[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 159 (Thursday, August 16, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 43011]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-20659]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-7032-7]


Summary of the Workshop on Information Needs to Address 
Children's Cancer Risk

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of availability of a final report.

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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) National Center 
for Environmental Assessment (NCEA) in the Office of Research and 
Development announces the availability of a final report, Summary of 
the Workshop on Information Needs to Address Children's Cancer Risk 
(EPA/600/R-00/105, December 2000). This report summarizes a workshop 
cosponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the 
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) on March 30 
and 31, 2000. Eastern Research Group, an EPA contractor, organized and 
convened the workshop on EPA's and NIEHS's behalf. The workshop focused 
on a discussion of children's cancer risk assessment and related data 
needs to address issues that were raised during public review of EPA's 
1999 Draft Revised Guidelines for Carcinogen Risk Assessment.

ADDRESSES: The document will be made available electronically through 
the National Center for Environmental Assessment's web site 
(www.epa.gov/ncea). A limited number of paper copies will be available 
from the EPA's National Service Center for Environmental Publications 
(NSCEP), P.O. Box 42419, Cincinnati, OH 45242; telephone: 1-800-490-
9198 or 513-489-8190; facsimile: 513-489-8695. Please provide your name 
and mailing address and the title and EPA number of the requested 
publication.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The Technical Information Staff, 
National Center for Environmental Assessment (8623D), U.S. 
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 
Washington DC 20460; telephone: 202-564-3261; facsimile: 202-565-0050; 
email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The workshop focused on a discussion of 
children's cancer risk assessment and related data needs to address 
issues that were raised during public review of EPA's 1999 Draft 
Revised Guidelines for Carcinogen Risk Assessment. The issues include: 
characterizing the ideal data set to adequately address children's 
cancer risk and proposed approaches to using available data in the 
absence of the ideal data set.
    The background for discussions at the workshop is the reality that 
chemical-specific data are often lacking to specifically address 
children's cancer risk from environmental chemical exposures. 
Consequently, the assessment of children's risk is currently addressed 
by evaluations of traditional bioassays in mature animals, comparative 
biochemistry and physiology between adult and developing animals and 
humans, and public-health-protective default positions in the absence 
of child-specific data. The workshop focused on four topic areas: (1) 
Current and proposed approaches to assessing children's cancer risk, 
(2) enhanced use of test data related to children's cancer risk, (3) 
future directions for toxicology testing to address children's cancer 
risk, and (4) epidemiological/molecular epidemiology information to 
address children's cancer risk.

    Dated: July 20, 2001.
Art Payne,
Acting Director, National Center for Environmental Assessment.
[FR Doc. 01-20659 Filed 8-15-01; 8:45 am]
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