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 90 STAT. 2010

PUBLIC LAW 94-469—OCT. 11, 1976

information required by the applicable standards for the development of test data; and (3) describe the nature of the test data developed. Post, p. 2034. Except as otherwise provided in section 14, such data shall be made available by the Administrator for examination by any person. Committee to (e) PRIORITY LIST,— (1)(A) There is established a committee to make make recommendations to the Administrator respecting the chemical recommendations substances and mixtures to which the Administrator should give to priority consideration for the promulgation of a rule under subsecAdministrator. tion (a). In making such a recommendation with respect to any chemical substance or mixture, the committee shall consider all relevant factors, including— (i) the quantities in which the substance or mixture is or will be manufactured, (ii) the quantities in which the substance or mixture enters or will enter the environment, (iii) the number of individuals who are or will be exposed to the substance or mixture in their places of employment and the duration of such exposure, (iv) the extent to which human beings are or will be exposed to the substance or mixture, (v) the extent to which the substance or mixture is closely related to a chemical substance or mixture which is known to present an unreasonable risk of injury to health or the environment, (vi) the existence of data concerning the effects of the substance or mixture on health or the environment, (vii) the extent to which testing of the substance or mixture may result in the development of data upon which the effects of the substance or mixture on health or the environment can reasonably be determined or predicted, and (viii) the reasonably foreseeable availability of facilities and personnel for performing testing on the substance or mixture. RecommendaThe recommendations of the committee shall be in the form of a list tions, list of of chemical substances and mixtures which shall be set forth, either by chemical individual substance or mixture or by groups of substances or mixsubstances and tures, in the order in which the committee determines the Administramixtures. tor should take action under subsection (a) with respect to the substances and mixtures. In establishing such list, the committee shall give priority attention to those chemical substances and mixtures which are known to cause or contribute to or which are suspected of causing or contributing to cancer, gene mutations, or birth defects. The committee shall designate chemical substances and mixtures on the list with respect to which the committee determines the Administrator should, within 12 months of the date on which such substances and mixtures are first designated, initiate a proceeding under subsection (a). The total number of chemical substances and mixtures on the list which are designated under the preceding sentence may not, at any time, exceed 50. Publication in (B) As soon as practicable but not later than nine months after Federal Register; the effective date of this Act, the committee shall publish in the Fedtransmittal to eral Register and transmit to the Administrator the list and designaAdministrator. tions required by subparagraph (A) together with the reasons for the committee's inclusion of each chemical substance or mixture on the list. At least every six months after the date of the transmission to the Administrator of the list pursuant to the preceding sentence, the committee shall make such revisions in the list as it determines to be necessary and shall transmit them to the Administrator together with the comPublication in mittee's reasons for the revisions. Upon receipt of any such revision, Federal Register.

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