UNITED
STATES
ENVIRONMENTAL
PROTECTION
AGENCY
WASHINGTON,
D.
C.
20460
OFFICE
OF
PREVENTION,
PESTICIDES
AND
TOXIC
SUBSTANCES
CERTIFIED
MAIL
June
29,
2001
Danielle
LaRochelle
Registration
Product
Manager
Aventis
CropScience
USA
P.
O.
Box
12014
2
T.
W.
Alexander
Drive
Research
Triangle
Park,
NC
27709
Re:
Preliminary
Risk
Assessments
for
Human
Health
and
for
Environmental
Fate
and
Ecological
Effects
for
the
Reregistration
Eligibility
Decision
on
Carbaryl
Dear
Ms.
LaRochelle:

Enclosed
are
the
preliminary
risk
assessments
for
human
health
and
for
environmental
fate
and
ecological
effects
for
the
reregistration
eligibility
decision
for
carbaryl.
This
advance
opportunity
to
review
EPA's
pesticide
risk
assessments
for
errors
is
an
integral
part
of
a
wider
effort
to
involve
the
public
in
implementation
of
the
Food
Quality
Protection
Act
of
1996,
as
described
in
section
VIII
of
the
Federal
Register
notice
published
on
March
15,
2000
(65
FR
14200).

Within
the
next
30
days,
please
identify
and
comment
on
any
errors
in
the
enclosed
preliminary
risk
assessments.
During
this
phase
of
the
reregistration
process,
you
should
only
address
typographic,
mathematical,
or
computational
type
of
errors.
Upon
receipt
of
your
"error
correction"
submission,
the
Agency
will
evaluate
your
comments
and
will
revise
the
preliminary
risk
assessments
as
necessary.
At
this
phase,
EPA
will
not
address
comments
that
concern
matters
of
policy,
interpretation,
or
applicability
of
data.
There
will
be
future
opportunities
to
address
these
type
of
comments
as
part
of
the
public
participation
process.

In
addition,
we
would
like
you
to
review
the
risk
assessment
documents
for
confidential
business
information
(CBI).
Please
inform
the
Agency
in
writing
of
any
claims
of
CBI
contained
in
these
documents.
If
we
do
not
receive
notice
in
writing
of
any
such
claims,
within
30
days
from
the
receipt
of
this
letter,
we
will
assume
the
document
is
free
of
CBI.

Also,
please
inform
EPA
of
any
pertinent
completed,
pending,
or
planned
studies,
and
2
any
other
sources
of
information
you
intend
to
submit
on
carbaryl.
Providing
EPA
with
a
timetable
for
completing
and
submitting
such
information
will
enable
us
to
better
plan
for
refining
the
risk
assessments
and
completing
the
reregistration
and
tolerance
reassessments.

In
September
2001,
EPA
expects
to
release
to
the
public
your
comments
to
both
preliminary
risk
assessments,
the
Agency's
response
to
your
comments,
and
the
revised
human
health
and
environmental
risk
assessments.
These
documents
will
be
placed
in
the
Public
Docket
and/
or
posted
on
EPA's
website
(www.
epa.
gov/
pesticides/
reregistration/
status.
htm).
EPA
will
announce
the
availability
of
these
documents
via
a
Notice
of
Availability
in
the
Federal
Register
and
through
an
electronic
listserver
message.

Please
send
your
response
in
both
printed
and
electronic
form,
within
30
days
of
receipt
of
this
letter,
including
claims
of
CBI,
and
other
requested
information
to
me
at
the
following
address:

Anthony
Britten
US
EPA
(7508C)
1200
Pennsylvania
Avenue,
N.
W.
Washington,
D.
C.
20460
Email
Address:
britten.
anthony@
epa.
gov
If
you
have
any
questions,
please
feel
free
to
contact
me
at
(703)
308­
8179
or
by
email.

Sincerely,

Anthony
Britten,
Chemical
Review
Manager
Reregistration
Branch
3
Special
Review
and
Reregistration
Division
2
Enclosures
