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 90 STAT. 2006

15 USC 2603.

Rules.

PUBLIC LAW 94-469—OCT. 11, 1976

(iii) such other requirements as are necessary to provide such assurance. (13) The term " State " means any State of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, the Canal Zone, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, or any other territory or possession of the United States. (14) The term "United States", when used in the geographic sense, means all of the States. SEC. 4. TESTING OF CHEMICAL SUBSTANCES AND MIXTURES. (a) TESTING REQUIREMENTS.—If the Administrator finds that— (1)(A)(i) the manufacture, distribution in commerce, proc~^ essing, use, or disposal of a chemical substance or mixture, or that any combination of such activities, may present an unreasonable risk of injury to health or the environment, (ii) there are insufficient data and experience upon which the effects of such manufacture, distribution in commerce, processing, use, or disposal of such substance or mixture or of any combination of such activities on health or the environment can reasonably be determined or predicted, and (iii) testing of such substance or mixture with respect to such effects is necessary to develop such d a t a; or (B)(i) a chemical substance or mixture is or will be produced in substantial quantities, and (I) it enters or may reasonably be anticipated to enter the environment in substantial quantities or ( II) there is or may be significant or substantial human exposure to such substance or mixture, (ii) there are insufficient data and experience upon which the effects of the manufacture, distribution in commerce, processing, use, or disposal of such substance or mixture or of any combination of such activities on health or the environment can reasonably be determined or predicted, and (iii) testing of such substance or mixture with respect to such effects is necessary to develop such d a t a; and (2) in the case of a mixture, the effects which the mixture's manufacture, distribution in commerce, processing, use, or disposal or any combination of such activities may have on health or the environment may not be reasonably and more efficiently determined or predicted by testing the chemical substances which comprise the m i x t u r e; the Administrator shall by rule require that testing be conducted on such substance or mixture to develop data with respect to the health and environmental effects for which there is an insufficiency of data and experience and which are relevant to a determination that the manufacture, distribution in commerce, processing, use, or disposal of such substance or mixture, or that any combination of such activities, does or does not present an unreasonable risk of injury to health or the environment. (b)(1) TESTING REQUIREMENT RULE. — A rule under subsection (a)

shall include— (A) identification of the chemical substance or mixture for which testing is required under the rule, Standards for (B) standards for the development of test data for such subdevelopment of stance or mixture, and test data. (C) with respect to chemical substances which are not new Data, submittal to chemical substances and to mixtures, a specification of the period Administrator. (which period may not be of unreasonable duration) within

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