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Notice of intent to list emissions from high-temperature unrefined rapeseed oil via the authoritative bodies mechanism as known to the State to cause cancer.

Advisory based on mercury or PCBs.

Vasona Lake and Camden Ponds are part of the 150-acre Vasona Lake County Park in Los Gatos. The largest pond is stocked with rainbow trout. The advisory is based on data from the State Water Resources Control Board’s Surface Water Ambient Monitoring Program and the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board.

Comment Period on the Notice of Intent to change basis of listing for carbaryl as known to the state to cause reproductive toxicity 

Intent to change basis of listing for carbaryl as known to the state to cause reproductive toxicity.  The original listing, via Labor Code, will be changed to listing via the Authoritative Bodies mechanism.

Effective November 8, 2013, the California Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) changes the basis for the listing of nitrous oxide as known to the state to cause reproductive toxicity under the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986.

Draft Public Health Goals for five chemicals are now available for public comment.  These chemicals are: chlorobenzene, endothall, hexachlorocyclopentadiene, silvex, and trichlorofluoromethane.

These amendments would clarify the existing requirements for scientific experts appointed to the committees by the Governor. These amendments will also remove certain portions of Section 25304 that were made redundant when advisory committee members were added to the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment’s (OEHHA) Conflict of Interest Code.

Comment Period - Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, Title 27, California Code of Regulations,Proposed Amendment To Section 25302, Science Advisory Board and Section 25304, Financial Disclosure

Advisory for eating fish from Mission Bay, a saltwater bay, about 6 miles north of San Diego Bay in San Diego County. Advice is the maximum number of servings per week.  The advisory is based on mercury or PCBs.