[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 21 (Friday, January 31, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4771-4772]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-2383]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
[ATSDR-116]


Availability of Final Toxicological Profiles

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 two new final and 
eight updated final toxicological profiles of priority hazardous 
substances comprising the eighth set prepared by ATSDR.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Loretta Norman, Division of 
Toxicology, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Mailstop 
E-29, 1600 Clifton Road, NE., Atlanta, Georgia 30333, telephone (404) 
639-6322.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization 
Act (SARA) (Pub. L. 99-499) amends the Comprehensive Environmental 
Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA or Superfund) (42 
U.S.C. 9601 et seq.) by establishing certain requirements for ATSDR and 
the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with regard to hazardous 
substances which 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 most hazardous 
substances was announced in the Federal Register on April 29, 1996 (61 
FR 18744). 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); 
and February 28, 1994 (59 FR 9486).
    Notice of the availability of drafts of the eighth set of 
toxicological profiles for public review and comment was published in 
the Federal Register on October 21, 1994 (59 FR 53186), with notice of 
a 90-day public comment period for each profile, starting from the 
actual release date. Following the close of each comment period, 
chemical-specific comments were addressed, and where appropriate, 
changes were incorporated into each profile. The public comments and 
other data submitted in response to the Federal Register notice bear 
the docket control number ATSDR-88. This material is available for 
public inspection at the Division of Toxicology, Agency for Toxic 
Substances and Disease Registry, Building 4, Suite 2400, Executive Park 
Drive, Atlanta, Georgia, (not a mailing address) between 8 a.m. and 
4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, except legal holidays.

Availability

    This notice announces the availability of two new final and eight 
updated final toxicological profiles comprising the eighth set prepared 
by ATSDR. The following toxicological profiles are now 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. There is a charge for these profiles as 
determined by NTIS.

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     Toxicological profile            NTIS order No.          CAS No.   
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Eighth Set:                                                             
    1. Carbon Disulfide          PB97-121073                     75-15-0
     (UPDATE).                                                          
    2. Creosote (UPDATE).......  PB97-121024                   8001-58-9
    3. Diazinon................  PB97-121107                    333-41-5
    4. 1,2-Dichloroethene        PB97-121081                    156-60-5
     (trans) & 1,2-                                             156-59-2
     Dichloroethene (cis)                                               
     (UPDATE).                                                          
    5. Endrin and Endrin         PB97-121040                     72-20-8
     Aldehyde (UPDATE).                                       53494-70-5
    6. Hexachlorobenzene         PB97-121065                    118-74-1
     (UPDATE).                                                          
    7. Methyl T-Butyl Ether....  PB97-121016                   1634-04-4
    8. Selenium (UPDATE).......  PB97-121032                   7782-49-2
    9. 1,1,2,2-                  PB97-121099                     79-34-5
     Tetrachloroethane (UPDATE).                                        
    10. Toxaphene (UPDATE).....  PB97-121057                   8001-35-2
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    Dated: January 27, 1997.
Georgi Jones,
Director, Office of Policy and External Affairs, Agency for Toxic 
Substances and Disease Registry.
[FR Doc. 97-2383 Filed 1-30-97; 8:45 am]
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