[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 40, Volume 28]
[Revised as of July 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 40CFR710.26]

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                   TITLE 40--PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT
 
         CHAPTER I--ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (CONTINUED)
 
PART 710--TSCA CHEMICAL INVENTORY REGULATIONS--Table of Contents
 
               Subpart B--2002 Inventory Update Reporting
 
Sec. 710.26  Chemical substances for which information is not required.

    The following categories of chemical substances are excluded from 
the reporting requirements of this subpart. However, a chemical 
substance described in paragraphs (a), (b), or (c) of this section is 
not excluded from the reporting requirements of this subpart if that 
substance is the subject of a rule proposed or promulgated under section 
4, 5(a)(2), 5(b)(4), or 6 of the Act, or is the subject of an order 
issued under section 5(e) or 5(f) of the Act, or is the subject of 
relief that has been granted under a civil action under section 5 or 7 
of the Act.
    (a) Inorganic chemical substances. Any chemical substance which does 
not contain carbon or contains carbon only in the form of carbonato 
[=CO3], cyano [-CN], cyanato [-OCN], isocyano [-NC], or 
isocyanato [-NCO] groups, or the chalcogen analogues of such groups.
    (b) Polymers. (1) Any chemical substance described with the word 
fragments ``*polym*'', ``*alkyd'', or ``*oxylated'' in the Chemical 
Abstracts Service Index or Preferred Nomenclature in the Chemical 
Substance Identities section of the 1985 edition of the Inventory or in 
the Master Inventory File, where the asterisk (*) indicates that any 
sets of characters may precede, or follow, the character string defined.
    (2) Any chemical substance which is identified in the 1985 edition 
of the Inventory or the Master Inventory File as siloxane and silicone, 
silsesquioxane, a protein (albumin, casein, gelatin, gluten, 
hemoglobin), an enzyme, a polysaccharide (starch, cellulose, gum), 
rubber, or lignin. This exclusion, however, does not apply to a chemical 
substance which has been hydrolyzed, depolymerized, or chemically 
modified to the extent that the final product is no longer polymeric in 
structure.
    (c) Microorganisms. Any combination of chemical substances that is a 
living organism, such as bacteria, eimeria, fungi, and yeasts. Any 
chemical substance produced from such a living organism is reportable 
unless otherwise excluded.
    (d) Naturally occurring chemical substances. Any naturally occurring 
chemical substance, as described in Sec. 710.4(b). The applicability of 
this exclusion is determined in each case by the specific activities of 
the person who manufactures the substance in question. Some chemical 
substances can be manufactured both as described in Sec. 710.4(b) and by 
means other than those described in Sec. 710.4(b). If a person described 
in Sec. 710.28 manufactures a chemical substance by means other than 
those described in Sec. 710.4(b), the person must report regardless of 
whether the substance also could have been produced as described in 
Sec. 710.4(b). Any chemical substance that is produced from such a 
naturally occurring chemical substance described in Sec. 710.4(b) is 
reportable unless otherwise excluded.

[51 FR 21447, June 12, 1986]