[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 243 (Wednesday, December 18, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 102892-102893]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-29865]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-ORD-2017-0497; FRL-12395-01-ORD]
Availability of the Draft IRIS Toxicological Review of Chloroform
(Inhalation)
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
Chloroform (Inhalation). 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 during external peer review. 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 December 18, 2024 and
ends February 18, 2025. Comments must be received on or before February
18, 2025.
ADDRESSES: The IRIS Toxicological Review of Chloroform (Inhalation)
will be available via the internet on the IRIS website at https://www.epa.gov/iris and in the public docket at http://www.regulations.gov, Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2017-0497.
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
Chloroform (Inhalation) contact Mr. Dahnish Shams; 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 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/r/sab_apex/sab/advisoryactivitydetail?p18_id=2651&clear=18&session=309037997993.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. How to Submit Technical Comments to the Docket at https://www.regulations.gov. Submit your comments, identified by Docket ID No.
EPA-HQ-ORD-2017-0497 for the Chloroform 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-
2017-0497 for IRIS Toxicological Review of Chloroform (Inhalation).
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 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,
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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.
[FR Doc. 2024-29865 Filed 12-17-24; 8:45 am]
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