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Title: 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

Abstract

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.

Authors:
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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC (USA). Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards
OSTI Identifier:
5843081
Report Number(s):
PB-89-197222/XAB; EPA-450/2-89/010
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
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); 560300 - Chemicals Metabolism & Toxicology

Citation Formats

Sullivan, D, Lahre, T, and Alford, M. 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. United States: N. p., 1989. Web.
Sullivan, D, Lahre, T, & Alford, M. 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. United States.
Sullivan, D, Lahre, T, and Alford, M. 1989. "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". United States.
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title = {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},
author = {Sullivan, D and Lahre, T and Alford, M},
abstractNote = {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.},
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place = {United States},
year = {Sat Apr 01 00:00:00 EST 1989},
month = {Sat Apr 01 00:00:00 EST 1989}
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