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including its effects on human health
and the environment.
comments, see the commenting tips at
https://www.epa.gov/dockets/
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II. Background
Registration review is EPA’s periodic
review of pesticide registrations to
ensure that each pesticide continues to
satisfy the statutory standard for
registration, that is, the pesticide can
perform its intended function without
unreasonable adverse effects on human
health or the environment. As part of
the registration review process, the
Agency has completed a proposed
interim registration review decision for
the pesticide glyphosate. Through this
program, EPA is ensuring that each
pesticide’s registration is based on
current scientific and other knowledge,
III. Authority
EPA is conducting its registration
review of the chemical listed in the
Table in Unit IV pursuant to section 3(g)
of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide,
and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), 7 U.S.C.
136a et seq., and the Procedural
Regulations for Registration Review at
40 CFR part 155, subpart C. FIFRA
section 3(g) provides, among other
things, that the registrations of
pesticides are to be reviewed every 15
years. Under FIFRA, a pesticide product
may be registered or remain registered
only if it meets the statutory standard
for registration given in FIFRA section
3(c)(5) (7 U.S.C. 136a(c)(5)). When used
Registration review
case name and No.
Docket ID No.
Glyphosate Case 0178 ..................................
EPA–HQ–OPP–2009–0361
The registration review docket for a
pesticide includes earlier documents
related to the registration review case.
For example, the review opened with a
Preliminary Work Plan, for public
comment. A Final Work Plan was
placed in the docket following public
comment on the Preliminary Work Plan.
Glyphosate is a broad-spectrum
systemic herbicide registered for use in
various agricultural and nonagricultural settings. Agricultural use
sites include glyphosate-resistant
(transgenic) crops such as canola, corn,
cotton, soybean, and sugar beet. Nonagricultural use sites include residential
areas, turf, rights of ways, and aquatic
areas. In 2017, EPA published
comprehensive ecological and human
health risk assessments for glyphosate.
No human health risks were identified.
The agency determined that glyphosate
is not carcinogenic to humans. Potential
ecological risks were identified for
terrestrial and aquatic plants, birds, and
mammals, primarily from exposure to
spray drift. To ensure pollinators and
their habitat are adequately protected
from glyphosate, EPA included an
evaluation of risk to pollinators and
milkweed in the ecological risk
assessment. Available data (laboratory
and field-based) indicate no risk to
pollinators. EPA is taking steps to
protect pollinators and their habitat. In
its proposed interim registration review
decision for glyphosate, EPA is
proposing spray drift management
measures (e.g., release height, droplet
size, and wind speed restrictions) to
reduce off-site exposure to non-target
wildlife. EPA is also proposing weed
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in accordance with widespread and
commonly recognized practice, the
pesticide product must perform its
intended function without unreasonable
adverse effects on the environment; that
is, without any unreasonable risk to
man or the environment, or a human
dietary risk from residues that result
from the use of a pesticide in or on food.
IV. What action is the Agency taking?
Pursuant to 40 CFR 155.58, this
document announces the availability of
EPA’s proposed interim registration
review decision for the pesticide shown
in the following table and opens a 60day public comment period on the
proposed interim registration review
decision.
Email and phone
contact information
glyphosateRegReview@epa.gov, 703–347–0292.
resistance management labeling (e.g.,
information on mode of action, scouting
instructions, and reporting instructions
for weed resistance) to preserve
glyphosate as a valuable tool for
growers.
The documents in the docket describe
EPA’s rationales for conducting risk
assessments for the registration review
of glyphosate, as well as the Agency’s
subsequent risk findings and
consideration of possible risk mitigation
measures. This proposed interim
registration review decision is
supported by the rationales included in
those documents. Following public
comment, the Agency will issue interim
or final registration review decisions for
glyphosate.
The registration review final rule at 40
CFR 155.58(a) provides for a minimum
60-day public comment period on all
proposed interim registration review
decisions. This comment period is
intended to provide an opportunity for
public input and a mechanism for
initiating any necessary amendments to
the proposed interim registration review
decision. All comments should be
submitted using the methods in
ADDRESSES and must be received by
EPA on or before the closing date. These
comments will become part of the
docket for glyphosate. Comments
received after the close of the comment
period will be marked ‘‘late.’’ EPA is not
required to consider these late
comments.
The Agency will carefully consider all
comments received by the closing date
and may provide a ‘‘Response to
Comments Memorandum’’ in the
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docket. The interim registration review
decision will explain the effect that any
comments had on the interim decision
and provide the Agency’s response to
significant comments.
Background on the registration review
program is provided at: https://
www.epa.gov/pesticide-reevaluation.
Authority: 7 U.S.C. 136 et seq.
Dated: April 24, 2019.
Charles Smith,
Acting Director, Pesticide Re-Evaluation
Division, Office of Pesticide Programs.
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[EPA–HQ–OPP–2019–0066; FRL–9992–10]
Petition To Modify the Tolerance and
Product Labels for Glyphosate With
Regard to Oats; Notice of Filing
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
EPA is seeking public
comment on a September 27, 2018
petition from the Environmental
Working Group (EWG), Ben & Jerry’s
Homemade, Inc., Happy Family
Organics, MegaFood, MOM’s Organic
Market, National Co+op Grocers,
Nature’s Path Foods Inc., One Degree
Organic Foods USA, Inc., and
Stonyfield Farms, Inc. requesting that
the agency reduce the tolerance of the
pesticide glyphosate in or on oats and
SUMMARY:
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require glyphosate-containing product
labels to explicitly prohibit preharvest
use on oats. The petitioners have
submitted this petition under the
Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act
(FFDCA) and the Administrative
Procedure Act (APA) and as comments
for consideration during the registration
review of glyphosate under the Federal
Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide
Act (FIFRA).
DATES: Comments must be received on
or before June 5, 2019.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments,
identified by docket identification (ID)
number EPA–HQ–OPP–2019–0066, by
one of the following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the online
instructions for submitting comments.
Do not submit electronically any
information you consider to be
Confidential Business Information (CBI)
or other information whose disclosure is
restricted by statute.
• Mail: OPP Docket, Environmental
Protection Agency Docket Center (EPA/
DC), (28221T), 1200 Pennsylvania Ave.,
NW, Washington, DC 20460–0001.
• Hand Delivery: To make special
arrangements for hand delivery or
delivery of boxed information, please
follow the instructions at https://
www.epa.gov/dockets/contacts.html.
Additional instructions on commenting
or visiting the docket, along with more
information about dockets generally, is
available at https://www.epa.gov/
dockets.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Khue Nguyen, Pesticide Re-evaluation
Division (7508P), Office of Pesticide
Programs, Environmental Protection
Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW,
Washington, DC 20460–0001; main
telephone number: 703–347–0248;
email address: nguyen.khue@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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I. General Information
A. Does this action apply to me?
This action is directed to the public
in general, and may be of interest to a
wide range of stakeholders, including
environmental, human health, and
agricultural advocates, the chemical
industry, pesticide users, agricultural
producers, food manufacturers,
pesticide manufacturers, and members
of the public interested in the sale,
distribution, or use of pesticides. The
following list of North American
Industrial Classification System
(NAICS) codes is not intended to be
exhaustive, but rather provides a guide
to help readers determine whether this
document applies to them. Potentially
affected entities may include:
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• Crop production (NAICS code 111).
• Animal production (NAICS code
112).
• Food manufacturing (NAICS code
311).
• Pesticide manufacturing (NAICS
code 32532).
B. What should I consider as I prepare
my comments for EPA?
1. Submitting CBI. Do not submit this
information to EPA through
regulations.gov or email. Clearly mark
the part or all of the information that
you claim to be CBI. For CBI
information in a disk or CD–ROM that
you mail to EPA, mark the outside of the
disk or CD–ROM as CBI and then
identify electronically within the disk or
CD–ROM the specific information that
is claimed as CBI. In addition to one
complete version of the comment that
includes information claimed as CBI, a
copy of the comment that does not
contain the information claimed as CBI
must be submitted for inclusion in the
public docket. Information so marked
will not be disclosed except in
accordance with procedures set forth in
40 CFR part 2.
2. Tips for preparing your comments.
When preparing and submitting your
comments, see the commenting tips at
https://www.epa.gov/dockets/
comments.html.
3. Environmental justice. EPA seeks to
achieve environmental justice, the fair
treatment and meaningful involvement
of any group, including minority and/or
low-income populations, in the
development, implementation, and
enforcement of environmental laws,
regulations, and policies. To help
address potential environmental justice
issues, the Agency seeks information on
any groups or segments of the
population who, as a result of their
location, cultural practices, or other
factors, may have atypical or
disproportionately high and adverse
human health impacts or environmental
effects from exposure to the pesticides
discussed in this document, compared
to the general population.
II. What action is the Agency taking?
EPA seeks public comment during the
next 30 days on a pesticide petition
dated September 27, 2018 (available in
docket number EPA–HQ–OPP–2019–
0066 at https://www.regulations.gov)
from the EWG, Ben & Jerry’s
Homemade, Inc., Happy Family
Organics, MegaFood, MOM’s Organic
Market, National Co+op Grocers,
Nature’s Path Foods Inc., One Degree
Organic Foods USA, Inc., and
Stonyfield Farms, Inc. The petitioners
request that EPA reduce the glyphosate
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tolerance for oats from 30 parts per
million (ppm) to 0.1 ppm and prohibit
preharvest use on oats. The petition also
requests that EPA require glyphosatecontaining product labels to explicitly
prohibit the use of glyphosate as a
preharvest dessicant on oats. The
petition is filed pursuant to section 408
of the FFDCA and section 553(e) of the
Administrative Procedures Act.
As part of their petition, the
petitioners have submitted results of
residue testing from the EWG of
glyphosate levels in various granola,
instant oat, breakfast cereal, and snack
commodities. The petitioners claim that
glyphosate is a possible carcinogen and
that the current 30 ppm glyphosate
tolerance on oats is not adequately
protective of children. In addition, the
petitioners request revisions to
glyphosate labels that they believe will
reduce the potential for children’s
dietary exposure to glyphosate in oat
products.
Background materials related to the
FIFRA Scientific Advisory Panel (SAP)
meeting to discuss the carcinogenic
potential of glyphosate, including the
transcript, the March 16, 2017
‘‘Transmission of Meeting Minutes and
Final Report of the December 13–16,
2016 FIFRA SAP Meeting Held to
Consider and Review Scientific Issues
Associated with EPA’s Evaluation of the
Carcinogenic Potential of Glyphosate’’,
and EPA’s December 12, 2017
‘‘Response to the Final Report of the
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and
Rodenticide Act Scientific Advisory
Panel (FIFRA SAP) on the Evaluation of
the Human Carcinogenic Potential of
Glyphosate’’ are available online at:
https://cfpub.epa.gov/si/si_public_
record_Report.cfm?Lab=OPP&dirEntry
Id=337935.
EPA’s December 12, 2017 ‘‘Revised
Glyphosate Issue Paper: Evaluation of
Carcinogenic Potential, its December 12,
2017 Glyphosate Draft Human Health
Risk Assessment for Registration
Review’’, and its September 8, 2015
‘‘Registration Review—Preliminary
Ecological Risk Assessment for
Glyphosate and its Salts’’ are available
online at: https://www.epa.gov/
ingredients-used-pesticide-products/
draft-human-health-and-ecological-riskassessments-glyphosate. The Agency’s
Proposed Interim Registration Review
Decision for glyphosate is also available
for public comment in docket EPA–HQ–
OPP–2009–0361 at https://
www.regulations.gov.
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Dated: April 24, 2019.
Charles Smith,
Acting Director, Pesticide Re-evaluation
Division, Office of Pesticide Programs.
Toxics Branch (2227A), Environmental
Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania
Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460;
telephone number: (202) 564–4153;
email: yaras.michelle@epa.gov.
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28–OECA]
Proposed Information Collection
Request; Comment Request; Pesticide
Registration Application, Notification
and Report for Pesticide-Producing
Establishments
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The Environmental Protection
Agency is planning to submit an
information collection request (ICR),
‘‘Pesticide Registration Application,
Notification and Report for PesticideProducing Establishments’’ (EPA ICR
No. 0160.12, OMB Control No. 2070–
0078) to the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) for review and approval
in accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act. Before doing so, EPA is
soliciting public comments on specific
aspects of the proposed information
collection as described below. This ICR
is scheduled to expire on January 31,
2020. An Agency may not conduct or
sponsor and a person is not required to
respond to a collection of information
unless it displays a currently valid OMB
control number.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on
or before July 5, 2019.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments,
referencing Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–
OECA–2011–0824, online using
www.regulations.gov (our preferred
method), by email to docket.oeca@
epa.gov or by mail to: EPA Docket
Center, Environmental Protection
Agency, Mail Code 28221T, 1200
Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC
20460.
EPA’s policy is that all comments
received will be included in the public
docket without change including any
personal information provided, unless
the comment includes profanity, threats,
information claimed to be Confidential
Business Information (CBI) or other
information whose disclosure is
restricted by statute.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Michelle Yaras, Office of Compliance,
Monitoring, Assistance, and Media
Programs Division, Pesticides, Waste &
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Supporting documents which explain in
detail the information that the EPA will
be collecting are available in the public
docket for this ICR. The docket can be
viewed online at www.regulations.gov
or in person at the EPA Docket Center,
WJC West, Room 3334, 1301
Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC.
The telephone number for the Docket
Center is 202–566–1744. For additional
information about EPA’s public docket,
visit https://www.epa.gov/dockets.
Pursuant to section 3506(c)(2)(A) of
the PRA, EPA is soliciting comments
and information to enable it to: (i)
Evaluate whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary
for the proper performance of the
functions of the Agency, including
whether the information will have
practical utility; (ii) evaluate the
accuracy of the Agency’s estimate of the
burden of the proposed collection of
information, including the validity of
the methodology and assumptions used;
(iii) enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and (iv) minimize the burden
of the collection of information on those
who are to respond, including through
the use of appropriate automated
electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology,
e.g., permitting electronic submission of
responses. EPA will consider the
comments received and amend the ICR
as appropriate. The final ICR package
will then be submitted to OMB for
review and approval. At that time, EPA
will issue another Federal Register
notice to announce the submission of
the ICR to OMB and the opportunity to
submit additional comments to OMB.
Abstract: The Federal Insecticide,
Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA)
Section 7(a) requires that any person
who produces pesticides, active
ingredients or devices subject to the Act
must register with the Administrator of
EPA the establishment in which the
pesticide, active ingredient or device is
produced. This Section further requires
that application for registration of any
establishment shall include the name
and address of the establishment and of
the producer who operates such an
establishment. EPA Form 3540–8,
Application for Registration of
Pesticide-Producing and DeviceProducing Establishments, is used to
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collect the establishment registration
information required by this Section.
FIFRA Section 7(c) requires that any
producer operating an establishment
registered under Section 7 report to the
Administrator within 30 days after it is
registered, and annually thereafter by
March 1st for certain pesticide or device
production and sales or distribution
information. The producers must report
which types and amounts of pesticides,
active ingredients, or devices are
currently being produced, were
produced during the past year, sold or
distributed in the past year. The
supporting regulations at 40 CFR part
167 provide the requirements and time
schedules for submitting production
information. EPA Form 3540–16,
Pesticide Report for Pesticide-Producing
and Device-Producing Establishments,
is used to collect the pesticide
production information required by
Section 7(c) of FIFRA.
Establishment registration
information, collected on EPA Form
3540–8, is a one-time requirement for all
pesticide-producing and deviceproducing establishments. Pesticide and
device production information, reported
on EPA Form 3540–16, is required to be
submitted within 30 days after the
company is notified of their pesticideproducing or device-producing
establishment number, and annually
thereafter on or before March 1st.
Pesticide-producing and deviceproducing establishments optionally
can electronically enter and submit their
establishment registration information
and pesticide production information
through EPA’s Central Data Exchange
(CDX).
Form Numbers: 3540–8 and 3540–16.
Respondents/affected entities:
Establishments registering pesticides.
Respondent’s obligation to respond:
Mandatory (40 CFR part 167).
Estimated number of respondents:
14,730.
Frequency of response: Annually.
Total estimated burden: 21,274 hours
(per year). Burden is defined at 5 CFR
1320.03(b).
Total estimated cost: $1,680,644 (per
year), includes no annualized capital or
operation & maintenance costs.
Changes in estimates: There is no
change in hours at present, but we will
be revising the estimates in the 2nd FR
notice before we submit to OMB.
Dated: April 29, 2019.
Martha Segall,
Acting Director, Monitoring, Assistance and
Media Programs Division, Office of
Compliance.
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OPP-2019-0066; FRL-9992-10]
Petition To Modify the Tolerance and Product Labels for
Glyphosate With Regard to Oats; Notice of Filing
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: EPA is seeking public comment on a September 27, 2018 petition
from the Environmental Working Group (EWG), Ben & Jerry's Homemade,
Inc., Happy Family Organics, MegaFood, MOM's Organic Market, National
Co+op Grocers, Nature's Path Foods Inc., One Degree Organic Foods USA,
Inc., and Stonyfield Farms, Inc. requesting that the agency reduce the
tolerance of the pesticide glyphosate in or on oats and
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require glyphosate-containing product labels to explicitly prohibit
preharvest use on oats. The petitioners have submitted this petition
under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) and the
Administrative Procedure Act (APA) and as comments for consideration
during the registration review of glyphosate under the Federal
Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA).
DATES: Comments must be received on or before June 5, 2019.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by docket identification
(ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2019-0066, by one of the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://www.regulations.gov.
Follow the online instructions for submitting comments. Do not submit
electronically any information you consider to be Confidential Business
Information (CBI) or other information whose disclosure is restricted
by statute.
Mail: OPP Docket, Environmental Protection Agency Docket
Center (EPA/DC), (28221T), 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington, DC
20460-0001.
Hand Delivery: To make special arrangements for hand
delivery or delivery of boxed information, please follow the
instructions at https://www.epa.gov/dockets/contacts.html. Additional
instructions on commenting or visiting the docket, along with more
information about dockets generally, is available at https://www.epa.gov/dockets.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Khue Nguyen, Pesticide Re-evaluation
Division (7508P), Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental
Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460-
0001; main telephone number: 703-347-0248; email address:
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. General Information
A. Does this action apply to me?
This action is directed to the public in general, and may be of
interest to a wide range of stakeholders, including environmental,
human health, and agricultural advocates, the chemical industry,
pesticide users, agricultural producers, food manufacturers, pesticide
manufacturers, and members of the public interested in the sale,
distribution, or use of pesticides. The following list of North
American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) codes is not intended
to be exhaustive, but rather provides a guide to help readers determine
whether this document applies to them. Potentially affected entities
may include:
Crop production (NAICS code 111).
Animal production (NAICS code 112).
Food manufacturing (NAICS code 311).
Pesticide manufacturing (NAICS code 32532).
B. What should I consider as I prepare my comments for EPA?
1. Submitting CBI. Do not submit this information to EPA through
regulations.gov or email. Clearly mark the part or all of the
information that you claim to be CBI. For CBI information in a disk or
CD-ROM that you mail to EPA, mark the outside of the disk or CD-ROM as
CBI and then identify electronically within the disk or CD-ROM the
specific information that is claimed as CBI. In addition to one
complete version of the comment that includes information claimed as
CBI, a copy of the comment that does not contain the information
claimed as CBI must be submitted for inclusion in the public docket.
Information so marked will not be disclosed except in accordance with
procedures set forth in 40 CFR part 2.
2. Tips for preparing your comments. When preparing and submitting
your comments, see the commenting tips at https://www.epa.gov/dockets/comments.html.
3. Environmental justice. EPA seeks to achieve environmental
justice, the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of any group,
including minority and/or low-income populations, in the development,
implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and
policies. To help address potential environmental justice issues, the
Agency seeks information on any groups or segments of the population
who, as a result of their location, cultural practices, or other
factors, may have atypical or disproportionately high and adverse human
health impacts or environmental effects from exposure to the pesticides
discussed in this document, compared to the general population.
II. What action is the Agency taking?
EPA seeks public comment during the next 30 days on a pesticide
petition dated September 27, 2018 (available in docket number EPA-HQ-
OPP-2019-0066 at https://www.regulations.gov) from the EWG, Ben &
Jerry's Homemade, Inc., Happy Family Organics, MegaFood, MOM's Organic
Market, National Co+op Grocers, Nature's Path Foods Inc., One Degree
Organic Foods USA, Inc., and Stonyfield Farms, Inc. The petitioners
request that EPA reduce the glyphosate tolerance for oats from 30 parts
per million (ppm) to 0.1 ppm and prohibit preharvest use on oats. The
petition also requests that EPA require glyphosate-containing product
labels to explicitly prohibit the use of glyphosate as a preharvest
dessicant on oats. The petition is filed pursuant to section 408 of the
FFDCA and section 553(e) of the Administrative Procedures Act.
As part of their petition, the petitioners have submitted results
of residue testing from the EWG of glyphosate levels in various
granola, instant oat, breakfast cereal, and snack commodities. The
petitioners claim that glyphosate is a possible carcinogen and that the
current 30 ppm glyphosate tolerance on oats is not adequately
protective of children. In addition, the petitioners request revisions
to glyphosate labels that they believe will reduce the potential for
children's dietary exposure to glyphosate in oat products.
Background materials related to the FIFRA Scientific Advisory Panel
(SAP) meeting to discuss the carcinogenic potential of glyphosate,
including the transcript, the March 16, 2017 ``Transmission of Meeting
Minutes and Final Report of the December 13-16, 2016 FIFRA SAP Meeting
Held to Consider and Review Scientific Issues Associated with EPA's
Evaluation of the Carcinogenic Potential of Glyphosate'', and EPA's
December 12, 2017 ``Response to the Final Report of the Federal
Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act Scientific Advisory Panel
(FIFRA SAP) on the Evaluation of the Human Carcinogenic Potential of
Glyphosate'' are available online at: https://cfpub.epa.gov/si/si_public_record_Report.cfm?Lab=OPP&dirEntryId=337935.
EPA's December 12, 2017 ``Revised Glyphosate Issue Paper:
Evaluation of Carcinogenic Potential, its December 12, 2017 Glyphosate
Draft Human Health Risk Assessment for Registration Review'', and its
September 8, 2015 ``Registration Review--Preliminary Ecological Risk
Assessment for Glyphosate and its Salts'' are available online at:
https://www.epa.gov/ingredients-used-pesticide-products/draft-human-health-and-ecological-risk-assessments-glyphosate. The Agency's
Proposed Interim Registration Review Decision for glyphosate is also
available for public comment in docket EPA-HQ-OPP-2009-0361 at https://www.regulations.gov.
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Dated: April 24, 2019.
Charles Smith,
Acting Director, Pesticide Re-evaluation Division, Office of Pesticide
Programs.
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