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vii. Explain your views as clearly as
possible, avoiding the use of profanity
or personal threats.
viii. Make sure to submit your
comments by the comment period
deadline identified.
3. Environmental justice. EPA seeks to
achieve environmental justice, the fair
treatment and meaningful involvement
of any group, including minority and/or
low-income populations, in the
development, implementation, and
enforcement of environmental laws,
regulations, and policies. To help
address potential environmental justice
issues, the Agency seeks information on
any groups or segments of the
population who, as a result of their
location, cultural practices, or other
factors, may have atypical or
disproportionately high and adverse
human health impacts or environmental
effects from exposure to the pesticides
discussed in this document, compared
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II. What Action is the Agency Taking?
EPA is announcing its receipt of
several pesticide petitions filed under
section 408 of the Federal Food, Drug,
and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), 21 U.S.C.
346a, proposing the establishment or
modification of regulations in 40 CFR
part 174 or part 180 for residues of
pesticide chemicals in or on various
food commodities. EPA has determined
that the pesticide petitions described in
this notice contain the data or
information prescribed in FFDCA
section 408(d)(2); however, EPA has not
fully evaluated the sufficiency of the
submitted data at this time or whether
the data support granting of the
pesticide petitions. Additional data may
be needed before EPA can make a final
determination on these pesticide
petitions.
Pursuant to 40 CFR 180.7(f), a
summary of each of the petitions that
are the subject of this notice, prepared
by the petitioner, is included in a docket
EPA has created for each rulemaking.
The docket for each of the petitions is
available on-line at https://
www.regulations.gov.
As specified in FFDCA section
408(d)(3), (21 U.S.C. 346a(d)(3)), EPA is
publishing notice of the petition so that
the public has an opportunity to
comment on this request for the
establishment or modification of
regulations for residues of pesticides in
or on food commodities. Further
information on the petition may be
obtained through the petition summary
referenced in this unit.
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New Tolerance Exemption
1. PP 9E7557. (EPA–HQ–OPP–2009–
0479). Rhodia, Inc., 8 Cedar Brook Dr.,
Cranbury, NJ 08512, proposes to
establish an exemption from the
requirement of a tolerance for residues
of alkyl (C12-C16) dimethyl ammonio
acetate (ADAA) when used as a
pesticide inert ingredient in pesticide
formulations applied to growing crops
and when applied to animals, under 40
CFR 180.920 and 180.930, with a limit
of up to 20 percent of pesticide
formulations. This tolerance expression
includes: alkyl (C12) dimethyl ammonio
acetate (C12-ADAA), CAS No. 683–10–3;
alkyl (C14) dimethyl ammonio acetate
(C14-ADAA), CAS No. 2601–33–4; and
alkyl (C16) dimethyl ammonio acetate
(C16-ADAA), CAS No. 693–33–4. The
petitioner believes no analytical method
is needed because this petition is a
request for an exemption from the
requirement of a tolerance. Contact:
Elizabeth Fertich, (703) 347–8560;
fertich.elizabeth@epa.gov.
2. PP 9E7562. (EPA–HQ–OPP–2008–
0822). Akzo Nobel Surface Chemistry,
LLC, 525 West Van Buren St., Chicago,
IL 60607-3823, proposes to establish an
exemption from the requirement of
tolerances in 40 CFR 180.910 for
residues of mono-, di-, and
trimethylnapthalenesulfonic acids and
napthalenesulfonic acids formaldehyde
condensates, ammonium and sodium
salts when used as a pesticide inert
ingredient in pesticide formulations in
or on all raw agricultural commodities.
The petitioner believes no analytical
method is needed because this petition
is a request for an exemption from the
requirement of a tolerance. Contact:
Elizabeth Fertich, (703) 347–8560;
fertich.elizabeth@epa.gov.
List of Subjects
Environmental protection,
Agricultural commodities, Feed
additives, Food additives, Pesticides
and pests, Reporting and recordkeeping
requirements.
Dated: August 11, 2009.
G. Jeffrey Herndon,
Acting Director, Registration Division, Office
of Pesticide Programs.
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
[EPA–HQ–OPPT–2009–0001; FRL–8414–3]
Proposed Acute Exposure Guideline
Levels for Hazardous Substances;
Notice of Availability
AGENCY: Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
SUMMARY: The National Advisory
Committee for Acute Exposure
Guideline Levels for Hazardous
Substances (NAC/AEGL Committee) is
developing AEGLs on an ongoing basis
to provide Federal, State, and local
agencies with information on short-term
exposures to hazardous substances. This
notice provides a list of 19 proposed
AEGLs that are available for public
review and comment. Comments are
welcome on both the proposed AEGLs
and their Technical Support Documents
placed in the docket.
DATES: Comments must be received on
or before September 18, 2009.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments,
identified by docket identification (ID)
number EPA–HQ–OPPT–2009–0001, by
one of the following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the on-line
instructions for submitting comments.
• Mail: Document Control Office
(7407M), Office of Pollution Prevention
and Toxics (OPPT), Environmental
Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania
Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460–
0001.
• Hand Delivery: OPPT Document
Control Office (DCO), EPA East Bldg.,
Rm. 6428, 1201 Constitution Ave., NW.,
Washington, DC. Attention: Docket ID
Number EPA–HQ–OPPT–2009–0001.
The DCO is open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.,
Monday through Friday, excluding legal
holidays. The telephone number for the
DCO is (202) 564–8930. Such deliveries
are only accepted during the DCO’s
normal hours of operation, and special
arrangements should be made for
deliveries of boxed information.
Instructions: Direct your comments to
docket ID number EPA–HQ–OPPT–
2009–0001. EPA’s policy is that all
comments received will be included in
the docket without change and may be
made available on-line at https://
www.regulations.gov, including any
personal information provided, unless
the comment includes information
claimed to be Confidential Business
Information (CBI) or other information
whose disclosure is restricted by statute.
Do not submit information that you
consider to be CBI or otherwise
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protected through regulations.gov or email. The regulations.gov website is an
‘‘anonymous access’’ system, which
means EPA will not know your identity
or contact information unless you
provide it in the body of your comment.
If you send an e-mail comment directly
to EPA without going through
regulations.gov, your e-mail address
will be automatically captured and
included as part of the comment that is
placed in the docket and made available
on the Internet. If you submit an
electronic comment, EPA recommends
that you include your name and other
contact information in the body of your
comment and with any disk or CD-ROM
you submit. If EPA cannot read your
comment due to technical difficulties
and cannot contact you for clarification,
EPA may not be able to consider your
comment. Electronic files should avoid
the use of special characters, any form
of encryption, and be free of any defects
or viruses. For additional information
about EPA’s public docket, visit the EPA
Docket Center homepage at https://
www.epa.gov/epahome/dockets.htm.
Docket: All documents in the docket
are listed in the docket index available
at https://www.regulations.gov. Although
listed in the index, some information is
not publicly available, e.g., CBI or other
information whose disclosure is
restricted by statute. Certain other
material, such as copyrighted material,
will be publicly available only in hard
copy. Publicly available docket
materials are available electronically at
https://www.regulations.gov, or, if only
available in hard copy, at the OPPT
Docket. The OPPT Docket is located in
the EPA Docket Center (EPA/DC) at Rm.
3334, EPA West Bldg., 1301
Constitution Ave., NW., Washington,
DC. The EPA/DC Public Reading Room
hours of operation are 8:30 a.m. to 4:30
p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding
Federal holidays. The telephone number
of the EPA/DC Public Reading Room is
(202) 566–1744, and the telephone
number for the OPPT Docket is (202)
566–0280. Docket visitors are required
to show photographic identification,
pass through a metal detector, and sign
the EPA visitor log. All visitor bags are
processed through an X-ray machine
and subject to search. Visitors will be
provided an EPA/DC badge that must be
visible at all times in the building and
returned upon departure.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
general information contact: Colby
Lintner, Regulatory Coordinator,
Environmental Assistance Division
(7408M), Office of Pollution Prevention
and Toxics, Environmental Protection
Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW.,
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Washington, DC 20460–0001; telephone
number: (202) 554–1404; e-mail address:
TSCA-Hotline@epa.gov.
For technical information contact:
Paul S. Tobin, Designated Federal
Officer (DFO), Office of Pollution
Prevention and Toxics (7406M),
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200
Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington,
DC 20460; telephone number: (202)
564–8557; e-mail address:
tobin.paul@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. General Information
A. Does this Action Apply to Me?
This action is directed to the general
public to provide an opportunity for
review and comment on proposed
AEGLs and their Technical Support
Documents. This action may be of
particular interest to anyone who may
be affected if the AEGLs are adopted by
government agencies for emergency
planning, prevention, or response
programs, such as EPAs Risk
Management Program under the Clean
Air Act and Amendments Section 112r.
It is possible that other Federal agencies
besides EPA, as well as State and local
agencies and private organizations, may
adopt the AEGLs for their programs. As
such, the Agency has not attempted to
describe all the specific entities that
may be affected by this action. If you
have any questions regarding the
applicability of this action to a
particular entity, consult the DFO listed
under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT.
B. What Should I Consider as I Prepare
My Comments for EPA?
1. Submitting CBI. Do not submit this
information to EPA through
regulations.gov or e-mail. Clearly mark
the part or all of the information that
you claim to be CBI. For CBI
information in a disk or CD-ROM that
you mail to EPA, mark the outside of the
disk or CD-ROM that you mail to EPA,
mark the outside of the disk or CD-ROM
as CBI and then identify electronically
within the disk or CD-ROM the specific
information that is claimed as CBI. In
addition to one complete version of the
comment that includes information
claimed as CBI, a copy of the comment
that does not contain the information
claimed as CBI must be submitted for
inclusion in the public docket.
Information so marked will not be
disclosed except in accordance with
procedures set forth in 40 CFR part 2.
2. Tips for preparing your comments.
When submitting comments, remember
to:
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i. Identify the document by docket ID
number and other identifying
information (subject heading, Federal
Register date and page number).
ii. Follow directions. The Agency may
ask you to respond to specific questions
or organize comments by referencing a
Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) part
or section number.
iii. Explain why you agree or disagree;
suggest alternatives and substitute
language for your requested changes.
iv. Describe any assumptions and
provide any technical information and/
or data that you used.
v. If you estimate potential costs or
burdens, explain how you arrived at
your estimate in sufficient detail to
allow for it to be reproduced.
vi. Provide specific examples to
illustrate your concerns and suggest
alternatives.
vii. Explain your views as clearly as
possible, avoiding the use of profanity
or personal threats.
viii. Make sure to submit your
comments by the comment period
deadline identified.
II. What Action is the Agency Taking?
EPAs Office of Prevention, Pesticides
and Toxic Substances (OPPTS) provided
notice on October 31, 1995 (60 FR
55376) (FRL–4987–3) of the
establishment of the NAC/AEGL
Committee with the stated charter
objective as ‘‘the efficient and effective
development of AEGLs and the
preparation of supplementary
qualitative information on the
hazardous substances for Federal, State,
and Local agencies and organizations in
the private sector concerned with
[chemical] emergency planning,
prevention, and response.’’ The NAC/
AEGL Committee is a discretionary
Federal advisory committee formed
with the intent to develop AEGLs for
hazardous substances through the
combined efforts of stakeholder
members from both the public and
private sectors in a cost-effective
approach that avoids duplication of
efforts and provides uniform values,
while employing the most scientifically
sound methods available.
This action provides notice of
availability for public review and
comment, of proposed AEGLs and
underlying supporting documents for 19
hazardous substances. These AEGLs
represent the 12th set of exposure levels
proposed and published by the NAC/
AEGL Committee. These 12 sets of
AEGLs cover 259 hazardous substances.
Background information on the AEGL
Program may be found in these earlier
Federal Register notices, in the
regulations.gov, or on the AEGL
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webpage (https://www.epa.gov/oppt/
aegl).
Following public review and
comment, the NAC/AEGL Committee
will reconvene to consider relevant
comments, data, and information that
may have an impact on the NAC/AEGL
Committees position and will again seek
consensus for the establishment of
Interim AEGLs. Although the Interim
AEGLs will be available to Federal,
State and local agencies and to
organizations in the private sector as
biological reference values, it is
intended to have them reviewed by a
subcommittee of the National
Academies (NAS). The NAS
subcommittee will serve as a peer
review of the Interim AEGLs and as the
final arbiter in the resolution of issues
regarding the AEGLs, and the data and
basic methodology used for setting
AEGLs. Following concurrence, Final
AEGLs will be published under the
auspices of the NAS.
III. List of Hazardous Substances
On behalf of the NAC/AEGL
Committee, EPA is providing an
opportunity for public comment on the
proposed AEGLs for the 19 hazardous
substances identified in the table in this
unit. Technical Support Documents are
available in the docket for this notice.
See ADDRESSES for docket information.
Chemical Name
CAS Number
106–88–7
Bromoacetone
598–31–2
Cyanogen
460–19–5
Ethylbenzene
100–41–4
Ethylisocyanate
109–90–0
Ethylphosphorodichloridate
1498–51–7
Germane
7782–65–2
Malathion
121–75–5
Methylisothiocyanate
556–61–6
Methylparathion
298–00–0
n-Butyl isocyanate
111–36–4
Nitrogentrifluoride
7783–54–2
Nitrogentetroxide
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1,2-Butylene oxide
10544–72–6
Parathion
56–38–2
Phenyl isocyanate
103–71–9
Phorate
298–02–2
t-Octyl mercaptan
141–59–3
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Chemical Name
CAS Number
Tear gas
2698–41–1
Trimethylacetyl chloride
3282–30–2
List of Subjects
Environmental protection, Acute
Exposure Guideline Levels, Hazardous
substances, Health.
Dated: August 4, 2009.
Stephen A. Owens,
Assistant Administrator, Office of Prevention,
Pesticides and Toxic Substances.
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
[EPA–HQ–OPP–2009–0045; FRL–8426–7]
Notice of Receipt of Several Pesticide
Petitions Filed for Residues of
Pesticide Chemicals in or on Various
Commodities
AGENCY: Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
SUMMARY: This notice announces the
Agency’s receipt of several initial filings
of pesticide petitions proposing the
establishment or modification of
regulations for residues of pesticide
chemicals in or on various commodities.
DATES: Comments must be received on
or before September 18, 2009.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments,
identified by docket identification (ID)
number and the pesticide petition
number (PP) of interest as shown in the
body of this document, by one of the
following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the on-line
instructions for submitting comments.
• Mail: Office of Pesticide Programs
(OPP) Regulatory Public Docket (7502P),
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200
Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington,
DC 20460–0001.
• Delivery: OPP Regulatory Public
Docket (7502P), Environmental
Protection Agency, Rm. S–4400, One
Potomac Yard (South Bldg.), 2777 S.
Crystal Dr., Arlington, VA. Deliveries
are only accepted during the Docket
Facility’s normal hours of operation
(8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through
Friday, excluding legal holidays).
Special arrangements should be made
for deliveries of boxed information. The
Docket Facility telephone number is
(703) 305–5805.
Instructions: Direct your comments to
the docket ID number and the pesticide
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petition number of interest as shown in
the body of this document. EPA’s policy
is that all comments received will be
included in the docket without change
and may be made available on-line at
https://www.regulations.gov, including
any personal information provided,
unless the comment includes
information claimed to be Confidential
Business Information (CBI) or other
information whose disclosure is
restricted by statute. Do not submit
information that you consider to be CBI
or otherwise protected through
regulations.gov or e-mail. The
regulations.gov website is an
‘‘anonymous access’’ system, which
means EPA will not know your identity
or contact information unless you
provide it in the body of your comment.
If you send an e-mail comment directly
to EPA without going through
regulations.gov, your e-mail address
will be automatically captured and
included as part of the comment that is
placed in the docket and made available
on the Internet. If you submit an
electronic comment, EPA recommends
that you include your name and other
contact information in the body of your
comment and with any disk or CD-ROM
you submit. If EPA cannot read your
comment due to technical difficulties
and cannot contact you for clarification,
EPA may not be able to consider your
comment. Electronic files should avoid
the use of special characters, any form
of encryption, and be free of any defects
or viruses.
Docket: All documents in the docket
are listed in the docket index available
at https://www.regulations.gov. Although
listed in the index, some information is
not publicly available, e.g., CBI or other
information whose disclosure is
restricted by statute. Certain other
material, such as copyrighted material,
is not placed on the Internet and will be
publicly available only in hard copy
form. Publicly available docket
materials are available either in the
electronic docket at https://
www.regulations.gov, or, if only
available in hard copy, at the OPP
Regulatory Public Docket in Rm. S–
4400, One Potomac Yard (South Bldg.),
2777 S. Crystal Dr., Arlington, VA. The
hours of operation of this Docket
Facility are from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.,
Monday through Friday, excluding legal
holidays. The Docket Facility telephone
number is (703) 305–5805.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: A
contact person, with telephone number
and e-mail address, is listed at the end
of each pesticide petition summary. You
may also reach each contact person by
mail at Registration Division (7505P),
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[EPA-HQ-OPPT-2009-0001; FRL-8414-3]
Proposed Acute Exposure Guideline Levels for Hazardous
Substances; Notice of Availability
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The National Advisory Committee for Acute Exposure Guideline
Levels for Hazardous Substances (NAC/AEGL Committee) is developing
AEGLs on an ongoing basis to provide Federal, State, and local agencies
with information on short-term exposures to hazardous substances. This
notice provides a list of 19 proposed AEGLs that are available for
public review and comment. Comments are welcome on both the proposed
AEGLs and their Technical Support Documents placed in the docket.
DATES: Comments must be received on or before September 18, 2009.
ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, identified by docket identification
(ID) number EPA-HQ-OPPT-2009-0001, by one of the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://www.regulations.gov.
Follow the on-line instructions for submitting comments.
Mail: Document Control Office (7407M), Office of
Pollution Prevention and Toxics (OPPT), Environmental Protection
Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460-0001.
Hand Delivery: OPPT Document Control Office (DCO), EPA
East Bldg., Rm. 6428, 1201 Constitution Ave., NW., Washington, DC.
Attention: Docket ID Number EPA-HQ-OPPT-2009-0001. The DCO is open from
8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding legal holidays. The
telephone number for the DCO is (202) 564-8930. Such deliveries are
only accepted during the DCO's normal hours of operation, and special
arrangements should be made for deliveries of boxed information.
Instructions: Direct your comments to docket ID number EPA-HQ-OPPT-
2009-0001. EPA's policy is that all comments received will be included
in the docket without change and may be made available on-line at
https://www.regulations.gov, including any personal information
provided, unless the comment includes information claimed to be
Confidential Business Information (CBI) or other information whose
disclosure is restricted by statute. Do not submit information that you
consider to be CBI or otherwise
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protected through regulations.gov or e-mail. The regulations.gov
website is an ``anonymous access'' system, which means EPA will not
know your identity or contact information unless you provide it in the
body of your comment. If you send an e-mail comment directly to EPA
without going through regulations.gov, your e-mail address will be
automatically captured and included as part of the comment that is
placed in the docket and made available on the Internet. If you submit
an electronic comment, EPA recommends that you include your name and
other contact information in the body of your comment and with any disk
or CD-ROM you submit. If EPA cannot read your comment due to technical
difficulties and cannot contact you for clarification, EPA may not be
able to consider your comment. Electronic files should avoid the use of
special characters, any form of encryption, and be free of any defects
or viruses. For additional information about EPA's public docket, visit
the EPA Docket Center homepage at https://www.epa.gov/epahome/dockets.htm.
Docket: All documents in the docket are listed in the docket index
available at https://www.regulations.gov. Although listed in the index,
some information is not publicly available, e.g., CBI or other
information whose disclosure is restricted by statute. Certain other
material, such as copyrighted material, will be publicly available only
in hard copy. Publicly available docket materials are available
electronically at https://www.regulations.gov, or, if only available in
hard copy, at the OPPT Docket. The OPPT Docket is located in the EPA
Docket Center (EPA/DC) at Rm. 3334, EPA West Bldg., 1301 Constitution
Ave., NW., Washington, DC. The EPA/DC Public Reading Room hours of
operation are 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding
Federal holidays. The telephone number of the EPA/DC Public Reading
Room is (202) 566-1744, and the telephone number for the OPPT Docket is
(202) 566-0280. Docket visitors are required to show photographic
identification, pass through a metal detector, and sign the EPA visitor
log. All visitor bags are processed through an X-ray machine and
subject to search. Visitors will be provided an EPA/DC badge that must
be visible at all times in the building and returned upon departure.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For general information contact: Colby
Lintner, Regulatory Coordinator, Environmental Assistance Division
(7408M), Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics, Environmental
Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460-
0001; telephone number: (202) 554-1404; e-mail address: TSCA-Hotline@epa.gov.
For technical information contact: Paul S. Tobin, Designated
Federal Officer (DFO), Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics
(7406M), Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW.,
Washington, DC 20460; telephone number: (202) 564-8557; e-mail address:
tobin.paul@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. General Information
A. Does this Action Apply to Me?
This action is directed to the general public to provide an
opportunity for review and comment on proposed AEGLs and their
Technical Support Documents. This action may be of particular interest
to anyone who may be affected if the AEGLs are adopted by government
agencies for emergency planning, prevention, or response programs, such
as EPAs Risk Management Program under the Clean Air Act and Amendments
Section 112r. It is possible that other Federal agencies besides EPA,
as well as State and local agencies and private organizations, may
adopt the AEGLs for their programs. As such, the Agency has not
attempted to describe all the specific entities that may be affected by
this action. If you have any questions regarding the applicability of
this action to a particular entity, consult the DFO listed under FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.
B. What Should I Consider as I Prepare My Comments for EPA?
1. Submitting CBI. Do not submit this information to EPA through
regulations.gov or e-mail. Clearly mark the part or all of the
information that you claim to be CBI. For CBI information in a disk or
CD-ROM that you mail to EPA, mark the outside of the disk or CD-ROM
that you mail to EPA, mark the outside of the disk or CD-ROM as CBI and
then identify electronically within the disk or CD-ROM the specific
information that is claimed as CBI. In addition to one complete version
of the comment that includes information claimed as CBI, a copy of the
comment that does not contain the information claimed as CBI must be
submitted for inclusion in the public docket. Information so marked
will not be disclosed except in accordance with procedures set forth in
40 CFR part 2.
2. Tips for preparing your comments. When submitting comments,
remember to:
i. Identify the document by docket ID number and other identifying
information (subject heading, Federal Register date and page number).
ii. Follow directions. The Agency may ask you to respond to
specific questions or organize comments by referencing a Code of
Federal Regulations (CFR) part or section number.
iii. Explain why you agree or disagree; suggest alternatives and
substitute language for your requested changes.
iv. Describe any assumptions and provide any technical information
and/or data that you used.
v. If you estimate potential costs or burdens, explain how you
arrived at your estimate in sufficient detail to allow for it to be
reproduced.
vi. Provide specific examples to illustrate your concerns and
suggest alternatives.
vii. Explain your views as clearly as possible, avoiding the use
of profanity or personal threats.
viii. Make sure to submit your comments by the comment period
deadline identified.
II. What Action is the Agency Taking?
EPAs Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances (OPPTS)
provided notice on October 31, 1995 (60 FR 55376) (FRL-4987-3) of the
establishment of the NAC/AEGL Committee with the stated charter
objective as ``the efficient and effective development of AEGLs and the
preparation of supplementary qualitative information on the hazardous
substances for Federal, State, and Local agencies and organizations in
the private sector concerned with [chemical] emergency planning,
prevention, and response.'' The NAC/AEGL Committee is a discretionary
Federal advisory committee formed with the intent to develop AEGLs for
hazardous substances through the combined efforts of stakeholder
members from both the public and private sectors in a cost-effective
approach that avoids duplication of efforts and provides uniform
values, while employing the most scientifically sound methods
available.
This action provides notice of availability for public review and
comment, of proposed AEGLs and underlying supporting documents for 19
hazardous substances. These AEGLs represent the 12\th\ set of exposure
levels proposed and published by the NAC/AEGL Committee. These 12 sets
of AEGLs cover 259 hazardous substances. Background information on the
AEGL Program may be found in these earlier Federal Register notices, in
the regulations.gov, or on the AEGL
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webpage (https://www.epa.gov/oppt/aegl).
Following public review and comment, the NAC/AEGL Committee will
reconvene to consider relevant comments, data, and information that may
have an impact on the NAC/AEGL Committees position and will again seek
consensus for the establishment of Interim AEGLs. Although the Interim
AEGLs will be available to Federal, State and local agencies and to
organizations in the private sector as biological reference values, it
is intended to have them reviewed by a subcommittee of the National
Academies (NAS). The NAS subcommittee will serve as a peer review of
the Interim AEGLs and as the final arbiter in the resolution of issues
regarding the AEGLs, and the data and basic methodology used for
setting AEGLs. Following concurrence, Final AEGLs will be published
under the auspices of the NAS.
III. List of Hazardous Substances
On behalf of the NAC/AEGL Committee, EPA is providing an
opportunity for public comment on the proposed AEGLs for the 19
hazardous substances identified in the table in this unit. Technical
Support Documents are available in the docket for this notice. See
ADDRESSES for docket information.
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Chemical Name CAS Number
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1,2-Butylene oxide 106-88-7
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Bromoacetone 598-31-2
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Cyanogen 460-19-5
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Ethylbenzene 100-41-4
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Ethylisocyanate 109-90-0
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Ethylphosphorodichloridate 1498-51-7
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Germane 7782-65-2
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Malathion 121-75-5
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Methylisothiocyanate 556-61-6
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Methylparathion 298-00-0
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n-Butyl isocyanate 111-36-4
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Nitrogentrifluoride 7783-54-2
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Nitrogentetroxide 10544-72-6
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Parathion 56-38-2
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Phenyl isocyanate 103-71-9
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Phorate 298-02-2
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t-Octyl mercaptan 141-59-3
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Tear gas 2698-41-1
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Trimethylacetyl chloride 3282-30-2
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List of Subjects
Environmental protection, Acute Exposure Guideline Levels,
Hazardous substances, Health.
Dated: August 4, 2009.
Stephen A. Owens,
Assistant Administrator, Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic
Substances.
[FR Doc. 09-19860 Filed 8-18-09; 8:45 am]
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