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Report Type	Reports and Testimonies
Report Date	April 25, 1990
Report No.	RCED-90-112
Subject	Health hazards Data collection Environmental legislation Federal advisory bodies Interagency relations Internal controls Safety regulation Testing Toxic substances Chemicals EPA Chemical Testing Program Chemical research

Summary:

Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO evaluated the Interagency Testing Committee's (ITC) and Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) implementation of the chemical testing program under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).

GAO found that: (1) EPA and ITC had identified for testing less than 1 percent of the more than 60,000 chemicals in the TSCA inventory; (2) neither ITC nor EPA had produced a list of chemicals that did not require testing; (3) since the enactment of TSCA, EPA had completed test data for only six chemicals and had not finished assessing those; (4) ITC members' poor attendance may have contributed to its lack of crucial data it needed to make recommendations; (5) after proposing test rules, EPA continued to take an average of more than 2 years to make them final; and (6) the EPA and ITC testing program lacked overall objectives and a strategy for achieving them.

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Toxic Substances: EPA's Chemical Testing Program Has Made Little Progress