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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 Developmental and Reproductive Toxicant (DART) Identification Committee of OEHHA's Science Advisory Board identifies chemicals for addition to the list of chemicals known to the State to cause reproductive toxicity, 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 reproductive toxicity.

A public meeting of this committee will be held on Friday, June 2, 2000 at 1515 Clay Street, Elihu Harris State Building, Oakland, California, Auditorium from 10:00 a.m. until all business has been conducted, or 5:00 p.m. (click here for a map)

The tentative agenda for this meeting is as follows:

I. CONSIDERATION OF CHEMICALS AS KNOWN TO THE STATE TO CAUSE REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY
A. Sodium Nitrite

II. STAFF REPORTS

III. 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 document on sodium nitrite closed on May 2, 2000. Oral comments may still be made to the Committee at the meeting on June 2, 2000.

The draft document describing the evidence on the developmental and reproductive toxicity of sodium nitrite 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/prop65/hazard_ident/SodNitHID.pdf.

Follow this link to download a copy of this notice.

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