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Subject:  Atrazine Risk Assessments are Released
 Date:    Wed, 15 May 2002 11:23:40 -0400
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

OPP Update
IN THIS EPA UPDATE:
Atrazine Risk Assessments are Released;
Comments Requested on Risk Mitigation

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1)Atrazine Risk Assessments are Released;
Comments Requested on Risk Mitigation

Through a Federal Register notice published on May 6,  2002, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the availability of the revised human health and environmental fate and effects risk assessments for the triazine herbicide atrazine. This notice also opened a 60-day comment period, closing July 5, 2002, which provides an opportunity for the public to submit risk mitigation ideas and proposals. EPA plans to complete an Interim Reregistration Eligibility Decision (IRED) for atrazine in early August. One of the most widely used agricultural pesticides in the U.S., atrazine is registered to control weeds in field and sweet corn, sorghum, sugarcane, and other agricultural crops, as well as on residential lawns and turf.  Although it is not likely to be carcinogenic to humans, atrazine has been associated with causing imbalances in hormone levels, possibly disrupting reproductive and developmental processes.  The Agency has concerns regarding some exposures to atrazine, including possible risks from consuming drinking water from certain community water systems and some rural wells in atrazine use areas and possible risks from contact with recently treated lawns. The atrazine risk assessments and related documents are available from the pesticide docket or from EPA’s website at http://www.epa.gov/oppsrrd1/reregistration/atrazine .  The Federal Register notice also is available at http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr .

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