Tentative Agenda for the December 17, 2001 Meeting of the Science Advisory Board's Developmental and Reproductive Toxicant (DART) Identification Committee

The California Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) is the lead agency for the implementation of the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986 (Proposition 65).

The Developmental and Reproductive Toxicant (DART) Identification Committee of OEHHA's Science Advisory Board identifies chemicals for addition to the list of chemicals known to the State to cause reproductive toxicity, which is mandated by Health and Safety Code Section 25249.8. The Committee serves as the "State's qualified experts" for rendering an opinion whether a chemical has been clearly shown, through scientifically valid testing according to generally accepted principles, to cause reproductive toxicity. In addition, the Committee serves as the "State's qualified experts" for determining whether or not chemicals that are required to have been tested have been adequately tested.

Proposition 65 requires publication of a list of chemicals that are required by state or federal laws to have been tested for potential to cause cancer or reproductive toxicity but that the State's qualified experts have not found to have been adequately tested as required (Health and Safety Code Section 25249.8(c)). That list is set out in regulation at Title 22, California Code of Regulations, Section 14000 (Section 14000). Section 14000 provides "a chemical that has already been designated as known to the state to cause cancer or reproductive toxicity is not included on the Section 14000 list as requiring additional testing for that particular toxicological endpoint." On this basis the Committee will consider the following chemicals for removal from the Section 14000 list for the endpoint indicated in parentheses: N- methylpyrrolidone (tera), diclofop methyl (tera), dinocap (tera), fluvalinate (tera), nitrapyrin (tera), and triadimefon (repro). 1,6-Hexamethylene diisocyanate (rtox, tera) will be considered for removal from Section 14000, as requested by the Aliphatic Diisocyanates Panel of the American Chemistry Council, because the group asserts that Toxic Substance Control Act (TSCA) Section 4 testing of this chemical has been completed and demonstrates

A public meeting of this committee will be held on Monday, December 17, 2001 at 1001 I Street, California Environmental Protection Headquarters Building, Coastal Hearing Room, Sacramento, California, beginning at 10:00 a.m. and continuing until all business has been conducted, or 5:00 p.m.

The first item of business for the Committee will be to elect an Acting Chair from among the appointed members to preside over the meeting and to affirm the agenda for the meeting. The order in which items are taken up by the Committee is subject to change at the discretion of the Acting Chair. The tentative agenda for this meeting is as follows:

I. Committee Election of Acting Chair

II. Consideration of Chemicals as Known to the State to Cause Reproductive Toxicity

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