Availability of Final Toxicological Profiles

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry

[ATSDR-153]

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

toxicological profiles, comprising the 1st set developed for the

Department of Energy, 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: These toxicological profiles were developed

by ATSDR for hazardous substances at Department of Energy (DOE) waste

sites under section 104(i)(3) and (5) of the Comprehensive

Environmental

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Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA or

Superfund). This public law directed ATSDR to prepare toxicological

profiles for hazardous substances most commonly found at facilities on

the CERCLA National Priorities List (NPL) and that pose the most

significant potential threat to human health, as determined by ATSDR

and the EPA. The current ATSDR priority list of hazardous substances at

DOE NPL sites was announced in the Federal Register on July 24, 1996

(61 FR 38451).

Notice of the availability of the draft toxicological profiles for

public review and comment was published in the Federal Register on

October 28, 1997 (62 FR 55817), with notice of a 90-day public comment

period for each profile, starting from the actual release date.

Following the close of the 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 notices bear the docket control number ATSDR-

129. 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

toxicological profiles, comprising the 1st set developed for the

Department of Energy. 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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1. URANIUM.............................. PB99-163362....................... MULTIPLE.

URANIUM 235............................. .................................. 15117-96-1.

URANIUM HEXAFLUORIDE.................... .................................. 7783-81-5.

URANIUM METAL........................... .................................. 7440-61-1.

URANIUM ORE............................. .................................. 53125-22-7.

URANIUM OCTAOXIDE....................... .................................. 1344-59-8.

URANIUM PEROXIDE........................ .................................. 19525-15-6.

URANIUM TETRACHLORIDE................... .................................. 10026-10-5.

URANIUM TETRAFLUORIDE................... .................................. 10049-14-6.

URANYL ACETATE.......................... .................................. 541-09-3.

URANYL NITRATE.......................... .................................. 10102-06-4.

URANYL NITRATE HEXAHYDRATE.............. .................................. 13520-83-7.

URANYL SULFATE.......................... .................................. 1314-64-3.

2. IONIZING RADIATION................... PB99-163388....................... NA.

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Dated: December 10, 1999.

Georgi Jones,

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

Substances and Disease Registry.

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