Progress Reviewing and Declassifying Confidentiality Claims

Progress Reviewing and Declassifying Confidentiality Claims

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These charts, released November 28, 2011, show EPA's progress reviewing case files submitted to the Agency under TSCA with chemical identities claimed as Confidential Business Information (CBI). The charts are intended to help those tracking EPA's progress in reviewing CBI and declassifying it, where appropriate.

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Since the beginning of EPA's efforts to increase transparency two years ago, a total of 577 chemicals have been declassified, resulting in a shift from the CBI portion of the TSCA Inventory to the public portion.

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For everyone concerned about secret toxic chemicals being used and protected by the US Federal Govt, this is good news...or it should be....

However it's not quite what it might seem to be - as far as I can see it is only about making public chemicals that cannot actually be proprietary - eg if someone was to use common salt in something and claim the make up was proprietary information that would nto be allowed - common salt is not a "secret" - simlarly with chemicals like ammonia, various acids, etc.

You will not find Corexit in here, and if you look up the proprietary "Organic sulfonic acid salt" you can find some info on a few sulphonic acid compounds, but have no idea whether they are hte ones in Corexit.

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