Declaration of Stakeholder Interest Certain Selenium-Containing Substances Grouping

Voluntary Information

In addition to the type of information requested in the mandatory section 71 notice (entitledNotice with respect to certain selenium-containing substances), interested stakeholders are encouraged to provide any additional information on the substances described in Schedule 1 of the Notice to help provide a knowledge base in support of any subsequent risk assessment and risk management activities, if applicable.

Organizations that may be interested in submitting additional information include those that manufacture, import, use or export a substance, whether alone, in a mixture, in a product or in a manufactured item.

Examples of the type of information that could help inform the risk assessment include, but are not limited to:

Additional Information on selenium-containing substances included in Schedule 1 of the Notice, such as:

• A description of any activities you had with the substance(s) other than those described in Schedule 2 of this Notice, either with the substance alone, or in a mixture, product or manufactured item, during the 2012 calendar year, along with the quantity of the substance that was manufactured, imported, or used for each activity;
• Analogues or alternatives for these substances, and their advantages and disadvantages;
• Quantities and North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes for each activity per calendar year for any substance you manufactured, imported, used, and/or exported within the last 5 years;
• Properties of the substance(s) and/or their components, such as physical-chemical properties, chemical structure, concentration of the components, etc.
• Commercial names of the substance, mixture, product or manufactured item containing the substance;
• Customer information (company name, location, and quantity of the substance sold);
• Supplier information (name, location and contact information);
• Unpublished data or studies on physical-chemical properties, bioaccumulation, persistence, toxicity, metabolism, degradation, or the release of the substances from the final mixture, product or manufactured item;
• Measurements and/or monitoring data on naturally occurring and anthropogenic levels in Canadian air (indoor, outdoor, personal), food, drinking water, household dust, and in humans (e.g., blood, urine, breast milk)
• For mixtures, products or manufactured items containing the substance(s):
  • the trade name(s) or description of any final mixture, product or manufactured item or product type;
• • the concentration, quantity of substance and particle distribution size in any final mixture, product or manufactured item;
  • the applicable substance function code(s) or consumer and commercial code(s);
• Storage and transportation container information (e.g., size and type of container, percentage or actual quantity of residue left in the container after cleaning, and a description of how the empty containers are handled/cleaned/treated (off-site, on-site, other), and how the rinsate is handled/treated);
• Waste management information for each facility, such as:
• • name and location of waste management facilities;
  • sources of wastewater that is released and treated at your facility;
  • type of wastewater treatment methods used at your facility;
  • whether your facility wastewater effluents are re-used in the process;
  • volume of each effluent stream potentially containing the substance (indicate whether the streams are combined with other effluents prior to discharge), and the total volume of all effluent streams discharged in m³ annually;
  • your facility’s wastewater effluent flow rates (e.g., average daily volume or 90^th percentile in m³or liters per day), and periods of discharge;
  • the fate, quantity (kg) and treatment methods used for your facility wastewater sludge;
  • whether the wastewater effluent is discharged directly to receiving water body or to municipal School Travel Planning (STP);
  • name of the corresponding receiving water bodies where your facility wastewater effluents are discharged to; and
  • effectiveness of waste management practices.
• Manufacturing process information, such as production rates and total operating period (hours/days), type of process (open/closed, dry/wet, closed-loop/pressurized/vacuum), Batch or continuous operations (hours/batch, batch/year or kg/days), and process flow diagram, if available.

Information on other selenium-containing substances that are not included in Schedule 1 of the Notice, such as:

• Substance identity information (Name, CAS RN, chemical structure, etc)
• Quantity of the substance manufactured, imported, used, and/or exported, per calendar year, either alone, in a mixture, in a product or in a manufactured item. 
• Description of your activity with the substance, including applicable NAICS codes, Substance Function codes, and/or Consumer and Commercial codes

This information will help the Government of Canada improve decision making for these substances and ensure all activities are considered before moving forward with further actions regarding these substances.

Questions? Contact Us:

Substances Management Information Line
Telephone: 1-800-567-1999 or 819-953-7156
Email: Substances@ec.gc.ca

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