EPA PROVIDES SUGGESTIONS FOR FORMATTING COMMENTS ON PRELIMINARY
ORGANOPHOSPHATE CUMULATIVE RISK ASSESSMENT
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Subject: IN THIS EPA UPDATE:
Date:
Mon, 25 Feb 2002 16:59:41 -0500
From: Stephen Tvedten <steve@getipm.com>
Organization: Get Set Inc. (www.getipm.com)
To: Paul Helliker <phelliker@cdpr.ca.gov>
Director, State of
California, Department of Pesticide Regulation
cc: Christine Whitman whitman.christine@epa.gov
IN THIS EPA UPDATE:
EPA PROVIDES SUGGESTIONS FOR FORMATTING COMMENTS ON
PRELIMINARY ORGANOPHOSPHATE CUMULATIVE RISK ASSESSMENT
EPA has posted suggestions on its website on organizing
public comment on the preliminary OP cumulative risk assessment. These
suggestions are available at:- www.epa.gov/pesticides/cumulative/files/suggestions.pdf.
The goals of these suggestions are to increase the efficiency of the
comment process, improve clarity and conciseness of comments, and help ensure
well organized comments. There is no
requirement that these suggestions be followed nor are commenters required to
provide personal identification information in their comment (as suggested on
the cover sheet to the document). EPA
will consider all of the comments that are submitted regardless of whether they
follow the suggestions or include the commenter's
identification information. Identification
information is helpful, should there be a need to seek clarification on the
comment submitted. These suggestions
do not replace or supercede any information provided in the Federal Register
notice announcing the public comment period on the preliminary risk assessment.
On
December 28, 2001
EPA published a Federal Register notice announcing the availability of the
preliminary cumulative risk assessment for the organophosphorous pesticides and
the associated comment period, which closes
March 8, 2002
. The complex preliminary OP
cumulative risk assessment involves numerous chemicals, large data sets, many
new methods, and potentially affects a large number of registrants, growers, and
other stakeholders. Because of this
complexity the Agency discussed, at the
January 16, 2002
meeting of the Committee to Advise on Reassessment and Transition workgroup on
public participation, ways to work with stakeholders to develop an efficient
process for stakeholder comment. The
suggestions result from that discussion.
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