[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 192 (Thursday, October 4, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 56756-56757]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-19638]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FRL-8479-2; Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2007-0971]
An Exploratory Study: Assessment of Modeled Dioxin Exposure in
Ceramic Art Studios
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of public comment period.
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SUMMARY: EPA is announcing a 45-day public comment period for the
external review draft document titled, ``An Exploratory Study:
Assessment of Modeled Dioxin Exposure in Ceramic Art Studios'' (EPA/
600/R-06/044A). The draft document was prepared by the National Center
for Environmental Assessment (NCEA) within EPA's Office of Research and
Development.
For the external scientific peer review, EPA has contracted with
Eastern Research Group (ERG) to convene an independent panel of experts
and organize and conduct an external peer-review workshop. The date and
location for the external peer-review workshop will be announced in a
separate Federal Register notice. The public comment period and the
external peer-review workshop are separate processes that provide
opportunities for all interested parties to comment on the document. In
addition to consideration by EPA, all public comments submitted in
accordance with this notice will also be forwarded to EPA's contractor
for the external peer-review panel's consideration prior to the
workshop.
EPA is releasing this external review draft document 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.
DATES: The 45-day public comment period begins October 4, 2007, and
ends November 19, 2007. Technical comments should be in writing and
must be received by EPA by November 19, 2007.
ADDRESSES: The external review draft document, ``An Exploratory Study:
Assessment of Modeled Dioxin Exposure in Ceramic Art Studios,'' 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 of the draft document, please provide your
name, mailing address, and the document title, ``An Exploratory Study:
Assessment of Modeled Dioxin Exposure in Ceramic Art Studios.''
Comments may be submitted electronically via http://www.regulations.gov, by mail, by facsimile, or by hand delivery/
courier. Please follow the detailed instructions as 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].
If you need technical information about the draft document, please
contact John Schaum, National Center for Environmental Assessment
(NCEA); telephone: 202-564-3237; facsimile: 202-565-0078; e-mail
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Information About the Document
The purpose of this report is to describe an exploratory
investigation of potential dioxin exposures to artists and hobbyists
who use ball clay to make pottery and related products. Dermal,
inhalation and ingestion exposures to clay were measured at the
ceramics art department of Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio.
Estimates of exposure were made based on measured levels of clay in the
studio air, deposited on surrogate food samples and on the skin of
artists. The measurements were made in two separate studies, one in
April 2003 and one in July 2004. This draft assessment combines the
results of these two studies.
II. How To Submit Technical Comments to the Docket at
www.regulations.gov
Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2007-
0971, 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
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operation, and special arrangements should be made for deliveries of
boxed information.
If you provide comments by mail or hand delivery, please submit
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-
2007-0971. 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 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: September 26, 2007.
Rebecca Clark,
Acting Director, National Center for Environmental Assessment.
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