of three chlorinated phosphate ester (CPE) flame retardant chemicals. Read the petition.
December 21, 2016	National Association of State Departments of Agriculture and the American Farm Bureau Federation	Agricultural Worker Protection Standard	The petition asks that the Agency amend the Agricultural Worker Protection Standard by postponing the effective date. Read the petition.
December 13, 2016	Earthjustice, the Natural Resources Defense Council and five other non-governmental organizations	TSCA Section 21	The petition asks that EPA issue an order under TSCA section 4 requiring that testing be conducted on the flame retardant Tetrabromobisphenol A (TBBPA). Read the petition.
November 29, 2016	American Bird Conservancy	Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA)	The petition asks that EPA revise the rules governing incident reporting under FIFRA. Read the petition.
November 23, 2016	Fluoride Action Network, Food & Water Watch, Organic Consumers Association, American Academy of Environmental Medicine, International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology, and Moms Against Fluoridation	TSCA Section 21	The petition asks that EPA promulgate a rule pursuant to TSCA section 6 to prohibit fluoridation chemicals as drinking water additives. Read the petition.
July 28, 2016	Center for Biological Diversity	Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA)	The petition asks that the Agency require all applicants and registrants to provide data on the potential synergistic effects of pesticides during the registration and registration review processes. Read the petition.
October 7, 2015	Biobased and Renewable Products Advocacy Group	TSCA Section 21	The petition asks that the Agency initiate a rulemaking under TSCA to establish a process to amend the list of natural sources of oil and fat in the Soap and Detergent Association (SDA) nomenclature system. Read the petition.
June 30, 2015	Center for Biological Diversity and Donn J. Viviani, Ph.D.	TSCA Section 21	The petition asks that the Agency regulate anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide under TSCA. Read the petition.
June 24, 2015	Natural Resources Defense Council and Northeast Waste Management Officials’ Association	TSCA Section 21	The petition asks that the Agency promulgate reporting rules for mercury manufacturing, processing, and importation under TSCA. Read the petition.
January 23, 2015	American Chemistry Council (ACC) Ethylene Glycol Ethers Panel	Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986 (EPCRA)	The petition asks that the Agency remove ethylene glycol monobutyl ether (EGBE) from the “Certain Glycol Ethers” chemical category of the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) chemical list. Read the petition.
October 21, 2014	Biobased Renewable Products Advocacy Group	TSCA Section 21	The petition asks that the Agency initiate a rulemaking to amend the TSCA Section 8 Chemical Data Reporting (CDR) partially exempted chemical list to add “biodiesel” as a chemical category for partial exemption. Read the petition.
July 29, 2014	Center for Biological Diversity	TSCA Section 21	The petition asks that the Agency promulgate regulations governing the safe treatment, storage and disposal of polyvinyl chloride (PVC), vinyl chloride and associated dialkyl- and alkylarylesters of 1,2-benzenedicarboxylic acid, commonly known as phthalate plasticizers. Read the petition.
October 31, 2013	National Center for Healthy Housing, International Union of Painters and Allied Trades, Lead and Environmental Hazards Association, and National Association of Lead and Healthy Homes Grantees	TSCA Section 21	The petition asks that the Agency promulgate a rule pursuant to TSCA Section 8(d) requiring property managers, building owners, and contractors disturbing paint on public and commercial buildings to submit to EPA certain records related to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s construction standard for lead. Read the petition.
April 22, 2013	J. William Hirzy	TSCA Section 21	The petition asks that the Agency exercise authority under TSCA to prohibit the use of Hydrofluosilicic Acid (HFSA) as a water fluoridation agent in the U.S. Read the petition.

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