Authority and Purpose

(1) Authority. The Administrative Council On Toxics Use Reduction adopts 301 CMR 41.00 pursuant to M.G.L. c. 21I, §§ 4(C) and 9. (2) Purpose. The Administrative Council on Toxics Use Reduction promulgates 301 CMR 41.00 to carry out its authority and responsibility: (a) to promote the coordination and enforcement of federal and state laws and regulations pertaining to toxics production and use, hazardous waste, industrial hygiene, worker safety, public exposure to toxics and the release of toxics into the environment; (b) to coordinate state programs in order to promote, most effectively, toxics use reduction in the Commonwealth; (c) to minimize unnecessary duplication of reporting requirements concerning toxic or hazardous substance production, use, release, disposal, and worker exposure; (d) to provide up-to-date and consistent information about manufacturing, worker exposure, distribution, process, sale, storage, release or other use of toxics on a facility, regional and statewide basis; (e) to adjust the toxic or hazardous substance list under M.G.L. c. 21I, § 9 by adding or deleting substances consistent with the changes on the Toxic Chemical List established pursuant to Section 313 of the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA); (f) to adjust the toxic or hazardous substance list under M.G.L. c. 21I, § 9 by retaining or deleting substances listed pursuant to sections 101(14) and 102 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) and to furthermore adjust the toxic or hazardous substance list by adding or deleting substances consistent with changes to the lists established pursuant to said sections of CERCLA; (g) to designate toxic or hazardous substances as higher hazard substances or lower hazard substances; and (h) to otherwise effectuate the purposes of M.G.L. c. 21I.