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[FR Doc No: 94-20553]
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[Federal Register: August 22, 1994]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
[FRL-5055-1]
Workshop on Revising the Guidelines for Carcinogen Risk
Assessment; Meetings
AGENCY: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
ACTION: Notice of meeting.
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SUMMARY: This notice announces a workshop sponsored by the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) Office of Health and
Environmental Assessment (OHEA) and Risk Assessment Forum. OHEA and the
Risk Assessment Forum will convene a panel of experts to review a draft
document entitled, Draft Revisions to the Guidelines for Carcinogen
Risk Assessment (External Review Draft, August 1994). Discussion will
focus on the proposed revisions to the Agency's cancer risk assessment
guidelines.
DATES: The workshop will be held Monday, September 12, 1994, through
Wednesday, September 14, 1994. The meeting will begin at 8:30 a.m. and
end at 5 p.m. on Monday and Tuesday, and will begin at 9 a.m. and end
at noon on Wednesday. Members of the public may attend as observers.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, 1800
Presidential Street, Reston, Virginia 22090, Tel: 703/709-1234.
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., 110 Hartwell Avenue,
Lexington, Massachusetts 02173, Tel: 617/674-7374 by August 31, 1994.
Space is limited, so please register early.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
For technical inquiries, contact Dr. Harry Teitelbaum, U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency (8101), 401 M Street, SW., Washington,
DC 20460, Tel: 202/260-6743.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 1986, EPA published Guidelines for
Carcinogen Risk Assessment (51 FR 33992; September 24, 1986).
Scientific advances in both risk assessment and carcinogenesis have led
EPA and the broader scientific community to new perspectives on cancer
risk assessment and related new perspectives on EPA's Cancer Risk
Assessment Guidelines.
As part of its efforts to update and revise the 1986 Guidelines,
the Agency will hold a workshop in Reston, Virginia, on September 12-
14, 1994, to discuss the major changes contemplated for these
guidelines. At this meeting, experts on cancer risk assessment and its
associated sciences will comment on and discuss a working draft for
revising the 1986 cancer risk assessment guidelines. The workshop aims
to produce recommendations to the Agency on the use of default
assumptions and wider application of mechanistic data in cancer risk
assessment, among other things.
To obtain a single copy of the draft document (paper or Word
Perfect 5.1 disk), interested parties should contact the ORD
publications office by telephone or FAX, CERI, U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, 26 West Martin Luther King Drive, Cincinnati, OH
45268, Tel: (513) 569-7562, FAX (513), 569-7566. Please provide your
name and mailing address, the document title: Draft Revisions to the
Guidelines for Carcinogen Risk Assessment (External Review Draft,
August 1994), and EPA document number EPA/600/BP-92/003 (for paper) or
EPA/600/BP-92/003a (for disk).
Dated: August 15, 1994.
Carl Gerber,
Acting Assistant Administrator for Research and Development.
[FR Doc. 94-20553 Filed 8-19-94; 8:45 am]
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