Public Health Assessments Completed

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry

[ATSDR-148]

Public Health Assessments Completed

AGENCY: Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR),

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: This notice announces those sites for which ATSDR has

completed public health assessments during the period January 1999

through March 1999. This list includes sites that are on or proposed

for inclusion on the National Priorities List (NPL), and includes sites

for which assessments were prepared in response to requests from the

public.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Robert C. Williams, P.E., DEE,

Director, Division of Health Assessment and Consultation, Agency for

Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, 1600 Clifton Road, NE., Mailstop

E-32, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, telephone (404) 639-0610.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The most recent list of completed public

health assessments was published in the Federal Register on March 30,

1999, [64 FR 15168]. This announcement is the responsibility of ATSDR

under the regulation, Public Health Assessments and Health Effects

Studies of Hazardous Substances Releases and Facilities [42 CFR Part

90]. This rule sets forth ATSDR's procedures for the conduct of public

health assessments under section 104(i) of the Comprehensive

Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), as

amended by the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA) [42

U.S.C. 9604(i)].

Availability

The completed public health assessments and addenda are available

for public inspection at the Division of Health Assessment and

Consultation, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry,

Building 33, Executive Park Drive, Atlanta, Georgia (not a mailing

address), between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday except

legal holidays. The completed public health assessments are also

available by mail through the U.S. Department of Commerce, National

Technical Information Service (NTIS), 5285 Port Royal Road,

Springfield, Virginia 22161, or by telephone at (703) 605-6000. NTIS

charges for copies of public health assessments and addenda. The NTIS

order numbers are listed in parentheses following the site names.

Public Health Assesssments Completed or Issued

Between January 1, 1999, and March 31, 1999, public health

assessments were issued for the sites listed below:

NPL Sites

Alabama

USA Annniston Army Depot--Bynum--(PB99-123846).

California

Castle Air Force Base--Atwater--(PB99-139248).

Moffet Naval Air Station (a/k/a Moffett Federal Airfield)--Mountain

View--(PB99-128910).

Connecticut

Former Clock Factories--Bristol--Thomaston--Waterbury--(PB99-

128548).

Georgia

Griffith Oil Company--Arcade--(PB99-134769).

Idaho

USAF Mountain Air Force Base--Mountain Home AFB--(PB99-128258).

Maine

Loring Air Force Base--Limestone--(PB99-134231).

New Mexico

Rinchem Company Incorporated (a/k/a Old Rinchem Incorporated)--

(PB99-123853).

Tennessee

American Bemburg Plant--Elizabethton--(PB99-129017).

Virginia

Greenwood Chemical Company--Greenwood--(PB99-132987).

U.S. Titanium--Piney River--(PB99-132979).

Non NPL Petitioned Sites

Georgia

Escambia Brunswick Wood (a/k/a Brunswick Wood Preserving)--(PB99-

128993).

Illinois

West Pullman Iron & Metal (a/k/a West Pullman/Victory Heights)--

Chicago--(PB99-134397).

Dated: June 14, 1999.

Georgi Jones,

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

Substances and Disease Registry.

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