Draft Health Assessment Document for Diesel Emissions

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

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Draft Health Assessment Document for Diesel Emissions

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.

ACTION: Notice of availability of external review draft.

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SUMMARY: This notice announces the availability an of external review

draft of the Health Assessment for Diesel Emissions for a 60-day public

review and comment period. This draft document was prepared by the U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Office of Research and

Development (ORD).

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

public review and comment on or about December 27, 1994. Comments must

be in writing and must be postmarked by February 28, 1995.

ADDRESSES: To obtain a copy of the external review draft of the Health

Assessment Document for Diesel Emissions (Volumes I and II), 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 or fax (513) 684-7566.

Please provide your name, mailing address, and the EPA document numbers

(EPA/600/8-90/057Ba and Bb).

The draft document also will be available for inspection at the EPA

Headquarters Library, Waterside Mall, 401 M Street, S.W., Washington,

DC, between 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, except

holidays.

Comments on the draft document should be sent to the Project

Manager for Diesel Emissions, Office of Health and Environmental

Assessment, Environmental Criteria and Assessment Office (MD-52). U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. William G. Ewald, Office of Health

and Environmental Assessment, Environmental Criteria and Assessment

Office (MD-52), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle

Park, NC 27711; telephone (919) 541-4164.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The draft Health Assessment Document for

Diesel Emissions summarizes scientific issues and identifies research

activities and assessments needed to improve the scientific

understanding and quantitative estimation of the health risks attendant

to the use of diesel fuels. In its initial form, the draft health

assessment was first reviewed at an expert peer-review workshop in July

1990 (55 FR 28453), which was open to the public. The present draft

incorporates revisions made in response to scientific input from the

workshop and subsequent comments on targeted issues. After the public

comment period and review by EPA's Science Advisory Board (SAB), Clean

Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC), the current draft document

will undergo further revision, and a final document will be issued.

This document supports EPA's decision-making processes that pertain to

the health effects of diesel emissions.

Dated: December 15, 1994.

Joseph K. Alexander,

Acting Assistant Administrator for Research and Development.

[FR Doc. 94-31619 Filed 12-22-94; 8:45 am]

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