[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 39 (Monday, March 1, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 9999-10000]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-4926]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
[ATSDR-144]


Availability of Final Toxicological Profiles

AGENCY: Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), 
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

ACTION: Notice of availability.

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SUMMARY: This notice announces the availability of two new final and 
seven updated final toxicological profiles of priority hazardous 
substances comprising the eleventh set prepared by ATSDR.

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: The Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization 
Act (SARA) (Pub. L. 99-499) amends the Comprehensive Environmental 
Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA or Superfund) (42 
U.S.C. 9601 et seq.) by establishing certain requirements for ATSDR and 
the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with regard to hazardous 
substances which are most commonly found at facilities on the CERCLA 
National Priorities List (NPL). Among these statutory requirements is a 
mandate for the Administrator of ATSDR to prepare toxicological 
profiles for each substance included on the priority lists of hazardous 
substances. These lists identified 275 hazardous substances that ATSDR 
and EPA determined pose the most significant potential threat to human 
health. The availability of the revised list of the 275 most hazardous 
substances was announced in the Federal Register on November 17, 1997 
(62 FR 61332). For prior versions of the list of substances see Federal 
Register notices dated April 29, 1996 (61 FR 18744); April 17, 1987 (52 
FR 12866); October 20, 1988 (53 FR 41280); October 26, 1989 (54 FR 
43619); October 17, 1990 (55 FR 42067); October 17, 1991 (56 FR 52166); 
October 28, 1992 (57 FR 48801); and February 28, 1994 (59 FR 9486).
    Notices (62 FR 55816) and (62 FR 55818) announcing the availability 
of the draft toxicological profiles for public review and comment were 
published in the Federal Register on October 28, 1997 with notice of a 
90-day public comment period for each profile, starting from the actual 
release date. Following the close of the comment period, chemical-
specific comments were addressed, and where appropriate, changes were 
incorporated into each profile. The public comments and other data 
submitted in response to the Federal Register notices bear the docket 
control numbers ATSDR-127 or ATSDR-128. This material is available for 
public inspection at the Division of Toxicology, Agency for Toxic 
Substances and Disease Registry, Building 4, Suite 2400, Executive Park 
Drive, Atlanta, Georgia, (not a mailing address) between 8:00 a.m. and 
4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, except legal holidays.

Availability

    This notice announces the availability of two new final and seven 
updated final toxicological profiles comprising the eleventh set 
prepared by ATSDR. The following toxicological profiles are now 
available through the U.S. Department of Commerce, National Technical 
Information Service (NTIS), 5285 Port Royal Road, Springfield, Virginia 
22161, telephone 1-800-553-6847. There is a charge for these profiles 
as determined by NTIS.

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      Toxicological profile           NTIS Order No.         CAS No.
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Eleventh Set:
1. CHLOROETHANE (UPDATE)........  PB99-121956                000075-00-3
2. CHLOROMETHANE (UPDATE).......  PB99-121964                000074-87-3
3. 1,4-DICHLOROBENZENE (UPDATE).  PB99-121972                000106-46-7
4. 3,3,-DICHLOROBENZIDINE         PB99-121980                 00091-94-1
 (UPDATE).

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5. CHLORODIBENZO-P-DIOXIN         PB99-121998                039227-53-7
 (UPDATE).
    DICHLORODIBENZO-P-DIOXIN....  .....................      050585-39-2
    HEPTACHLORODIBENZO-P-DIOXIN.  .....................      037871-00-4
    HEXACHLORODIBENZO-P-DIOXIN..  .....................      034465-46-8
    OCTACHLORODIBENZO-P-DIOXIN..  .....................      003268-87-9
    PENTACHLORODIBENZO-P-DIOXIN.  .....................      036088-22-9
    TRICHLORODIBENZO-P-DIOXIN...  .....................      039227-58-2
    TETRACHLORODIBENZO-P-DIOXIN.  .....................      041903-57-5
    1,2,3,4,6,7,8-                .....................      035822-46-9
     HEPTACHLORODIBENZO-P-DIOXIN.
6. 2,4-DINITROTOLUENE (UPDATE)    PB99-122004                000121-14-2
 and 2,6-DINITROTOLUENE.                                     000606-20-2
7. PHENOL (UPDATE)..............  PB99-122012                000108-95-2
8. SULFUR DIOXIDE...............  PB99-122020                007446-09-5
9. SULFUR TRIOXIDE and SULFURIC    PB99-122036               007446-11-9
 ACID.                                                       007664-93-9
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    Dated: February 22, 1999.
Georgi Jones,
Director, Office of Policy and External Affairs, Agency for Toxic 
Substances and Disease Registry.
[FR Doc. 99-4926 Filed 2-26-99; 8:45 am]
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