Technical Amendments to Preliminary Assessment Information and Health and Safety Data Reporting; Addition of Chemicals; Stay of Final Rule: Correction of Effective Date Under Congressional Review Act (CRA)

On October 29, 1996 (61 FR 55871), the Environmental Protection Agency published in the Federal Register a final rule in which EPA added certain chemical substances to two model information- gathering rules under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA): the TSCA Section 8(a) Preliminary Assessment Information Rule, and the TSCA Section 8(d) Health and Safety Data Reporting Rule. That rule established an effective date of November 29, 1996. On December 11, 1996 (62 FR 65186), EPA published a final rule in the Federal Register staying certain portions of the October 29, 1996 final rule. The stay rule established an effective date of December 11, 1996. This document corrects the effective dates of both rules to December 30, 1997 to be consistent with sections 801 and 808 of the Congressional Review Act (CRA), enacted as part of the Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act.