[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 94 (Monday, May 16, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 30301-30302]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-11264]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FRL-9945-56-ORD; Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2013-0111]
Public Comment Draft for the Integrated Risk Information System
(IRIS) Assessment of tert-Butyl Alcohol
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice; of public comment period.
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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing a 60-
day public comment period for the draft IRIS Toxicological Review of
tert-Butyl Alcohol. The draft document was prepared by the National
Center for Environmental Assessment (NCEA) within EPA's Office of
Research and Development (ORD).
EPA is releasing this draft IRIS assessment for public comment and
discussion during the June 29-30, 2016 IRIS Public Science Meeting.
This draft assessment is not final, as described in EPA's information
quality guidelines, and it does not represent, and should not be
construed to represent Agency policy or views. EPA will consider all
public comments submitted in response to this notice when revising this
document.
DATES: The 60-day public comment period begins May 16, 2016, and ends
July 15, 2016. Comments must be received on or before July 15, 2016.
ADDRESSES: The draft IRIS Toxicological Review of tert-Butyl Alcohol
will be available via the Internet on IRIS' Recent Additions at http://www.epa.gov/iris/iris-recent-additions or the public docket at http://www.regulations.gov, Docket ID: EPA-HQ-ORD-2013-0111.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For information on the public comment
period, contact the ORD Docket at the EPA Headquarters Docket Center;
telephone: 202-566-1752; facsimile: 202-566-9744; or email:
[email protected].
For technical information on the draft IRIS assessment of tert-
Butyl Alcohol, contact Dr. Janice Lee, NCEA; telephone: 919-541-9458;
or email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Information About IRIS
EPA's IRIS Program is a human health assessment program that
evaluates quantitative and qualitative risk information on effects that
may result from exposure to chemicals found in the environment. Through
the IRIS Program, EPA provides the highest quality science-based human
health assessments to support the Agency's regulatory activities and
decisions to protect public health. The IRIS database contains
information on chemicals that can be used to support the first two
steps (hazard identification and dose-response evaluation) of the human
health risk assessment process. When supported by available data, IRIS
provides health effects information and toxicity values for health
effects (including cancer and effects other than cancer). Government
and others combine IRIS toxicity values with exposure information to
characterize public health risks of chemicals; this information is then
used to support risk management decisions designed to protect public
health.
II. How To Submit Technical Comments to the Docket at
www.regulations.gov
Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2013-
0111, by one of the following methods:
www.regulations.gov: Follow the on-line instructions for
submitting comments.
Email: [email protected].
Fax: 202-566-9744.
Mail: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, EPA Docket
Center (ORD Docket), Mail Code: 28221T, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW.,
Washington, DC 20460. The phone number is 202-566-1752.
Hand Delivery: The ORD Docket is located in the EPA
Headquarters Docket Center, EPA West Building, Room 3334, 1301
Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC.
The EPA Docket Center Public Reading Room is open from 8:30 a.m. to
4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding legal holidays. The
telephone number for the Public Reading Room is 202-566-1744.
Deliveries are only accepted during the docket's normal hours of
operation, and special arrangements should be made for deliveries of
boxed information. If you provide comments by mail or hand delivery,
please submit three copies of the comments. For attachments, provide an
index, number pages consecutively with the comments, and submit an
unbound original and three copies.
Instructions: Direct your comments to Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-
2013-0111. Please ensure that your comments are submitted within the
specified comment period. Comments received after the closing date will
be marked ``late,'' and may only be considered if time permits. It is
EPA's policy to include all comments it receives in the public docket
without change and to make the comments available online at
www.regulations.gov, including any personal information provided,
unless a comment includes information claimed to be Confidential
Business Information (CBI) or other information whose disclosure is
restricted by statute. Do not submit information through
www.regulations.gov or email that you consider to be CBI or otherwise
protected. The www.regulations.gov Web site is an ``anonymous access''
system, which means EPA will not know your identity or contact
information unless you provide it in the body of your comment. If you
send an email comment directly to EPA without going through
www.regulations.gov, your email address will be automatically captured
and included as part of the comment that is placed in the public docket
and made available on the Internet. If you submit an electronic
comment, EPA recommends that you include your name and other contact
information in the body of your comment and with any disk or CD-ROM you
submit. If EPA cannot read your comment due to technical difficulties
and cannot contact you for clarification, EPA may not be able to
consider your comment. Electronic files should avoid the use of special
characters, any form of encryption, and be free of any defects or
viruses. For additional information about EPA's public docket visit the
EPA Docket Center homepage at www.epa.gov/epahome/dockets.htm.
Docket: Documents in the docket are listed in the
www.regulations.gov index.
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Although listed in the index, some information is not publicly
available, e.g., CBI or other information whose disclosure is
restricted by statute. Certain other materials, such as copyrighted
material, are publicly available only in hard copy. Publicly available
docket materials are available either electronically in
www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at the ORD Docket in the EPA
Headquarters Docket Center.
Dated: May 3, 2016.
Mary A. Ross,
Deputy Director, National Center for Environmental Assessment.
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