[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 40, Volume 31]

[Revised as of July 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 40CFR790.3]



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                   TITLE 40--PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT

 

         CHAPTER I--ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (CONTINUED)

 

PART 790_PROCEDURES GOVERNING TESTING CONSENT AGREEMENTS AND TEST RULES

--Table of Contents

 

                      Subpart A_General Provisions

 

Sec.  790.3  Definitions.



    Terms defined in the Act and not explicitly defined herein are used 

with the meaning given in the Act. For the purpose of this part:

    Act means the Toxic Substances Control Act, 15 U.S.C. 2601 et seq.

    Additive means a chemical substance that is intentionally added to 

another chemical substance to improve its stability or impart some other 

desirable quality.

    Chemical means a chemical substance or mixture.

    Consortium means an association of manufacturers and/or processors 

who have made an agreement to jointly sponsor testing.

    EPA means the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

    Equivalence data means chemical data or biological test data 

intended to show that two substances or mixtures are equivalent.

    Equivalent means that a chemical substance or mixture is able to 

represent or substitute for another in a test or series of tests, and 

that the data from one substance can be used to make scientific and 

regulatory decisions concerning the other substance.

    Exemption means an exemption from a testing requirement of a test 

rule promulgated under section 4 of the Act and part 799 of this 

chapter.

    Impurity means a chemical substance which is uninitentionally 

present with another chemical substance.

    Joint sponsor means a person who sponsors testing pursuant to 

section 4(b)(3)(A) of the Act.

    Joint sponsorship means the sponsorship of testing by two or more 

persons in accordance with section



4(b)(3)(A) of the Act.

    Person means an individual, partnership, corporation, association, 

scientific or academic establishment, or organizational unit thereof, 

and any other legal entity.

    Principal sponsor means an individual sponsor or the joint sponsor 

who assumes primary responsibility for the direction of a study and for 

oral and written communication with EPA.

    Protocol means the plan and procedures which are to be followed in 

conducting a test.

    Reimbursement period refers to a period that begins when the data 

from the last non-duplicative test to be completed under a test rule are 

submitted to EPA and ends after an amount of time equal to that which 

had been required to develop data or after five years, whichever is 

later.

    Sponsor means the person or persons who design, direct and finance 

the testing of a substance or mixture.

    Test substance means the form of chemical substance or mixture that 

is specified for use in testing.



[49 FR 39782, Oct. 10, 1984, as amended at 51 FR 23712, June 30, 1986]