External Review Draft of Revised Air Quality Criteria for Ozone and Related Photochemical Oxidants

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[ECAO-RTP-0746; FRL-4831-7]

External Review Draft of Revised Air Quality Criteria for Ozone

and Related Photochemical Oxidants

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.

ACTION: Notice of availability of external review draft.

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SUMMARY: This notice announces the availability of an external review

draft of the document, ``Air Quality Criteria for Ozone and Related

Photochemical Oxidants,'' prepared by the U.S. Environmental Protection

Agency's (EPA) Office of Research and Development (ORD), and invites

comment from the public on the draft document.

DATES: The Agency will make the external review draft available for

public review and comment in two stages. All but two chapters will be

made available on or about February 1, 1994. The draft of an Integrated

Health Summary Chapter and of an Executive Summary for the entire

document will be made available on or about March 1, 1994. Comments on

the entire document must be submitted in writing and postmarked by

April 30, 1994.

ADDRESSES: To obtain copies of both parts of the external review draft

document, interested parties should contact the ORD Publications

Center, CERI-FRN, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 26 West Martin

Luther King Drive, Cincinnati, OH 45268; telephone (513) 569-7562; FAX

(513) 569-7566; and request the external review draft of ``Air Quality

Criteria for Ozone and Related Photochemical Oxidants.'' Please provide

your name, mailing address, and the EPA document number, EPA/600/AP-93/

004/a-c.

The draft document will also be available for public inspection at

the EPA Library, EPA Headquarters, Waterside Mall, 401 M Street, SW.,

Washington, DC, during the same period noted above. Library hours are

10 a.m. until 2 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding holidays.

Comments on the draft should be sent to the Project Manager for the

Ozone Air Quality Criteria and Assessment Office (MD-52), U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Mr. James A. Raub, Environmental Criteria and Assessment Office (MD-

52), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC

27711; telephone (919) 541-4157.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: As discussed in a previous call for

information (57 FR 38832, August 27, 1992), EPA is undertaking to

review and, where appropriate, update and revise the 1986 document,

``Air Quality Criteria for Ozone and Related Photochemical Oxidants''

(EPA/600/8-84/020af-ef). EPA is making available for public review an

external review draft of the revised document. Members of the public

have the opportunity to submit written review comments on the draft

document within the 90-day comment period (60 days for the Integrated

Health Summary and Executive Summary Chapters). EPA will consider all

comments received within that period.

Dated: January 25, 1994.

Gary J. Foley,

Acting Assistant Administrator for Research and Development.

[FR Doc. 94-2095 Filed 1-28-94; 8:45 am]

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