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The Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) is announcing the availability of a draft document describing a proposed health-protective concentration (HPC) for noncancer effects of hexavalent chromium (Cr(VI)) in drinking water, as part of the update to the Cr(VI) Public Health Goal (PHG). OEHHA will hold a hybrid workshop on January 8, 2024, the public workshop agenda is now available. 

Form 801 is used to report certain payments received by state and local government agencies that are used for agency purposes and paid by a third party which may include a payment for an official’s travel expenses for the purpose of facilitating the public’s business in lieu of using agency funds; and a payment that would otherwise be considered a gift or income to the benefiting official, but is instead accepted on behalf of the agency.

Today, the California Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) issued a fish consumption advisory for South Lake, located approximately 17 miles southwest of Bishop in Inyo County. The advisory provides safe-eating advice for Brook Trout, Brown Trout, California Golden Trout and Rainbow Trout.

Effective November 17, 2023, the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) is adding coal-tar pitch, fluoro-edenite fibrous amphibole, and silicon carbide whiskers to the list of chemicals known to the State of California.

OEHHA has published several studies evaluating the health effects of wildfires.

Safe harbor levels, which include No Significant Risk Levels (NSRLs) for cancer-causing chemicals and Maximum Allowable Dose Levels (MADLs) for chemicals causing reproductive toxicity.

The Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) is providing notice of a modification to the proposed Proposition 65 No Significant Risk Level (NSRL) for Antimony Trioxide.

Summary table of all OEHHA acute, 8-hr and chronic Reference Exposure Levels (chRELs) as of August 2020.  Documentation for these values is available in the Air Toxics Hot Spots Program Guidance Manual for the Preparation of Health Risk Assessments 2015.

The Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment is adopting new Reference Exposure Levels for Trimethylbenzenes for use in the Air Toxics Hot Spots Program. Reference Exposure Levels are airborne concentrations of a chemical that are not anticipated to result in adverse noncancer health effects for specified exposure durations in the general population, including sensitive subpopulations.

A state fish advisory issued today for El Capitan Reservoir in San Diego County provides safe-eating advice for black bass species, Blue Catfish, Mississippi Silverside, Sculpin, sunfish species and Threadfin Shad.