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Chemicals under consideration for possible listing via the Administrative Bodies mechanisms: Request for relevant information.

Public workshop - OEHHA is soliciting input on the process and order by which the safe harbor numbers should be developed.

Availability of the revised criteria for identifying chemicals for listing as "Known to the State to Cause Cancer"

OEHHA announced a public meeting of the Air Quality Advisory Committee (AQAC), as well as public workshops on the health protectiveness of the ambient air quality standards for carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide, ozone, sulfur dioxide, particulate matter, sulfates, lead, and hydrogen sulfide.

OEHHA announced the date for an Air Quality Advisory Committee public meeting and two workshops. The agenda included discussions on the health-protectiveness of the ambient air quality standards.

OEHHA announces the availability of six Public Health Goals for chemicals in drinking water.  These chemicals are: carbofuran, carbon tetrachloride, dichloromethane, diquat, thiobencarb, and vinyl chloride

Notice to interested parties: Availability of the draft hazard identification documents for hexachlorobutadiene, 4-methylquinoline, and MX(3-chloro-4-(dichloromethyl)-5-hydroxy-2(5h)-furanone).

Notice of Intent to List chemicals as known to cause cancer and/or reproductive toxicity via the authoritative bodies or "formally required to be labeled or identified" mechanisms: Bromate ion and its water soluble salts, Bromoethane, Isoxaflutole, Gemfibrozil, and Zileuton

OEHHA recommends a Notification Level of 15 ppb (ug/L) for vanadium in drinking water.

Chemicals listed effective August 4, 2000 as known to the state of California to cause cancer: o-Phenylphenol.