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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry

ATS ID: [ATSDR-198]

NOTICE: NOTICES

ACTION: Superfund program:

DOCUMENT ACTION: Notice of availability.

SUBJECT CATEGORY: Availability of Final Toxicological Profiles

DOCUMENT SUMMARY: This notice announces the availability of three new and three updated final toxicological profiles of priority hazardous substances comprising the fifteenth set prepared by ATSDR.

SUMMARY: Hazardous substances priority list (toxicological profiles),

SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION

The Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA) (Pub. L. 99499) amends the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (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 November 7, 2003 (68 FR 63098). 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) and October 25, 2001 (66 FR 54014).

Notice of the availability of drafts of these three new and three updated toxicological profiles for public review and comment was published in the Federal Register on October 23, 2001, (66 FR 53611), with notice of a 90day public comment period for each profile, starting from the actual release date. Following the close of the comment period, chemicalspecific 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 ATSDR173. This material is available for public inspection at the Division of Toxicology, 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 three new and three updated final toxicological profiles comprising the fifteenth 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 18005536847. There is a charge for these profiles as determined by NTIS.

Fifteenth Set:
Toxicological profile NTIS Order No. CAS No. 1. Atrazine................... PB200410001 001912249 1. Fluorides (Update)......... PB200410002 016984488 2. Malathion.................. PB200410003 000121755 3. Pyrethrins and Pyrethroids. PB2004100004 \1\ 5. Selenium (Update).......... PB2004100005 007782492 6. Sulfur Mustard (Update).... PB2004100006 000505602 \1\ Various.
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Dated: January 24, 2004.
Georgi Jones,
Director, Office of Policy, Planning, and Evaluation, National Center for Environmental Health/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT Ms. Yulandia Jordon, Office of Communication, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Mailstop E29, 1600 Clifton Road, NE., Atlanta, Georgia 30333, telephone 18884228737 or (404) 4980261.