The ACS' Task Force on Laboratory Environment, Health & Safety has completed a comment letter on the EPA's proposed rule for management of academic lab wastes. The letter has been submitted to the EPA docket, so you can download it by searching appropriately at http:// www.regulations.gov (you're looking for Docket ID EPA-HQ- RCRA-2003-0012) or directly from the Committee on Chemical Safety's web site at (http://membership.acs.org/c/ccs/) and looking under "What's New" or clicking on "Publications." A direct link to the PDF File is at: http://tinyurl.com/nkdjz As Peter Reinhardt noted in his recent e-mail, the number of comments on a rule does Make a Difference, so the Task Force encourages anyone interested in better management of chemical wastes in laboratory to look at the comments already entered and indicate support or dissent from them or enter your own comments. It is easy to do, once you've found the docket above. Let me know if you have any questions about this. - Ralph Ralph Stuart, CIH Environmental Safety Manager University of Vermont Environmental Safety Facility 667 Spear St. Burlington, VT 05405 rstuart**At_Symbol_Here**uvm.edu fax: (802)656-8682
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