EPA Opportunity to Comment on EPA Risk Assessment Principles andPractices (fwd)

[james.g.barnes@att.net]

Dear all;



This was posted to another bulletin board that I monitor.  Thought it might be of interest.



Jim Barnes, CHP

james.g.barnes@att.net





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From: "Maryann E. Suero, Ph.D." 

To: Occ-Env-Med-L@MC.DUKE.EDU 

Subject: [OEM] FYI / EPA Opportunity to Comment on EPA Risk Assessment Principles and Practices 

Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 17:03:39 +0000 

Notice of Availability of and Opportunity To Provide Comment on Issues 

in the Staff Paper: An Examination of EPA Risk Assessment Principles and 

Practices 



Comments must be received by June 23, 2004. 



Documents are posted at http://www.epa.gov/osa/ratf.htm 



The EPA staff paper titled "An Examination of EPA Risk Assessment 

Principles and Practices" is a product of an EPA staff review of how 

risk assessment is conducted at EPA. It also presents staff 

recommendations for EPA and interested parties to consider how EPA can 

strengthen and, where appropriate, improve its risk assessment 

practices. The EPA Science Advisor and other senior EPA officials 

requested this review to further the discussion and examination of some 

broad questions about risk assessment. The staff paper also discusses 

public comments relevant to EPA that were submitted to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) in response to OMB's request for public 

comment on risk assessment procedures in the Federal government (68 FR 

5492-5527, February 3, 2003). EPA assembled a group of risk assessment 

professionals from across EPA to examine EPA's risk assessment 

principles and practices and to prepare this paper. This paper does not 

represent official EPA policy. 





The staff paper will not be revised further. EPA is releasing the staff 

paper as the first step in a multi-step process in which EPA intends to 

engage interested parties in a dialogue about risk assessment principles 

and practices to improve the practice of risk assessment. Accordingly, 

EPA is requesting public comment on the risk assessment principles and 

practices described in the paper with the objective of identifying 

particular issues for future dialogue. Future dialogue on particular 

issues may come, for example, in discussions under the auspices of EPA's 

Science Advisory Board, other consultative groups, and professional 

societies with a focus on risk assessment and with states, 

non-governmental organizations, and tribal groups. EPA is interested in 

suggestions for other avenues for dialogue as well. 



For more information about how and to whom to provide comments, see 

http://www.epa.gov/osa/ratf.htm 



maryann 



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Maryann E. Suero, Ph.D. 

US EPA Region 5 (IL, IN, MI, MN, OH, WI) 

Children's Health Program Manager 

77 W. Jackson Blvd. (D-8J) 

Chicago, IL 60604 

Phone (312) 886-9077 

Fax (312) 353-3159 

suero.maryann@epa.gov 

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