Hazardous Waste Management Question Bank on “Regulations – Toxic Substances Control Act”.
1. When did the Toxic Substances Control Act came into force?
a) 1974
b) 1975
c) 1976
d) 1977
Answer: c
Clarification: The Toxic Substances Control Act came into force on 1976. It provides EPA with authority to necessitate reporting, keeping records and restrictions relating to chemical substances.
2. What is the purpose of TSCA compliance monitoring program?
a) Inspection
b) Analysis
c) Import
d) Export
Answer: a
Clarification: EPA and the States verify TSCA agreement through a complete TSCA compliance monitoring program which includes inspecting the facilities, revising records and taking enforcement action where necessary for pollution prevention.
3. What is TSCA compliance assistance?
a) Providing tools
b) Providing funds
c) Chemical analysis
d) Clean-up
Answer: a
Clarification: The TSCA compliance assistance program provides businesses, federal facilities, local governments and tribes with tools helps to meet environmental regulatory requirements and also assists on disposal of toxins.
4. __________ plays a major role in the regulation of most industrial chemicals in the US.
a) RCRA inventory
b) SARA inventory
c) CERCLA inventory
d) TSCA inventory
Answer: d
Clarification: Section 8 of TSCA requires EPA to compile, keep current records and publish a list of chemical substance that is being manufactured, including imports, in the US for uses under TSCA inventory.
5. According to TSCA a chemical substance maybe __________
a) Organic or inorganic
b) Pollutant
c) Contaminant
d) Soluble
Answer: a
Clarification: TSCA defines a chemical substance as any organic or inorganic substance of a particular molecular identity, including any mixture of these substances occurring in whole or in part by the result of a chemical reaction or occurs in nature.
6. Chemicals substances on the Inventory include pesticides.
a) True
b) False
Answer: b
Clarification: Chemicals substances on the Inventory includes organics,
Inorganics, polymers and chemical substances of unknown or inconstant composition, complex reaction and biological materials (UVCBs).
7. Any chemical that is not on the Inventory is considered as _________
a) New chemical substance
b) Old chemical substance
c) Existing chemical substance
d) Flag chemical substance
Answer: a
Clarification: According to regulations under TSCA, if a chemical is on the Inventory, it is considered an existing chemical substance in United States commerce. Any chemical that is not on the Inventory is considered a new chemical substance.
8. The chemicals are added to the Inventory only after _________
a) Receiving complete NOC by EPA
b) Receiving complete NOC by UNEPA
c) Receiving complete DOC by EPA
d) Receiving complete NOOC by USEPA
Answer: a
Clarification: The company must provide a Notice of Commencement of Manufacture or Import (NOC) to EPA within 30 calendar days of the date the substance is first manufactured. Once complete NOC is received by EPA, the reported substance is considered to be on the Inventory.
9. Low Volume Exemptions (LVEs) do not require NOC.
a) True
b) False
Answer: a
Clarification: LVEs, LoREXs, TMEs and substances used for research and development do not require an NOC and are not added to the Inventory.
10. EPA’s collecting of the public TSCA Inventory information is updated ________ a year.
a) Once
b) Twice
c) Thrice
d) Four times
Answer: b
Clarification: TSCA Inventory information is updated twice a year to include new and corrected TSCA Inventory chemical listings.
11. What is the aim of TSCA?
a) Regulation new chemicals
b) Classification of new chemicals
c) Export of new chemicals
d) Import of new chemicals
Answer: a
Clarification: TSCA is a United States law signed on October 11, 1976 which regulates the introduction of new or already existing chemicals.
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