Why is EPA notifying the public about the completed cadmium document?
EPA is notifying the public about the availability of the completed criteria document entitled, 2001 Update of Ambient Water Quality Criteria For Cadmium, according to its new process for developing criteria (63 FR68354). In following the Agency’s new process for developing criteria, EPA notified the public of its intentions to revise the aquatic life criteria for cadmium in the Federal Register on October 29, 1999 (64 FR58409). At that time, EPA made available to the public all references identified by a recent literature review and solicited any additional pertinent data or scientific views that would be useful in revising the aquatic life criteria. EPA revised the aquatic life criteria for cadmium based on the new data and prepared a draft document. EPA then announced the peer review and the availability of the peer review draft on August 17, 2000 (65 FR50201). Again EPA solicited views from the public on issues of science pertaining to the information used in deriving the draft cri
