EPA Withdraws SNURs for Two Chemicals

The Environmental Protection Agency is withdrawing significant new use rules (SNURs) it recently set for two chemical substances, it said (here). EPA said it received objections to two of the 57 SNURs the agency set in a November final rule (see 1611170029), so it will soon begin a formal rulemaking process for those two chemicals with a notice and comment period. The SNURs, which covered a bimodal mixture consisting of multi-walled carbon nanotubes and other classes of carbon nanotubes (generic) (PMN No. P-11- 482) and carbon nanotubes (generic) (PMN No. P-15-54), took effect Jan. 17.

(Federal Register 01/19/17)