[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 132 (Wednesday, July 10, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Page 32917]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-14635]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
[CDC-2017-0028; Docket Number NIOSH-290]
Technical Report: The NIOSH Occupational Exposure Banding Process
for Chemical Risk Management
AGENCY: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice of availability.
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SUMMARY: NIOSH announces the availability of Technical Report: The
NIOSH Occupational Exposure Banding Process for Chemical Risk
Management.
DATES: The final document was published on July 3, 2019 on the CDC
website.
ADDRESSES: The document may be obtained at the following link: https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/2019-132/.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Thomas J. Lentz ([email protected]),
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, 1090 Tusculum Ave, MS C-32, Cincinnati,
OH 45226, phone (513) 533-8260 (not a toll free number).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On March 15, 2017, NIOSH published a request
for public review in the Federal Register [82 FR 13809] of the draft
version of the document Draft Current Intelligence Bulletin: The
Occupational Exposure Banding Process: Guidance for the Evaluation of
Chemical Hazards. NIOSH received comments from a range of respondents
including academia, government agencies, industry, and other interested
parties. All comments received were reviewed and addressed where
appropriate. On the basis of comments received, NIOSH provided
clarification in the final document to indicate that the guidance for
occupational exposure banding describes a voluntary, consistent, and
documented process with a decision logic to characterize chemical
hazards so that timely, well-informed risk management decisions can be
made for chemical substances that lack occupational exposure limits.
Additional comments pertaining to usability, clarity of the guidance,
and validation were addressed throughout the document and in specifying
future research needs. NIOSH Responses to Peer Review and Public
Comments documents can be found in the Supporting Documents section on
www.regulations.gov for this docket.
John J. Howard,
Director, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health,
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 2019-14635 Filed 7-9-19; 8:45 am]
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