[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 249 (Friday, December 27, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 79079]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-32601]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-7429-9]


Voluntary Data Call-In; World Trade Center Disaster Exposure and 
Human Health Information

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.

ACTION: Notice; request for voluntary submission of human health data, 
exposure data, or other similarly technical information or reports 
related to the after effects of the collapse of the World Trade Center.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Office of 
Research and Development (ORD) is requesting the voluntary submission 
of data and other information or reports on human health effects or 
exposures that may have been generated by academia, hospitals, public 
or private institutions, businesses and corporations, or any other 
public or private sector entity, following the collapse of the World 
Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
    Please note that this request for information is a voluntary data 
call-in. No one is obligated by this notice to submit information and 
there are no penalties for not submitting information. Submitted data 
and information will be analyzed by the EPA to help the Agency better 
assess the potential human health impacts of exposure to the 
environmental contaminants in both the outdoor and indoor air and in 
the settled dust in businesses and residences.

DATES: Please submit this information by March 1, 2003. While EPA is 
interested in receiving all technical information and data that may 
have been developed, the information received by March 1, 2003 will be 
the most useful to the Agency as it revises its draft report.

ADDRESSES: Submissions of reports, data, or other technical information 
should be mailed to the Technical Information Staff (8623D), U.S. 
Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, 
National Center for Environmental Assessment, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue 
NW, Washington, DC 20460; Telephone: 202-564-3261; Facsimile: 202-565-
0050. If an overnight delivery service is used, information submissions 
should be delivered to: Technical Information Staff, National Center 
for Environmental Assessment, Suite 500, 808 17th Street NW, 
Washington, DC 20006. Electronic submissions may be e-mailed to: 
[email protected].
    Please note that all submissions received in response to this 
notice will be considered public information. For that reason, please 
do not submit any uncoded personal information (such as medical data), 
Confidential Business Information, or information protected by 
copyright. Due to limited resources, acknowledgments will not be sent.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For general information on this notice 
contact: Joanna Foellmer, National Center for Environmental Assessment, 
Telephone: 202-564-3208; E-mail: [email protected]. For technical 
questions regarding this notice, contact: Matthew Lorber, National 
Center for Environmental Assessment, Telephone: 202-564-3243; E-mail: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In a companion Federal Register notice 
published today, EPA is announcing a 60-day public comment period on 
its external review draft titled, ``Exposure and Human Health 
Evaluation of Airborne Pollution from the World Trade Center Disaster 
(EPA/600/P-02/002A, October 2002).'' During the development of this 
draft report, EPA became aware that potentially significant data may 
have been developed by public and private sector institutions that 
could be pertinent to this report. These data, which to date have not 
been available to EPA, could help the Agency to better understand the 
potential human health impacts of exposures to environmental 
contaminants resulting from the World Trade Center disaster. Therefore, 
EPA encourages and appreciates the voluntary submission of these data, 
which will be considered in the development of the Agency's final 
report on potential human health impacts from exposure to the 
environmental contaminants resulting from the World Trade Center 
collapse.

    Dated: December 20, 2002.
Paul Gilman,
Assistant Administrator, Office of Research and Development.
[FR Doc. 02-32601 Filed 12-26-02; 8:45 am]
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