National Advisory Committee for Acute Exposure Guideline Levels for Hazardous Substances; Notice of Public Meeting and Proposed AEGL Chemicals

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A meeting of the National Advisory Committee for Acute Exposure Guideline Levels for Hazardous Substances (NAC/AEGL Committee) will be held on September 21-23, 2004, in Washington, DC. At this meeting, the NAC/AEGL Committee will address, as time permits, the various aspects of the acute toxicity and the development of Acute Exposure Guideline Levels (AEGLs) for the following chemicals: 1,1,1- trichloroethane; acetaldehyde; acetone cyanohydrin; chloromethyl methyl ether; cumene; dibromoethane; diketene; disulfur dichloride; ethylene oxide (10 minute AEGL-2 value); hydroxylamine; jet fuel 8; propionaldehyde; propylene oxide; tetranitromethane and vinyl acetate. Regarding one chemical scheduled for the December, 2004 NAC/AEGL Committee meeting, methylene chloride, the public is requested to provide comment on the Draft Technical Support Document, which is available upon request from the technical information contact (see FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT below). All comments and suggestions including alternative pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic modeling for the derived methylene chloride draft provisional AEGL values should be directed to the technical information contact. Any comme