[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 68 (Tuesday, April 8, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19069-19070]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-7295]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry

[ATSDR-240]


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 seven updated final 
toxicological profiles of priority hazardous substances. This is the 
19th set of toxicological profiles that ATSDR has compiled.

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

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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 for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 
(EPA) with regard to hazardous substances most commonly found at 
facilities on the CERCLA National Priorities List (NPL). One such 
requirement directs the ATSDR Administrator to prepare toxicological 
profiles for each substance included on the priority lists of hazardous 
substances. These lists identify 275 hazardous substances determined by 
ATSDR and by EPA to 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 previous 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 toxicological profile drafts for 
public review and comment was published in the Federal Register on 
October 25, 2005 (70 FR 61622), 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 carry the docket control number ATSDR-
214. This material is available for public inspection at the Division 
of Toxicology and Environmental Medicine, Agency for Toxic Substances 
and Disease Registry, 4700 Buford Highway, Building 106, Second Floor, 
Chamblee, Georgia 30341, between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday through 
Friday, except legal holidays.

Availability

    This notice announces the availability of seven updated final 
toxicological profiles of priority hazardous substances. This is the 
19th set of toxicological profiles that ATSDR has compiled. 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.
    Nineteenth Set:

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      Toxicological profile         NTIS order No.          CAS No.
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1. Acrolein (Update)............       PB2008-100001         000107-02-8
2. Arsenic (Update).............       PB2008-100002         007440-38-2
3. Barium (Update)..............       PB2008-100003         007440-39-3
4. Benzene (Update).............       PB2008-100004         000071-43-2
5. Heptachlor (UPDATE)..........       PB2008-100005         000076-44-8
    Heptachlor Epoxide..........  ..................         001024-57-3
6. Lead (Update)................       PB2008-100007         007439-92-1
7. Xylenes (Update).............       PB2008-100008         001330-20-7
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    Dated: April 2, 2003.
Ken Rose,
Director, Office of Policy, Planning and Evaluation, National Center 
for Environmental Health/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease 
Registry.
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