[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 226 (Friday, November 24, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 67871-67872]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-19857]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry

[ATSDR-226]


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 one new and five 
updated final toxicological profiles of priority hazardous substances 
comprising the eighteenth set prepared by ATSDR.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Olga Dawkins, Division of 
Toxicology and Environmental Medicine, Agency for Toxic Substances and 
Disease Registry, Mailstop F-32, 1600 Clifton Road, NE., Atlanta, 
Georgia 30333, telephone (770) 488-3315. Electronic access to these 
documents is also

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available at the ATSDR Web site: http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxpro2.html.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization 
Act of 1986 (SARA) (42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq.) amended the Comprehensive 
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA 
or Superfund) (42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq.) by establishing certain 
requirements for ATSDR and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 
(EPA) with regard to hazardous substances that 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 priority substances was announced in the 
Federal Register on December 7, 2005 (70 FR 234). For prior versions of 
the list of substances, see Federal Register notices dated 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); February 28, 1994 (59 FR 9486); 
April 29, 1996 (61 FR 18744; November 17, 1997 (62 FR 61332); October 
21, 1999 (64 FR 56792); October 25, 2001 (66 FR 54014) and November 7, 
2003 (68 FR 63098).
    Notice of the availability of drafts of these five updated and one 
new toxicological profiles for public review and comment was published 
in the Federal Register on October 22, 2004, (69 FR 62049), 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 number ATSDR-205. This material is available for 
public inspection at the Division of Toxicology and Environmental 
Medicine, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, 1825 
Century Boulevard, Atlanta, Georgia (not a mailing address), between 8 
a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, except legal holidays.

Availability

    This notice announces the availability of one new and five updated 
final toxicological profiles of priority hazardous substances 
comprising the eighteenth 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.
    Eighteenth Set:

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        Toxicological profile            NTIS Order No.       CAS No.
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1. Cyanide, Hydrogen cyanide, Sodium       PB2007-100674     000057-12-5
 cyanide, Potassium cyanide..........                        000074-90-8
                                                             000143-33-9
                                                             000151-50-8
2. Dichlorobenzenes, 1, 2-                 PB2007-100672     025321-22-6
 Dichlorobenzene, 1,3-                                       000095-50-1
 Dichlorobenzene, 1,4-Dichlorobenzene                         00541-73-1
                                                              00106-46-7
3. 1, 4-Dioxane *....................      PB2007-100676     000123-91-1
4. Hydrogen Sulfide..................      PB2007-100675    007783-065-4
5. 1, 1, 1-Trichloroethane...........      PB2007-100673     000071-55-6
6. Vinyl Chloride....................      PB2007-100671    000075-01-4
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* Denotes new profile


    Dated: November 17, 2006.
Ken Rose,
Acting Director, Office of Policy, Planning and Evaluation, National 
Center for Environmental Health/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease 
Registry.
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