Replacement Parts Availability Act

This bill changes the Toxic Substances Control Act to require the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to exempt replacement parts for complex durable goods and complex consumer goods designed before a chemical rule is published. The EPA could regulate such replacement parts only if its risk evaluation finds they contribute significantly to risk and it makes a written determination, supported by substantial evidence, that the part alone contributes significantly to that risk. The EPA could not ban making, processing, or importing a chemical needed to manufacture exempted replacement parts, and would set procedures limiting that use to replacement part makers. Any allowed ban or restriction on replacement parts for complex durable goods would need a transition period of at least 10 years. The bill also makes minor wording corrections to the law.

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Sponsors

• Richard Hudson Republican sponsor
• 1 cosponsors