Join EPA's New Chemicals Program for a webinar on Wednesday, July 27, 2022, from 1:00 - 2:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time. During the webinar, EPA will provide an in-depth look at the Agency's analysis of common issues that cause EPA to have to reconduct risk assessments ("rework") before taking questions from the audience. In June 2022, EPA announced a broad outreach effort to describe and to discuss with stakeholders how the Agency evaluates engineering data (i.e., data related to environmental release and worker exposure) provided for new chemicals submissions and common issues that cause EPA to have to rework risk assessments for these submissions. To identify the most common reasons for rework delays, EPA analyzed which types of engineering data were most often submitted as additional information after the review had commenced, whether this additional information resulted in a revised risk assessment, and the most common data elements and information gaps that resulted in a revision. Subsequent webinars over the coming months will communicate EPA's considerations in evaluating qualitative claims or quantitative data, especially when they deviate from model defaults such as those used in the Chemical Screening Tool for Exposures and Environmental Releases (ChemSTEER) and its considerations for evaluating information about sites not controlled by the submitter. EPA will release information about these webinars, including dates and instructions on how to register, as they become available. | 
