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Title: RadNet (Renewal).
ICR numbers: EPA ICR No. 0877.10,
OMB Control No. 2060–0015.
ICR Status: This ICR is scheduled to
expire on May 31, 2010. Under OMB
regulations, the Agency may continue to
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Abstract: RadNet is a national
network of stations collecting sampling
media that include air, precipitation,
drinking water, and milk. Samples are
sent to EPA’s National Air and
Radiation Environmental Laboratory
(NAREL) in Montgomery, Alabama,
where they are analyzed for
radioactivity. RadNet provides
emergency response/homeland security
and ambient monitoring information on
levels of environmental radiation across
the nation. All stations, usually
operated by State and local personnel,
participate in RadNet voluntarily.
Station operators complete information
forms that accompany the samples. The
forms request descriptive information
pertaining to sample location, e.g.,
sample type, sample location, length of
sampling period, and volume
represented.
Burden Statement: The annual public
reporting and recordkeeping burden for
this collection of information is
estimated to average less than one hour
per response. Burden means the total
time, effort, or financial resources
expended by persons to generate,
maintain, retain, or disclose or provide
information to or for a Federal agency.
This includes the time needed to review
instructions; develop, acquire, install,
and utilize technology and systems for
the purposes of collecting, validating,
and verifying information, processing
and maintaining information, and
disclosing and providing information;
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adjust the existing ways to comply with
any previously applicable instructions
and requirements which have
subsequently changed; train personnel
to be able to respond to a collection of
information; search data sources;
complete and review the collection of
information; and transmit or otherwise
disclose the information.
Respondents/Affected Entities: All
fifty States, primarily the State Public
Health Departments.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
302.
Frequency of Response: Frequency
varies according to medium being
sampled: Milk, quarterly; drinking
water, quarterly; rain (precipitation), as
events occur; and air, twice weekly.
Estimated Total Annual Hour Burden:
8,710.
Estimated Total Annual Cost:
$480,073 in labor costs and no capital
or O&M costs.
Changes in the Estimates: There is a
decrease of 623 hours in the total
estimated burden currently identified in
the OMB Inventory of Approved ICR
Burdens. This decrease resulted from
the installation of new air monitors,
which require less time from the station
operators. The new equipment was
installed as a result of EPA’s decision to
upgrade existing air monitoring
equipment.
Dated: May 18, 2010.
John Moses,
Director, Collection Strategies Division.
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An Exposure Assessment of
Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers
(PBDEs)
AGENCY: Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of availability.
SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing
the availability of a final report titled,
‘‘An Exposure Assessment of
Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers’’ (EPA/
600/R–08/086F). This document was
prepared by the National Center for
Environmental Assessment (NCEA)
within EPA’s Office of Research and
Development in support of objectives
identified in EPA’s 2006
Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers
(PBDEs) Project Plan. This document
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provides an assessment of the exposure
of Americans to polybrominated
diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), a class of
brominated flame retardants. It includes
chapters on use and production of
PBDEs, environmental fate,
environmental and exposure media
concentrations, and an exposure
assessment including background
exposures and exposures to special
populations.
DATES: The document will be available
on or about May 24, 2010.
ADDRESSES: The report titled, ‘‘An
Exposure Assessment of
Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers’’ (EPA/
600/R–08/086F) will be available
primarily via the Internet on the NCEA
home page under the Recent Additions
and Publications menus at https://
www.epa.gov/ncea. A limited number of
paper copies are available from the
Information Management Team
(Address: Information Management
Team, National Center for
Environmental Assessment (Mail Code:
8601P), U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue,
NW., Washington, DC 20460; telephone:
703–347–8561; facsimile: 703–347–
8691). If you request a paper copy,
please provide your name, mailing
address, and the document title, ‘‘An
Exposure Assessment of
Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers’’ (EPA/
600/R–08/086F).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
technical information, contact Mr.
Matthew Lorber, NCEA; telephone: 703–
347–8535; facsimile: 703–347–8692; or
e-mail: lorber.matthew@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Information About the Document
This document provides an
assessment of the exposure of
Americans to polybrominated diphenyl
ethers (PBDEs), a class of brominated
flame retardants. The use of PBDEs as
flame retardants in products associated
with the indoor environment has led to
exposures primarily associated with
indoor dust. This exposure pattern
differs from other persistent organic
pollutants, such as dioxins and PCBs,
where exposure is dominated by food
ingestion. Human biomonitoring data
indicate blood levels of PBDEs in the
United States are higher than those
measured in other parts of the world.
Intake doses, expressed on a body
weight basis, are highest for infants who
breast feed and higher for children
compared with those for adults.
In December 2008, the draft report
was released for independent external
review, and a Federal Register notice
published on December 4, 2008,
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announced the start of a public review
and comment period. This final report
addresses comments received from both
the external peer review panel and the
public.
Dated: May 3, 2010.
Rebecca Clark,
Acting Director, National Center for
Environmental Assessment.
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Science Advisory Board Staff Office;
Notification of a Public Teleconference
and Public Meeting of the SAB Dioxin
Review Panel
AGENCY: Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice.
SUMMARY: The EPA Science Advisory
Board (SAB) Staff Office announces a
teleconference and a face-to-face
meeting of the SAB Dioxin Review
Panel to review EPA’s Reanalysis of Key
Issues Related to Dioxin Toxicity and
Response to NAS Comments, External
Review Draft.
DATES: There will be a public
teleconference on June 24, 2010 from 1
p.m. to 3:30 p.m. (Eastern Daylight
Time). The public meeting will be on
July 13 from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., July 14
from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., and July 15
from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. (Eastern
Daylight Time).
ADDRESSES: The teleconference will be
conducted by phone only. The face-toface meeting on July 13–15 will be held
at The Hilton Embassy Row Hotel, 2015
Massachusetts Avenue, NW.,
Washington, DC 20036; telephone (202)
265–1600.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Any
member of the public wishing to obtain
information concerning the public
teleconference and public meeting may
contact Dr. Thomas Armitage,
Designated Federal Officer (DFO), EPA
Science Advisory Board Staff Office
(1400F), U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue,
NW., Washington, DC 20460; by
telephone/voice mail at (202) 343–9995
or via e-mail at
armitage.thomas@epa.gov. General
information about the SAB, as well as
any updates concerning the meeting
announced in this notice, may be found
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Pursuant
to the Federal Advisory Committee Act
(FACA), 5 U.S.C., App. 2, notice is
hereby given that the SAB Dioxin
Review Panel will hold a public
teleconference to discuss the plans for
the subsequent public face-to-face
meeting to conduct a peer review of
EPA’s Reanalysis of Key Issues Related
to Dioxin Toxicity and Response to NAS
Comments, External Review Draft (May
2010). The SAB was established
pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 4365 to provide
independent scientific and technical
advice to the Administrator on the
technical basis for Agency positions and
regulations. The SAB is a Federal
Advisory Committee chartered under
FACA. The SAB will comply with the
provisions of FACA and all appropriate
SAB Staff Office procedural policies.
Background: In 2003, EPA’s Office of
Research and Development (ORD)
developed a comprehensive
reassessment of the health risks of
dioxin and related compounds. In 2004,
EPA asked the National Research
Council of the National Academy of
Sciences (NAS) to review the 2003
dioxin reassessment document. In 2006,
The NAS published its review and
identified three areas that required
substantial improvement to support a
scientifically robust risk
characterization. These areas were: (1)
Justification of approaches to doseresponse modeling for cancer and noncancer endpoints; (2) transparency and
clarity in selection of key data sets for
analysis; and (3) transparency,
thoroughness, and clarity in quantitative
uncertainty analysis. The full NAS
report, including recommendations, is
available at https://books.nap.edu/
catalog.php?record_id=11688.
In response to the recommendations
presented in the 2006 NAS review, the
EPA published a ‘‘Science Plan for
Activities Related to Dioxins in the
Environment’’ on May 26, 2009. The
plan states that EPA will prepare a draft
report that responds to the
recommendations and comments in the
NAS report and that the SAB will peer
review the science content of EPA’s
draft report. Following the SAB review,
EPA will release the final response to
comments report, and focus on
completion of the 2003 reassessment.
In response to the request from ORD,
the SAB staff office solicited
nominations of experts and formed a
review panel for dioxin [Federal
Register Notice dated October 15, 2008
(73 FR 61114–61115)]. The SAB panel
will conduct a review of the May 2010
External Review Draft of EPA’s
Reanalysis of Key Issues Related to
Dioxin Toxicity and Response to NAS
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FRL-9154-3; Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2008-0663]
An Exposure Assessment of Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers (PBDEs)
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of availability.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing
the availability of a final report titled, ``An Exposure Assessment of
Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers'' (EPA/600/R-08/086F). This document was
prepared by the National Center for Environmental Assessment (NCEA)
within EPA's Office of Research and Development in support of
objectives identified in EPA's 2006 Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers
(PBDEs) Project Plan. This document
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provides an assessment of the exposure of Americans to polybrominated
diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), a class of brominated flame retardants. It
includes chapters on use and production of PBDEs, environmental fate,
environmental and exposure media concentrations, and an exposure
assessment including background exposures and exposures to special
populations.
DATES: The document will be available on or about May 24, 2010.
ADDRESSES: The report titled, ``An Exposure Assessment of
Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers'' (EPA/600/R-08/086F) will be available
primarily via the Internet on the NCEA home page under the Recent
Additions and Publications menus at https://www.epa.gov/ncea. A limited
number of paper copies are available from the Information Management
Team (Address: Information Management Team, National Center for
Environmental Assessment (Mail Code: 8601P), U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460;
telephone: 703-347-8561; facsimile: 703-347-8691). If you request a
paper copy, please provide your name, mailing address, and the document
title, ``An Exposure Assessment of Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers''
(EPA/600/R-08/086F).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For technical information, contact Mr.
Matthew Lorber, NCEA; telephone: 703-347-8535; facsimile: 703-347-8692;
or e-mail: lorber.matthew@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Information About the Document
This document provides an assessment of the exposure of Americans
to polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), a class of brominated flame
retardants. The use of PBDEs as flame retardants in products associated
with the indoor environment has led to exposures primarily associated
with indoor dust. This exposure pattern differs from other persistent
organic pollutants, such as dioxins and PCBs, where exposure is
dominated by food ingestion. Human biomonitoring data indicate blood
levels of PBDEs in the United States are higher than those measured in
other parts of the world. Intake doses, expressed on a body weight
basis, are highest for infants who breast feed and higher for children
compared with those for adults.
In December 2008, the draft report was released for independent
external review, and a Federal Register notice published on December 4,
2008, announced the start of a public review and comment period. This
final report addresses comments received from both the external peer
review panel and the public.
Dated: May 3, 2010.
Rebecca Clark,
Acting Director, National Center for Environmental Assessment.
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