[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 102 (Thursday, May 27, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 28821-28822]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-13434]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
[ATSDR-147]


Availability of Final Toxicological Profile for Mercury

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 the final updated 
toxicological profile for mercury completing the eleventh set prepared 
by ATSDR. The announcement of nine toxicological profiles for the 
eleventh set was published in the Federal Register on March 1, 1999 (64 
FR 9999).

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 draft toxicological profiles for public review and comment were 
published in the Federal Register on October 28, 1997 (62 FR 55816) 
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

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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 the final updated 
toxicological profile for mercury completing the eleventh set prepared 
by ATSDR. The following toxicological profile is 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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MERCURY.......................  PB99-142416                  007439-97-6
MERCURIC (II) ACETATE.........                               001600-27-7
MERCURIC (II) SULFIDE.........                               001134-48-5
MERCURIC (I) CHLORIDE.........                               010112-91-1
METHYLMERCURIC CHLORIDE.......                               000115-09-3
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    Dated: May 20, 1999.
Georgi Jones,
Director, Office of Policy and External Affairs, Agency for Toxic 
Substances and Disease Registry.
[FR Doc. 99-13434 Filed 5-26-99; 8:45 am]
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