UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20460 

OFFICE OF PREVENTION, PESTICIDES 

AND TOXIC SUBSTANCES 

Posting to FDMS Docket without a Federal Register Notice 

MEMORANDUM 

SUBJECT: Posting to EPA-HQ-OPP-2009-0481 in Regulations.gov for Public Access 

TO: 

FROM: 

This memorandum authorizes the posting to EPA-HQ-OPP-2009-0481 in Regulations.gov for 

public access. 

The Agency has reached agreement with the Center for Biological Diversity on a proposed 

settlement that would amend a 201 0 court order, which established a schedule to complete 

effects determinations for 75 chemicals on 11 species in the. San Francisco Bay Area. 

Currently, EPA has issued effects determinations for 59 of the 75 pesticides, but for the 

remaining 16 pesticides, EPA and CBD agree that it would be more efficient and 

environmentally significant to complete nationwide effects determinations on four pesticides 

than completing effects determinations that are limited to the San Francisco Bay Area listed 

species. 

Under the proposed settlement, EPA would complete nationwide effects determinations for 

atrazine, simazine, propazine and glyphosate. The agreement includes schedules for 

completion of determinations and initiation of consultation for the four pesticides by 2020, 

using and building on approaches consistent with the April 2013 National Academy of 

Sciences (NAS) report recommendations. This agreement represents the second set of 

chemicals, after the initial pilot chemicals (chlorpyrifos, diazinon, malathion, carbaryl, and 

methomyl) to be assessed on a nationwide scale. 

The proposed stipulated settlement agreement will be open for public comment from June 23, 

2015 to July 8, 2015. · 

Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OPP-2009-0481 , through the 

following website: www.regulations.gov, following the on-line instructions for submitting 
comments. 

EPA's policy is that all comments·received will be included in the public docket without change 

and may be made available online at http://www.regulations.gov, including any personal 

information provided, unless the comment includes information claimed to be Confidential 

Business Information (CBI) or other information whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Do 

not submit information that you consider to be CBI or otherwise protected through 

http://www.regulations.gov. The http://www.requlations.gov Web site is an "anonymous 

access" system, which means EPA will not know your identity or contact information unless 

you provide it in the body of your comment. If you submit a comment, EPA recommends that 

you include your name and other contact information. If EPA cannot read your comment due 

to technical difficulties and cannot contact you for clarification, EPA may not be able to 

consider your comment. Electronic files should avoid the use of special characters, avoid any 

form of encryption, and be free of any defects of viruses. For additional information about 

EPA's public docket, visit the EPA Docket Center homepage at 

http://www.epa.gov/epahome/dockets/htm. 

Should you have any questions regarding this memorandum, please contact Donald Brady at 

703-305-7695; email address: ESPP@epa.gov