Reader’s Guide for Propionic Acid and Salts

CRM: Wilhelmena Livingston

EPA/OPPTS/OPP/SRRD

Reader’s Guide to Propionic Acid and Salts Docket #
EPA-HQ-OPP-2008-0024

Publication Date: March 26, 2008

	EPA has created this document to provide an organizational structure to
the Registration Review Propionic Acid and Salts Docket for Public
Comments.  The docket index groups related documents.  The first group
contains the Federal Register and Docket Organizational Documents, the
second group contains the Human Health Assessment, the third group
contains the Environmental Risk Assessment documents, and the fourth
group contains use/usage information and other information pertaining to
the propionic acid and salts registration review.   The Agency is
providing the “Reader’s Guide” to allow the reader to more easily
access and navigate the various items contained in the propionic acid
and salts docket.  

Federal Register and Docket Organizational Documents:

Docket Item 1.	Federal Register Notice:  Propionc Acid and Salts
Registration 				Review

Docket Item 2.	Reader’s Guide to the Propionic Acid and Salts Docket #
EPA-        			HQ-OPP-2008-0024

Docket Item 3.	Propionic Acid and Salts Summary Document

Human Health Documents for Registration Review

Docket Item 4.	Propionic Acid:  Health Effects Division (HED) Problem 		
		Formulation for Registration Review.  DP# 344575

			(November 20, 2007)

This document describes the scope of work necessary to support the
registration review.

Docket Item 5.	Propionic Acid:  HED Science Assessment for Tolerance 			
	Reassessment Eligibility Decision

			(February 14, 2002)

This document addresses possible exposures to residues of propionic acid
in food, drinking water, and from residential sources, and makes a
conclusion in the tolerance reassessment of propionic acid.  

Environmental Fate and Effects Documents for Registration Review

Docket Item 6.	Registration Review – Preliminary Problem Formulation
for the 				Ecological Risk Assessment of Propionic Acid.  

			(December 17, 2007)

This document describes the ecological risk problem formulation.

Docket Item 7.	Review of Propionic Acid, as Active and Inert Ingredient

			(October 19, 2001)		

This document addresses the tolerance reassessment eligibility decision
for the active ingredient propionic acid and propionic acid as an inert
ingredient in formulations.  

Use and Usage Information for Registration Review

Docket Item 8.	Propionic Acid Screening-Level Usage Analysis (SLUA)

			(September 27, 2007)

This document provides the available estimates of pesticide usage data
for propionic acid that is used on agricultural crops in the United
States.

Docket Item 9.	Propionic Acid Appendix A 

			(October 3, 2007)

This table list the food/feed and non-food/non-feed uses eligible for
reregistration

Docket Item 10.	Propionic Acid Registrations

This document lists the pending and active registrations for propionic
acid.

