Approach for determining levels of concern for unregulated toxic compounds from mobile sources

Technical Report · Wed Jul 01 04:00:00 EDT 1981

OSTI ID:5735147

Garbe, R J

This report presents an approach for determining ranges of concern for vehicle emissions of toxic unregulated pollutants. The information used in deriving this approach was generated either in-house at EPA or under EPA contract to Midwest Research Institute in Kansas City, Missouri; and/or Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas. This work represents an EPA technical effort designed as one input that may bear on EPA policy with respect to implementation of section 202(a)(4) of the Clean Air Act amendments of 1977. As such, this report does not represent EPA policy at this time. This report will also be of interest to parties outside EPA, such as the automobile manufacturers, who are involved with deciding whether unregulated pollutants from motor vehicles constitute a public health hazard. This approach, outlined in the subsequent sections of this report, has four separate parts, the last of which is a summary of the previous three. An example of how the approach works is presented for a sample mobile source pollutant; sulfuric acid (H/sub 2/SO/sub 4/).

• Research Organization: Environmental Protection Agency, Ann Arbor, MI (USA)
• OSTI ID: 5735147
• Report Number(s): PB-82-118167
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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Atmospheric-- Chemicals Monitoring & Transport-- (-1989)
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
AIR POLLUTION
EXHAUST GASES
FLUIDS
GASEOUS WASTES
GASES
HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS
INORGANIC ACIDS
MOBILE POLLUTANT SOURCES
MONITORING
POLLUTION
POLLUTION REGULATIONS
POLLUTION SOURCES
PUBLIC HEALTH
REGULATIONS
SULFURIC ACID
WASTES