[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 13 (Friday, January 18, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4147-4148]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-00991]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry

[ATSDR-277]


Notice of Development of Set 26 Toxicological Profiles

AGENCY: Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), 
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: This notice announces the development of Set 26 Toxicological 
Profiles, which will consist of three updated profiles and two new 
profiles. Draft for Public Comment versions of these profiles will be 
available to the public on or about October 17, 2013. Electronic access 
to these documents will be available at the ATSDR Web site: http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxprofiles/index.asp.

Set 26 Toxicological Profiles

    The following toxicological profiles are now being developed:

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                   Name                                  CAS
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1. Trichloroethylene (UPDATE).............  79-01-6
2. Tetrachloroethylene (UPDATE)...........  127-18-4
3. Hydrogen sulfide/Carbonyl sulfide        7783-06-4
 (UPDATE).                                  463-58-1
4. Glutaraldehyde (NEW)...................  111-30-8
5. Parathion (NEW)........................  56-38-2
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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 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 List of Hazardous Substances (www.atsdr.cdc.gov/SPL). This 
list names 275 hazardous substances that pose the most significant 
potential threat to human health as determined by ATSDR and EPA. The 
availability of the revised list of the 275 priority substances was 
announced in the Federal Register on November 3, 2011 (76 FR 68193). 
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); November 7, 2003 (68 FR 63098); December 7, 2005 
(70FR 70284): and March 6, 2008 (73 FR 12178).
    Notice of the availability of drafts of these five toxicological 
profiles for public review and comment will be published in the Federal 
Register on or about October 17, 2013, 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 
will be addressed, and, where appropriate, changes will be incorporated 
into each profile.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Commander Jessilynn B. Taylor, 
Division of Toxicology and Human Health Sciences, Agency for Toxic 
Substances and Disease Registry, 1600 Clifton Road NE., Mail Stop F-57, 
Atlanta, GA 30333, telephone 770-488-3313.

    Dated: January 11, 2013.
Ken Rose,
Director, Office of Policy Planning and Evaluation, National Center for 
Environmental Health.
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