EPA’s document, EPA’s Risk Management Approach to Identifying Options for Protecting the Monarch Butterfly, outlines an approach for actions to protect the monarch butterfly. EPA is soliciting public comment on which potential action or a combination of actions would be most effective in reducing the impacts of herbicides on the monarch butterfly and its habitat. The agency is also requesting additional suggestions for protection measures for the monarch.

EPA invites stakeholders to comment on this document at www.regulations.gov in Docket# EPA-HQ-OPP-2015-0389. EPA will accept public comments until July 24, 2015.