[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 230 (Thursday, November 30, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 61552-61553]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-29248]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FRL-5337-2]
Technical Workshop on WTI Incinerator Risk Issues
AGENCY: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of Meeting.
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SUMMARY: EPA is announcing a workshop for scientific peer review of the
EPA draft risk assessment for the Waste Technologies Industries (WTI)
hazardous waste incinerator in East Liverpool, Ohio. The workshop will
be open to members of the public as observers. The peer review, to be
conducted by scientists from outside EPA, is being organized to assist
EPA in completing the risk assessment.
DATES: The workshop will begin on Thursday, January 11, 1996, at 7:30
a.m.
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and end on Friday, January 12, 1996, at 2 p.m. Members of the public
may attend as observers.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Holiday Inn, Georgetown,
2101 Wisconsin Avenue NW., Washington, DC, 20007. Eastern Research
Group, Inc., an EPA contractor, is providing logistical support for the
workshop. To attend the workshop as an observer, contact Eastern
Research Group, Inc., Tel: 617/674-7374 by December 20, 1995. Please
register early.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
For technical inquiries, contact Harriet Croke, U.S. EPA Region V, 77
West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, IL 60604, Telephone (312) 353-4789.
Copies of the draft risk assessment document (EPA905-D95-002a-g) will
be available in EPA regional libraries, EPA Headquarters library, and
from the National Technical Information Service (NTIS document numbers
PB96-121546, PB121553, PB96-121561, PB96-121579, PB96-121587, PB96-
121595, and PB96-121603; Phone: 1-800-553-6847). In addition, the draft
risk assessment will be available in the following libraries in the
vicinity of the WTI facility: Carnegie Public Library of East
Liverpool, 219 E. 4th St., East Liverpool, OH 43920; Lynn Murray
Memorial Library, 601 Railroad St., Chester WV 26034; Carnegie Public
Library, 61 Ninth St., Midland, PA 15059. Further, a summary of the
draft risk assessment will be available on the Internet on EPA's ORD
Home Page (http://www.epa.gov/docs/ORD/).
For other workshop information, contact William Wood, U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency (8501), 401 M Street SW., Washington,
DC 20460, Telephone (202) 260-6743.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Previously, several preliminary risk
assessments were conducted by EPA concerning the WTI incinerator. To
prepare for a final, detailed risk assessment the EPA decided, in July
1993, that the Agency would arrange independent scientific peer reviews
of both the project plan and the draft risk assessment. The first peer
review was held in December, 1993 (17 November, 1993 Federal Register,
pp. 60628-60629) and concerned the draft project plan for the risk
assessment. For this first workshop, EPA convened a peer review panel
of 13 independent scientists from the fields of toxicology,
environmental fate and transport, combustion engineering, atmospheric
modeling, and exposure assessment. The comments and recommendations
provided during this workshop are published in ``Reports on the
Technical Workshop on WTI Incinerator Risk Issues'' (EPA/630/R-94/001).
This document is available from the Center for Environmental Research
Information (Phone: 513-569-7562). Major recommendations from this
workshop included: (1) using additional incinerator performance test
data; (2) refining computer models used to simulate airborne
dispersions; (3) conducting a screening level ecological risk
assessments; and (4) performing an evaluation of accident scenarios.
For the current review, EPA is convening the same panel, enhanced
with eight additional experts in the area of ecological risk
assessments and accident analysis. These scientists will focus on the
scientific data, methods, and analyses, along with the assumptions and
uncertainties that are associated with the risk estimates at the site.
Following the workshop, EPA will consider the workshop recommendations
in completing the risk assessment. Policy and permitting issues will
not be discussed at the current workshop.
Dated: November 22, 1995.
Henry Longest II,
Acting Assistant Administrator for Research and Development.
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