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Request for public participation on updates that could be taken to clarify existing regulatory provisions, add new provisions dealing with emerging issues, or delete provisions that may no longer be necessary.
| Program: Proposition 65
The Public Health Goal for water soluble polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) was finalized and made available.
| Program: Water
Release of final technical document establishing ChRDs for Atrazine (6.0 x 10^-3 mg/kg-day) and Deltamethrin (1.0 x 10^-4mg/kg-day) to be used in School Site Risk Assessments
| Program: Risk Assessment
Workshop dates October 1st & 2nd, 2007
| Program: Risk Assessment
Chemical listed effective September 28, 2007 as known to the State to cause cancer via the Authoritative Bodies mechanism: anthraquinone.
| Program: Proposition 65
Notice of Adoption of Maximum Allowable Dose Levels (MADLs) for ethylene glycol monoethyl ether (EGEE), ethylene glycol monoethyl ether acetate (EGEEA), and potassium dimethyldithiocarbamate.
| Program: Proposition 65
The public workshop on proposed Public Health Goals for molinate and 1,2,3-trichloropropane on October 9, 2007, has been canceled. The workshop has been rescheduled to November 26, 2007.
| Program: Water
OEHHA announces the initiation of Risk Assessments for Chemicals in Drinking Water in 2007 for the following chemicals: antimony, bentazon, benzo(a)pyrene, cyanide, dalapon, dibromochloropropane (DBCP), 1,2-dichlorobenzene, 1,4-dichlorobenzene, 1,1-dichloroethylene, 1,2-dichloropropane, dinoseb. endothall, endrin, hexachlorocyclopentadiene, methoxychlor, oxamyl, pentachlorophenol, picloram, 1,2,4-trichlorobenzene, trichlorofluoromethane (Freon 11), and trichlorotrifluoroethane (Freon 113).
| Program: Water
OEHHA announces a public comment period for the draft Public Health Goal for 1,2,3-trichloropropane in drinking water.
| Program: Water
OEHHA has submitted findings on the active ingredient Endosulfan.
| Program: Pesticides