(a) (1) The department shall, at the time it commences preparation of standards for the assessment of molds, provide notice electronically by posting on its Internet Web site a notice that informs interested persons that the department has initiated work on the assessment standards.
(2) The notice shall also include a brief description, or a bibliography, of the technical documents or other information the department has identified to date as relevant to the preparation of the assessment standards.
(3) The notice shall inform persons who wish to submit information concerning the assessment of molds in indoor environments of the name and address of the person in the department to whom the information may be sent, the date by which the information must be received in order for the department to consider it in the preparation of the assessment standards, and that all information submitted will be made available to any member of the public who makes the request.
(b) The department may review, and consider adopting by reference, any information prepared by, or on behalf of, the United States Environmental Protection Agency or other authoritative bodies, for the purpose of adopting national assessment standards for molds.
(c) At least once every five years, after adoption of assessment standards for molds, the department shall review the adopted standards and shall, consistent with the criteria set forth in subdivisions (a), (b), and (c) of Section 26105, amend the standards if any of the following occur:
(1) Changes in technology or treatment techniques that permit a materially greater protection of public health.
(2) New scientific evidence that indicates that molds may present a materially different risk to public health than was previously determined.
(Added by Stats. 2001, Ch. 584, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 2002.)
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