[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 194 (Friday, October 6, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 59107-59108]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-16573]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FRL-8228-5; Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2006-0812]
Child-Specific Exposure Factors Handbook
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of public comment period.
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SUMMARY: EPA is announcing a 60-day public comment period for the
external review draft document titled, ``Child-Specific Exposure
Factors Handbook'' (EPA/600/R-06/096A). The draft document was prepared
by the National Center for Environmental Assessment within EPA's Office
of Research and Development. The ``Child-Specific Exposure Factors
Handbook'' provides a summary of statistical data on various exposure
factors used in assessing children's exposures, including: drinking
water consumption; soil ingestion and mouthing behavior; inhalation
rates; dermal factors including skin surface area and soil adherence
factors; consumption of retail and home-grown foods; breast milk
intake; and activity pattern data. This Handbook serves as a resource
for exposure assessors for calculating children's exposures. An interim
final version of this handbook was published in 2002. This updated
version provides analysis of exposure factors data using the age groups
for children recommended in the EPA document entitled, ``Guidance on
Selecting Age Groups for Monitoring and Assessing Childhood Exposures
to Environmental Contaminants'' (EPA/630/P-03/003F) (Available on line
at http://cfpub.epa.gov/ncea/cfm/recordisplay.cfm?deid=146583).
EPA is releasing the draft ``Child-Specific Exposure Factors
Handbook'' solely for the purpose of pre-dissemination peer review
under applicable information quality guidelines. This document has not
been formally disseminated by EPA. It does not represent and should not
be construed to represent any Agency policy or determination. EPA will
consider any public comments submitted in accordance with this notice
when revising the document.
DATES: The 60-day public comment period begins October 6, 2006, and
ends December 5, 2006. Technical comments should be in writing and must
be received by EPA by December 5, 2006.
ADDRESSES: The draft ``Child-Specific Exposure Factors Handbook'' is
available primarily via the Internet on the National Center for
Environmental Assessment's home page under the Recent Additions and the
Data and Publications menus at www.epa.gov/ncea. A limited number of
paper copies are available from the Technical Information Staff, NCEA-
W; telephone: 202-564-3261; facsimile: 202-565-0050. If you are
requesting a paper copy, please provide your name, your mailing
address, and the document title, ``Child-Specific Exposure Factors
Handbook'' (EPA/600/R-06/096A).
Comments may be submitted electronically via www.regulations.gov,
by mail, by facsimile, or by hand delivery/courier. Please follow the
detailed instructions provided in the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section
of this notice.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For information on the public comment
period, contact the Office of Environmental Information Docket;
telephone: 202-566-1752; facsimile: 202-566-1753; or e-mail:
[email protected].
For technical information, contact Jacqueline Moya, NCEA;
telephone: 202-564-3245; facsimile: 202-565-0079; or e-mail:
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
How to Submit Technical Comments to the Docket at www.regulations.gov
Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD 2006-
0812 by one of the following methods:
www.regulations.gov: Follow the on-line instructions for
submitting comments.
E-mail: [email protected]
Fax: 202-566-1753
Mail: Office of Environmental Information (OEI)
Docket (Mail Code: 2822T), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1200
Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460. The phone number is 202-
566-1752.
Hand Delivery: The OEI Docket is located in the
EPA Headquarters Docket Center, EPA West Building, 1301 Constitution
Ave., NW., Washington, DC. The EPA Docket Center Public Reading Room is
open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding
legal holidays. The telephone number for the Public Reading Room is
202-566-1744. Such deliveries are only
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accepted during the docket's normal hours of operation, and special
arrangements should be made for deliveries of boxed information.
If you provide comments by mail or hand delivery, please submit one
unbound original with pages numbered consecutively, and three copies of
the comments. For attachments, provide an index, number pages
consecutively with the comments, and submit an unbound original and
three copies.
Instructions: Direct your comments to Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-
2006-0812. Please ensure that your comments are submitted within the
specified comment period. Comments received after the closing date will
be marked ``late,'' and may only be considered if time permits. It is
EPA's policy to include all comments it receives in the public docket
without change and to make the comments available online at
www.regulations.gov, including any personal information provided,
unless a 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 www.regulations.gov or e-mail.
The www.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 e-
mail comment directly to EPA without going through www.regulations.gov,
your e-mail address will be automatically captured and included as part
of the comment that is placed in the public 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. For additional
information about EPA's public docket visit the EPA Docket Center
homepage at www.epa.gov/epahome/dockets.htm.
Docket: Documents in the docket are listed in the
www.regulations.gov index. 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 publicly available only in hard copy.
Publicly available docket materials are available either electronically
in www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at the OEI Docket in the EPA
Headquarters Docket Center.
Note: The EPA Docket Center suffered damage due to flooding
during the last week of June 2006. The Docket Center is continuing
to operate. However, during the cleanup, there will be temporary
changes to Docket Center telephone numbers, addresses, and hours of
operation for people who wish to make hand deliveries or visit the
Public Reading Room to view documents. Consult EPA's Federal
Register notice at 71 FR 38147 (July 5, 2006) or the EPA Web site at
www.epa.gov/epahome/dockets.htm for current information on docket
operations, locations and telephone numbers. The Docket Center's
mailing address for U.S. mail and the procedure for submitting
comments to www.regulations.gov are not affected by the flooding and
will remain the same.
Dated: September 27, 2006.
George Alapas,
Acting Director, National Center for Environmental Assessment.
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