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This page provides access to a listing of some of the recent additions
and new materials available on the EPA Web site.
November 4, 2004
November 3, 2004
November 2, 2004
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SIP
Submission for St. Louis, Missouri -
EPA is currently conducting an adequacy review of the SIP revision request that
will establish an ozone
maintenance plan budget for the year 2007 for the St. Louis area (Office
of Transportation and Air Quality).
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New
from the National Exposure Research Laboratory (NERL):
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Collaboration with the Canaan Valley Institute - Watershed health assessment tools.
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Philadelphia
Forum on Laboratory Accreditation -
January 29 - February 4, 2005. The Institute for National
Environmental Laboratory Accreditation (INELA) and the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency are pleased to announce the Philadelphia
Forum on Laboratory Accreditation. This is a weeklong event
consisting of the Tenth Interim Meeting of the National
Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Conference (NELAC 10i),
a meeting of the Environmental Laboratory Advisory Board (ELAB),
seminars and training courses, INELA’s semi-annual Meeting,
and other events. All meetings are fully open to anyone who
wishes to participate. A 2 pp.,
43 KB Adobe Acrobat (PDF)
document.
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Regional
Vulnerability Assessment for the Mid-Atlantic Region: Evaluation
of Integration Methods and Assessment Results - Prioritization
of risk management actions involves balancing many different factors
that can be addressed through a series of assessment questions.
Analysis results presented here should provide useful information
to others involved in integrated risk assessment in that integration
methods were tested and compared using the same set of regional
spatial data. By comparing the results of each method, we have
identified which integration methods are appropriate to address
different types of assessment questions that contribute to informing
decisions that require prioritization of areas for risk
management actions. These results are directly transferable to
other regions and can be applied to other scales of data. A 90
pp., 2.4 MB Adobe Acrobat (PDF)
document.
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New from the Office of
Pollution Prevention and Toxics:
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The Dechlorane
Plus robust summaries and test plans are now available
for review. Comments are due March 2, 2005.
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The Glyphosate
Intermediate robust summaries and test plans are
now available for review. Comments are due March 2, 2005.
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Letters from
Cytec Industries Inc. and Zeneca have been added at
the Technical Letters & Responses page.
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Letters from
Cincinnati Specialties, Inc., Lyondell Chemical Company, and Merichem
Chemicals & Refinery Services LLC have
been added at the Technical Letters & Responses page.
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Letters from
Akzo Nobel Functional Chemicals LLC and the SOCMA Chlorobenzene
Producers Association has been added at
the Technical Letters & Responses page.
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Letters from
Rhodia Inc., Exxon Chemical Company, PMC Specialties, Inc., Akzo
Nobel Chemicals, Inc., Conde Vista Company, and Solutia Inc. have been added at the Technical Letters & Responses
page.
November 1, 2004
October 29, 2004
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Air
Quality Criteria for Particulate Matter (October 2004) - EPA has
completed the process of updating and revising, where appropriate,
its Air Quality Criteria for Particulate Matter (PM) as
issued in 1996 (usually referred to as the Criteria Document). Sections 108
and 109 of the Clean Air Act require that EPA carry
out a periodic review and revision, where appropriate, of the air quality criteria
(embodied in the Criteria Document) and national
ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) for criteria air pollutants such as PM.
The final version of the entire PM Criteria Document
was issued in October 2004 (National
Center for Environmental Assessment).
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Nonpoint Source Outreach
Digital Toolbox -
Learn about, and contribute to, EPA's upcoming outreach product--tentatively
titled the "Nonpoint Source Outreach Digital Toolbox." (Office of Water).
October 27, 2004
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Standardized
Analytical Methods for Use During Homeland Security Events - EPA's Homeland Security
Research Center, in conjunction with EPA's Laboratory and Capability Committee,
has developed a list of Standardized
Analytical Methods (SAM) to be used by environmental laboratories in analyzing
biological and chemical samples associated
with threats to homeland security. SAM provides a standard by which to measure
specific types of contamination that may be
associated with future terrorist attacks. Ultimately, these procedures will be
vitally important in assisting state and local
government laboratories that are preparing to analyze samples associated with
homeland security events. A 90 pp., 580
KB Adobe Acrobat (PDF) document
from the Office of Ground Water
and Drinking Water.
October 22, 2004
October 21, 2004
October 20, 2004
October 18, 2004
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Exposure
and Human Health Reassessment of 2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-Dioxin (TCDD)
and Related Compounds National Academy Sciences (NAS) Review Draft - On October 15, 2004, the EPA transmitted
to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) the NAS Review Draft of EPA's Exposure
and Human Health Reassessment of 2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-Dioxin (TCDD)
and Related Compounds, in preparation for the
first meeting of the NAS panel scheduled for November 22 and 23, 2004, in Washington,
DC. For detailed information on the
NAS's dioxin review activity, titled "Review of EPA's Assessment of the
Health Implications of Exposure to Dioxins," please visit
the NAS website at http://www.nas.edu . This will bring you to a description
of the project, a list of the provisional panel, and
information about the upcoming meeting (National
Center for Environmental Assessment).
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New from the Office of Pollution Prevention
and Toxics:
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New from the National
Exposure Research Laboratory (NERL)'s Children's Environmental Exposure Research Study (CHEERS)
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EPA Partners
With American Chemistry Council to Study Young Children's Exposures to
Household Chemicals ( PDF,
2 pp., 110 KB) - October 12, 2004, News Release
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Longitudinal
Study of Young Children's Exposures in their Homes to Selected Pesticides,
Phthalates, Brominated Flame Retardants, and Perfluorinated Chemicals (PDF,
2 pp., 89 KB) - nontechnical questions and answers about the study
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CHEERS flyer (PDF,
1 pp., 164 KB) - flyer with contact information and participant requirements
October 14, 2004
October 13, 2004
October 12, 2004
October 7, 2004
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2005 Fuel Economy Data -
Fuel economy information for 2005 cars, trucks, SUVs and vans is now available
to help consumers
make good environmental choices when purchasing new vehicles. This is the 30th
year that the
Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Energy has provided this information
to the public (Office of Transportation
and Air Quality).
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Rapid
Processing of Turner Designs Model 10-AU-005 Internally Logged Fluorescence
Data - EPA hydrologist, Malcolm Field, has developed a computer program,
FLOWTHRU, to facilitate the manipulation and processing of
fluorescence data downloaded from a Turner Designs Model 10-AU-005 fluorometer.
FLOWTHRU improves data collection by
rapidly dispensing with unwanted header data, recognizing and adjusting to
time-data breaks, and rewriting the data into decimal
time units for processing by modeling programs such as QTRACER2. Dr. Field
developed FLOWTHRU to cut down on time spent
editing data(sets) and thereby improving data quality (less error) and efficiency (National
Center for Environmental Assessment).
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Catalog of Hazardous
And Solid Waste Publications Seventeenth Edition -
This catalog lists hazardous and solid waste documents released by the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Solid Waste
(OSW). This is a select list of publications that are frequently requested and
is not a comprehensive list of all documents available. This
edition of the catalog contains newly released publications and is current through
August 15, 2004 (Office
of Solid Waste).
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Particulate
Matter Research Program: Five Years of Progress -
Five years of research confirms the need to reduce fine particle air pollution.
EPA's proposed Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR) will result in the deepest
cuts in a decade in emissions of sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxides (NOx)
- the two most important precursors of fine particle pollution (Office
of Research and Development).
October 6, 2004
October 4, 2004
October 4, 2004
September 29, 2004
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EPA
Recognizes Best Workplaces for Commuters from the Fortune 500
Companies -
Sixty-nine Fortune 500 companies have been designated as Best Workplaces for
CommutersSM
(BWC). These companies offer their employees outstanding commuter benefits and
encourage switching from stressful drive-alone commutes to more environmentally-friendly
options such
as transit or telecommuting. As a result, they are helping improve air quality,
reduce congestion, and
enhance quality of life for their employees while saving millions of gallons
of gasoline every year. EPA
additionally recognized the BWC FORTUNE 500 employers with the highest percentage
of U.S.
employees eligible for these benefits by showcasing them in the inaugural "Top
20" list (Office of Transportation
and Air Quality).
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New from the National Exposure
Research Laboratory (NERL) :
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Technical Overview of
Ecological Risk Assessment - Describes the screening-level
process EPA uses to evaluate the potential
impact of pesticides to non-target organisms (Office
of Pesticides).
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RCRA
in Focus: Construction, Demolition, and Renovation - If you are
involved with building construction, demolition, or renovation, your
company creates construction and demolition (C&D) debris. These materials
can consist of three types of waste: (1) Inert or nonhazardous waste;
(2) hazardous
waste as regulated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA); and (3)
items that contain
hazardous components that might be regulated by some states.
Most C&D debris is nonhazardous and is not regulated by EPA. Under
RCRA, however, if you generate hazardous waste you are required to
follow certain procedures when generating, storing, transporting,
or disposing of it. A 24 pp., 1.5MB Adobe Acrobat (PDF)
document from the Office
of Solid Waste.
September 28, 2004
- Summary
and Analysis of Highway Diesel Fuel 2004 Pre-Compliance Reports -
Any refiner or importer planning to produce or import highway diesel
fuel in
2006-2010 is required to
submit to EPA pre-compliance reports. This documents provides a summary and analysis
of the
reports that we received in June 2004, including comparisons to the reports received
in June 2003. This
preliminary information generally follows the trends that were found in the 2003
reports, namely that: 1)
the industry is on target for complying with the 15 ppm sulfur standard on time;
2) highway diesel fuel
production will be sufficient to meet demand; and 3) 15 ppm sulfur diesel fuel
will be widely available
nationwide (Office of Transportation and
Air Quality).
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