Environmental Protection 2005 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

EPA requests public comment on a March 31, 2005, petition from the Pesticides Action Network North America (PANNA), Alaska Community Action on Toxics (ACAT), and Washington Toxics Coalition (WCT), available in docket number OPP-2004-0246, requesting that the Agency revoke all tolerances for the pesticide lindane. The petitioners claim that EPA must revoke existing lindane tolerances in order to implement the Agency's 2002 Reregistration Eligibility Decision (RED). The petitioners also claim that the continued existence of the lindane tolerances is contrary to a 1982 EPA policy statement that tolerances should be revoked when associated food uses have been cancelled.