In addition, the agency is considering granting other companies the right the market the original, less environmentally-friendly product. Such results are clearly at odds with goals of the Reduced-Risk Pesticides Initiative. EPA is strongly urged to reconsider its present course. The Federal Communications Commission issued a decision eliminating government regulations for developing technical standards and certification procedures for Customer Premises Equipment, including telephones, modems and fax machines. Click for the FCC Press Release.
Outside groups claim that the standards for data quality are too stringent.
Click to read a summary of the latest EPA-related news. The public comment period on OMB's proposed Data Quality guidance closed on August 13, 2001. OMB has received in the neighborhood of 100 public comments. The very substantial number of public comments received signals the importance that the regulated community and the public accord to the forthcoming guidance. The Data Quality statute requires that OMB promulgate its final guidance no later than September 30, 2001.