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

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

(2020)

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.