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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
[FRL-8044-9]
Notice of Proposed Prospective
Purchaser Agreement Pursuant to
CERCLA and RCRA, Chem-Wood
Facility, Campbell Industrial Park, Ewa
Beach, HI
AGENCY: Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice; request for public
comment.
SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that a
proposed Prospective Purchaser
Agreement ("Agreement") associated
with the Chem-Wood Facility, located at
91-476 Komohana Street in Campbell
Industrial Park, Ewa Beach, Hawaii, was
executed by the Agency and the United
States Department of Justice on March 3,
2006. Chem-Wood is a former wood-
treating facility at which a number of
wastes have been generated and
hazardous substances, including copper
chromated arsenic and
pentachlorophenol, have been used. The
Agreement is between Kanani L.L.C.
and the United States, and is subject to
final approval after the comment period.
The Agreement would resolve certain
potential EPA claims under the
Comprehensive Environmental
Response, Compensation, and Liability
Act of 1980, as amended ("CERCLA"),
and potential claims under sections
3008(h) and 7003 of the Resource
Conservation and Recovery Act, as
amended by the Hazardous and Solid
Waste Amendments of 1984 ("RCRA").
Kanani L.L.C. plans to purchase the
Chem-Wood Facility for storage of
supplies and materials, parking of
vehicles on paved areas, and other
similar uses. Under this proposed
Agreement, Kanani L.L.C. would be
required to perform ground water and
soil response actions, maintain security
of the perimeter of the property, and
maintain the integrity of the existing
asphalt cap. Also under the Agreement,
Kanani L.L.C. will be required to grant
access to the property to EPA, its
authorized officers, employees,
representatives, and all other persons
performing response actions under EPA
oversight.
DATES: The comment period will expire
fifteen (15) days from the date of this
notice. A public hearing will be held on
March 22, 2006 at 6 p.m. at Kapolei
Elementary School, 91-1119 Kamaaha
Loop, Kapolei, Hawaii, in accordance
with section 7003(d) of RCRA, 42 U.S.C.
6973(d).
ADDRESSES: Comments may be
submitted to Harrison Karr, Assistant
Regional Counsel (ORC-3), U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency,
Region IX, 75 Hawthorne Street, San
Francisco, California 94105 (phone
(415) 972-3939; e-mail:
karr.harrison@epa.gov). Comments
should reference "The Chem-Wood
Facility Prospective Purchaser
Agreement." EPA's response to any
comments received will be available for
public inspection at the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency,
Region IX, 75 Hawthorne Street, San
Francisco, California 94105 and at the
information repository of the Chem-
Wood facility located at the Hawaii
Department of Health, Solid and
Hazardous Waste Branch, 919 Ala
Moana Blvd. Suite 212, Honolulu,
Hawaii.
Availability: The proposed settlement
is available for public inspection at the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,
Region IX, 75 Hawthorne Street, San
Francisco, California 94105, and the
information repository for the Chem-
Wood Facility located at the Hawaii
Department of Health, Solid and
Hazardous Waste Branch, 919 Ala
Moana Blvd. Suite 212, Honolulu,
Hawaii. A copy of the proposed
Agreement may be obtained from
Harrison Karr, Assistant Regional
Counsel (ORC-3), U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, Region IX, 75
Hawthorne Street, San Francisco,
California 94105 (phone (415) 972-
3939; e-mail: karr.harrison@epa.gov).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Harrison Karr, Assistant Regional
Counsel (ORC-3) U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, Region IX, 75
Hawthorne Street, San Francisco,
California 94105; phone (415) 972-3939;
e-mail: karr.harrison@epa.gov.
Dated: March 3, 2006.
Jeff Scott,
Director, Waste Management Division, U.S.
EPA, Region IX.
Dated: March 2, 2006.
Keith Takata,
Director, Superfund Division, U.S. EPA,
Region IX.
[FR Doc. E6-3584 Filed 3-13-06; 8:45 arn]
BILLING CODE 6560-50-P
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
[FRL-8044-6; Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-
2006-0134]
A Framework for Assessing Health
Risks of Environmental Exposures to
Children
AGENCY: Environmental Protection
Agency.
ACTION: Notice of public comment
period.
SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing
a 45-day public comment period for the
external review draft document titled,
"A Framework for Assessing Health
Risks of Environmental Exposures to
Children" (EPA/600/R-05/093A). The
draft document was prepared by the
National Center for Environmental
Assessment (NCEA) within EPA's Office
of Research and Development (ORD).
For external scientific peer review,
EPA has hired Eastern Research Group,
Inc. (ERG) to convene an independent
panel of experts and organize and
conduct an external peer-review
workshop. The date and location for the
external peer-review workshop will be
announced in a separate Federal
Register notice, once that information is
obtained by EPA. The public comment
period and the external peer-review
workshop are separate processes that
provide opportunities for all interested
parties to comment on the document. In
addition to consideration by EPA, all
public comments submitted in
accordance with this notice will also be
forwarded to ERG for the external peer-
review panel prior to the workshop.
EPA is releasing this external review
draft document solely for the purpose of
pre-dissemination peer review under
applicable information quality
guidelines. This draft document has not
been formally disseminated by EPA. It
does not represent and should not be
construed to represent any Agency
policy or determination.
DATES: The 45-day public comment
period begins March 14, 2006, and ends
April 28, 2006. Technical comments
should be in writing and must be
received by EPA by April 28, 2006.
ADDRESSES: The draft document and
EPA's peer-review charge are available
primarily via the Internet on the
National Center for Environmental
Assessment's home page under the
Recent Additions and Publications
menus at http://www.epa.gov/ncea. A
limited number of paper copies are
available from the Technical
Information Staff, NCEA-W; telephone:
202-564-3261; facsimile: 202-565-
0050. If you are requesting a paper copy,
please provide your name, mailing
address, and the document title, "A
Framework for Assessing Health Risks
of Environmental Exposures to
Children" (EPA/600/R-05/093A).
Comments may be submitted
electronically via http://
www.regulations.gov, by mail, by
facsimile, or by hand delivery/courier.
Please follow the detailed instructions
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as provided in the SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION section of this notice.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
information on the public comment
period, contact the OEI Docket;
telephone: 202-566-1752; facsimile:
202-566-1753; or e-mail:
ORD.Docket@epa.gov.
If you have questions about the
document, please contact the Technical
Information Staff, National Center for
Environmental Assessment, U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency,
Washington, DC 20460; telephone: 202-
564-3261; facsimile: 202-565-0050; or
e-mail: NCEADC.Comment@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Information About the Document
Over the past decade, there has been
a dramatic increase in the recognition
of, and public health concern for, the
vulnerability of children to exposure to
environmental agents. Children have
unusual patterns of exposure and have
vulnerabilities to chemical agents that
are quite distinct from those of adults,
and thus require special consideration
in risk assessment. Children often have
disproportionately higher exposures to
certain environmental toxicants
because, pound-for-pound of body
weight, children have higher food and
water intake and breathe more air than
adults. Metabolic pathways in the
young, especially in the first few
months after birth, are immature, and
the ability to detoxify environmental
agents is different from that of adults. In
addition, behavior and activity patterns
of children often magnify their
exposures. These factors imply that
children are likely to have more
substantial exposures than adults to
certain environmental agents. This
document attempts to organize and
present current knowledge and practices
in a programmatic framework for
assessing human health risks from
exposures to environmental agents from
prior to conception through
adolescence. It describes this framework
within the current Agency risk
assessment paradigm, and includes
problem formulation, analysis and risk
characterization as discrete steps in the
process. Moreover, this document
focuses on mode of action as a context
for considering the toxicokinetic and
toxicodynamic differences between
children and adults, and considers
approaches for risk assessment in the
context of uncertainty and variability in
exposure and critical windows of
development.
II. How To Submit Technical Comments
to the Docket
Submit your comments, identified by
Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2006-
0134, by one of the following methods:
• http://www.regulations.gov: Follow
the on-line instructions for submitting
comments.
• E-mail: ORD.Docket@epa.gov.
• Fax: 202-566-1753.
• Mail: Office of Environmental
Information Docket (Mail Code: 2822T),
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,
1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW.,
Washington, DC 20460. The phone
number is 202-566-1752.
• Hand delivery/courier: The Office
of Environmental Information (OEI)
Docket is located in the Headquarters
EPA Docket Center (EPA/DC), EPA West
Building, Room B102, 1301 Constitution
Ave., NW., Washington, DC. The EPA
Docket Center Public Reading Room is
open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.,
Monday through Friday, excluding legal
holidays. The telephone number for the
Public Reading Room is 202-566-1744,
and the telephone number for the OEI
Docket is 202-566-1752; facsimile: 202-
566-1753; or e-mail:
ORD.Docket@epa.gov. Such deliveries
are only accepted during the Docket's
normal hours of operation, and special
arrangements should be made for
deliveries of boxed information.
If you provide technical comments by
mail or hand delivery/courier, please
submit one unbound original with pages
numbered consecutively, and three
copies of the comments. For
attachments, provide an index, number
pages consecutively with the comments,
and submit an unbound original and
three copies.
Instructions: Direct your comments to
Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2006-
0134. EPA's policy is that all comments
received will be included in the public
docket without change and may be
made available online at http://
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 http://
www.regulations.gov or e-mail. The
http://www.regulations.govWeb site 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 http://
www.regulations.gov, your e-mail
address will be automatically captured
and included as part of the comment
that is placed in the public 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 home page at http://
www.epa.gov/epahome/dockets.htm.
Docket: All documents in the docket
are listed in the http://
www.regulations.gov index. Although
listed in the index, some information is
not publicly available, e.g., CBI or other
information whose disclosure is
restricted by statute in the EPA
Headquarters Docket Center. Certain
other material, such as copyrighted
material, will be publicly available only
in hard copy. Publicly available docket
materials are available either
electronically in http://
www.regulations.gov, or in hard copy at
the OEI Docket in the EPA Headquarters
Docket Center.
Dated: March 7, 2006.
George W. Alapas,
Acting Director, National Center for
Environmental Assessment.
[FR Doc. 06-2436 Filed 3-13-06; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6560-50-P
FARM CREDIT ADMINISTRATION
Sunshine Act; Farm Credit
Administration Board; Regular Meeting
AGENCY: Farm Credit Administration.
SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given,
pursuant to the Government in the
Sunshine Act (5 U.S.C. 552b(e)(3)), that
the April 13, 2006 regular meeting of the
Farm Credit Administration Board
(Board) has been rescheduled. The
regular meeting of the Board will be
held Thursday, April 6, 2006 starting at
9 a.m. An agenda for this meeting will
be published at a later date.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Roland E. Smith, Secretary to the Farm
Credit Administration Board, (703) 883-
4009, TTY (703) 883-4056.
ADDRESSES: Farm Credit
Administration, 1501 Farm Credit Drive,
McLean, Virginia 22102-5090.
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