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TOLERANCE REASSESSMENT ADVISORY COMMITTEE (TRAC)

"UPDATE" Meeting

Hotel Washington, 15th & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC

February 25, 1999

8:30 A.M. - 3:30 P.M.

8:30 - 8:55  -- Welcoming Remarks

-- Susan Wayland, Acting Assistant Administrator

Office of Prevention, Pesticides & Toxic Substances, EPA

Meeting Co-Chairs:

-- Jim Aidala, Associate Assistant Administrator, OPPTS

-- Keith Pitts, Special Assistant to the Deputy Secretary, USDA

Meeting Facilitator

-- John Ehrmann, Meridian Institute

8:55 - 9:00 Introduction of OPP management team & presenters

-- Marcia Mulkey, Director, Office of Pesticide Programs

9:00 - 10:00  -- Science Policy Framework Development

-Update on 9 science policies

(Bill Jordan) (Papers 1, 2, & 3)

10:00 - 10:30  -- Other Relevant and Recent Policy Developments

-Early assessment

-Role of use-related information in risk assessment

-Human testing

(Bill Jordan) (Paper 3)

10:30 - 10:40  -- BREAK

10:40 - 10:55  -- Overall Status of Tolerance Reassessment

(Anne Lindsay) (Paper 4)

10:55 - 12:20 -- Status of OP pilot

-Progress on Preliminary Risk Assessments (number released & schedule for release of remainder

-Refinement of Preliminary Risk Assessment Process comments & information received, PDP, food consumption data and general schedule)

-Risk management process

-Discussion of Pilot Results (Marcia Mulkey - short introduction; (Papers 5 & 6)

-Lois Rossi/Al Jennings - present update)

12:20 - 1:35 --  LUNCH

1:35 - 2:35 -- Transition Strategies

-Regulatory tools

-Use and usage data (crop matrices, crop profiles, pipeline database)

-Regional Pest Management Centers

(Keith Pitts/Al Jennings/Kathy Davis) (Papers 7 - 12)

2:35 - 2:45 -- Upcoming Events of Interest

-SAP/SAB meetings

-OCHP's activities

-Registration & reregistration status

-Aluminum and magnesium phosphide

-Rodenticide cluster

-PPDC update

-TRAC meeting plans

(Marcia Mulkey/Margie Fehrenbach) (Papers 13 - 20)

2:45 - 3:15  -- PUBLIC COMMENT

3:15 - 3:30 -- WRAP UP

(John Ehrmann, Meridian)

CLOSING REMARKS

(Jim Aidala/Keith Pitts)

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