Invoking the “third-party” provisions of the DQA
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CRE will emphasize that it has invoked the third-party provisions of the DQA successfully, meaning that reports were either modified or terminated, in a number of instances, including but not limited to:
EPA Acts on Atrazine Data
Quality Petition
EPA has announced its position on atrazine's purported
endocrine effects on wildlife in response to the Data Quality Act Petition filed
in November by the Triazine Network, the Kansas Corn Growers Association and
CRE. This Petition argued that EPA's FIFRA/FQPA Environmental Risk Assessment
for atrazine violated both EPA's own DQA Guidelines and Government-wide ICCVAM
guidelines by concluding that atrazine causes endocrine effects in frogs and
other wildlife when there are no validated tests for those effects. EPA
concluded that the Agency's ecological risk assessment "does not suggest that
endocrine disruption...be regarded as an regulatory endpoint at this
time."