Meeting Summary

EPA/Treated Wood Council Meeting

June 6, 2008; 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM

Airport Hilton, Newark, New Jersey

Participants

Treated Wood Council: Bob Baeppler (Forest Products Research Lab), Chris
Bolin (AquAeTer), Furman Brodie (Charles Ingram Lumber Company), Michael
Collins (Arch Wood Protection), Scott Conklin (Universal Forest
Products), Bill Crossman (Atlantic Wood Industries Inc.), Brock Descant
(Elder Wood Preserving), Tom Fitzgerald (Viance LLC), Jim Hickman
(Langdale Forest Products), Jane House (Cox Industries), Dick Jackson
(Pacific Wood Preserving), Elaina Jackson (Pacific Wood Preserving),
Mike Juba (Koppers), Janis Kristiansen (Western Wood Preserving), Paul
Merrick (Weyerhaeuser), Jeff Miller (Treated Wood Council), Chuck Shaw
(Osmose), Vic Sowl (Central Nebraska Wood Preserving), Rich Wasserstrom
(Treated Wood Council), Jake Whitehead (McFarland Cascade)

EPA: Lance Wormell (Office of Pesticide Programs, Antimicrobials
Division)

Summary

On June 6, 2008, a representative from EPA’s Office of Pesticide
Programs met with the Treated Wood Council’s (TWC) Government Affairs
Committee in Newark, New Jersey to discuss the heavy duty wood
preservatives CCA, pentachlorophenol, and creosote.  EPA attended the
meeting at the TWC’s request to provide an overview of the revised
risk assessments and the potential measures being considered to mitigate
the risks of concern.  

Discussions focused on the potential economic and logistical impacts of
mitigation options, alternative measures to accomplish comparable risk
reduction, and the possibility and potential duration of a phase-in
period for facilities to make any required changes to treatment
cylinders.

Next Steps

The TWC will review the documents currently available for public comment
in the respective public dockets and, if appropriate, submit comments
before the comment periods close on June 16, 2008.

EPA intends to complete the reregistration eligibility decisions for the
heavy duty wood preservatives in September 2008.

