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Chemical Assessment and Management Program (ChAMP)

ChAMP was created to implement commitments the United States made under the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP) to assess and initiate needed action on existing chemicals produced above 25,000 pounds per year. ChAMP will expand on EPA’s work on HPV chemicals and will extend efforts to moderate production volume chemicals - those produced or imported in quantities above 25,000 and less than 1 million pounds per year.

March, 2008 -- EPA released the first set of HPV Chemical Risk-Based Prioritization documents that identify HPV chemicals that may require follow-up data collection or management actions based upon their potential risks. Prioritization documents are prepared from EPA’s examination of HPV Challenge hazard data along with chemical use and exposure information collected from EPA’s Inventory Update Reporting (IUR).

As of October 2008, EPA has developed and posted risk-based prioritizations for 150 HPV chemicals.

Read about the HPV Challenge program’s January 2007 – June 2008 accomplishments.

If you would like access to the information in the 2005-2006 report, you can go to the PDF version of that report at: http://www.epa.gov/oppt/ar/ 20052006/oppt_ar_20052006.pdf (48 pp., 462KB, about PDF).

Under the High Production Volume (HPV) Challenge Program, companies are "challenged" to make health and environmental effects data publicly available on chemicals produced or imported in the United States in the greatest quantities. HPV chemicals are classified as those chemicals produced or imported in the United States in quantities of 1 million pounds or more per year. As of June 2007, companies have sponsored more than 2,200 HPV chemicals, with approximately 1,400 chemicals sponsored directly through the HPV Challenge Program and over 860 chemicals sponsored indirectly through international efforts.

Access to HPV chemical information enables the public to participate in environmental decision-making at all levels – federal, state, and local. With voluntary data collection nearing its conclusion, the focus of the HPV Challenge Program has shifted to data use, both by the public and by EPA in its mission to protect human health and the environment.

This Web site provides:

Basic Information - Read a summary of the HPV Challenge Program and its background - why the program was created, how it works, what basic data it collects, and how the data is being used.
HPV Chemical Data - Access health and environmental effects data collected by the program. Data is accessible either as original sponsor submissions or through the High Production Volume Information System (HPVIS), a database that allows users to perform more refined searches and queries of program chemical data.
Public Use of HPV Chemical Data - View ways in which the public and other stakeholders can use collected program data.
EPA Chemical Data Screening, Review, and Characterization - Learn about EPA's review of HPV chemical data, access EPA hazard characterizations that summarize collective data for HPV chemicals, and link to EPA risk-based prioritization documents that identify HPV chemicals that may require follow-up data collection or management actions.
Voluntary Chemical Sponsorships - Learn how the voluntary chemical sponsorship portion of the program was established, which companies sponsored chemicals, how companies collected and submitted HPV chemical data, and the accomplishments of this effort.
EPA Regulatory Actions for Unsponsored Chemicals - Get a list of HPV chemicals that were not sponsored in the voluntary portion of the program and information on EPA regulatory actions to collect data for these chemicals.

Related Links - Get a list of related Web sites, including international and other HPV Chemical Programs such as OECD eChemPortal and the OECD Chemicals Safety Program.

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