[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 170 (Friday, September 1, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 45720-45721]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-21766]



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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FRL 5288-7]


Urban Soil Lead Abatement Demonstration Project; Integrated 
Report

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of External Peer Review Workshop and Availability of 
Draft Document.

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SUMMARY: This notice announces an External Peer Review Workshop for 
expert scientific review of the Draft Urban Soil Lead Abatement 
Demonstration Project Integrated Report and the availability of the 
draft Integrated Report. It is sponsored by the EPA's National Center 
for Environmental Assessment.

DATES: This scientific workshop will be held Wednesday, September 20, 
1995, through Friday, September 22, 1995. It will begin at 9:00 a.m. 
Wednesday and concludes at 4:00 p.m. Friday. Members of the public may 
attend as observers.
    A copy of the Draft Urban Soil Lead Abatement Demonstration Project 
Integrated Report will be available for review on or about September 8, 
1995.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Sheraton Imperial Hotel and 
Convention Center, 4700 Emperor Boulevard, Research Triangle Park, NC 
27709, Tel: (919) 941-5050, Fax: (919) 941-2958. To attend the workshop 
as an observer, contact: Ms. Emily R. Lee, National Center for 
Environmental Assessment--RTP Office (MD-52), U.S. Environmental 
Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711, Tel: (919) 541-
4169, Fax: (919) 541-5078 by September 15, 1995. Space is limited, so 
please call as soon as possible.
    To obtain a single copy of the Draft Integrated Report, interested 
parties should contact Office of Research and Development (ORD) 
Publications: Technology Transfer Support Division, Technical 
Information Branch, National Risk Management Research Laboratory, U.S. 
EPA, 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 Urban Soil Lead Demonstration 
Project Integrated Report (External Review Draft, September 1995), and 
the EPA document number is EPA/600/R-95/139. Copies will be available 
on or about September 8, 1995.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Urban Soil Lead Abatement Demonstration 
Project, generally known as the ``Three-Cities Soil Lead Study,'' was 
initiated in 1987 in cooperation with states, state health departments, 
and local scientists. 

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The purpose was to conduct soil-lead abatement demonstration projects 
in three U.S. metropolitan areas to evaluate the efficacy of abatement 
of urban soil-lead as a means to reduce lead exposures in children. The 
three cities chosen for the project were Boston, Baltimore, and 
Cincinnati.
    The soil lead studies for each of the three cities have been 
completed. A limited supply of copies of the July 1993 individual city 
reports are still available. To obtain a single copy of one or more of 
these city reports please contact ORD Publications. The document name 
and EPA document numbers for the individual reports are:

Boston--Urban Soil Lead Abatement Demonstration Project, Volume II: 
Parts 1 and 2, Boston Report (Review Draft, July 1993) EPA/600/AP-93/
001b
Baltimore--Urban Soil Lead Abatement Demonstration Project, Volume III: 
Parts 1 and 2, Baltimore Report (Review Draft, July 1993) EPA/600/AP-
93/001c
Cincinnati--Urban Soil Lead Abatement Demonstration Project, Volume IV: 
Cincinnati Report (Review Draft, July 1993) EPA/600/AP-93/001d

    EPA believes that all interested parties will benefit from a 
further statistical analysis that integrates and standardizes the 
results of the individual three cities studies into a single report. 
Thus, as an adjunct to the original project, an Integrated report was 
developed. An earlier draft of this integrated Report underwent 
external peer review, resulting in additional statistical analyses and 
revisions. The current draft has undergone initial internal EPA review 
and will undergo external scientific peer review at the September 20-22 
workshop.
    Expert scientific peer reviewers, from a cross-section of the 
public and private sectors, have been invited to attend this workshop. 
These peer reviewers will provide final expert scientific comment on 
the analyses conducted to standardize the analytical results of the 
Three-Cities Soil Lead Study into an Integrated Report. The workshop 
will specifically focus on science and analytical issues only.
    Interested observers may also attend the workshop. There will be 
opportunity for brief oral comments from observers. If an interested 
party is unable to attend the workshop as an observer, the Agency will 
accept written comments on the Draft Integrated Report received on or 
before Monday, October 16, 1995. Send comments to: Ms. Emily R. Lee, 
National Center for Environmental Assessment--RTP Office (MD-52), U.S. 
Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711, Tel: 
(919) 541-4169, FAX: (919) 541-5078.
    Substantive scientific comments made on the Draft Integrated Report 
by the expert review panel, by workshop observers in their oral 
comments, or via written comments received on or before October 16, 
will be taken into account in revising the Integrated Report prior to 
finalization.

    Dated: August 25, 1995.
Joseph K. Alexander,
Acting Assistant Administrator for Research and Development.
[FR Doc. 95-21766 Filed 8-31-95; 8:45 am]
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