15 U.S.C. § 2602 : US Code - Section 2602: Definitions

Search 15 U.S.C. § 2602 : US Code - Section 2602: Definitions

As used in this chapter:
(1) the (!1) term "Administrator" means the Administrator of the
Environmental Protection Agency.
(2)(A) Except as provided in subparagraph (B), the term "chemical
substance" means any organic or inorganic substance of a particular
molecular identity, including -
(i) any combination of such substances occurring in whole or in
part as a result of a chemical reaction or occurring in nature
and
(ii) any element or uncombined radical.
(B) Such term does not include -
(i) any mixture,
(ii) any pesticide (as defined in the Federal Insecticide,
Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act [7 U.S.C. 136 et seq.]) when
manufactured, processed, or distributed in commerce for use as a
pesticide,
(iii) tobacco or any tobacco product,
(iv) any source material, special nuclear material, or
byproduct material (as such terms are defined in the Atomic
Energy Act of 1954 [42 U.S.C. 2011 et seq.] and regulations
issued under such Act),
(v) any article the sale of which is subject to the tax imposed
by section 4181 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 [26 U.S.C.
4181] (determined without regard to any exemptions from such tax
provided by section 4182 or 4221 or any other provision of such
Code), and
(vi) any food, food additive, drug, cosmetic, or device (as
such terms are defined in section 201 of the Federal Food, Drug,
and Cosmetic Act [21 U.S.C. 321]) when manufactured, processed,
or distributed in commerce for use as a food, food additive,
drug, cosmetic, or device.
The term "food" as used in clause (vi) of this subparagraph
includes poultry and poultry products (as defined in sections 4(e)
and 4(f) of the Poultry Products Inspection Act [21 U.S.C. 453(e)
and (f)]), meat and meat food products (as defined in section 1(j)
of the Federal Meat Inspection Act [21 U.S.C. 601(j)]), and eggs
and egg products (as defined in section 4 of the Egg Products
Inspection Act [21 U.S.C. 1033]).
(3) The term "commerce" means trade, traffic, transportation, or
other commerce (A) between a place in a State and any place outside
of such State, or (B) which affects trade, traffic, transportation,
or commerce described in clause (A).
(4) The terms "distribute in commerce" and "distribution in
commerce" when used to describe an action taken with respect to a
chemical substance or mixture or article containing a substance or
mixture mean to sell, or the sale of, the substance, mixture, or
article in commerce; to introduce or deliver for introduction into
commerce, or the introduction or delivery for introduction into
commerce of, the substance, mixture, or article; or to hold, or the
holding of, the substance, mixture, or article after its
introduction into commerce.
(5) The term "environment" includes water, air, and land and the
interrelationship which exists among and between water, air, and
land and all living things.
(6) The term "health and safety study" means any study of any
effect of a chemical substance or mixture on health or the
environment or on both, including underlying data and
epidemiological studies, studies of occupational exposure to a
chemical substance or mixture, toxicological, clinical, and
ecological studies of a chemical substance or mixture, and any test
performed pursuant to this chapter.
(7) The term "manufacture" means to import into the customs
territory of the United States (as defined in general note 2 of the
Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States), produce, or
manufacture.
(8) The term "mixture" means any combination of two or more
chemical substances if the combination does not occur in nature and
is not, in whole or in part, the result of a chemical reaction;
except that such term does include any combination which occurs, in
whole or in part, as a result of a chemical reaction if none of the
chemical substances comprising the combination is a new chemical
substance and if the combination could have been manufactured for
commercial purposes without a chemical reaction at the time the
chemical substances comprising the combination were combined.
(9) The term "new chemical substance" means any chemical
substance which is not included in the chemical substance list
compiled and published under section 2607(b) of this title.
(10) The term "process" means the preparation of a chemical
substance or mixture, after its manufacture, for distribution in
commerce -
(A) in the same form or physical state as, or in a different
form or physical state from, that in which it was received by the
person so preparing such substance or mixture, or
(B) as part of an article containing the chemical substance or
mixture.
(11) The term "processor" means any person who processes a
chemical substance or mixture.
(12) The term "standards for the development of test data" means
a prescription of -
(A) the -
(i) health and environmental effects, and
(ii) information relating to toxicity, persistence, and other
characteristics which affect health and the environment,
for which test data for a chemical substance or mixture are to be
developed and any analysis that is to be performed on such data,
and
(B) to the extent necessary to assure that data respecting such
effects and characteristics are reliable and adequate -
(i) the manner in which such data are to be developed,
(ii) the specification of any test protocol or methodology to
be employed in the development of such data, and
(iii) such other requirements as are necessary to provide
such assurance.
(13) The term "State" means any State of the United States, the
District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin
Islands, Guam, the Canal Zone, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana
Islands, or any other territory or possession of the United States.
(14) The term "United States", when used in the geographic sense,
means all of the States.