Summary of Meeting with ACS Laboratory EH&S Task Force

Meeting:	American Chemical Society (ACS) Laboratory Environmental Health
and Safety Task Force

	Washington, DC

Date: 		June 13, 2008

Purpose:	To provide an update to the Task Force on the status of the
final rule for Academic Laboratories

Attendees:

U.S. EPA, Office of Solid Waste

Kristin Fitzgerald

ACS Laboratory Safety Task Force

Marta Gmurczyk, ACS

Ray Garant, ACS

Mary Kirchhoff, ACS

Kathryn Benedict, Grand Valley State University

Jeff Brown, Eli Lilly and Company

James Harless, Soil & Materials Engineers, Inc.

Todd Houts, University of Missouri – Columbia

Russ Phifer, WC Environmental, LLC

Peter Reinhart, Yale University

Linda Stroud, Science & Safety Consulting Services

Ralph Stuart, University of Vermont

Erik Talley, Weill Cornell Medical College

	The American Chemical Society's Laboratory Environment, Health & Safety
Task Force is a small group of members that is focused on laboratory
hazardous waste regulations and the education of laboratory personnel on
hazardous waste issues.  The group invited members of OSW’s Labs Team
to join them at their meeting in Washington, DC, to discuss the status
of the Academic Laboratories Rule.  

	Kristin provided the group with an update on the status of the final
rule for Academic Laboratories.  Kristin focused on where the rulemaking
is in the process, as it works its way toward publication in the Federal
Register.  Kristin did not discuss the content of the final rule.

