---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 6743"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "6743"
heading: "Prohibition relating to unscheduled discrete organic chemicals and coincidental byproducts in waste streams"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/6743"
units:
  - "Chapter 75 — Chemical Weapons Convention Implementation"
  - "Subchapter III — Reports"
---

# §6743. Prohibition relating to unscheduled discrete organic chemicals and coincidental byproducts in waste streams

- (a) **1 Prohibition—** Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, no [person](/usc/22/6701.md?p=6) located in the [United States](/usc/22/6701.md?p=14) shall be required to report on, or to submit to, any [routine inspection](/usc/22/6721.md?p=a) 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](/usc/22/6701.md?p=15); 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.

## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. No subsec. (b) has been enacted.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 105–277, div. I, title IV, § 403, Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2681–881.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

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 Short Title note set out under section 6701 of this title and Tables.