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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FRL-5055-1]

 

Workshop on Revising the Guidelines for Carcinogen Risk 
Assessment; Meetings

AGENCY: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

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SUMMARY: This notice announces a workshop sponsored by the U.S. 
Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) Office of Health and 
Environmental Assessment (OHEA) and Risk Assessment Forum. OHEA and the 
Risk Assessment Forum will convene a panel of experts to review a draft 
document entitled, Draft Revisions to the Guidelines for Carcinogen 
Risk Assessment (External Review Draft, August 1994). Discussion will 
focus on the proposed revisions to the Agency's cancer risk assessment 
guidelines.

DATES: The workshop will be held Monday, September 12, 1994, through 
Wednesday, September 14, 1994. The meeting will begin at 8:30 a.m. and 
end at 5 p.m. on Monday and Tuesday, and will begin at 9 a.m. and end 
at noon on Wednesday. Members of the public may attend as observers.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, 1800 
Presidential Street, Reston, Virginia 22090, Tel: 703/709-1234.
    Eastern Research Group, Inc., an EPA contractor, is providing 
logistical support for the workshop. To attend the workshop as an 
observer, contact Eastern Research Group, Inc., 110 Hartwell Avenue, 
Lexington, Massachusetts 02173, Tel: 617/674-7374 by August 31, 1994. 
Space is limited, so please register early.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
For technical inquiries, contact Dr. Harry Teitelbaum, U.S. 
Environmental Protection Agency (8101), 401 M Street, SW., Washington, 
DC 20460, Tel: 202/260-6743.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 1986, EPA published Guidelines for 
Carcinogen Risk Assessment (51 FR 33992; September 24, 1986). 
Scientific advances in both risk assessment and carcinogenesis have led 
EPA and the broader scientific community to new perspectives on cancer 
risk assessment and related new perspectives on EPA's Cancer Risk 
Assessment Guidelines.
    As part of its efforts to update and revise the 1986 Guidelines, 
the Agency will hold a workshop in Reston, Virginia, on September 12-
14, 1994, to discuss the major changes contemplated for these 
guidelines. At this meeting, experts on cancer risk assessment and its 
associated sciences will comment on and discuss a working draft for 
revising the 1986 cancer risk assessment guidelines. The workshop aims 
to produce recommendations to the Agency on the use of default 
assumptions and wider application of mechanistic data in cancer risk 
assessment, among other things.
    To obtain a single copy of the draft document (paper or Word 
Perfect 5.1 disk), interested parties should contact the ORD 
publications office by telephone or FAX, CERI, U.S. Environmental 
Protection Agency, 26 West Martin Luther King Drive, Cincinnati, OH 
45268, Tel: (513) 569-7562, FAX (513), 569-7566. Please provide your 
name and mailing address, the document title: Draft Revisions to the 
Guidelines for Carcinogen Risk Assessment (External Review Draft, 
August 1994), and EPA document number EPA/600/BP-92/003 (for paper) or 
EPA/600/BP-92/003a (for disk).

    Dated: August 15, 1994.
Carl Gerber,
Acting Assistant Administrator for Research and Development.
[FR Doc. 94-20553 Filed 8-19-94; 8:45 am]
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