Assessing multiple pollutant multiple source cancer risks from urban air toxics: Summary of approaches and insights from completed and ongoing urban air toxics-assessment studies

Technical Report · Sat Apr 01 00:00:00 EST 1989

OSTI ID:5843081

Sullivan, D; Lahre, T; Alford, M

The primary purpose of this report is to assist State, local and other agency personnel by describing methods that have been used in assessing multiple source, multiple pollutant risks from air-toxics exposures in urban areas. The report does not constitute formal EPA guidance for conducting an urban risk assessment, nor does it recommend a single approach. Instead, it identifies techniques that others have elected to employ and offers insights that may assist the reader in selecting a particular set of techniques for use in a given locale. Major topics covered include (1) a summary of completed and ongoing urban air toxics assessment studies, (2) ambient monitoring assessment approaches, (3) emission inventory/dispersion modeling assessment approaches, (4) aspects of exposure and risk assessment, (5) control strategy evaluation, (6) data handling, and (7) evolving assessment technologies, including receptor modeling, personal monitoring, and bioassay sampling.

• Research Organization: Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC (USA). Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards
• OSTI ID: 5843081
• Report Number(s): PB-89-197222/XAB; EPA-450/2-89/010
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
63 RADIATION, THERMAL, AND OTHER ENVIRON. POLLUTANT EFFECTS ON LIVING ORGS. AND BIOL. MAT.
AIR POLLUTION
CARCINOGENS
RISK ASSESSMENT
NEOPLASMS
TOXIC MATERIALS
ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE
URBAN AREAS
BIOASSAY
EMISSION
INVENTORIES
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
MONITORING
RECOMMENDATIONS
SAMPLING
TOXICITY
DISEASES
MATERIALS
POLLUTION
500200* - Environment
Atmospheric- Chemicals Monitoring & Transport- (-1989)
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