PUBLIC LAW 94-469—OCT. 11, 1976
90 STAT. 2005
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 intr-oduction 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 i 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 Act. (7) The term "manufacture" means to import into the customs territory of the United States (as defined in general headnote 2 of the Tariff Schedules of the United States), produce, or manufacture. 19 USC 1202. (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 8(b). Post, p. 2027. (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
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