The California Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) is the lead agency for the implementation of the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986 (Proposition 65).

The Carcinogen Identification Committee (CIC or the Committee) of OEHHA's Science Advisory Board identifies chemicals for addition to the list of chemicals known to the State to cause cancer, which is mandated by Health and Safety Code Section 25249.8. The Committee serves as the "State's qualified experts" for rendering an opinion whether a chemical has been clearly shown, through scientifically valid testing according to generally accepted principles, to cause cancer. In addition, the Committee serves as the "State's qualified experts" for determining whether or not chemicals that are required to have been tested have been adequately tested.

Proposition 65 requires publication of a list of chemicals that are required by state or federal law to have been tested for potential to cause cancer or reproductive toxicity but that the State's qualified experts have not found to have been adequately tested as required (Health and Safety Code Section 25249.8(c)). That list is set out in regulation at Title 22, California Code of Regulations, Section 14000 (Section 14000). Section 14000 provides "a chemical that has already been designated as known to the state to cause cancer or reproductive toxicity is not included on the Section 14000 list as requiring additional testing for that particular toxicological endpoint." On this basis the Committee will consider the following chemicals for removal from the Section 14000 list for the endpoint indicated in parentheses: PCP (onc rat), maneb (onc), and propachlor (onc).

A public meeting of this committee will be held on Tuesday, December 18, 2001 at 1001 I Street, California Environmental Protection Headquarters Building, Coastal Hearing Room, Sacramento, California, beginning at 10:00 a.m. and continuing until all business has been conducted, or 5:00 p.m.

The tentative agenda for this meeting is as follows. The order in which items are taken up by the Committee is subject to change at the discretion of the Chair.

I. CONSIDERATION OF CHEMICALS KNOWN TO THE STATE TO CAUSE CANCER

A. Allyl isovalerate
· Staff presentation
· Committee discussion
· Public comments
· Committee discussion and decision

B. N-carboxymethyl-N-nitrosourea
· Staff presentation
· Committee discussion
· Public comments
· Committee discussion and decision

II. CONSIDERATION OF CHEMICALS FOR POSSIBLE REMOVAL FROM THE LIST OF CHEMICALS THAT HAVE NOT BEEN ADEQUATELY TESTED

A. PCP (onc rat), maneb (onc), and propachlor (onc)
· Staff presentation
· Committee discussion
· Public comments
· Committee discussion and decision

III. STAFF UPDATES
· Chemicals added via the administrative listing mechanism
· Chemicals proposed via the administrative listing mechanism
· Prioritization process/Random selection
· Proposition 65 litigation and rulings
· Public comments

IV. SUMMARY OF COMMITTEE ACTIONS

OEHHA is committed to public participation and external scientific peer review in its efforts to implement Proposition 65. OEHHA welcomes public input on any of the agenda items identified above. The Committee prefers that information for its consideration be presented in writing prior to its meetings so that it can give due consideration to the material and so that it can devote time at the meetings to discussion and clarification, rather than to extensive oral testimony. The 60-day public comment period for the draft hazard identification documents on these two chemicals will close on December 4, 2001. Oral comments may still be made to the Committee at the meeting on December 18, 2001.

The draft documents describing the "Evidence on the Carcinogenicity of Allyl Isovalerate," and "Evidence on the Carcinogenicity of N-carboxymethyl-N-nitrosourea may be obtained from the Proposition 65 Implementation Office at (916) 445?6900 or from the OEHHA web site at http://www.oehha.ca.gov/.

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