Reports and guidance documents; availability, etc.: Butadiene; health risk assessment,

[Federal Register: February 12, 1998 (Volume 63, Number 29)]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

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Health Risk Assessment of 1,3-Butadiene--External Review Draft

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of availability of external review draft.

SUMMARY: This document announces the availability of an External Review Draft titled, Health Risk Assessment of 1,3-Butadiene (EPA/600/P-98/ 001A), for public review and comment. The draft was prepared by the National Center for Environmental Assessment (NCEA) within EPA's Office of Research and Development (ORD).

DATES: The External Review Draft is being made available on or about February 12, 1998, for a 60-day public review and comment period. Comments must be in writing and must be postmarked by April 10, 1998. See Addresses section for guidance on submitting comments.

ADDRESSES: The External Review Draft will be made available electronically on the NCEA Home Page of the Internet at http:// www.epa.gov/ncea. To obtain a paper copy of the draft document, interested parties should contact ORD Publications, Center for Environmental Research Information (CERI), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 26 W. Martin Luther King Drive, Cincinnati, OH 45268; telephone: 513-569-7562; fax: 513-569-7566; to have your name added to the mailing list. Please provide the title (Health Risk Assessment of 1,3-Butadiene--External Review Draft), EPA number (EPA 600/P-98/001A) and your name and address. Copies will be mailed as soon as printed copies are available. The draft also will be available for inspection in the EPA Information Resources Center (IRC) at EPA Headquarters, Waterside Mall-Room 2904, 401 M Street, SW, Washington, DC 20460. The IRC is open from 8:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding federal holidays.

Comments on the draft should be sent to the Project Manager for 1,3-Butadiene, Technical Information Staff (8623 -D), National Center for Environmental Assessment-Washington Office, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 401 M Street, SW, Washington, DC 20460. Please submit one unbound original, to include an index of any attachments, and three copies. Comments may also be sent electronically to butadiene@epamail.epa.gov.

Please note that the Agency is seeking comments that specifically relate to the technical aspects of the draft document. All technical comments will become part of the public record. For that reason, commenters should not provide any information that is not suitable for public inspection, such as personal medical information, home address, or any information protected by copyright. Comments that address policy or other issues, or do not specifically provide technical comments on the draft, will not be included in the public record. Due to limited resources, acknowledgments will not be sent.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Aparna Koppikar, National Center for Environmental Assessment-Washington Office, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 401 M Street, SW, Washington, DC 20460; telephone: 202-260-6765 (before March 1), 202-564-3242 (after March 1); e-mail: koppikar.aparna@epamail.epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is undertaking a reassessment of the health risk of 1,3-butadiene to support decision making regarding the Air Toxic Rule's Section 202(l)(2) of the Clean Air Act Amendments. This assessment focuses on mutagenicity, carcinogenicity, and reproductive/developmental effects, and is not intended to be a comprehensive health assessment. The exposure information included in this document is an overview of the ambient exposure and exposure to populations adjacent to emission sources, without any actual exposure assessment as such.

The draft document also will undergo review by the Agency's Science Advisory Board (SAB) at a public meeting to be held in Washington, DC, in May of 1998. Specific details about that meeting will be announced in a later Federal Register document. Interested parties will be afforded an opportunity to present brief oral comments on the draft at the meeting.

Dated: February 5, 1998. William H. Farland, Director, National Center for Environmental Assessment.

[FR Doc. 98-3578Filed2-11-98; 8:45 am]

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