subchapter_subject: "TOXIC SUBSTANCES CONTROL ACT"
part_code: "716"
part_subject: "HEALTH AND SAFETY DATA REPORTING"
subpart_code: "A"
subpart_subject: "General Provisions"
section_number: "716.25"
section_subject: "Adequate file search."
cfr_reference: "40 CFR 716.25"
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 scope of a person's responsibility to search records is limited to records in the location(s) where the required information is typically kept, and to records kept by the person or the person's individual employee(s) who is/are responsible for keeping such records or advising the person on the health and environmental effects of chemicals. Persons are not required to search for reportable information dated before January 1, 1977, to comply with this subpart unless specifically required to do so in a rule.