subchapter_subject: "TOXIC SUBSTANCES CONTROL ACT"
part_code: "702"
part_subject: "GENERAL PRACTICES AND PROCEDURES"
subpart_code: "B"
subpart_subject: "Procedures for Chemical Substance Risk Evaluations"
section_number: "702.45"
section_subject: "Peer review."
cfr_reference: "40 CFR 702.45"
title_name: "Title 40"
title_subject: "Protection of Environment"
parts_covered: "Parts 700 to 722"
revised_date: "Revised as of July 1, 2019"
publication_date: "As of July 1, 2019"
contains_description: "Containing a codification of documents of general applicability and future effect"
publication_info: "Published by the Office of the Federal Register National Archives and Records Administration as a Special Edition of the Federal Register"
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The EPA Peer Review Handbook (2015), the Office of Management and Budget Final Information Quality Bulletin for Peer Review (OMB Bulletin), and other available, relevant and applicable methods consistent with 15 U.S.C. 2625, will serve as the guidance for peer review activities. Peer review will be conducted on the risk evaluations for the chemical substances identified pursuant to 15 U.S.C. 2605(b)(4)(A).