What Substance-Specific Information Is Required to Use CAPCCAT?

Presently, CAPCCAT is divided into two modules:

1. Inventory Searches
2. Schedule Determination

The Inventory Search can be accomplished as long as:

1. the CASRN of the substance is known; or,
2. the chemical name or partial chemical name is know, if the substance has not been assigned a CASRN.

Canadian regulatory inventories are largely based on CASRNs (with the exception of the listing of biochemicals) except where a CASRN cannot or has not been assigned.  Therefore, if a CASRN exists for a substance, it must be used to search the inventories.  If a CASRN has not or cannot be assigned, and the substance is listed on a Canadian regulatory inventory by name, then the chemical name or partial chemical name may be used to conduct the search.  Currently, the only Canadian regulatory inventory that lists substances by chemical name is the In-Commerce List.

Schedule Determination requires that the user have more detailed information with respect to:

1. volumes of import or manufacture;
2. monomers and reactants used in the production of a polymer;
3. the intended use(s) and the potential for these use(s) to result in significant public exposure; and,
4. the rate of release of the product to the environment as measured on a per site per day basis if volumes in excess of 50,000 kg/yr are anticipated.

In the absence of this information, CAPCCAT contains a Strategic Planning Module which allows users to consider possible new substance notification requirements as they apply to chemicals or polymers imported or manufactured at various volumes.