# Pesticide Worker Protection Standard; Decontamination Requirements
> **Rule** · Final rule. · Published 1996-06-26 · Effective 1996-08-26 · 61 FR 33207
## Document
- **Document number:** 96-16202
- **Category:** pesticide
- **Federal Register citation:** 61 FR 33207
- **CFR reference:** 40 CFR 170
- **Publication date:** 1996-06-26
- **Effective date:** 1996-08-26
- **EPA docket:** OPP-250108A
## Abstract

EPA is amending the 1992 Worker Protection Standard (WPS) by establishing the length of time for which decontamination supplies are required at 7 days following the expiration of pesticide restricted- entry intervals (REIs) of 4 hours or less. Pesticides with REIs of 4 hours or less have passed an EPA risk screening process because of their low acute toxicity, an absence of evidence of worker poisonings after the REI, and a lack of other concerns about toxicity. The decontamination requirements for all other pesticides are not affected by this amendment.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/1996/06/26/96-16202/pesticide-worker-protection-standard-decontamination-requirements)
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