{"id":9915,"date":"2020-12-10T12:00:20","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T17:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/?p=9915"},"modified":"2020-12-10T16:46:57","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T21:46:57","slug":"a-tale-of-two-public-comment-extension-requests-how-they-fared-under-the-trump-epa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/2020\/12\/10\/a-tale-of-two-public-comment-extension-requests-how-they-fared-under-the-trump-epa\/","title":{"rendered":"A tale of two public comment extension requests: How they fared under the Trump EPA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Richard Denison, Ph.D.<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>is a Lead Senior Scientist.<\/p>\n

In recent weeks EPA has issued for public comment significant modifications to its draft risk evaluations under the Toxic Substances Control Act for two chemicals:\u00a0 Pigment Violet 29 (PV29)<\/a> and 1,4-dioxane<\/a>.\u00a0 Because EPA initially provided relatively brief comment periods on the modifications, both were subject to requests for extensions of the comment period.<\/p>\n

The table below tells the story of how these two requests fared under the Trump EPA.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Chemical<\/strong><\/td>\nPV29<\/strong><\/td>\n1,4-Dioxane<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Initial comment period<\/strong><\/td>\n30 days<\/td>\n20 days<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Requestor<\/strong><\/td>\nChemical industry<\/td>\nState\/local water agencies; environmental NGOs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Granted or denied<\/strong><\/td>\nGranted<\/td>\nDenied<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
# of days before end of comment period decision was made<\/strong><\/td>\n12 days<\/td>\n1 day<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Length of extension
\n(if any)<\/strong><\/td>\n		20 days<\/td>\n0 days<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Total comment period after extension (if any)<\/strong><\/td>\n50 days<\/td>\n20 days<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Means of communicating the decision used by EPA<\/strong><\/td>\nEmail to listserv; press release; posted on website<\/td>\nIndividual phone calls to requestors; no written communication<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Main direction of findings in draft document open for comment<\/strong><\/td>\nFound unreasonable risk<\/td>\nDid not find unreasonable risk<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Richard Denison, Ph.D.,\u00a0is a Lead Senior Scientist. In recent weeks EPA has issued for public comment significant modifications to its draft risk evaluations under the Toxic Substances Control Act for two chemicals:\u00a0 Pigment Violet 29 (PV29) and 1,4-dioxane.\u00a0 Because EPA initially provided relatively brief comment periods on the modifications, both were subject to requests for …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100,"featured_media":8858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,44,56093,114108],"tags":[107195,68,107219],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-9915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-epa","category-policy","category-industry-influence","category-tsca","tag-dioxane","tag-epa","tag-pigment-violet-29-pv29"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t