Availability of Final Toxicological Profiles

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry

[ATSDR-116]

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 two new final and

eight updated final toxicological profiles of priority hazardous

substances comprising the eighth set prepared by ATSDR.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Loretta Norman, Division of

Toxicology, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Mailstop

E-29, 1600 Clifton Road, NE., Atlanta, Georgia 30333, telephone (404)

639-6322.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization

Act (SARA) (Pub. L. 99-499) 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 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with regard to hazardous

substances which 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 most hazardous

substances was announced in the Federal Register on April 29, 1996 (61

FR 18744). 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);

and February 28, 1994 (59 FR 9486).

Notice of the availability of drafts of the eighth set of

toxicological profiles for public review and comment was published in

the Federal Register on October 21, 1994 (59 FR 53186), with notice of

a 90-day public comment period for each profile, starting from the

actual release date. Following the close of each 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 notice bear

the docket control number ATSDR-88. This material is available for

public inspection at the Division of Toxicology, Agency for Toxic

Substances and Disease Registry, Building 4, Suite 2400, Executive Park

Drive, 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 two new final and eight

updated final toxicological profiles comprising the eighth 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.

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Toxicological profile NTIS order No. CAS No.

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Eighth Set:

1. Carbon Disulfide PB97-121073 75-15-0

(UPDATE).

2. Creosote (UPDATE)....... PB97-121024 8001-58-9

3. Diazinon................ PB97-121107 333-41-5

4. 1,2-Dichloroethene PB97-121081 156-60-5

(trans) & 1,2- 156-59-2

Dichloroethene (cis)

(UPDATE).

5. Endrin and Endrin PB97-121040 72-20-8

Aldehyde (UPDATE). 53494-70-5

6. Hexachlorobenzene PB97-121065 118-74-1

(UPDATE).

7. Methyl T-Butyl Ether.... PB97-121016 1634-04-4

8. Selenium (UPDATE)....... PB97-121032 7782-49-2

9. 1,1,2,2- PB97-121099 79-34-5

Tetrachloroethane (UPDATE).

10. Toxaphene (UPDATE)..... PB97-121057 8001-35-2

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Dated: January 27, 1997.

Georgi Jones,

Director, Office of Policy and External Affairs, Agency for Toxic

Substances and Disease Registry.

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