Dear Interested Parties
On June 11, 1998, the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) convened a public workshop on the Authoritative Bodies Mechanism for Listing Under Proposition 65. Members from the regulated community, the public and OEHHA’s Science Advisory Board (Developmental and Reproductive Toxicant (DART) Identification Committee and Carcinogen Identification Committee) attended. At the workshop, members of the DART Identification Committee requested additional informational materials to help them in their consideration of the issues, at their meeting on July 27, 1998, where they will discuss the issue of existing and potential authoritative bodies. The following materials were provided to the DART Identification Committee members and are also available to the public:

• Copies of the critical transcript passages from earlier (1987, 1989 and 1990) Scientific Advisory Panel (SAP) meetings concerning the designations of the existing authoritative bodies.

1. October 1987 SAP meeting, pages 10 - 47 [ 42 pages]
2. April 1989 SAP meeting, pages 99 - 144 [51 pages]
3. October 1989 SAP meeting, pages 6 - 24 [24 pages]
4. April 1990 SAP meeting, pages 7 - 21 and 38 - 78 [60 pages]
5. October 1990 SAP meeting, pages 133 - 162 [32 pages]

• Copies of all staff transparencies presented at the workshop, which includes transparencies presented by Dr. Martha Sandy on the existing authoritative bodies and those presented by Dr. Marlissa Campbell on the authoritative bodies proposed by outside parties. [47 pages] [These are also on our Web site at http://www.oehha.ca.gov ]
• Copies of comments submitted by interested parties related to the authoritative bodies workshop. [142 pages]
• Copy of the transcript from the June 11, 1998 authoritative bodies workshop. [248 pages]

If you would like to receive copies of any of the identified materials, with the exception of the transcript from the June 11, 1998 workshop, please contact Ms. Cynthia Oshita at (916) 445-6900. Our practice is to charge $0.10 per page to cover photocopying costs. In order to contain costs, it continues to be our practice to refer individuals to the court reporting service on record for copies of transcripts. Copies of the June 11, 1998 workshop are available from the court reporting service, Portale and Associates, at (209) 462-3377.

Sincerely,

 (original signed by) 

Margie J. Leary for Val F. Siebal

Chief Deputy Director

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