30406 Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 92 / Thursday, May 11, 2000 / Notices

Schedule of Activities

This is the estimated schedule of

activities for review and award of

proposals.

• Day 30: Proposals due 30 days after

publication of Federal Register notice.

• Day 44: All applicants notified of

government review status.

• Day 54: Selected applicant(s)

submit a SF–424.

• July 10: Selected application(s)

forwarded to EPA grants office.

• Aug. 10: Grants processing

complete/Congressional notifications.

Dated: May 4, 2000.

Cynthia C. Dougherty,

Director, Office of Ground Water and Drinking

Water.

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

[FRL–6605–5]

Peer Review Meeting on the Draft

Guidance Document Entitled: Human

Health Risk Assessment Protocol for

Hazardous Waste Combustion

Facilities (Peer Review Draft, July

1998)

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency.

ACTION: Notice of peer review panel

meeting.

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection

Agency’s (‘‘EPA’’ or ‘‘the Agency’’)

contractor, Tech Law, is announcing a

meeting for the external, scientific peer

review of the EPA draft guidance

document entitled: Human Health Risk

Assessment Protocol for Hazardous

Waste Combustion Facilities (Peer

Review Draft, July 1998—EPA530–D–

98–001A, B, & C) and the update to the

document entitled: Errata dated August

2, 1999. The meeting will be organized,

convened and conducted by Tech Law

and will be held on May 24 and 25,

2000 in Dallas, Texas at the EPA Region

VI building. Given the interest

expressed by members of the public

concerning this guidance document, the

meeting will be open to the public for

observation. The purpose of the meeting

is to afford an opportunity for the

members of Tech Law’s review panel to

present their individual peer review

comments and discuss scientific and

technical issues related to this guidance

with other technical experts. All peer

review comments will be incorporated

into a summary by Tech Law and

presented to EPA as recommendations.

Tech Law’s recommendations will be

considered by the Agency during

finalization of the document.

Background

This EPA document, Human Health

Risk Assessment Protocol for Hazardous

Waste Combustion Facilities (HHRAP),

is a three volume set of guidance for

performing risk assessments on

hazardous waste combustion facilities.

Risk assessments can provide a basis for

risk management decisions in hazardous

waste combustor permitting to ensure

that the permits are protective of human

health and the environment. This

guidance was released via Federal

Register on Friday, October 30, 1998 (63

FR 58381–58382). It updated and

replaced an earlier draft guidance

entitled: ‘‘Guidance for Performing

Screening Level Risk Analyses at

Combustion Facilities Burning

Hazardous Wastes’’ (April 15, 1994

draft). This new guidance was prepared

by EPA’s Region VI Center for

Combustion Science and Engineering in

coordination with the Office of Solid

Waste (OSW). The guidance contains

the OSW’s recommended approach for

conducting site-specific risk

assessments on RCRA hazardous waste

combustors. This guidance includes

recommended parameters, pathways

and algorithms to evaluate both direct

and indirect risks.

The goal of the Agency’s peer review

process is to enhance the quality and

credibility of Agency decision-making

by ensuring that the scientific and

technical work products relied on as

part of the decision-making process

receive the appropriate level of review

by independent, scientific and technical

experts. EPA has selected a contractor,

Tech Law Inc., to conduct a

comprehensive peer review of this

guidance document. To that end, Tech

Law, has selected nine independent

experts reviewers that have not

participated in the development of the

document. The peer review panel is

comprised of specialists which

represent scientific disciplines generally

covered in the HHRAP. The scientific

disciplines chosen consist of

combustion engineering, air dispersion

modeling, fate and transport, human

health exposure assessment, and human

health toxicology.

The peer reviewers have been asked

to respond to charge questions about the

guidance document. Two types of

charge statements were issued to the

reviewers. All of the reviewers were

asked to reply to charge questions

which were general in nature. In

addition, each expert was charged with

specific technical questions which

relate to their specialty. A number of the

technical questions charged to the

reviewers were chosen directly from

public comments received on the

guidance. To obtain or view copies of

the human health risk assessment

guidance document, the charges to the

peer reviewers, the pre-meeting

comments from the peer reviewers, or

the public comments received on the

document, see the supplementary

information section below.

DATES: The meeting will begin on

Wednesday, May 24 and end on

Thursday, May 25, 2000. It will start at

8:30 am and end at 5:00 pm, daily.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at

EPA’s Region VI building, at Fountain

Place, 1445 Ross Avenue Dallas, Texas.

Since seating capacity is limited, please

contact Antoinette Todd of Tech Law,

by telephone at (214) 953–0045, or by Email at ATodd@Techlawinc.com by

May 19, 2000 at 4:30 pm (central time)

to reserve a seat at the workshop as an

observer. Seating space will be filled on

a first-come, first-served basis. A limited

amount of time at the end of each

afternoon will be reserved for comments

from the observers. Observers who wish

to make a short presentation to the peer

review panel (limited to 5 minutes in

length) should register with Tech Law

by May 19 at 4:30 pm (central time), as

well. The amount of time allocated for

each observer making comment may

changed at the discretion of Tech Law,

depending on the meeting

circumstances. It is expected that all

public statements presented at this

meeting will not repeat any previously

submitted oral or written statements.

Comments should focus on the

scientific and technical aspects of the

document and the proceedings of the

meeting. Since commenting time is

limited, it will be filled on a first-come,

first-served basis.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For

technical and logistical inquires, contact

Steve Cowan, of Tech Law by telephone,

at (214) 953–0045; facsimile at (214)

754–0819; or by E-mail at

SCowan@Techlawinc.com.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Copies of

the (1) draft guidance document, Human

Health Risk Assessment Protocol for

Hazardous Waste Combustion Facilities

(HHRAP); (2) Errata; (3) public

comments received on the document;

(4) peer review charges; and (5) peer

review pre-meeting comments can be

viewed or requested as follows.

The HHRAP, Errata, peer review

charges can be viewed on the world

wide web at http://www.epa.gov/

epaoswer/hazwaste/combust/risk.htm.

The peer review pre-meeting comments

will be available after May 11, 2000.

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For paper copies of the above listed

documents, in addition to the public

comments on the guidance, contact the

RCRA Information Center (RIC), by

telephone at (703) 603–9230, or by mail

at Office of Solid Waste (5305G), U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency

Headquarters (EPA, HQ) Ariel Rios

Building 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W.

Washington, DC 20460. For the a copy

of the HHRAP, please reference the

document numbers, EPA530–D–98–

001A for volume 1, EPA530–D–98–001B

for volume 2, and EPA530–D–98–001C

for volume 3. The HHRAP is also

available in a CD-ROM version.

In addition, the documents will be

made available for public viewing from

9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday

(except Federal holidays) in the RIC,

located at Crystal Gateway One, 1235

Jefferson Davis Highway, First Floor,

Arlington Virginia. To review docket

materials, the public must make an

appointment by calling (703) 603–9230

and reference the docket identification

number, F–98–HHRA–FFFFF. The

public may copy a maximum of 100

pages from any regulatory docket at no

charge. Additional copies cost $0.15 per

page. The docket index and notice are

available electronically.

Dated: May 3, 2000.

Matthew Hale,

Acting Director, Office of Solid Waste.

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

[FRL–6605–3]

Microbial and Disinfectants/

Disinfection Byproducts Advisory

Committee; Notice of Meetings

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency.

ACTION: Notice of meetings.

SUMMARY: Under section 10(a)(2) of

Public Law 920423, ‘‘The Federal

Advisory Committee Act,’’ notice is

hereby given of a series of meetings of

the Microbial and Disinfectants/

Disinfection Byproducts Advisory

Committee established under the Safe

Drinking Water Act, as amended (42

U.S.C. S300f et seq.). All meetings are

scheduled from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. eastern

time, and will be held at RESOLVE, Inc.,

1255 23rd Street, NW, Suite 275

Washington DC 20037. The meetings are

open to the public, but due to past

experience, seating will be limited.

The meetings are scheduled for: June

1–2, to discuss results of Technical

Working Group analysis; June 27–28, to

continue discussions on results of

Technical Working Group analysis; and

draft Agreement in Principle; and July

27, to finalize Agreement in Principle.

Statements from the public will be

taken if time permits.

For more information, please contact

Martha M. Kucera, Designated Federal

Officer, Microbial and Disinfectants/

Disinfection Byproducts Advisory

Committee, U.S. EPA, Office of Ground

Water and Drinking Water, Mailcode

4607, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW,

Washington, DC 20460. The telephone

number is 202–260–7773 or E-mail

kucera.martha@epamail.epa.gov.

Dated: May 1, 2000.

Cynthia C. Dougherty,

Director, Office of Ground Water and Drinking

Water.

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

[OPP–34223; FRL–6558–3]

Organophosphate Pesticides;

Availability of Preliminary Risk

Assessments

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: This notice announces the

availability of documents that were

developed as part of the EPA’s process

for making reregistration eligibility

decisions for the organophosphate

pesticides and for tolerance

reassessments consistent with the

Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act

(FFDCA), as amended by the Food

Quality Protection Act of 1996 (FQPA).

These documents are the preliminary

human health risk assessments and

related documents for malathion. This

notice also starts a 60-day public

comment period for the preliminary risk

assessments. Comments and data are to

be limited to issues directly associated

with the organophosphate pesticide that

has risk assessments placed in the

docket and should be limited to issues

raised in those documents. By allowing

access and opportunity for comment on

the preliminary risk assessments, EPA is

seeking to strengthen stakeholder

involvement and help ensure our

decisions under FQPA are transparent

and based on the best available

information. The tolerance reassessment

process will ensure that the United

States continues to have the safest and

most abundant food supply. The Agency

cautions that these risk assessments are

preliminary assessments only and that

further refinements of the risk

assessments will be appropriate for

some, if not all, of these

organophosphate pesticides. These

documents reflect only the work and

analysis conducted as of the time they

were produced and it is appropriate

that, as new information becomes

available and/or additional analyses are

performed, the conclusions they contain

may change.

DATES: Written comments and data on

these assessments, identified by the

docket control number OPP–34223,

must be received on or before July 10,

2000.

ADDRESSES: Comments and data may be

submitted by mail, electronically, or in

person. Please follow the detailed

instructions for each method as

provided in Unit I. of the

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION. To ensure

proper receipt by EPA, it is imperative

that you identify the docket control

number in the subject line on the first

page of your response.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Karen Angulo, Special Review and

Reregistration Division (7508W), Office

of Pesticide Programs, Environmental

Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania

Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460;

telephone number: (703) 308–8004; email address: angulo.karen@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. General Information

A. Does this Action Apply to Me?

This action is directed to the public

in general, nevertheless, a wide range of

stakeholders will be interested in

obtaining the preliminary risk

assessments for malathion, including

environmental, human health, and

agricultural advocates; the chemical

industry; pesticide users; and members

of the public interested in the use of

pesticides on food. Since other entities

also may be interested, the Agency has

not attempted to describe all the specific

entities that may be affected by this

action. If you have any questions

regarding the applicability of this action

to a particular entity, consult the person

listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT.

B. How Can I Get Additional

Information, Including Copies of This

Document and Other Related

Documents?

1. Electronically. You may obtain

electronic copies of this document, and

certain other related documents that

might be available electronically, from

the EPA Internet Home Page at http://