Notice of Availability: The Office of Solid Waste (OSW) is Announcing the Availability of a New Draft Guidance Document Entitled Human Health Risk Assessment Protocol for Hazardous Waste Combustion Facilities

摘要

The Environmental Protection Agency (``EPA'' or ``the Agency'') is providing notice that the following draft guidance document: Human Health Risk Assessment Protocol for Hazardous Waste Combustion Facilities (Peer Review Draft) is available and that a 60-day public review period of the document will begin today. In addition, this document will be undergoing an external peer review which will be organized and conducted by EPA's contractor, Tech Law. Information regarding the peer review process will be published in a Federal Register notice at a later date. This EPA document will serve to update and replace the existing draft guidance entitled: ``Guidance for Performing Screening Level Risk Analyses at Combustion Facilities Burning Hazardous Wastes' (April 15, 1994 draft). This updated document contains the Office of Solid Waste's recommended approach for conducting site-specific risk assessments on RCRA hazardous waste combustors. The goal of this guidance document is to develop an understanding of the potential human health risks associated with the emissions from hazardous waste combustors. This guidance document includes specific parameters, pathways and algorithms to evaluate b