Only 9 Days Until the Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP) Moves to its New Location!

OPP will be moving to a new location during the first week of May 2006. Effective May 8, 2006, EPA's Office of Pesticide Programs' new location will be:

One Potomac Yard 2777 S. Crystal Drive Arlington, VA 22202

Please note that this is the physical address of the new building; see below for mailing address.

Latest Development: -- On April 19, the Pesticide Program published a Federal Register notice announcing the temporary closure and relocation of its Docket facility. The new facility will be located in Room S-4400 at the address listed above. The OPP Docket will be closed to the public from Friday, April 28, through Friday, May 5, 2006, and will reopen to the public on Monday, May 8, 2006. Once reopened for business at the new facility, the OPP Docket hours of operation will remain 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding legal holidays. The OPP Docket telephone number will remain 703-305-5805 and, though deliveries will not be accepted during the move week, staff will be available to answer questions. The mailing address will remain the same, except that the mail code will become 7502P. You can find the Federal Register notice online by performing a search for EPA-HQ-OPP-2006-0302 at www.regulations.gov.

Other changes related to the move:

* from May 1 - 5, 2006, most staff will be unavailable at their assigned telephone numbers; however, they will have access to voicemail;

* from May 1 - 5, 2006, no hand-carried or courier deliveries will be accepted at either our current location (Crystal Mall 2, Arlington, VA) or the new location;

* mail delivered by the U.S. Postal Service from May 1 - 5, 2006, will be held until May 8, 2006;

* after the move, the mailing address (Office of Pesticide Programs (Division Mail Code), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W., Washington, DC 20460) and mail codes will remain the same, except that the "C" in our current mail codes will change to a "P";

* hand-carried or courier deliveries to the Document Processing Desk (7504P) will be accepted beginning on May 8, 2006, at Room S-4900, on the 4th floor of One Potomac Yard; and

* public comments may be delivered to the Docket in Room S-4400 beginning on May 8, 2006.