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Tom Berger is a partner in Keller and Heckman LLP's Washington DC office and heads Keller and Heckman's Indianapolis satellite office. Mr. Berger's practice of over 30 years involves representing foreign and domestic companies in a broad range of areas, including counseling, advocacy, and rulemaking in environmental and chemical regulatory law, contracts, product defense, enforcement, and liability management. Mr. Berger focuses on the notification and approval of new and existing chemicals under the U.S. Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) and its counterparts in Australia, Canada, China, the European Union (EU), Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, the Philippines, South Korea, and Taiwan. Tom remains heavily involved with "reformed TSCA" under the 2016 Lautenberg Chemical Safety Act (LCSA), as well efforts such as EPA's Chemical Data Reporting (CDR) rule, the TSCA Inventory active/inactive "reset," import/export, and fee issues.Tom guides clients through the TSCA section 5 premanufacture notification (PMN) review process, and negotiates TSCA section 5(e) consent orders and significant new use rules (SNUR). Tom also designs, conducts, and manages comprehensive compliance audits, counsels companies on managing liability under EPA's "Audit Policy," "Small Business Compliance Policy" and other penalty mitigation policies, and assists companies in preparing for agency inspections and responding to Agency information requests and subpoenas. Tom is a frequent author and lecturer on chemical notification, chemical regulation, liability management, auditing, enforcement, and TSCA reform issues.Tom was selected by his peers as one of the Best Lawyers in America® in 2025.

Listed skills include Environmental Awareness, Tsca, Policy, Chemistry, and 11 others.