2006 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 7 Jun 2006 16:49:22 -0000
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] EPA's response to Children's Health Committee letter on perchlorate
 
On May 11, 2006, U.S. EPA Assistant Administrator for the Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response, Susan Parker Bodine, sent a letter to Melanie A. Marty, Chair of the Children's Health Protection Advisory Committee, in response to that Committee's March 8, 2006 letter concerning the regulation of perchlorate. The full letter is available as a 152K PDF file from
http://yosemite.epa.gov/ochp/ochpweb.nsf/content/5112006.htm/$file/5112006.pdf.


Bodine's key points appear to be:

1. EPA's Preliminary Remediation Goal (PRG) of 24.5 parts per billion for perchlorate is protective because it is based upon a non-adverse effect.

2. The PRG is not a final cleanup level, but a "starting point for site-specific goals."

3. National data on perchlorate in food are insufficient to establish a relative source contribution factor for perchlorate.

4. EPA's Office of Water is evaluating, following its established process, whether the agency should promulgate a Maximum Contaminant Level (MCL) for perchlorate.

In other words, EPA is not changing anything in response to the Children's Health Committee letter.

Lenny

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Lenny Siegel Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041 Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545 Fax: 650/961-8918 <lsiegel@cpeo.org> http://www.cpeo.org


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