Reader’s Guide for Metam Sodium and Metam Potassium 

CRM: Karen Santora 

EPA/OPPTS/OPP/SRRD

Reader’s Guide to Metam Sodium and Metam Potassium Docket 

# EPA-HQ-OPP-2005-0125

Publication Date: June 3, 2009

The Agency is providing the “Readers Guide” to allow the reader to
more easily access and navigate the various entries contained in the
metam sodium docket.  

Federal Register and Docket Organizational Documents:

Docket Item 1.	Federal Register Notice:  Chloropicrin, Dazomet, Metam
Sodium/Potassium, and Methyl Bromide Amendments to Reregistration
Eligibility Decisions.

Docket Item 2.	Reader’s Guide to the Metam Sodium Docket #
EPA-HQ-OPP-2005-0125.

Special Review and Reregistration Division Documents

Docket Item 3.	Amended Reregistration Eligibility Decision for Metam
Sodium and Potassium.

Docket Item 4.	SRRD’s Response to Post-RED Comments for the Soil
Fumigants.  May 27, 2009.

Human Health Documents

Docket Item 5.	Metam Sodium: Third Revision of the HED Human Health Risk
Assessment. April 30, 2009. 

Docket Item 6.	Methyl Bromide (PC Code 053201), Chloropicrin (PC Code
081501), Dazomet (PC Code 035602), Metam Sodium and Potassium (PC Codes
039003 & 039002), MITC (PC Code 068103), DP Barcode 362369, Updated
Health Effects Division Recommendations for Good Agricultural Practices
and Associated Buffer Credits.  May 14, 2009.

Docket Item 7.	Methyl Bromide, 1,3-Dichloropropene, Chloropicrin,
Dazomet, Metam Sodium/Potassium, MITC: Health Effects Division (HED)
Component of Agency Response To Comments On 2008 Reregistration
Eligibility Documents.  May 14, 2009.

Docket Item 8.	Metam Sodium:  Second Report of the Cancer Assessment
Review Committee. May 14, 2009.

Docket Item 9.	Second Response to TERA’s post-RED MITC
toxicology-related comments (April 2009); DP Barcode D364439

Biological and Economic Analysis Division Documents

Docket Item 10.	Response to Comments on Site Use Restrictions Included
in the RED for Metam Sodium and Metam Potassium (DP# 363544). May 7,
2009.

Docket Item 11.		Revised Alternatives Assessment on Root Control Use of
Metam-Sodium in Sewer Lines (DP # 358321) and Response to Public
Comments Received (EPA Docket No. EPA-HQ-OPP-2005-0125). May 8, 2009.

Docket Item 12.	Analysis of Soil Fumigant Risk Management Requirements
using Geographic Information Systems: Case Studies Based on a Forest
Seedling Nursery (DP # 363546).  May 13, 2009.

Docket Item 13.	Process for Defining High-Use Fumigation Areas at State
and County Levels (DP#364647).  May 14, 2009.

Docket Item 14.	Response to BEAD Related Public Comments Received on the
Reregistration Eligibility Decision for Chloropicrin, Dazomet, Metam
Potassium, Metam Sodium, and Methyl Bromide (DP Barcode # 363545).  May
14, 2009.

Antimicrobial Division Documents

Docket Item 15.	Evaluation of Potential Impacts to Wastewater Treatment
Plant Microorganisms Following Application of Pesticide Products
Containing Metam Sodium (sodium methyldithiocarbamate) as an Active
Ingredient to Control Intrusion of Roots into Sewage Collection Pipes
and Storm Drains (PC Code: 039003; DP Barcode: 364230). April 23, 2009. 

