# Carbon tetrachloride (CTC) — EPA TSCA Section 6 chemical risk management status: prohibitions, effective dates, and exemptions

For Carbon tetrachloride (CTC), rule status is Final; final rule date is December 2024; effective date is Companies have 36 months to fully implement the Workplace Chemical Protection Program; in July 2026 EPA extended compliance dates for non-federal owners (initial monitoring by June 21, 2027; ECEL and related requirements by September 20, 2027); prohibited uses is Discontinued uses of CTC that EPA found present unreasonable risk, like metal recovery and use as an additive in fuel and plastic components used in the automotive industry; exemptions is Uses continuing under the Workplace Chemical Protection Program include incorporation into formulations in agricultural products, vinyl chloride and other basic chemical manufacturing; repackaging for laboratory use; processing aid uses; chlorine production uses; import, recycling, disposal and domestic manufacture; and processing as a reactant in production of HCFCs, HFCs, HFOs and PCE, recorded from its source on 2026-08-18.

- **Chemical:** Carbon tetrachloride (CTC)
- **Rule status:** Final _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Final rule date:** December 2024 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Effective date:** Companies have 36 months to fully implement the Workplace Chemical Protection Program; in July 2026 EPA extended compliance dates for non-federal owners (initial monitoring by June 21, 2027; ECEL and related requirements by September 20, 2027)
- **Prohibited uses:** Discontinued uses of CTC that EPA found present unreasonable risk, like metal recovery and use as an additive in fuel and plastic components used in the automotive industry
- **Exemptions:** Uses continuing under the Workplace Chemical Protection Program include incorporation into formulations in agricultural products, vinyl chloride and other basic chemical manufacturing; repackaging for laboratory use; processing aid uses; chlorine production uses; import, recycling, disposal and domestic manufacture; and processing as a reactant in production of HCFCs, HFCs, HFOs and PCE

## What the source says

> In December 2024, EPA finalized a rule regulating CTC.

## Source

- https://www.epa.gov/assessing-and-managing-chemicals-under-tsca/risk-management-carbon-tetrachloride

Last verified: 2026-08-18. Review by: 2026-11-16.
Part of [EPA TSCA Section 6 chemical risk management status: prohibitions, effective dates, and exemptions](https://referencesource.org/tsca-section-6-chemical-risk-management-status/).