[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 125 (Monday, June 30, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 35172-35173]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-17036]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FRL-5850-7]
Draft Carcinogenic Effects of Benzene: An Update
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.
ACTION: Notice of peer-review workshop and public comment period.
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SUMMARY: This notice announces a peer-review workshop and a public
review and comment period sponsored by the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency's (EPA) National Center for Environmental Assessment
(NCEA) of
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the Office of Research and Development to review an external review
draft document titled, Carcinogenic Effects of Benzene: An Update (EPA/
600/P-97/001A). EPA will consider comments and recommendations from the
workshop and the public comment period in document revisions.
DATES: The workshop will be held on Wednesday, July 16, 1997, from 8:30
a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The 60-day public review and comment period begins
today and ends August 29, 1997.
ADDRESSES: The workshop will be held at the Hyatt Regency on Capitol
Hill, 400 New Jersey Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. Eastern Research
Group, Inc. (ERG), an EPA contractor, is providing logistical support
for the workshop. To attend the workshop, register by July 11 by
calling ERG's registration line at 617-674-7374, or send a fax to 617-
674-2906. Space is limited, and reservations will be accepted on a
first-come-first-served basis. There will be a limited time for
comments from the public during the afternoon. Please let ERG know if
you wish to make a brief statement not to exceed five minutes.
The document is available on the Internet at http://www.epa.gov/
ncea. A limited number of paper copies are available from the Center
for Environmental Research Information, National Risk Management
Research Laboratory, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 26 W. Martin
Luther King Drive, Cincinnati, OH 45268; telephone: 513-569-7562; fax:
513-569-7566. If you are requesting a paper copy, please provide your
name, mailing address, and the document title and number, Carcinogenic
Effects of Benzene: An Update (EPA/600/P-97/001A). Copies also are
available for inspection at EPA libraries. The EPA Headquarters Library
is located at 401 M Street, S.W., Washington, D.C.; the library is open
Monday through Friday between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., except for
Federal holidays. Copies of the document are not available from ERG.
Comments may be mailed or delivered to the Technical Information
Staff (8623), NCEA-W/OSG, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 401 M
Street, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20460 (telephone: 202-260-7345).
Comments should be in writing and must be postmarked by the end of the
comment period. Please submit one unbound original with pages numbered
consecutively, and three copies. For attachments, provide an index,
number pages consecutively with the comments, and submit an unbound
original and three copies. Electronic comments may be sent to
[email protected].
Please note that all technical comments received in response to
this notice will be placed in a public record. For that reason,
commenters should not submit personal information (such as medical data
or home address), Confidential Business Information, or information
protected by copyright. Due to limited resources, acknowledgments will
not be sent.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: David Bayliss, National Center for
Environmental Assessment/Washington Office (8623), U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, 401 M Street, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20460.
Telephone: 202-260-5726; fax: 202-260-8719; e-mail:
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This draft document is the result of a
request from the Office of Mobile Sources, Office of Air and Radiation,
for an update of the 1985 document titled, Interim Quantitative Cancer
Unit Risk Estimates Due to Inhalation of Benzene. The draft report
updates the scientific basis for selecting a cancer unit risk of
benzene. Information on the toxicity, metabolism, epidemiology, and
genotoxicity are considered together in the evaluation of the cancer
unit risk estimate for the probability of developing cancer from low-
dose exposure to benzene. After the workshop, EPA will consider the
peer-panel and public comments before preparing a final report for the
Office of Mobile Sources.
Dated: June 23, 1997.
Richard Hardesty,
Acting Director, National Center for Environmental Assessment.
[FR Doc. 97-17036 Filed 6-27-97; 8:45 am]
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