Title 22 — Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-73
§6743 Prohibition relating to unscheduled discrete organic chemicals and coincidental byproducts in waste streams
Title 22 › Chapter CHAPTER 75— - CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION IMPLEMENTATION › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER III— - REPORTS › § 6743
Summary
No one in the United States must report or submit to routine inspections that check for unscheduled organic chemicals that are accidental byproducts not captured for use or sale and released into waste streams.
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Title 22, §6743
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(a)Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, no person located in the United States shall be required to report on, or to submit to, any routine inspection conducted for the purpose of verifying the production, possession, consumption, exportation, importation, or proposed production, possession, consumption, exportation, or importation of any substance that is—
(1)an unscheduled discrete organic chemical; and
(2)a coincidental byproduct of a manufacturing or production process that is not isolated or captured for use or sale during the process and is routed to, or escapes, from the waste stream of a stack, incinerator, or wastewater treatment system or any other waste stream.
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This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this Act” and was translated as reading “this division”, meaning div. I of Pub. L. 105–277, Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2681–856, known as the Chemical Weapons Convention Implementation Act of 1998, to reflect the probable intent of Congress. For complete classification of division I to the Code, see
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note set out under section 6701 of this title and Tables.
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22 U.S.C. § 6743
Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73