The Chemical Safety Board issued a notice on Wednesday that its Web Site will undergo a precautionary 24-hour shutdown on Dec. 31.
As a precaution and to protect critical information systems, the Web Site will temporarily shut down beginning at 8 a.m. Eastern Standard Time.
CSB said that it is "a precautionary Y2K-related shutdown.
The Web Site is scheduled to return to operation on the Internet on Saturday morning, Jan. 1, 2000.
Chemsafety.gov users are advised to download information on the site prior to the shutdown.