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Pesticide News Story: EPA Issues 4th Annual Report to NRDC
For Release: October 4, 2005
On September 26, 2005, EPA issued its fourth annual report to the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), discussing the Agency's progress in implementing risk mitigation measures for 10 pesticides undergoing reregistration and tolerance reassessment, and subject to deadlines established by the September 2001 Consent Decree. The pesticides addressed in the report include atrazine, azinphos-methyl, benomyl, carbaryl, chlorpyrifos, diazinon, endosulfan, lindane, phosmet, and propargite. In addition, the report discusses EPA's plans for completing cumulative risk assessments for several groups of pesticides identified as potentially having common mechanisms of toxicity. The Agency's reports to NRDC as well as the NRDC Consent Decree are available on the Agency's Reregistration/ Progress and Status Reports web page at http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/reregistration/reports.htm.