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GOV.INGTOPd. & BURILING' MEMORANDUMi TO THE COMMITTEE OF COUNSEL - Re:: California Proposition 65 At its meeting on May 5, 1994, the Developmental and Reproductive Toxicant (DART) Identiification~ Committee of the Proposition 65--Sdence Advisory Board directed the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) to prepare an evaluation of environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) as a possible reproductive toxicant for consideration at the next DART Committee. meeting. The DART Cbtnmittee also directed OEHHA, in consultation with the California Attorney General, to provide advice to the Committee at its next meeting with respect to whether the Committee is authorized to consider effects from post-natal exposure in deciding whether to list a substance as a reproductive toxicant. Enclosed are copies of the agenda for the May 5 meeting and the materials distributed in connectibn with ETS.. Dates have not been set for completion of the OEHHA evaluation of ETS and subsequent DART Committee meeting. DART Com- mittee meetings are ordinarily held twice a year. Clausen Ely, Jr: cc: Thomas E. Bezanson, Esq, Mr.. Samuel D: Chilcote, Jr. Frank Decker, Esq. Josiah S. Murray, III, Esq. Richard H. Verheij, Esq.