[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 40, Volume 31]
[Revised as of July 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 40CFR790.3]

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                   TITLE 40--PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT
 
         CHAPTER I--ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (CONTINUED)
 
PART 790_PROCEDURES GOVERNING TESTING CONSENT AGREEMENTS
AND TEST RULES--Table of Contents
 
                      Subpart A_General Provisions
 
Sec.  790.3  Definitions.

    Terms defined in the Act and not explicitly defined herein are used 
with the meaning given in the Act. For the purpose of this part:
    Act means the Toxic Substances Control Act, 15 U.S.C. 2601 et seq.
    Additive means a chemical substance that is intentionally added to 
another chemical substance to improve its stability or impart some other 
desirable quality.
    Chemical means a chemical substance or mixture.
    Consortium means an association of manufacturers and/or processors 
who have made an agreement to jointly sponsor testing.
    EPA means the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
    Equivalence data means chemical data or biological test data 
intended to show that two substances or mixtures are equivalent.
    Equivalent means that a chemical substance or mixture is able to 
represent or substitute for another in a test or series of tests, and 
that the data from one substance can be used to make scientific and 
regulatory decisions concerning the other substance.
    Exemption means an exemption from a testing requirement of a test 
rule promulgated under section 4 of the Act and part 799 of this 
chapter.
    Impurity means a chemical substance which is uninitentionally 
present with another chemical substance.
    Joint sponsor means a person who sponsors testing pursuant to 
section 4(b)(3)(A) of the Act.
    Joint sponsorship means the sponsorship of testing by two or more 
persons in accordance with section

4(b)(3)(A) of the Act.
    Person means an individual, partnership, corporation, association, 
scientific or academic establishment, or organizational unit thereof, 
and any other legal entity.
    Principal sponsor means an individual sponsor or the joint sponsor 
who assumes primary responsibility for the direction of a study and for 
oral and written communication with EPA.
    Protocol means the plan and procedures which are to be followed in 
conducting a test.
    Reimbursement period refers to a period that begins when the data 
from the last non-duplicative test to be completed under a test rule are 
submitted to EPA and ends after an amount of time equal to that which 
had been required to develop data or after five years, whichever is 
later.
    Sponsor means the person or persons who design, direct and finance 
the testing of a substance or mixture.
    Test substance means the form of chemical substance or mixture that 
is specified for use in testing.

[49 FR 39782, Oct. 10, 1984, as amended at 51 FR 23712, June 30, 1986]