[Federal Register: November 24, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 226)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
[ATSDR-226]
Availability of Final Toxicological Profiles
AGENCY: Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR),
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice of availability.
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SUMMARY: This notice announces the availability of one new and five
updated final toxicological profiles of priority hazardous substances
comprising the eighteenth set prepared by ATSDR.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Olga Dawkins, Division of
Toxicology and Environmental Medicine, Agency for Toxic Substances and
Disease Registry, Mailstop F-32, 1600 Clifton Road, NE., Atlanta,
Georgia 30333, telephone (770) 488-3315. Electronic access to these
documents is also
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available at the ATSDR Web site: http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxpro2.html.
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 lists of hazardous substances. These lists identified 275
hazardous substances that ATSDR and EPA determined pose the most
significant potential threat to human health. The availability of the
revised list of the 275 priority substances was announced in the
Federal Register on December 7, 2005 (70 FR 234). 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) and November 7,
2003 (68 FR 63098).
Notice of the availability of drafts of these five updated and one
new toxicological profiles for public review and comment was published
in the Federal Register on October 22, 2004, (69 FR 62049), 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 were addressed, and, where appropriate,
changes were incorporated into each profile. The public comments and
other data submitted in response to the Federal Register notices bear
the docket control number ATSDR-205. This material is available for
public inspection at the Division of Toxicology and Environmental
Medicine, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, 1825
Century Boulevard, Atlanta, Georgia (not a mailing address), between 8
a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, except legal holidays.
Availability
This notice announces the availability of one new and five updated
final toxicological profiles of priority hazardous substances
comprising the eighteenth set prepared by ATSDR.
The following toxicological profiles are now available through the
U.S. Department of Commerce, National Technical Information Service
(NTIS), 5285 Port Royal Road, Springfield, Virginia 22161, telephone 1-
800-553-6847. There is a charge for these profiles as determined by
NTIS.
Eighteenth Set:
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Toxicological profile NTIS Order No. CAS No.
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1. Cyanide, Hydrogen cyanide, Sodium PB2007-100674 000057-12-5
cyanide, Potassium cyanide.......... 000074-90-8
000143-33-9
000151-50-8
2. Dichlorobenzenes, 1, 2- PB2007-100672 025321-22-6
Dichlorobenzene, 1,3- 000095-50-1
Dichlorobenzene, 1,4-Dichlorobenzene 00541-73-1
00106-46-7
3. 1, 4-Dioxane *.................... PB2007-100676 000123-91-1
4. Hydrogen Sulfide.................. PB2007-100675 007783-065-4
5. 1, 1, 1-Trichloroethane........... PB2007-100673 000071-55-6
6. Vinyl Chloride.................... PB2007-100671 000075-01-4
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* Denotes new profile
Dated: November 17, 2006.
Ken Rose,
Acting Director, Office of Policy, Planning and Evaluation, National
Center for Environmental Health/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease
Registry.
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