EPA Requests Public Comments on Candidates for Membership to the Science Advisory Committee on Chemicals
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has opened a public comment period to request input on candidates currently under consideration for membership to the Science Advisory Committee on Chemicals (SACC). This public comment period follows a January 2026 call for nominations of scientific experts to be considered for appointment to the SACC.
The SACC has one vacant membership term and 10 membership terms expiring out of the 19 current memberships. EPA is seeking public comments on individuals who have been nominated by the public to assist in making SACC membership decisions by June 2026. The full committee will consist of up to 20 members including the SACC Chair.
The SACC serves as a scientific peer review mechanism of EPA’s Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention. It provides independent scientific advice and recommendations to EPA on the scientific basis for risk assessments, methodologies and pollution prevention measures and approaches for chemicals regulated under TSCA. Independent peer review is an integral step in ensuring the quality of EPA’s chemical reviews under TSCA and gives the agency confidence in the data and methods used to evaluate chemical risks, ensuring the agency uses gold standard science. Taking public comments on potential panel reviewers ensures a balanced scientific peer review committee which is essential to a fair, rigorous, and well-rounded evaluation.
Consistent with this Administration’s commitment to radical transparency, biographies for all candidates are available via docket EPA-HQ-OPPT-2025-3624. Comments should be submitted to the docket on www.regulations.gov no later than 15 days from the date of publication of the biographies in the docket. When providing comments, do not submit any information you consider to be confidential business information or other information whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Members of the public are advised that personal contact information, if included in any written comments, may be posted on the internet.
Prospective candidates for membership to the SACC are asked to submit confidential financial information to fully disclose, among other financial interests, the candidate's employment, stocks and bonds, and where applicable, sources of research support. EPA evaluates the candidates' financial disclosure forms to assess whether there are financial conflicts of interest or an appearance of a loss of impartiality before the candidates are considered further.
EPA will consider public comments on the SACC membership candidates and will soon release a list of selected candidates after conducting ethics reviews and reviewing technical expertise and public feedback.
For more information on the SACC membership, contact Tamue L. Gibson, MS, Executive Secretary of the SACC, at gibson.tamue@epa.gov.
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