August 30, 2006

Document Control Office (DCO)

Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics (OPPT)

US Environmental Protection Agency

1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW

Washington DC 20460-0001

ATTN: 8(d) Health and Safety Reporting Rule/8(d)Auto-ITC

RE:	Docket EPA-HQ-OPPT-2005-0055: Request for withdrawal of CAS #
68603-84-9, 68937-70-2, and 68937-72-4 from 8(d) rule

As specified in Unit IV of the TSCA Section 8(d) health and safety data
reporting rule published on August 16, 2006 (FR 71:47130-47141),
Aliphatic Acids Consortium hereby requests removal of CAS # 68603-84-9
(Carboxylic acids, C5-9), 68937-70-2 (Carboxylic acids, C6-18 and
C8-15-di-), and 68937-72-4 (Carboxylic acids, di-, C4-11) from the 8(d)
rule.

CAS # 68603-84-9 (Carboxylic acids, C5-9), 68937-70-2 (Carboxylic acids,
C6-18 and C8-15-di-), 68937-72-4 (Carboxylic acids, di-, C4-11) are
already sponsored by the Aliphatic Acids Consortium through the
International Council of Chemical Associations (ICCA) Global Initiative
on High Production Volume Chemicals.  This commitment for sponsorship
includes providing Screening Information Data Sets (SIDS) through the
OECD HPV Chemical Program.  The Consortium is in the document
development stage and intends to submit the required data by SIAM 25.

 

The Consortium understands that EPA has been working on the 8(d) rule
during the time the Consortium was preparing the documentation, which is
why CAS # 68603-84-9, 68937-70-2, 68937-72-4 were inadvertently included
in the published rule.  However, since this material has already been
volunteered under the OECD HPV Chemical Program, we respectively request
that CAS # 68603-84-9, 68937-70-2, and 68937-72-4 be removed from the
8(d) rule.

Please do not hesitate to contact Kathleen Stanton, at The Soap and
Detergent Association (202.662.2513;   HYPERLINK
"mailto:kstanton@sdahq.org"  kstanton@sdahq.org ; 1500 K Street, NW,
Washington DC 20005) if you have any questions.   

Sincerely,

						

Kathleen Stanton

Associate Director, Scientific Affairs

1500 K Street, N.W., Suite 300, Washington, D.C. 20005 ● (202)
347-2900 ● (202) 347-4110 ● www.cleaning101.com

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