[Federal Register: June 13, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 113)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
[ATSDR-231]
Development of Set 21 Toxicological Profiles
AGENCY: Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR),
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice of Development of Toxicological Profiles.
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SUMMARY: This notice announces the development of Set 21 Toxicological
Profiles. Set 21 Toxicological Profiles consists of one new draft and
six updated drafts. These profiles will be available to the public on
or about October 17, 2007.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Contact Commander Jessilynn B. Taylor,
Division of Toxicology and Environmental Medicine, Agency for Toxic
Substances and Disease Registry, Mailstop F-32, 1600 Clifton Road, NE.,
Atlanta, Georgia 30333, telephone (770) 488-3313. Electronic access to
these documents will also be available at the ATSDR Web site: http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxpro2.html
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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 lists of hazardous substances. These lists identified 275
hazardous substances that ATSDR and EPA 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 December 7, 2005 (70 FR 702840). For prior versions
of the list of substances, see Federal Register notices dated April 17,
1987 (52 FR 12866); October 20, 1988 (53 FR 41280); October 26, 1989
(54 FR 43619); October 17, 1990 (55 FR 42067); October 17, 1991 (56 FR
52166); October 28, 1992 (57 FR 48801); February 28, 1994 (59 FR 9486);
April 29, 1996 (61 FR 18744); November 17, 1997 (62 FR 61332); October
21, 1999 (64 FR 56792); October 25, 2001 (66 FR 54014) and November 7,
2003 (68 FR 63098).
Notice of the availability of drafts of these six updated and one
new toxicological profiles for public review and comment will be
published in the Federal Register on or about October 17, 2007, with
notice of a 90-day public comment period for each profile, starting
from the actual release date. Following the close of the comment
period, chemical-specific comments will be addressed, and, where
appropriate, changes will be incorporated into each profile.
Development of Toxicological Profiles
This notice announces the development of one new and six updated
toxicological profiles of priority hazardous substances comprising the
twenty first set prepared by ATSDR. The following toxicological
profiles are now being developed:
Set 21 Toxicological Profiles
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Toxicological profile CAS No.
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1. Boron................................................ 7440-42-8
2. Chlorine*............................................ 7782-50-5
3. 1,4-Dioxane.......................................... 123-91-1
4. Ethyl Benzene........................................ 100-41-4
5. Ethylene Glycol...................................... 107-21-1
6. Plutonium............................................ 7440-07-5
7. Styrene.............................................. 100-42-5
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*Denotes new profile.
Dated: May 31, 2007.
Kenneth Rose,
Acting Director, Office of Policy, Planning, and Evaluation, National
Center for Environmental Health/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease
Registry.
[FR Doc. E7-11385 Filed 6-12-07; 8:45 am]
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