[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 230 (Thursday, November 30, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 61552-61553]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-29248]



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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FRL-5337-2]


Technical Workshop on WTI Incinerator Risk Issues

AGENCY: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of Meeting.

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SUMMARY: EPA is announcing a workshop for scientific peer review of the 
EPA draft risk assessment for the Waste Technologies Industries (WTI) 
hazardous waste incinerator in East Liverpool, Ohio. The workshop will 
be open to members of the public as observers. The peer review, to be 
conducted by scientists from outside EPA, is being organized to assist 
EPA in completing the risk assessment.

DATES: The workshop will begin on Thursday, January 11, 1996, at 7:30 
a.m. 

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and end on Friday, January 12, 1996, at 2 p.m. Members of the public 
may attend as observers.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Holiday Inn, Georgetown, 
2101 Wisconsin Avenue NW., Washington, DC, 20007. 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., Tel: 617/674-7374 by December 20, 1995. Please 
register early.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
For technical inquiries, contact Harriet Croke, U.S. EPA Region V, 77 
West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, IL 60604, Telephone (312) 353-4789. 
Copies of the draft risk assessment document (EPA905-D95-002a-g) will 
be available in EPA regional libraries, EPA Headquarters library, and 
from the National Technical Information Service (NTIS document numbers 
PB96-121546, PB121553, PB96-121561, PB96-121579, PB96-121587, PB96-
121595, and PB96-121603; Phone: 1-800-553-6847). In addition, the draft 
risk assessment will be available in the following libraries in the 
vicinity of the WTI facility: Carnegie Public Library of East 
Liverpool, 219 E. 4th St., East Liverpool, OH 43920; Lynn Murray 
Memorial Library, 601 Railroad St., Chester WV 26034; Carnegie Public 
Library, 61 Ninth St., Midland, PA 15059. Further, a summary of the 
draft risk assessment will be available on the Internet on EPA's ORD 
Home Page (http://www.epa.gov/docs/ORD/).
    For other workshop information, contact William Wood, U.S. 
Environmental Protection Agency (8501), 401 M Street SW., Washington, 
DC 20460, Telephone (202) 260-6743.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Previously, several preliminary risk 
assessments were conducted by EPA concerning the WTI incinerator. To 
prepare for a final, detailed risk assessment the EPA decided, in July 
1993, that the Agency would arrange independent scientific peer reviews 
of both the project plan and the draft risk assessment. The first peer 
review was held in December, 1993 (17 November, 1993 Federal Register, 
pp. 60628-60629) and concerned the draft project plan for the risk 
assessment. For this first workshop, EPA convened a peer review panel 
of 13 independent scientists from the fields of toxicology, 
environmental fate and transport, combustion engineering, atmospheric 
modeling, and exposure assessment. The comments and recommendations 
provided during this workshop are published in ``Reports on the 
Technical Workshop on WTI Incinerator Risk Issues'' (EPA/630/R-94/001). 
This document is available from the Center for Environmental Research 
Information (Phone: 513-569-7562). Major recommendations from this 
workshop included: (1) using additional incinerator performance test 
data; (2) refining computer models used to simulate airborne 
dispersions; (3) conducting a screening level ecological risk 
assessments; and (4) performing an evaluation of accident scenarios.
    For the current review, EPA is convening the same panel, enhanced 
with eight additional experts in the area of ecological risk 
assessments and accident analysis. These scientists will focus on the 
scientific data, methods, and analyses, along with the assumptions and 
uncertainties that are associated with the risk estimates at the site. 
Following the workshop, EPA will consider the workshop recommendations 
in completing the risk assessment. Policy and permitting issues will 
not be discussed at the current workshop.

    Dated: November 22, 1995.
Henry Longest II,
Acting Assistant Administrator for Research and Development.
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