[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 198 (Monday, October 16, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Page 71360]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-22776]



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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-ORD-2012-0830; FRL-11230-01-ORD]


Availability of the Draft IRIS Toxicological Review of Inorganic 
Arsenic

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 associated with release of the draft 
Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) Toxicological Review of 
Inorganic Arsenic. The draft document was prepared by the Center for 
Public Health and Environmental Assessment (CPHEA) within EPA's Office 
of Research and Development (ORD). EPA is releasing this draft IRIS 
assessment for public comment in advance of a Science Advisory Board 
(SAB) managed peer review. SAB will convene a public meeting to discuss 
the draft assessment with the public during Step 4 of the IRIS Process. 
The external peer reviewers will consider public comments submitted to 
the EPA docket in response to this notice and any others provided at 
the public meeting when reviewing this assessment. EPA will consider 
all comments submitted to the docket when revising the document post-
peer review. 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.

DATES: The 60-day public comment period begins October 16, 2023 and 
ends December 15, 2023. Comments must be received on or before December 
15, 2023.

ADDRESSES: The IRIS Toxicological Review of Inorganic Arsenic will be 
available via the internet on the IRIS website at https://www.epa.gov/iris/iris-recent-additions and in the public docket at http://www.regulations.gov, Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2012-0830.

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 IRIS Toxicological Review of 
Inorganic Arsenic contact the IRIS Hotline; email: 
[email protected]. The IRIS Program will provide updates through the 
IRIS website (https://www.epa.gov/iris) and via EPA's IRIS listserv. To 
register for the IRIS listserv, visit the IRIS website (https://www.epa.gov/iris) or visit https://www.epa.gov/iris/forms/staying-connected-integrated-risk-information-system#connect.
    For information about the peer review, please visit the EPA SAB 
website: https://sab.epa.gov/ords/sab/f?p=114:18:11986040837293:::RP,18:P18_ID:2631.
    For technical information on the protocol, contact Mr. Dahnish 
Shams, Center for Public Health & Environmental Assessment email: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: How to Submit Technical Comments to the 
Docket at https://www.regulations.gov. Submit your comments, identified 
by Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2012-0830 for the Inorganic Arsenic IRIS 
Assessment, 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.
    For information on visiting the EPA Docket Center Public Reading 
Room, visit https://www.epa.gov/dockets. The telephone number for the 
Public Reading Room is 202-566-1744. The public can submit comments via 
www.regulations.gov or email.
    Instructions: Direct your comments to docket number EPA-HQ-ORD-
2012-0830 for IRIS Toxicological Review of Inorganic Arsenic. Please 
ensure that your comments are submitted within the specified comment 
period. It is EPA's policy to include all comments it receives in the 
public docket within the specified comment period 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 for which 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 
website 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. 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.

Wayne Cascio,
Director, Center for Public Health & Environmental Assessment.
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