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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:
1) EPA Announces Proposed Chemical Selection Approach for Initial Round of Screening for Endocrine Disruption
2) Pesticide Federal Register Items for the Week of December 23-27, 2002
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1) EPA Announces Proposed Chemical Selection Approach for Initial Round of Screening for Endocrine Disruption
On December 30, 2002, EPA published a Federal Register notice seeking public comment on the approach the agency plans to use to select the first group of chemicals to undergo Tier 1 screening under the Agency's Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program (EDSP). EDSP was developed in response to a Congressional mandate in the Food Quality Protection Act directing EPA "to determine whether certain substances may have an effect on humans that is similar to an effect produced by a naturally occurring estrogen, or such other effects as [EPA] may designate." Tier 1 testing will comprised a battery of screening assays to identify substances that have the potential to interact with estrogen, androgen, or thyroid hormone systems.
EPA is proposing to select and screen approximately 50 to100 chemicals to help the Agency further refine the EDSP. For this first group to be tested, EPA intends to focus on pesticide active ingredients and high production volume chemicals with some pesticidal inert uses. Following consideration of comments on the draft approach described in this notice, EPA will issue a second Federal Register notice setting forth any changes in its approach for selecting the first group of chemicals and the chemicals it proposes for this initial list. Following comment on the draft list of specific chemicals, EPA will issue the final list. More information on the Federal Register notice and EDSP is available in a Fact Sheet entitled "Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program (EDSP): Proposed Chemical Selection approach for the Initial Round of Screening." This fact sheet can be found at: http://www.epa.gov/scipoly/ and at http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/ under "What's New?"The Federal Register notice is available at: http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2002/December/Day-30/p32853.htm
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2) Pesticide Federal Register Items for the Week of December 23-27, 2002
Title: Notice of Filing a Pesticide Petition to Establish a
Tolerance for the Pesticide Chemical Imazamox in or on Food
Date of publication: December 23, 2002
Citation: Volume 67, Number 246, Page 78229-78232
Purpose: This notice announces the initial filing of a pesticide
petition proposing the establishment of regulations for residues of the
pesticide chemical imazamox in or on various food commodities.
Chemical(s): Imazamox
Comments: Comments, identified by docket ID number
OPP-2002-0342, must be received on or before January 22, 2003.
Contact: Shaja R. Brothers, Registration Division (7505C),
telephone number: (703) 308-3194; e-mail address:
brothers.shaja@epa.gov *
Title: Notice of Filing a Pesticide Petition to Establish a
Tolerance for the Pesticide Chemical Bronopol in or on Food
Date of publication: December 24, 2002
Citation: Volume 67, Number 247, Page 78459-78467
Purpose: This notice announces the initial filing of a pesticide
petition proposing the establishment of regulations for residues of a certain
pesticide chemical in or on various food commodities.
Chemical(s): Bronopol
Comments: Comments, identified by docket ID number OPP-2002-0283, must
be received on or before January 23, 2003.
Contact: Bipin Gandhi, Registration Division (7505C), Office of
Pesticide Programs, Environmental Protection Agency ; telephone number: (703)
308-8380; e-mail address:
gandhi.bipin@epa.gov *
Title: Revocation of exemption from requirement of tolerance for
urea
Date of publication: December 26, 2002
Citation: Volume 67, Number 248, Page 78713-78715
Purpose: EPA is amending 40 CFR part 180 subpart D to revoke four
exemptions from the requirement of a tolerance for urea because these
tolerance exemptions are no longer necessary. The Agency is acting on its own
initiative. This direct final rule is being published today with a companion
final rule titled ``Urea: Exemption From The Requirement of A Tolerance.''
Chemical(s): Urea
Comments: This final rule is effective on March 26, 2003 without
further notice, unless EPA receives adverse comment within 30 days after
publication in the Federal Register. If EPA receives adverse comment, EPA will
publish a timely withdrawal in the Federal Register informing the public that
this rule will not take effect.
Contact: Treva C. Alston, Registration Division 7505C; telephone
number: (703) 308-8373; e-mail address:
alston.treva@epa.gov *
Title: Exemption from Requirement of a Tolerance for Urea
Date of publication: December 26, 2002
Citation: Volume 67, Number 248, Page 78715-78718
Purpose: This regulation establishes an exemption from the
requirement of a tolerance for residues of urea when used in pesticide
formulations. Ecolab, Inc. submitted a petition to EPA under the Federal Food,
Drug, and Cosmetic Act, as amended by the Food Quality Protection Act of 1996,
requesting an exemption from the requirement of a tolerance. This regulation
eliminates the need to establish a maximum permissible level for residues of
urea. This final rule is being published in today's Federal Register with a
companion Direct Final Rule entitled "Urea: Revocation of Tolerance
Exemptions"
Chemical(s): Urea
Comments: This regulation is effective December 26, 2002. Objections
and requests for hearings, identified by docket ID number OPP-2002-0277, must
be received on or before February 24, 2003.
Contact: Treva C. Alston, Registration Division (7505C); telephone
number: (703) 308-8373; e-mail address:
alston.treva@epa.gov *
* Mailing address for all listed staff: Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460
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