**Inorganic Nitrate/Nitrite Reader's Guide - Docket \#
EPA-HQ-OPP-2007-1118**

**Publication Date: March 26, 2008**

The Environmental Protection Agency is providing this "Reader's Guide"
to allow the reader to more easily access and navigate the various
documents contained in the Inorganic Nitrate/Nitrite electronic docket.
The documents are posted in Federal Docket Management System (FDMS)
electronic docket in [www.regulations.gov](http://www.regulations.gov/)
under EPA-HQ-OPP-2007-1118. Each item contains the title of the
document, the date of the document, its author(s) when applicable, and a
brief description of its purpose.

EPA is committed to involving stakeholders and the public in its
development of pesticide reregistration and tolerance reassessment
decisions. The Agency\'s public participation process provides a dynamic
framework for public involvement and consultation during the conduct of
these programs.

**Docket Item 1.** **Federal Register Notice**: **Pesticide Registration
Review; New Dockets Opened for Review and Comment**; Notice of
Availability; Mar 26, 2008;

*This document formally and publicly announces the establishment of,
inter alia, the Inorganic Nitrate/Nitrite Registration Review Docket is
available for review on the Federal Docket Management System's (FDMS's)
internet site or at the EPA's Office of Pesticides Programs' (paper
copy) Public Docket. It solicits comments on inorganic nitrate/nitrite
and provides timeframes and locations for submitting comments.*

**Docket Item 2.** **Reader's Guide** to docket \# EPA-HQ-OPP-2007-1118;
Mar 20 2008; Miederhoff

*This document, it is designed to describe the purpose of each document
in the docket.*

**Docket Item 3.** **Inorganic Nitrate/Nitrite Summary Document**; Mar
19, 2008; Bradbury

*Document summarizes what EPA currently knows about the Inorganic
Nitrate/Nitrite pesticide case and a preliminary work plan for
anticipated data and assessment needs.*

**Docket Item 4.** **Appendix A**; January 25, 2007; Biological and
Economic Analysis Division

*This report presents EPA's understanding of the current use and usage
patterns of Sodium Nitrate including any limitations or restrictions.*

**Docket Item 5.** **Appendix A**; June 19, 2007; Biological and
Economic Analysis Division

*This report presents EPA's understanding of the current use and usage
patterns of Potassium Nitrate including any limitations or
restrictions.*

**Docket Item 6.** **Problem Formulation for Ecological Risk Assessment,
for Carbon Dioxide and Gas Fumigant Producing Cartridges: Carbon,
Sawdust, Sodium Nitrate. Potassium Nitrate and Sulfur;** March 17, 2008;
Environmental Fate and Effects Division

*Also included as part of the Summary Document, this document summarizes
what EPA currently knows about the* *environmental fate and effects of
the* *Inorganic Nitrate/Nitrite pesticide case and includes a
preliminary work plan for anticipated data and assessment needs.*

**Docket Item 7. Sodium Nitrate (076104) and Potassium Nitrate (076103).
Human Health Assessment Problem Formulation Document in Support of
Registration Review;** March 6, 2008; Health Effects Division

*Also included as part of the Summary Document, this document summarizes
what EPA currently knows about the* *human health effects of the*
*Inorganic Nitrate/Nitrite pesticide case and includes a preliminary
work plan for anticipated data and assessment needs.*

**Docket Item 8. HED Product Chemistry and Human Health Assessment for
potassium nitrate and sodium nitrate**; July 18, 1991; Health Effects
Division

*This document was completed as a component of the human health
assessment for the 1991 Reregistration Eligibility Decision for
Inorganic Nitrate/Nitrite.*

**Docket Item 9. HED Review of Potential Occupational and Residential
Exposure to Sodium Nitrate and Potassium Nitrate for the Reregistration
Eligibility Decision**; June 26, 1991; Health Effects Division

*This document was completed as a component of the human health
assessment for the 1991 Reregistration Eligibility Decision for
Inorganic Nitrate/Nitrite.*

**Docket Item 10. Environmental Fate and Groundwater Branch Science
Chapter for potassium nitrate and sodium nitrate;** June 4, 1991;
Environmental Fate and Effects Division

*This document was completed as a component of the Environmental Fate
and Effects assessment for the 1991 Reregistration Eligibility Decision
for Inorganic Nitrate/Nitrite.*

**Docket Item 11. RED for Sodium Nitrate: Ecotoxicity Data; July 1**,
1991; Environmental Fate and Effects Division

*This document was completed as a component of the Environmental Fate
and Effects assessment for the 1991 Reregistration Eligibility Decision
for Inorganic Nitrate/Nitrite.*

**Docket Item 12. Transmittal of EFED List D Review for Inorganic
Nitrates, (Potassium, Sodium); July 16**, 1991; Environmental Fate and
Effects Division

*This document was completed as a component of the Environmental Fate
and Effects assessment for the 1991 Reregistration Eligibility Decision
for Inorganic Nitrate/Nitrite.*