Today's Federal Register contains an Environmental Protection Agency direct final rule and a proposed rule sought by Dow Chemical Company to exempt 2-amino-2-methyl-1-propanol (AMP) from regulation as a volatile organic compound (VOC).
PDFs...
http://www.gpo.gov/...
http://www.gpo.gov/...
EPA is viewing this as a noncontroversial matter with this manner of publication with
both a direct final rule and a proposed rule.
What these notices would mean is 2-amino-2-methyl-1-propanol would no longer be considered to be regulated in ozone control programs in state and local air pollution control programs and could be emitted both uncontrolled and without requirements for permitting and emission limitations. EPA is determining with the notices that AMP has negligible photochemical reactivity for ozone formation.
These EPA notices and decisions do not consider any direct toxic effects of AMP.
If my memory is correct, AMP was one of the chemicals which were expected in effluents during the West Virginia Charlestown water contamination incident.
Here's Dow's material specification sheet for AMP.
Here is some basic information on the properties and toxicity of AMP from National Library of Medicine - PubChem.
With EPA's 2 notices, the VOC deregulation for AMP will automatically go into effect under the provisions of the 'direct final rule' unless adverse public comments are filed on the public notice of the proposed rule.
11:07 AM PT: This is the present list of chemical compounds and substances that are explicitly listed as being exempt from being a volatile organic compound and being considered as having negligible photochemical reactivity for atmospheric ozone and oxidant formation....scroll down to definition of VOC at 51.100(s)...excluded VOC chemical list is in the 51.100(s) definition:
http://www.gpo.gov/...