[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: 40CFR716.50]

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                   TITLE 40--PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT
 
         CHAPTER I--ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (CONTINUED)
 
PART 716--HEALTH AND SAFETY DATA REPORTING--Table of Contents
 
                      Subpart A--General Provisions
 
Sec. 716.50  Reporting physical and chemical properties.

    Studies of physical and chemical properties must be reported under 
this subpart if performed for the purpose of determining the 
environmental or biological fate of a substance, and only if they 
investigated one or more of the following properties:
    (a) Water solubility.
    (b) Adsorption/desorption on particulate surfaces, e.g., soil.
    (c) Vapor pressure.
    (d) Octanol/water partition coefficient.
    (e) Density/relative density (specific gravity).
    (f) Particle size distribution for insoluble solids.
    (g) Dissociation constant.
    (h) Degradation by photochemical mechanisms--aquatic and 
atmospheric.
    (i) Degradation by chemical mechanisms--hydrolytic, reductive, and 
oxidative.
    (j) Degradation by biological mechanisms--aerobic and anaerobic.