[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 68 (Monday, April 10, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 18101-18102]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-8739]



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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FRL-5187-2]


Report on the Workshop on Cancer Risk Assessment Guidelines 
Issues

AGENCY: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

ACTION: Notice of availability.

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SUMMARY: This notice announces the availability of a report titled 
Report on the Workshop on Cancer Risk Assessment Guidelines Issues 
(EPA/630/R-94/005a). This report compiles discussions from a technical 
review workshop on the draft document titled Draft Revisions to the 
Guidelines for Carcinogen Risk Assessment (External Review Draft; EPA/
600/BP-92/003). Highlights of reviewers' pre-meeting comments on the 
draft document are included in the workshop report; copies of 
reviewers' comments in their entirety are available from the National 
Technical Information Service.

ADDRESSES: To obtain a single copy of the workshop report, interested 
parties should contact the ORD Publications Office, CERI, U.S. 
Environmental [[Page 18102]] 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, and request the 
document by the title and EPA number (EPA/630/R-94/005a).
    To obtain a copy of reviewers' pre-meeting comments, interested 
parties should contact the National Technical Information Service, 5285 
Port Royal Road, Springfield, VA 22161, Telephone (703) 487-4650. The 
document number is PB95-148201.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Dr. Jeanette Wiltse, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (8601), 401 M 
Street SW., Washington, DC 20460, Telephone: (202) 260-7315.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's 
Risk Assessment Forum and Office of Health and Environmental Assessment 
organized a workshop to technically review the Agency's draft revised 
cancer risk assessment guidelines (Draft Revisions to the Guidelines 
for Carcinogen Risk Assessment--External Review Draft; EPA/600/BP-92/
003). The workshop was held on September 12-14, 1994, at the Hyatt 
Regency in Reston, Virginia (59 FR 43125).
    EPA convened a panel of experts to evaluate and comment on 
technical issues in the draft document concerning mode of action, 
hazard identification, dose response, and default assumptions. This 
report, entitled Report on the Workshop on Cancer Risk Assessment 
Guidelines Issues (EPA/630/R-94/005a), compiles discussion and 
information from the technical review workshop. EPA will use the 
reviewers' comments and recommendations drawn from the workshop in 
considering revisions to the draft guidelines.

    Dated: March 25, 1995.
Robert J. Huggett,
Assistant Administrator for Research and Development.
[FR Doc. 95-8739 Filed 4-7-95; 8:45 am]
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