Project 2025 Tracker / What’s done, what’s next

13. Environmental Protection Agency · Notable

Right-size the TSCA fees rule

Not started

434 13. Environmental Protection Agency

“Right-size the TSCA fee’s rule so that it is consistent with the tasks that the agency is actually completing within the timelines of the statute and is not covering the costs of EPA inefficiency or overreach.”

What has happened

  1. Not started

    The TSCA fees rule was not revised. EPA proposed no amendment to 40 CFR part 700 subpart C in the window. The only fee-adjacent change proposed is inside the risk evaluation framework proposal, which would clarify that a manufacturer withdrawing a request for a risk evaluation before it is granted does not incur fees — a narrow point about manufacturer-requested evaluations, not a resizing of the fees rule.

Research log

What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence

Research notes

  • One negative search covered the OCSPP chemicals and pesticides asks on pp. 433-435.
  • A Federal Register search of EPA documents since 2025-01-20 for “Fees for the Administration of the Toxic Substances Control Act” → 1 hit, a Paperwork Reduction Act technical amendment listing OMB approvals.
  • EPA’s full regulatory agenda, searched 2026-09-01. We read EPA’s entire Unified Agenda on reginfo.gov (214 entries across the active, long-term and completed stages), because the Federal Register prints only the entries that need a Regulatory Flexibility analysis and the 2026-08-27 negatives were taken from that shortened version. No entry anywhere in the 214 is a TSCA fees rulemaking — the OCSPP entries are chemical-specific risk management rules, the risk evaluation procedures rule and Toxics Release Inventory actions. The negative reaches the agenda as well as the Federal Register.
Action
other
Object
TSCA fees rule
ID
1145