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The following concentrations, forms, uses, and activities are excluded from the reporting requirements of Section 313:
- TCs manufactured, processed, or otherwise used in a laboratory under the direct supervision of a technically qualified individual. This exemption does not apply to:
- Specialty chemical production,
- Manufacture, processing or use of TCs in pilot plant scale operations,
- Activities conducted outside the laboratory.
- De minimus: TCs present in a mixture in a concentration below 1% or .1% if the TC is a carcinogen.
- Article: TCs present in an article which does not release a TC under normal conditions of processing or use at the facility.
- Use as a structural component of the facility.
- Use of products for routine janitorial or facility grounds maintenance. Examples include use of janitorial cleaning supplies, fertilizers, and pesticides similar in type or concentration to consumer products.
- Personal use by employees or other persons at the facility of foods, drugs, cosmetics, or other personal items containing toxic chemicals, including supplies of such products within the facility such as in a facility operated cafeteria, store, or infirmary.
- Use of products containing toxic chemicals for the purpose of maintaining motor vehicles operated by the facility.
- Use of toxic chemicals present in process water and non-contact cooling water as drawn from the environment or from municipal sources, or toxic chemicals present in air used either as compressed air or as part of combustion.
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