For Release: August 13, 2015

After considering public comment, EPA and the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) have agreed to a revised settlement. The revised settlement agreement modifies a 2010 court order that established a schedule to complete effects determinations for 75 chemicals on 11 endangered or threatened species in the San Francisco Bay Area.  The settlement can be found at www.regulations.gov in Docket # EPA-HQ-OPP-2009-0481. 
  
EPA has already issued effects determinations for 59 of the 75 pesticides. Instead of completing determinations that are limited to the San Francisco Bay Area for the remaining 16 pesticides, EPA and CBD agreed that it would be more efficient and environmentally significant to complete nationwide effects determinations on four pesticides (atrazine, simazine, propazine and glyphosate). The agreement includes schedules for completion of determinations and initiation of consultation for the four pesticides by 2020.
 
EPA intends to use and build on approaches consistent with the April 2013 National Academy of Sciences (NAS) report Exit recommendations to conduct these determinations. 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.

For more information visit Endangered Species Litigation and Associated Pesticide Limitations.