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Center for Chemical Safety

The Center for Chemical Safety provides a range of services to help companies navigate the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). Through ACC’s TSCA consortium program, the Center enables collaboration across industry to support risk evaluation, risk management, data generation, and data management.

Today’s TSCA environment is increasingly complex, fast-moving, and business-critical. Companies face growing expectations to manage regulatory obligations, support sound science, and engage effectively in EPA processes. The Center helps companies meet these demands through coordinated advocacy, scientific engagement, and practical support for TSCA-related activities.

Why Companies Engage with the Center

  • Navigate TSCA requirements more efficiently
    Centralized coordination and program management support engagement in EPA processes
  • Support science-based decision-making
    Helping identify critical uses, relevant data, and key scientific considerations
  • Share costs and resources
    Consortia enable collaboration on data generation and management, and regulatory submissions
  • Strengthen industry engagement
    Coordinated input helps ensure EPA has the information needed to conduct thorough, science-based evaluations

The ACC Advantage

For over 50 years, ACC’s Chemical Products and Technology Division (CPTD) has managed product groups and consortia, helping companies navigate science, stewardship, regulatory, and legislative challenges at the state, federal, and international levels.

Through the Center, companies benefit from:

  • Coordinated advocacy and regulatory engagement
  • Scientific and technical expertise
  • Program management and consortium coordination
  • Access to ACC’s broader capabilities across regulatory affairs, economics and policy, federal affairs, legal, and communications

This integrated support helps companies participate more effectively in the TSCA process while reducing administrative and operational burden.

TSCA Prioritization

EPA’s prioritization process is the gateway to TSCA risk evaluation, determining which chemicals move into formal review and shaping regulatory timelines, stakeholder attention, and business planning decisions. A high-priority designation does not constitute a finding of risk.

Why this matters

  • Prioritization signals increased regulatory scrutiny, not risk
  • Decisions may influence stakeholder perception and market dynamics
  • Early clarity supports planning, engagement, and resource allocation

How the Center supports industry

The Center for Chemical Safety helps companies navigate prioritization and engage effectively in EPA processes through:

  • Collaborative input and engagement
    Supporting stakeholder participation in prioritization, risk evaluation, and risk management
  • Identification of data and use information
    Helping identify critical uses and relevant existing information
  • Science-based support
    Advancing the use of best available science and the weight of scientific evidence
  • Consortium coordination
    Facilitating cost-sharing and efficient collaboration on data development

Learn more

For detailed information on EPA’s prioritization process and current activities, visit EPA’s TSCA prioritization resources.

TSCA Consortia

The Center helps stakeholders collaborate to provide critical input to EPA on chemical prioritization, risk evaluation, and risk management through the identification of critical uses, identification of existing information, and the potential development of new information. The Center also helps stakeholders share costs for risk evaluations and testing.

By forming or participating in a consortium, companies can:

  • Share costs and resources
  • Coordinate data development and submissions to EPA
  • Engage more efficiently in regulatory processes
  • Align on scientific and technical approaches

Consortia also help inform EPA decisions on prioritization, risk evaluation, and risk management outcomes by helping ensure that relevant data and use information are available for consideration.

Current active consortia:

  • 1,2-Dichloropropane TSCA Risk Evaluation Consortium
  • para-Dichlorobenzene TSCA Risk Evaluation Consortium
  • Phthalic Anhydride TSCA Risk Evaluation Consortium 
  • TBBPA TSCA Risk Evaluation Consortium
  • TPP TSCA Risk Evaluation Consortium
  • Formaldehyde TSCA Risk Evaluation Consortium
  • 1,3 Butadiene TSCA Risk Evaluation Consortium

Contact us to learn more or get involved.

Industry Commitment and Engagement

  • The chemical industry is committed to supporting EPA’s effective and efficient implementation of TSCA
  • Stakeholder participation helps ensure EPA has sufficient information to conduct evaluations based on hazard, use, and exposure using best available science
  • Collaboration across the value chain supports transparency, credibility, and more informed regulatory outcomes

Contact Us

Media Contact

Tom Flanagin

Industry Group

Kat Gale