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Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), Draft Toxicological Profle for Selenium, U.S. PubHc Health Service, Adanta, Ga., 1994. 

Make sure to pay a visit to the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR). You can perform quick searches by clicking onto the first letter of a chemical listed. The web-site address is the following http //atsdr 1.atsdr.cdc.gov 8080/toxfaq.html. This site also provides some links to other sites with chemical specific information and health risk data. 

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Scientists from the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) have reviewed the peer reviewers comments and determined which comments will be included in the profile. A listing of the peer reviewers comments not incorporated in the profile, with a brief explanation of the rationale for their exclusion, exists as part of the administrative record for this compound. A list of databases reviewed and a list of unpublished documents cited are also included in the administrative record. 

The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Aet (CERCLA) [42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq ], as amended by the Superflind Amendments and Reauthorization Aet (SARA) [Pub. L. 99-499], requires that the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) develop jointly with the US. Enviromnental Protection Agency (EPA), in order of priority, a list of hazardous substances most commonly found at facilities on the CERCLA National Priorities List (NPL) prepare toxicological profiles for each substance included on the priority list of hazardous substances and assure the initiation of a research program to fill identified data needs associated with the substances. 

HazDat 2000. Endosulfan. Agency for toxic substances and disease registry (ATSDR). Atlanta, GA. HCDB. 1986 Hazardous chemical data book. 2" Ed. Park Ridge, NJ. Noyes Data Corporation. 

The toxicological profiles are developed in response to the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA) of 1986 (Public Law 99-499) which amended the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA or Superfund). Section 211 of SARA also amended Title 10 of the U. S. Code, creating the Defense Environmental Restoration Program. Section 2704(a) of Title 10 of the U. S. Code directs the Secretary of Defense to notify the Secretary of Health and Human Services of not less than 25 of the most commonly found unregulated hazardous substances at defense facilities. Section 2704(b) of Title 10 of the U. S. Code directs the Administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) to prepare a toxicological profile for each substance on the list provided by the Secretary of Defense under subsection (b). 

A draft RI report should be produced for review by the support agency and submitted to the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) for its use in preparing a health assessment and also to serve as documentation of data collection and analysis in support of the FS. The draft RI report can be prepared any time between the completion of the baseline risk assessment and the completion of the draft FS. Therefore, the draft RI report should not delay the initiation or execution of the FS. 

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