subchapter_subject: "TOXIC SUBSTANCES CONTROL ACT"
part_code: "721"
part_subject: "SIGNIFICANT NEW USES OF CHEMICAL SUBSTANCES"
subpart_code: "A"
subpart_subject: "General Provisions"
section_number: "721.20"
section_subject: "Exports and imports."
cfr_reference: "40 CFR 721.20"
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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Persons who intend to export a chemical substance identified in subpart E of this part, or in any proposed rule which would amend subpart E of this part, are subject to the export notification provisions of section 12(b) of the Act. The regulations that interpret section 12(b) appear at 40 CFR part 707. Persons who import a substance identified in a specific section in subpart E of this part are subject to the import certification requirements under section 13 of the Act, which are codified at 19 CFR 12.118 through 12.127 and 127.28. The EPA policy in support of the import certification requirements appears at 40 CFR part 707.