[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 217 (Wednesday, November 10, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 65176-65177]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-25096]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

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Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS); Addition of New 
Tracking Feature to the Public Web Site

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice; Addition of Chemical Assessment Tracking System to the 
Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) Public Web site.

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SUMMARY: EPA's Office of Research and Development (ORD) National Center 
for Environmental Assessment (NCEA) is releasing a new on-line 
resource, ``IRIS Track'', which will provide information on the 
progress of chemical assessments underway in the IRIS program. The IRIS 
Track system is designed to provide greater transparency to the public 
regarding the status of IRIS assessments in progress. The IRIS Track is 
set to go live on November 10, 2004. IRIS Track will display major 
milestone dates for IRIS assessment development and review. It will 
enable IRIS users to monitor current milestone status and view 
projected dates for future milestones for each chemical assessment in 
progress. The system will be kept continually up to date. IRIS Track 
will be accessible by anyone with access to the Internet from the IRIS 
home page at http://www.epa.gov/iris.

ADDRESSES: The address for the IRIS Hotline is 1301 Constitution 
Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20005 (Mail Code 28221T) EPA-West Building.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For information on IRIS Track, contact 
Rick Johnson, IRIS Staff, National Center for Environmental Assessment 
(mail code

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8601D), Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental 
Protection Agency, Washington, DC 20460, or call (202) 564-3291, or 
send electronic mail inquiries to [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: IRIS is an on-line database of EPA's 
consensus positions on the potential health effects that may result 
from human exposure to various chemicals found in the environment. EPA 
adds new chemical assessments to IRIS and updates existing assessments 
on an on-going basis. EPA publishes an annual agenda of chemical 
assessments underway in the IRIS program in the Federal Register. (See, 
for example, 69 FR 5971, February 9, 2004.) Assessments generally 
require two or more years to complete. During this period, IRIS users 
often request status information from the Agency. The IRIS Track system 
was developed to inform the public of the status of each assessment 
from start to completion.

    Dated: November 4, 2004.
George W. Alapas,
Deputy Director, National Center for Environmental Assessment.
[FR Doc. 04-25096 Filed 11-9-04; 8:45 am]
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