[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 54 (Wednesday, March 20, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Page 17213]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-06377]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
[ATSDR-278]
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry Availability of
Final Toxicological Profile
AGENCY: Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR),
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice of availability.
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SUMMARY: This notice announces the availability of the final
Toxicological Profile for Uranium prepared by ATSDR.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Delores Grant, Division of
Toxicology and Human Health Sciences, Agency for Toxic Substances and
Disease Registry, Mailstop F-57, 1600 Clifton Road NE., Atlanta,
Georgia 30333; telephone number (800) 232-4636 or (770) 488-3351.
Electronic access to this document is available at the ATSDR Web site:
www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxprofiles/index.asp.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization
Act of 1986 (SARA) (42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq.) amended the Comprehensive
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA
or Superfund) (42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq.) by establishing certain
requirements for ATSDR and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) with regard to hazardous substances that are most commonly found
at facilities on the CERCLA National Priorities List (NPL). Among these
statutory requirements is a mandate for the Administrator of ATSDR to
prepare toxicological profiles for each substance included on the
priority list of hazardous substances (also called the Substance
Priority List). This list identifies 275 hazardous substances that
ATSDR (in cooperation with EPA) has determined pose the most
significant potential threat to human health. The availability of the
revised list of the 275 priority substances was announced in the
Federal Register on November 3rd, 2011 (76 FR 68193) and is available
at www.atsdr.cdc.gov/spl. In addition, ATSDR has the authority to
prepare toxicological profiles for substances not found at sites on the
National Priorities List, in an effort to ``* * * establish and
maintain inventory of literature, research, and studies on the health
effects of toxic substances'' under CERCLA Section 104(i)(1)(B), to
respond to requests for consultation under section 104(i)(4), and as
otherwise necessary to support the site-specific response actions
conducted by ATSDR.
Notice of the availability of this toxicological profile in draft
form for public review and comment was published in the Federal
Register on April 27, 2011 (76 FR 23600), with notice of a 90-day
public comment period, starting from the actual release date. Following
the close of the comment period, chemical-specific comments were
addressed, and, where appropriate, changes were incorporated into the
profile. The public comments and other data submitted in response to
the Federal Register notices bear the docket control number CDC-2001-
005. This material is available for public inspection at ATSDR.
Availability
This notice announces the availability of the Toxicological Profile
for Uranium prepared by ATSDR. The Toxicological Profile for Uranium
will be made available to the public on or about March 5, 2013 at the
ATSDR Web site: www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxprofiles/index.asp.
This final profile is also available through the U.S. Department of
Commerce, National Technical Information Service (NTIS), 5285 Port
Royal Road, Springfield, Virginia 22161, telephone 1-800-553-6847 for a
fee as determined by NTIS.
Dated: March 13, 2013.
Ken Rose,
Director, Office of Policy, Planning and Evaluation, National Center
for Environmental Health/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease
Registry.
[FR Doc. 2013-06377 Filed 3-19-13; 8:45 am]
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