[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 13 (Monday, January 22, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 2684-2685]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-827]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FRL-8271-5; Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2006-0812]
Child-Specific Exposure Factors Handbook
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of Re-opening of Public Comment Period.
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SUMMARY: EPA is re-opening the public comment period for the draft
document titled, ``Child-Specific Exposure Factors Handbook'' (EPA/600/
R-06/096A). The document was prepared by the National Center for
Environmental Assessment within EPA's Office of Research and
Development.
On October 6, 2006, EPA published a Federal Register notice (71 FR
59107) announcing a 60-day public comment period that ended December 5,
2006. EPA is re-opening the public comment period for an additional 30
days in response to requests to extend the comment period.
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The Child-Specific Exposure Factors Handbook provides a summary of
statistical data on various exposure factors used in assessing
children's exposures. This Handbook serves as a resource for exposure
assessors for calculating children's exposures. These factors include:
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. An interim final version of
this handbook was published in 2002. The updated version provides
analysis of exposure factors data using the age groups for children as
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).
As previously stated in 71 FR 59107, 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 30-day public comment period begins January 22, 2007, and
ends February 21, 2007. Technical comments should be in writing and
must be received by EPA by February 21, 2007.
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 http://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 http://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:
http://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, Room 3334, 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 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 http://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 http://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 materials,
such as copyrighted material, are 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.
Dated: January 12, 2007.
George Alapas,
Acting Director, National Center for Environmental Assessment.
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