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This final statement of reasons sets forth the reasons for the final language adopted by the Agency for section 12902 and responds to the objections and recommendations submitted regarding that section. This regulation provides uniform definitions and establishes a process by which the lead agency can evaluate chemicals for listing pursuant to this provision of the Act. 

The purpose of this regulation is to implement and make specific the provision of Health and Safety Code section 25249.8 which provides that a chemical is known to the state to cause cancer or reproductive toxicity "if a body considered to be authoritative by [the Panel] has formally identified it as causing cancer or reproductive toxicity." 

This final statement of reasons sets forth the reasons for the final language adopted by the Agency for section 12405 and responds to the objections and recommendations submitted regarding that section. 

This Final Statement of Reasons establishes No Significant Risk Levels (NSRLs) for Benzidine, bis(2- chloroethyl)ether, N-nitrosodiethylamine, N-nitrosodimethylamine, N-nitrosodiphenylamine, N-Nitroso-N-dibutylamine, N-nitroso-N-ethylurea, N-nitroso-N-methylurea, Toxaphene and 2,4,6-Trichlorophenol.

This final statement of reasons sets forth the reasons for the final language adopted by the Agency for section 12403 and responds to the objections and recommendations submitted regarding that section.

This final statement of reasons sets forth the reasons for the final language adopted by the Agency for this amendment to section 12601.

This final statement of reasons sets forth the reasons for the final language adopted by the Agency for section 12901, and responds to the objections and recommendations submitted regarding the regulation as originally proposed at the July, 1988 hearing, and as modified by the October, 1988 emergency adoption. 

This final statement of reasons sets forth the reasons for the final language adopted by the Agency for the regulations in Article 5, and responds to the objections and recommendations submitted regarding those regulations as originally proposed and modified.

The purpose of these regulations is to provide some "safe harbor" levels and methodologies, and criteria for exposure assessment, which will assist persons in making certain that their discharges, releases or exposures pose no significant risk or would have no observable effect within the meaning of the Act. Article 7, commencing at section 12701, addresses the determination of whether exposures to carcinogens listed under the Act pose no significant risk within the meaning of the Act. Article 8, commencing at section 12801, addresses the determination of whether exposure to listed reproductive toxins would produce no observable effect within the meaning of the Act. 

This final statement of reasons sets forth the reasons for the final language adopted by the Agency for section 12201 (a) and (b) , and responds to the objections and recommendations submitted regarding those provisions. Under the amended definition of "in the course of doing business", the term would include any business activity without regard to whether it is conducted for profit.