Pentachlorophenol Reader’s Guide

Reader’s Guide to Pentachlorophenol E-Docket # EPA-HQ-OPP-2004-0402

EPA has created this document to provide an organizational structure to
the pentachlorophenol e-Docket.  The docket index organizes and explains
related documents.  The first group contains the Federal Register and
Docket Organizational Documents; the second group contains the
Biological and Economics Division Documents and the Antimicrobial
Division Documents.  The Agency is providing the “Reader’s Guide”
to allow the reader to more easily access and navigate the various items
contained in the pentachlorophenol e-docket.

Federal Register and Docket Organizational Documents:

Docket Item 1:	Chromated Arsenicals, Pentachlorophenol, Creosote
Reregistration Eligibility Decisions; Notice of Availability

This notice announces that the risk assessments are available for public
review.

Docket Item 2:	Reader’s Guide to the Pentachlorophenol E-Docket #
EPA-HQ-OPP-2004-0402

The reader’s guide is designed to give a brief description of all the
pentachlorophenol documents in the pentachlorophenol e-Docket.

Antimicrobial Documents:

Docket Item 3:	Response to Public Comments on Pentachlorophenol and its
Contaminants, Dioxin/Furans, and Hexachlorobenzene. 

September 25, 2008 – Sherrie Kinard

This document is the Agency’s response to Phase 5 comments.

Docket Item 4:  	Pentachlorophenol-Toxicology Chapter for the
Reregistration Eligibility Decision Document

			August 29, 2008 –Timothy McMahon 

This document describes the revised toxicology supporting the endpoint
selection for pentachlorophenol.

Docket Item 5:	Revised PCP Human Exposure RED Chapter

			September 8, 2008 – Siroos Mostaghimi

This document describes the revised occupational exposure and risk
estimates associated with the use of pentachlorophenol.

Docket Item 6:  	Occupational Exposure and Risk Assessment of Dioxns
and Furans (CDDs/CDFs) in Pentachlorophenol

			August 19, 2008 – Siroos Mostaghimi

This document describes the revised occupational exposure and risk
estimates associated with the dioxin and furan (CDDs/CDFs) contaminants
of pentachlorophenol.

Docket Item 7:  	A Summarized Review of the Document: “Dioxins in San
Francisco Bay. Conceptual/ Impairment Assessment”.

			July 8, 2008 – A. Najm Shamim

This document is the Agency’s review of information submitted by
California’s Clean Estuary Partnership (CEP).

Docket Item 8:  	Revised Ecological Hazard and Environmental Risk
Assessment RED Chapter for Pentachlorophenol 

			August 25, 2008 – Richard Petrie

This document describes the revised ecological hazards and the
environmental risk estimates associated with the use of
pentachlorophenol.

Docket Item 9:  	Revised Ecological Hazard and Environmental Risk
Assessment RED Chapter for Chlorinated Dibenzo Dioxins and Chlorinated
Dibenzo Furans (CDDs and CDFs) – Supplement to the Pentachlorophenol
RED

			September 18, 2008 – Richard Petrie

This document describes the revised ecological hazards and the
environmental risk estimates associated with the dioxin/furan
(CDDs/CDFs) contaminants of pentachlorophenol.

Docket Item 10:  	Pentachlorophenol- Risk Assessment for the
Reregistration Eligibility Decision (RED) Document.  			

August 29, 2008 – Timothy McMahon

This document describes the revised risk estimates associated with the
use of pentachlorophenol.

Docket Item 11:	An Evaluation of Hazards and Risks from Exposure to
Dioxin/Furan Contaminants in Pentachlorophenol-treated Wood.			

August 29, 2008 – Timothy McMahon

This document describes the hazard and risk estimates associated with
the use of pentachlorophenol.

Biological and Economics Division Documents:

Docket Item 12:  	Response to Comments on “A Qualitative Economic
Impact Assessment of Alternatives to Pentachlorophenol as a Wood
Preservative” (EPA Docket No.: EPA-HQ-OPP-2004-0402) (DP# 354018).

			September 25, 2008 – Jonathan Becker and Stephen Hopkins

This document is the Agency’s response to Phase 5 comments.

Docket Item 13:  	Response to Comments on "Cost Estimates for Risk
Mitigation Technologies at a Typical Wood Treatment Plant" (EPA Docket
No.: EPA-HQ-OPP-2008-0248, EPA-HQ-OPP-2003-0250; and
EPA-HQ-OPP-2004-0402) @P# 354385, DP# 350583)

			September 25, 2008 – Jonathan Becker and Stephen Hopkins

This document is the Agency’s response to Phase 5 comments.

Docket Item 14:	Addendum to the Cost Estimates for Risk Mitigation
Technologies at a Typical Wood Treatment Plant

			September 25, 2008 – Jonathan Becker and Stephen Hopkins

This document serves as an addendum to “Cost Estimates for Risk
Mitigation Technologies at a Typical Wood Treatment Plant”, and its
purpose is to provide an update to the information contained in the
original assessment based on the public comments received on the
document.  

	 

Reregistration Eligibility Decision Document:

Docket Item 15:	REREGISTRATION ELIGIBILITY DECISION for
Pentachlorophenol

			September 25, 2008 – Sherrie Kinard and Diane Isbell

This document is the reregistration eligibility decision (RED) document
that contains the risk management decision for uses of pentachlorophenol
that pose risks of concern.  The Agency is aware that research is
ongoing regarding pentachlorophenol and The Agency may revisit this
decision in the future.

