[05/16/1997]
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The California Environmental Protection Agency's
Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA), as lead
agency for the implementation of the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic
Enforcement Act of 1986 (Proposition 65), has developed a procedure
for prioritizing candidate chemicals for consideration under Proposition
65 by the State's qualified experts. Two committees of the Science
Advisory Board (SAB), known as the Carcinogen Identification Committee
and the Developmental and Reproductive Toxicant (DART) Identification
Committee, serve as the State's qualified experts for rendering
an opinion as to whether a chemical is known to the State to cause
cancer or developmental and reproductive toxic effects.
The prioritization procedure describes how OEHHA
will identify, prioritize, and select candidate chemicals for
evaluation by the SAB Identification Committees. The procedure
is designed to ensure that the efforts of OEHHA's Science Advisory
Board are focused on chemicals which pose the greatest hazard
concern to Californians, and that these chemicals are selected
in an open, objective and predictable manner. Prioritization also
ensures that chemicals posing the highest level of carcinogenic,
reproductive or developmental hazard concern are addressed first.
In a public notice published in the California Regulatory
Notice Register on October 4, 1996, OEHHA requested comment on
the refined prioritization procedure. The notice initiated a 60-day
comment period which ended on December 4, 1996. During the comment
period, OEHHA held a public workshop on November 15, 1996 to discuss
and receive comments on the refined prioritization procedure.
Because the request for comments was not part of a formal regulatory
action, responses to each comment received are not required and
were not provided. OEHHA has, however, summarized the comments
and responded to the comments collectively by topic area. OEHHA
gave careful consideration to each comment in determining its
final actions relating to the prioritization procedure.
OEHHA has finalized the prioritization procedure,
entitled Procedure for Prioritizing Candidate Chemicals for
Consideration Under Proposition 65 by the "State's Qualified
Experts". The prioritization procedure, as well as a
summary of the comments received, are available below or from
the Proposition 65 Implementation Office at the following address
and telephone number:
Cynthia Oshita
Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment
Post Office Box 4010
Sacramento, CA 95812-4010
FAX: (916) 327-1097
Telephone: (916) 445-6900
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