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UC Comments on Supplemental notice of proposed rulemaking: Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science (Docket ID EPA-HQ-OA-2018-0259)

Abstract

This comment letter responds to the Environmental Protection Agency’s supplemental proposed rule on “Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science.” UC urges EPA to withdraw the proposal, arguing that its expanded data-transparency requirements could exclude rigorous scientific studies from regulatory decision-making, undermine protections for confidential human research data, and give EPA excessive discretion to favor or exclude particular studies rather than relying on the best available science.