Technical Information

Technical Documents
	Background Documents for Utility Air Toxics Determination This web site contains all of the technical documents used in determining whether to regulate mercury and other air toxics emitted from coal- and oil-fired power plants.
	Toxicological Effects of Methylmercury The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) July 2000 report on its review of mercury health effects data and the EPA's mercury "reference dose."
	Measuring Mercury in Water The page contains the final regulations for Method 1631: Guidelines Establishing Test Procedures for the Analysis of Pollutants; Measurement of Mercury in Water.
	Water Quality Criteria for Methylmercury EPA is updating the ambient water quality criteria for methylmercury. This page contains information on the update of the existing criteria, which were developed in 1980.
	Test Methods for Evaluating Mercury These documents are from EPA's publication "SW-846," which is the Office of Solid Waste's official compendium of analytical and sampling methods that have been approved for use in complying with RCRA regulations. Method 7470A (In Adobe Acrobat PDF format) Mercury in Liquid Waste (Manual Cold-Vapor Technique) Method 7471A (In Adobe Acrobat PDF format) Mercury in Solid or Semisolid Waste (Manual Cold-Vapor Technique) Method 7472 (In Adobe Acrobat PDF format) Mercury in Aqueous Samples and Extracts by Anodic Stripping Voltammetry (ASV)
Research Documents
	Mercury Transport and Fate in Watersheds (In Adobe Acrobat PDF format) Newsletter updating research funded in 1999 by EPA's STAR (Science and Technology to Achieve Results) program to develop a better understanding of mercury's terrestrial and aquatic fate and transformation processes that influence ecological and human exposures.
	Mercury Research Strategy - National Center for Environmental Assessment This page describes an EPA research program that provides information, methods, models, and data to address key scientific questions related to mercury and methylmercury risks.

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