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Dated: October 31, 2013. 

Jeffrey T. Morris, 

Acting Director, Office of Pollution Prevention 

and Toxics. 

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AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPPT–2012–0722; FRL–9902–43] 

HHCB (1,3,4,6,7,8-Hexahydro4,6,6,7,8,8,-hexamethylcyclopenta[γ]-2- 

benzopyran) TSCA Risk Assessment; 

Notice of Public Meetings and 

Opportunity To Comment 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: EPA’s contractor, The 

Scientific Consulting Group (SCG), Inc., 

has identified a panel of scientific 

experts to conduct a peer review of 

EPA’s draft Toxic Substances Control 

Act (TSCA) chemical risk assessment, 

‘‘TSCA Workplan Chemical Risk 

Assessment for HHCB.’’ EPA will hold 

three peer review meetings by web 

connect and teleconference. EPA invites 

the public to register to attend the 

meetings as observers and/or speakers 

providing oral comments during any or 

all of the peer review meetings as 

discussed in this document. The public 

may also provide comment on whether 

they believe the appearance of conflict 

of interest exists for any proposed peer 

review panel expert. 

DATES: Meetings. The peer review 

meetings will be held on Wednesday, 

December 4, 2013, from 12:00–2:00 p.m. 

EST; Thursday, January 9, 2014, from 

10:30 a.m.–3:30 p.m. EST; and 

Thursday, February 6, 2014, from 10:30 

a.m.–12:30 p.m. EST. 

Conflict of interest comments. 

Comments on the appearance of a 

conflict of interest for any proposed 

peer review panel expert must be 

submitted on or before November 29, 

2013. 

Comments. Written comments by the 

public must be submitted on or before 

January 16, 2014, to be sure they are 

contained in the peer review record and 

are available to the peer reviewers. 

Registration for meetings. To 

participate in any of the public peer 

review meetings, you must register no 

later than 11:59 p.m., EST, on November 

29, 2013. 

ADDRESSES: Meetings. Meetings will be 

held via web connect and 

teleconferencing. See Unit III.C. in 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION. 

Registration. See Unit III. in 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION. 

Comments. Submit your comments, 

identified by docket identification (ID) 

number EPA–HQ–OPPT–2012–0722, by 

one of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the online 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Mail: Document Control Office 

(7407M), Office of Pollution Prevention 

and Toxics (OPPT), Environmental 

Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460–0001. 

• Hand Delivery: OPPT Document 

Control Office (DCO), EPA William 

Jefferson Clinton Complex East, Rm. 

6428, 1201 Constitution Ave. NW., 

Washington, DC. Attn: Docket ID 

Number EPA–HQ–OPPT–2012–0722. 

The DCO is open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., 

Monday through Friday, excluding legal 

holidays. The telephone number for the 

DCO is (202) 564–8930. Such deliveries 

are only accepted during the DCO’s 

normal hours of operation, and special 

arrangements should be made for 

deliveries of boxed information. 

Instructions: Direct your comments to 

docket ID number EPA–HQ–OPPT– 

2012–0722. EPA’s policy is that all 

comments received will be included in 

the docket without change and may be 

made available online at http://

www.regulations.gov, including any 

personal information provided, unless 

the comment includes information 

claimed to be Confidential Business 

Information (CBI) or other information 

whose disclosure is restricted by statute. 

Do not submit information that you 

consider to be CBI or otherwise 

protected through regulations.gov or 

email. The regulations.gov Web site is 

an ‘‘anonymous access’’ system, which 

means EPA will not know your identity 

or contact information unless you 

provide it in the body of your comment. 

If you send an email comment directly 

to EPA without going through 

regulations.gov, your email address will 

be automatically captured and included 

as part of the comment that is placed in 

the docket and made available on the 

Internet. If you submit an electronic 

comment, EPA recommends that you 

include your name and other contact 

information in the body of your 

comment and with any disk or CD–ROM 

you submit. If EPA cannot read your 

comment due to technical difficulties 

and cannot contact you for clarification, 

EPA may not be able to consider your 

comment. Electronic files should avoid 

the use of special characters, any form 

of encryption, and be free of any defects 

or viruses. 

Docket: All documents in the docket 

are listed in the docket index available 

at http://www.regulations.gov. Although 

listed in the index, some information is 

not publicly available, e.g., CBI or other 

information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. Certain other 

material, such as copyrighted material, 

is not placed on the Internet and will be 

publicly available only in hard copy 

form. Publicly available docket 

materials are available either in the 

electronic docket at http://

www.regulations.gov, or, if only 

available in hard copy, at the OPPT 

Docket. The OPPT Docket is located in 

the EPA Docket Center (EPA/DC) at Rm. 

3334, EPA William Jefferson Clinton 

Complex West, 1301 Constitution Ave. 

NW., Washington, DC. The EPA/DC 

Public Reading Room hours of operation 

are 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday 

through Friday, excluding legal 

holidays. The telephone number of the 

EPA/DC Public Reading Room is (202) 

566–1744, and the telephone number for 

the OPPT Docket is (202) 566–0280. 

Docket visitors are required to show 

photographic identification, pass 

through a metal detector, and sign the 

EPA visitor log. All visitor bags are 

processed through an X-ray machine 

and subject to search. Visitors will be 

provided an EPA/DC badge that must be 

visible at all times in the building and 

returned upon departure. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

For technical information contact: 

Stan Barone, Jr., Risk Assessment 

Division (7403M), Office of Pollution 

Prevention and Toxics, Environmental 

Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania 

Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20460–0001; 

telephone number (202) 564–1169; 

email address: barone.stan@epa.gov. 

For peer review meeting logistics or 

registration contact: Susie Warner, The 

Scientific Consulting Group (SCG), Inc., 

656 Quince Orchard Rd., Suite 210, 

Gaithersburg, MD 20878–1409; 

telephone number: (301) 670–4990, ext. 

227; fax number: (301) 670–3815; email 

address: SWARNER@scgcorp.com. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. General Information 

A. Does this action apply to me? 

This action is directed to the public 

in general, and may be of interest to a 

wide range of stakeholders including 

those interested in environmental and 

human health assessment, the chemical 

industry, chemical users, consumer 

product companies, and members of the 

public interested in the assessment of 

chemical risks. Since others also may be 

interested, the Agency has not 

attempted to describe all the specific 

entities that may be affected by this 

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B. What should I consider as I prepare 

my comments for EPA? 

1. Submitting CBI. Do not submit this 

information to EPA through 

regulations.gov or email. Clearly mark 

the part or all of the information that 

you claim to be CBI. For CBI 

information in a disk or CD–ROM that 

you mail to EPA, mark the outside of the 

disk or CD–ROM as CBI and then 

identify electronically within the disk or 

CD–ROM the specific information that 

is claimed as CBI. In addition to one 

complete version of the comment that 

includes information claimed as CBI, a 

copy of the comment that does not 

contain the information claimed as CBI 

must be submitted for inclusion in the 

public docket. Information so marked 

will not be disclosed except in 

accordance with procedures set forth in 

40 CFR part 2. 

2. Tips for preparing your comments. 

When submitting comments, remember 

to: 

i. Identify the document by docket ID 

number and other identifying 

information (subject heading, Federal 

Register date and page number). 

ii. Follow directions. The Agency may 

ask you to respond to specific questions 

or organize comments by referencing a 

Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) part 

or section number. 

iii. Explain why you agree or disagree; 

suggest alternatives and substitute 

language for your requested changes. 

iv. Describe any assumptions and 

provide any technical information and/ 

or data that you used. 

v. If you estimate potential costs or 

burdens, explain how you arrived at 

your estimate in sufficient detail to 

allow for it to be reproduced. 

vi. Provide specific examples to 

illustrate your concerns and suggest 

alternatives. 

vii. Explain your views as clearly as 

possible, avoiding the use of profanity 

or personal threats. 

viii. Make sure to submit your 

comments by the comment period 

deadline identified. 

II. Background 

On January 9, 2013, EPA published a 

document in the Federal Register (78 

FR 1856) (FRL–9375–1) on the 

availability of five draft TSCA risk 

assessments for public comment. The 

Agency also asked for nominations for 

external experts to conduct peer reviews 

of the draft TSCA risk assessments, 

including one entitled, ‘‘TSCA 

Workplan Chemical Risk Assessment for 

HHCB (1,3,4,6,7,8-Hexahydro4,6,6,7,8,8,-hexamethylcyclopenta[g]-2- 

benzopyran).’’ HHCB (CASRN 1222– 

05–5) is one of 83 chemicals identified 

for review and assessment in EPA’s 

TSCA Work Plan, which were released 

on March 1, 2012, at http://

www.epa.gov/oppt/existingchemicals/

pubs/workplans.html. 

This information is distributed solely 

for the purpose of pre-dissemination 

peer review under applicable 

information quality guidelines. This is 

an external peer review draft assessment 

and has not been formally disseminated 

by EPA. It does not represent and 

should not be construed to represent 

any Agency determination or policy. 

The draft HHCB TSCA risk 

assessment is being peer reviewed 

consistent with guidelines for the peer 

review of influential scientific 

information for scientific assessments. 

EPA asked a contractor, SCG, to 

assemble a panel of experts to evaluate 

the draft HHCB TSCA risk assessment 

report for specific uses of HHCB. SCG 

evaluated 4 candidates that were 

nominated as peer reviewers by the 

February 8, 2013 deadline established in 

the January 9, 2013 Federal Register 

document and evaluated over 70 

additional experts before submitting the 

proposed peer review panel members. 

The proposed peer review panel was 

vetted by the contractor for conflict of 

interest and the appearance of bias 

according to Agency peer review 

guidance as detailed in the contract. 

This proposed peer review panel 

includes: Daniel Schlenk (chair), Tom 

Armstrong, Peter Chapman, William 

Doucette, Valerie Forbes, Robert W. 

Gensmer, Patrick Guiney, Duane 

Huggett, Shane Snyder, and Lawrence 

Whitehead. 

The biographies for the proposed 

panel members are available in the 

docket (docket ID number EPA–HQ– 

OPPT–2012–0722). The public may 

provide comments to this docket on the 

appearance of a conflict of interest for 

any proposed peer review panel 

member. This comment period on the 

peer review panel membership closes 

on November 29, 2013. The final list of 

peer review panel members will be 

available on the SCG’s Web site at 

http://www.scgcorp.com prior to the 

first meeting. 

The peer review panel is responsible 

for the review of the scientific and 

technical merit of the draft HHCB TSCA 

risk assessment, which is available 

through http://www.regulations.gov and 

at http://www.epa.gov/oppt/

existingchemicals/pubs/

workplans.html. The peer review panel 

will not address potential policy 

implications or risk management 

options that may result from the draft 

HHCB TSCA risk assessment. Members 

of the public may register to attend any 

or all three meetings as observers and 

may also register to offer oral comments 

on each day of the meetings. A 

registered speaker is encouraged to 

focus on issues directly relevant to 

science-based aspects of the draft HHCB 

TSCA risk assessment. 

The first peer review meeting on 

December 4, 2013, will be dedicated to 

hearing registered speakers’ oral 

comments on the draft HHCB TSCA risk 

assessment and reviewing the charge to 

the peer reviewers. Each speaker is 

allowed between 3–5 minutes, 

depending on the number of registered 

speakers. Given time constraints, a 

maximum of 30 speakers will be 

allowed to offer comments. If more than 

30 speakers register to provide oral 

comments, speakers will be selected by 

SCG in a manner designed to optimize 

representation from all organizations, 

affiliations, and present a balance of 

science issues relevant to the Agency’s 

TSCA risk assessment. Peer review 

panel members will have access to 

written comments and materials and 

electronic materials submitted to the 

docket by January 16, 2014. Registered 

observers and speakers will not be 

allowed to distribute any written 

comments or materials or electronic 

materials directly to the peer review 

panel members. To submit written 

comments, please follow one of the 

methods outlined in ADDRESSES. The 

public comment period closes on 

January 16, 2014. 

The second peer review panel 

meeting on January 9, 2014, will be 

devoted to deliberations of the draft 

HHCB TSCA risk assessment by the peer 

review panel, guided by the charge 

questions to the peer review panel. 

The third and final peer review panel 

meeting on February 6, 2014, will focus 

on the peer review panel’s discussion of 

its draft HHCB TSCA risk assessment 

recommendations to EPA, which will be 

posted on the contractor Web site prior 

to the final peer review meeting. The 

final peer review panel report will be 

prepared by SCG and made available to 

the public according to the Agency peer 

review guidance at http://www.epa.gov/ 

peerreview. EPA will consider SCG’s 

peer review panel report of the 

comments and recommendations from 

the three peer review meetings, as well 

as written comments and materials and 

electronic materials in the docket at 

http://www.regulations.gov, as it 

proceeds to finalize the HHCB TSCA 

risk assessment. 

If potential risks are indicated in the 

revised TSCA risk assessment following 

peer review and public comment, the 

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reduction efforts as warranted. If no 

risks are identified in the revised TSCA 

risk assessment following revision in 

response to peer review, the Agency 

may conclude its work on the chemical 

being assessed. 

III. How can I request to participate in 

these meetings? 

A. Registration 

To attend the peer review meetings, 

you must register for the meeting no 

later than 11:59 p.m., EST, on November 

29, 2013. To register for the meeting, go 

to http://www.scgcorp.com/dcmnmp2013/, complete the online 

registration form, and submit the 

required information. You may also 

register through the U.S. Postal Service 

or by overnight/priority mail by sending 

the necessary registration information 

(see Unit III.B.) to the SCG Meeting 

Coordinator, Ms. Susie Warner. The 

U.S. Postal Service or overnight/priority 

mail address is: The Scientific 

Consulting Group, Inc., 656 Quince 

Orchard Rd., Suite 210, Gaithersburg, 

MD 20878–1409. For questions or 

additional information, contact Ms. 

Warner by: Telephone: (301) 670–4990, 

ext. 227; fax: (301) 670–3815; or email: 

SWARNER@scgcorp.com. Registrations 

sent via U.S. Postal Service or 

overnight/priority mail must be received 

no later than 11:59 p.m., EST, on 

November 29, 2013. There will be no 

on-site registration, so members of the 

public who do not register by 11:59 

p.m., EST, on November 29, 2013, using 

one of the methods described in this 

unit, may not receive web access 

information in time to attend the first 

peer review meeting. 

B. Required Registration Information 

Members of the public may register to 

attend any or all three meetings as 

observers, or register to speak if 

planning to offer oral comments during 

the scheduled public comment session 

of a meeting. To register for the 

meetings online or by mail, you must 

provide your full name, organization or 

affiliation, and contact information. You 

must also indicate which meetings you 

plan to attend and if you would like to 

speak during the scheduled public 

comment session of a meeting. If you 

register to speak, you must also indicate 

if you have any special requirements 

related to your oral comments (e.g., 

translation). 

If you indicate that you wish to speak, 

you will be asked to select one category 

most closely reflecting the content of 

your oral comments. The comment 

categories related to the charge 

questions are: 

1. General comments on the risk 

assessment document; 

2. Comments on the exposure 

assessment; 

3. Comments on the hazard 

assessment; 

4. Comments on the risk 

characterization; or 

5. Other issues. 

Should more than 30 speakers register 

for a single meeting, these categories 

will be used to ensure that a balance of 

substantive science issues relevant to 

the assessment is heard. Additional 

information on the selection of speakers 

and speaking times will be sent out by 

SCG 3 days prior to each peer review 

meeting to all individuals registered to 

speak. 

To accommodate as many registered 

speakers as possible, registered speakers 

may present oral comments only, 

without visual aids or written material. 

Peer review panel members will have 

access to any written comments and 

materials and electronic materials 

previously submitted to the docket. 

Registered observers and speakers will 

not be allowed to distribute any written 

comments and materials or electronic 

materials directly to the peer review 

panel members. 

C. Web Meeting Access 

Each peer review meeting will be held 

via web connect and teleconferencing. 

SCG will provide all registered 

participants with information on how to 

participate in advance of the first peer 

review meeting. 

List of Subjects 

Environmental protection, Chemicals, 

Peer review, Risk assessments, HHCB, 

Fragrances. 

Dated: October 31, 2013. 

Jeff Morris, 

Acting Director, Office of Pollution Prevention 

and Toxics. 

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STATUS: The meeting will be open to the 

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