[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 154 (Thursday, August 8, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 41416]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-20205]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
[ATSDR-109]


Availability of ATSDR Toxicological Profiles

Agency: Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), 
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice of pending publication of Toxicological Profiles for 
public comment.

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SUMMARY: This notice announces the status of the development of 
toxicological profiles scheduled for development in fiscal year 1996.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Loretta Norman, Division of 
Toxicology, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Mailstop 
E-29, 1600 Clifton Road, NE., Atlanta, Georgia 30333, telephone (404) 
639-6322.

Supplementary Information: Section 104(i)(3) of the Comprehensive 
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 
(CERCLA), as amended by the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization 
Act of 1986 (SARA) [42 U.S.C. 9604 (i)(3)], directs the Administrator 
of ATSDR to prepare toxicological profiles of priority hazardous 
substances most frequently found at National Priorities List sites. New 
sets of profiles are normally made available on October 17th of each 
year. Due to uncertainty associated with the Superfund appropriations 
in the Federal budgetary process for fiscal year 1996, development of 
set 10 of the toxicological profiles was unavoidably delayed. In order 
to ensure that the scientific and technical integrity of the profiles 
is not compromised, development of set 10 will not be accelerated, but 
will proceed using the normal established methodology and timeframe. 
When set 10 is completed, it will be released in draft for public 
comment, as usual. At that time, a notice will be published in the 
Federal Register announcing availability.

    Dated: August 2, 1996.
Claire V. Broome,
Deputy Administrator Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.
[FR Doc. 96-20205 Filed 8-7-96; 8:45 am]
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