February 1, 2007


EPA in Process of Reregistration of Antimycin

As announced in the Federal Register of January 17, 2007, EPA has released its preliminary risk assessments for antimycin A for a 60-day public comment period. After all comments received by March 19, 2007 are evaluated, EPA will revise the risk assessments as appropriate, issue a formal response to comments, and then issue its reregistration eligibility decision. Antimycin A has historically been used to renovate recreational fish populations and to remove scaled fish from catfish fingerling and food-fish production ponds.

You may access the documents by following the instructions below:
1) Go to http://www.regulations.gov
2) Type "antimycin" in the "Keyword or ID" field
3) Click on the Submit button
4) Click on the Docket ID link (EPA-HQ-OPP-2006-1002) to retrieve a list of documents included in the docket
5) Click on the PDF icon in the "Views" column to view the document
You may submit comments by clicking on the icon in the "Add Comments" column. Note that these comments will be posted to the docket and your comments will viewable by the public.