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Draft Health Assessment Document for Diesel Exhaust

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 [Federal Register: August 11, 2000 (Volume 65, Number 156)]
[Notices]
[Page 49241-49242]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-6850-4]


Draft Health Assessment Document for Diesel Exhaust

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.

ACTION: Notice of availability of a draft document for public review
and comment.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing
the availability of a Science Advisory Board (SAB) review draft of the
Health Assessment Document for Diesel Exhaust (EPA/600/8-90/057E, July
2000) for public review and comment. The document was prepared by the
National Center for Environmental Assessment (NCEA) within EPA's Office
of Research and Development.

DATES: The public comment period begins August 11, 2000. Comments must
be in writing and must be postmarked by September 29, 2000.

ADDRESSES: The primary distribution method for the SAB review draft
document will be via the Internet on the National Center for
Environmental Assessment's (NCEA) web site at http://www.epa.gov/ncea
under the What's New and Publications menus. A limited number of paper
copies are available from NCEA's Technical Information Staff,
(telephone: 202-564-3261; facsimile: 202-565-0050; e-mail:
nceadc.comment@epa.gov). If you are requesting a paper copy, please
provide your name, mailing address, and the title and number of the
draft, Health Assessment Document for Diesel Exhaust (EPA/600/8-90/
057E, July 2000).
    Comments may be mailed to: Diesel Comments, NCEA-W/TIS (8623D),
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1200

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Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20460. If sent via overnight
delivery, please use the following address: 808 17th St., N.W., 5th
Floor, Washington, DC 20006. Please submit one unbound original with
pages numbered consecutively, and three copies. For attachments,
provide an index, number pages consecutively with the comments, and
submit an unbound original and three copies.
    Please note that all technical comments received in response to
this notice will be placed in a public record. For that reason,
commenters should not submit personal information (such as medical data
or home address), Confidential Business Information, or information
protected by copyright. Due to limited resources, acknowledgments will
not be sent.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For information contact the Technical
Information Staff, NCEA-W (8623D), U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone:
202-564-3261; facsimile: 202-565-0050; e-mail: nceadc.comment@epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This revised draft assessment updates an
earlier draft (November 1999) by responding to peer-review comments
dated February 2000 from the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee
(CASAC) of the EPA's SAB. The assessment focuses on health hazards
(hazard identification and dose-response analysis for the purpose of
characterizing the risk of diesel exhaust exposure), and also provides
background information about diesel engine emissions and exposure that
is useful for putting the health information into context. EPA risk
assessment methods and practices have been followed in identifying
possible human chronic health hazards for adverse noncancer effects as
well as carcinogenicity hazards. The Diesel Review Panel of the CASAC
will meet later this year to review this draft Health Assessment
Document for Diesel Exhaust. The meeting will be announced in a
subsequent Federal Register notice.

    Dated: August 3, 2000.
William H. Farland,
Director, National Center for Environmental Assessment.
[FR Doc. 00-20427 Filed 8-10-00; 8:45 am]
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