[CPEO-MEF] PERCHLORATE: EPA advisers question findings

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

EPA Advisers Seek Perchlorate Review
Scientists Hope Agency Rethinks Decision Not to Issue Standard

By Juliet Eilperin
Washington Post
November 14, 2008

The Environmental Protection Agency's scientific advisers have warned 
the agency that it should delay final action on its decision not to set 
a federal drinking-water standard for perchlorate, a chemical in rocket 
fuel, because the computer model underlying the decision may have flaws.

In a letter last week, the heads of EPA's Science Advisory Board and its 
drinking water committee urged EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson to 
extend the public comment period on its preliminary determination to not 
regulate perchlorate. That decision is set to become final next month.

...

"Given perchlorate's wide occurrence and well-documented toxicity to 
humans, the [Science Advisory Board] strongly believes that there must 
be a compelling scientific basis to support a scientific determination 
not to regulate perchlorate as a national drinking water contaminant," 
Advisory Board Chairwoman Deborah L. Swackhamer and Joan B. Rose, 
chairwoman of the board's drinking water committee, wrote Nov. 5.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/13/AR2008111303906.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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