[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 126 (Thursday, June 30, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 38387-38388]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-16487]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FRL-9427-8; Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2009-0204]
Draft Toxicological Review of Acrylonitrile: In Support of
Summary Information on the Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS)
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of public comment period and listening session.
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SUMMARY: EPA is announcing a 60-day public comment period and a public
listening session for the external review draft human health assessment
titled, ``Toxicological Review of Acrylonitrile: In Support of Summary
Information on the Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS)'' (EPA/
635/R-08/013A). The draft assessment was prepared by the National
Center for Environmental Assessment (NCEA) within the EPA's Office of
Research and Development (ORD). EPA is releasing this draft assessment
for the purposes of peer review and public comment. This draft
assessment is not final as described in EPA's information quality
guidelines, and it does not represent and should not be construed to
represent Agency policy or views.
After public review and comment, an EPA contractor will convene an
expert panel for independent external peer review of this draft
assessment. The public comment period and external peer review meeting
are separate processes that provide opportunities for all interested
parties to comment on the assessment. The external peer review meeting
will be scheduled at a later date and announced in the Federal
Register. Public comments submitted during the public comment period
will be provided to the external peer reviewers before the panel
meeting and considered by EPA in the revision of the draft document.
Public comments received after the public comment period closes will
not be submitted to the external peer reviewers and will only be
considered by EPA if time permits. The listening session will be held
on August 10, 2011, during the public comment period for this draft
assessment. The purpose of the listening session is to allow all
interested parties to present scientific and technical comments on
draft IRIS health assessments to EPA and other interested parties
attending the listening session. EPA welcomes the comments that will be
provided to the Agency by the listening session participants. The
comments will be considered by the Agency as it revises the draft
assessment after the independent external peer review. If listening
session participants would like EPA to share their comments with the
external peer reviewers, they should also submit written comments
during the public comment period using the detailed and established
procedures described in the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this
notice.
DATES: The public comment period begins June 30, 2011, and ends August
29, 2011. Comments should be in writing and must be received by EPA by
August 29, 2011.
The listening session on the draft assessment for acrylonitrile
will be held on August 10, 2011, beginning at 9 a.m. and ending at 4
p.m., Eastern Daylight Time, or when the last presentation has been
completed. To attend the listening session, interested parties should
register no later than August 3, 2011. To present at the listening
session, indicate in your registration that you would like to make oral
comments at the session and provide the length of your presentation.
The following are instructions for registering: To attend the listening
session, register by August 3, 2011 online at https://www2.ergweb.com/projects/conferences/peerreview/register-acryl.htm, via e-mail at
[email protected] (subject line: Acrylonitrile Listening Session), by
phone: 781-674-7374 or toll free at 800-803-2833, or by faxing a
registration request to 781-674-2906 (please reference the
``Acrylonitrile Listening Session'' and include your name, title,
affiliation, full address and contact information). When you register,
please indicate if you will need audio-visual equipment (e.g., laptop
computer and slide projector). In general, each presentation should be
no more than 30 minutes. If, however, there are more requests for
presentations than the allotted time allows, then the time limit for
each presentation will be adjusted. A copy of the agenda for the
listening session will be available at the meeting. If no speakers have
registered by August 3, 2011, the listening session will be cancelled,
and EPA will notify those registered, as observers, of the
cancellation.
ADDRESSES: The draft ``Toxicological Review of Acrylonitrile: In
Support of Summary Information on the Integrated Risk Information
System (IRIS)'' is available primarily via the Internet on the NCEA
home page under the Recent Additions and Publications menus at http://www.epa.gov/ncea. A limited number of paper copies are available from
the Information Management Team (Address: Information Management Team,
National Center for Environmental Assessment (Mail Code: 8601P), U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW.,
Washington, DC 20460; telephone: 703-347-8561; facsimile: 703-347-
8691). If you request a paper copy, please provide your name, mailing
address, and the assessment title.
Comments may be submitted electronically via http://www.regulations.gov, by e-mail, by mail, by facsimile, or by hand
delivery/courier. Please follow the detailed instructions provided in
the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this notice.
The listening session on the draft acrylonitrile assessment will be
held at the EPA offices at Potomac Yard (North Building), 7th Floor,
Room 7100, 2733 South Crystal Drive, Arlington, Virginia 22202. Please
note that to gain entrance to this EPA building to attend the meeting,
attendees must have photo identification with them and must register at
the guard's desk in the lobby. The guard will retain your photo
identification and will provide you with a visitor's badge. At the
guard's desk, attendees should give the name Christine Ross and the
telephone number 703-347-8592 to the guard on duty. The guard will
contact Ms. Ross who will meet you in the reception area to escort you
to the meeting room. When you leave the building, please return your
visitor's badge to the guard and you will receive your photo
identification.
A teleconference line will also be available for registered
attendees/speakers. The teleconference number is 866-299-3188 and the
access code is 926-378-7897, followed by the pound sign ().
The teleconference line will be activated at 8:45 a.m., and you will be
asked to identify yourself and your affiliation at the beginning of the
call.
Information on Services for Individuals with Disabilities: EPA
welcomes public attendance at the acrylonitrile listening session and
will make every effort to accommodate
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persons with disabilities. For information on access or services for
individuals with disabilities, please contact Christine Ross at 703-
347-8592 or [email protected]. To request accommodation of a
disability, please contact Ms. Ross, preferably at least 10 days prior
to the meeting, to give EPA as much time as possible to process your
request.
Additional information: For information on the docket,
www.regulations.gov, or the public comment period, please contact the
Office of Environmental Information (OEI) Docket (Mail Code: 2822T),
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW.,
Washington, DC 20460; telephone: 202-566-1752; facsimile: 202-566-1753;
or e-mail: [email protected].
For information on the public listening session, please contact
Christine Ross, IRIS Program, National Center for Environmental
Assessment (Mail Code: 8601P), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,
1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone: 703-
347-8592; facsimile: 703-347-8689; or e-mail: [email protected].
If you have questions about the assessment, please contact Ambuja
Bale, IRIS Program, National Center for Environmental Assessment (Mail
code: 8601P), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania
Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone: 703-347-8643; facsimile:
703-347-8689; or e-mail: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Information About IRIS
EPA's IRIS is a human health assessment program that evaluates
quantitative and qualitative risk information on effects that may
result from exposure to specific chemical substances found in the
environment. Through the IRIS Program, EPA provides the highest quality
science-based human health assessments to support the Agency's
regulatory activities. The IRIS database contains information for more
than 540 chemical substances that can be used to support the first two
steps (hazard identification and dose-response evaluation) of the risk
assessment process. When supported by available data, IRIS provides
oral reference doses (RfDs) and inhalation reference concentrations
(RfCs) for chronic noncancer health effects and cancer assessments.
Combined with specific exposure information, government and private
entities use IRIS to help characterize public health risks of chemical
substances in a site-specific situation and thereby support risk
management decisions designed to protect public health.
II. How To Submit Comments to the Docket at http://www.regulations.gov
Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2009-
0204, by one of the following methods:
http://www.regulations.gov: Follow the on-line
instructions for submitting comments.
E-mail: [email protected].
Facsimile: 202-566-1753.
Mail: Office of Environmental Information (OEI) Docket
(Mail Code: 2822T), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1200
Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460. The telephone number is
202-566-1752. If you provide comments by mail, please submit one
unbound original with pages numbered consecutively, and three copies of
the comments. For attachments, provide an index, number pages
consecutively with the comments, and submit an unbound original and
three copies.
Hand Delivery: The OEI Docket is located in the EPA
Headquarters Docket Center, EPA West Building, Room 3334, 1301
Constitution Ave., NW., Washington, DC. The EPA Docket Center's Public
Reading Room is open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through
Friday, excluding legal holidays. The telephone number for the Public
Reading Room is 202-566-1744. Deliveries are only accepted during the
docket's normal hours of operation, and special arrangements should be
made for deliveries of boxed information. If you provide comments by
hand delivery, please submit one unbound original with pages numbered
consecutively, and three copies of the comments. For attachments,
provide an index, number pages consecutively with the comments, and
submit an unbound original and three copies.
EPA recommends that you include your name and other contact
information in the body of your comment and with any disk or CD-ROM you
submit. If EPA cannot read your comment and cannot contact you for
clarification, EPA may not be able to consider your comment.
Instructions: Direct your comments to Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-
2009-0204. Please ensure that your comments are submitted within the
specified comment period. Comments received after the closing date will
be marked ``late,'' and may only be considered if time permits. It is
EPA's policy to include all comments it receives in the public docket
without change and to make the comments available online at http://www.regulations.gov, including any personal information provided,
unless a comment includes information claimed to be Confidential
Business Information (CBI) or other information whose disclosure is
restricted by statute. Do not submit information that you consider to
be CBI or otherwise protected through http://www.regulations.gov or e-
mail. The http://www.regulations.gov Web site is an ``anonymous
access'' system, which means EPA will not know your identity or contact
information unless you provide it in the body of your comment. If you
send an e-mail comment directly to EPA without going through http://www.regulations.gov, your e-mail address will be automatically captured
and included as part of the comment that is placed in the public docket
and made available on the Internet. If you submit an electronic
comment, EPA recommends that you include your name and other contact
information in the body of your comment and with any disk or CD-ROM you
submit. If EPA cannot read your comment due to technical difficulties
and cannot contact you for clarification, EPA may not be able to
consider your comment. Electronic files should avoid the use of special
characters and any form of encryption and be free of any defects or
viruses. For additional information about EPA's public docket visit the
EPA Docket Center homepage at http://www.epa.gov/epahome/dockets.htm.
Docket: All documents in the docket are listed in the http://www.regulations.gov index. Although listed in the index, some
information is not publicly available, e.g., CBI or other information
whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Certain other material, such
as copyrighted material, will be publicly available only in hard copy.
Publicly available docket materials are available either electronically
in http://www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at the OEI Docket in the
EPA Headquarters Docket Center.
Dated: June 24, 2011.
Darrell A. Winner,
Acting Director, National Center for Environmental Assessment.
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