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AVE YOU ever heard of "CAP"?

How about a "CIS"?

If not, you should know about the new agreement, between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the wood treating industry.

This agreement, beginning late last year, sets new obligations for the producers, wholesalers and retailers of pressure treated wood and wood preservatives. Retailers of building materials have been asked to join in the wood.preserving industry's Consumer Awareness Program (CAP). The CIS, or Consumer Information Sheet, contains the key use and safe handling information for CCA-treated wood that the EPA and the wood treating industry are trying to communicate to the consumer.

Beginning November 10, 1986, creosote and pentachlorophenol, as restricted use pesticides, can no longer be sold as off-the-shelf wood preservatives. However, availability of wood treated with these two preservatives will not be restricted for railroad, utility, and other industrial-type uses.

In residential and agricultural markets, inorganic anenically treated wood received an almost clean bill of health, as far as the consumer and lumber dealers are concerned. And this translates into continued srowth in treated wood sales.

The CAP is a simple method to educate the public. It has replaced the one proposed, ominous sounding product labels.

Chromated copper arsenic (CCA), the most coffrmon inorganic arsenical preservative in use, is chemically