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G/TBT/N/USA/1004 1 July 2015 (15-3391) Page: 1/2 Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original: English NOTIFICATION The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6 1. Notifying Member:?United States of America If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2): 2. Agency responsible:?Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) [1022] Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, email and website addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above: Please submit comments to:?USA WTO TBT Enquiry Point Email:?ncsci@ 3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [ ], 2.10.1 [ ], 5.6.2 [ ], 5.7.1 [ ], other: Transparency 4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):?Endocrine disruptor screening. Environmental protection (ICS:?13.020), Products of the chemical industry (ICS:?71.100) 5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:?Use of High Throughput Assays and Computational Tools; Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program; Notice of Availability and Opportunity for Comment (6 pages, in English) 6. Description of content:?This document describes how EPA is planning to incorporate an alternative scientific approach to screen chemicals for their ability to interact with the endocrine system. This will improve the Agencys ability to fulfill its statutory mandate to screen pesticide chemicals and other substances for their ability to cause adverse effects by their interaction with the endocrine system. The approach incorporates validated high throughput assays and a computational model and, based on current research, can serve as an alternative for some of the current assays in the Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program (EDSP) Tier 1 battery. EPA has partial screening results for over 1800 chemicals th