From my alerting system. EPA is announcing a 60-day public comment period for the external review draft document titled, "Child-Specific Exposure Factors Handbook" (EPA/600/R-06/096A). The draft document was prepared by the National Center for Environmental Assessment within EPA's Office of Research and Development. The "Child-Specific Exposure Factors Handbook" provides a summary of statistical data on various exposure factors used in assessing children's exposures, including: drinking water consumption; soil ingestion and mouthing behavior; inhalation rates; dermal factors including skin surface area and soil adherence factors; consumption of retail and home-grown foods; breast milk intake; and activity pattern data. This Handbook serves as a resource for exposure assessors for calculating children's exposures. An interim final version of this handbook was published in 2002. This updated version provides analysis of exposure factors data using the age groups for children recommended in the EPA document entitled, "Guidance on Selecting Age Groups for Monitoring and Assessing Childhood Exposures to Environmental Contaminants" (EPA/630/P-03/003F) (Available on line at http://cfpub.epa.gov/ncea/cfm/recordisplay.cfm?deid=146583). EPA is releasing the draft "Child-Specific Exposure Factors Handbook" solely for the purpose of pre-dissemination peer review under applicable information quality guidelines. This document has not been formally disseminated by EPA. It does not represent and should not be construed to represent any Agency policy or determination. EPA will consider any public comments submitted in accordance with this notice when revising the document. Frankie Wood-Black email Frankie.K.Wood-Black**At_Symbol_Here**conocophillips.com phone 281-293-4598 Cell 580-761-3703 fax 918-662-6693 (Yes this is correct! - and I get it no matter where I am as long as I get email.) Mailing Address ConocoPhillips TA 3002 600 N. Dairy Ashford Houston, TX 77079
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