Employee Health Risks at Toxic Waste Sites: What Don't We Know? : Hearing Before the Subcommittee on the Civil Service of the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, Second Session, September 15, 1990 |
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activities Agency for Toxic ATSDR BACA Bashor cancer CERCLA as amended Chairman cleanup conduct CONGRESS THE LIBRARY contamination DEASON Department of Defense Department of Energy DERP DOE facilities DOE's drinking water emergency response environment Environmental Restoration epidemiologic evaluate Federal agencies Federal employees Federal facilities funds GILMAN Hanford hazardous substances hazardous waste sites health and safety health consultation health effects health risks health studies health surveillance human health IAGs Interagency Agreements issues Jack Geiger JOHNSON LIBRARY OF CONGRES LIBRARY OF CONGRESS ment Moffett Field MORELLA National Priorities List Navy NPL sites nuclear weapons production occupational health Occupational Safety Office operations OSHA PETTENGILL potential preliminary health assessment problems protection public health radiation RCRA remedial Rocky Flats Plant Rocky Mountain Arsenal Safety and Health Santis SARA SIKORSKI subcommittee Substances and Disease Superfund sites TCAAP testimony Thank Toxic Substances toxicological profiles
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Page 14 - The examination, summary, and interpretation of available toxicologic information and epidemiologic evaluations on a hazardous substance to ascertain the levels of significant human exposure for the substance and the associated acute, subacute, and chronic health effects; (B) A determination of whether adequate information on the health effects of each substance is available or in the process of development to determine levels of exposure that present a significant risk to human health of acute,...
Page 44 - EPA to respond to releases, or threatened releases, of hazardous substances that may endanger public health, welfare, or the environment.
Page 57 - Secretary, that the conveyance is in accordance with the requirements of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (42 USC 9601 et seq.).
Page 53 - Health assessment means the evaluation of data and information on the release of hazardous substances into the environment in order to assess any current or future impact on public health, develop health advisories or other recommendations, and identify studies or actions needed to evaluate and mitigate or prevent human health effects.
Page 11 - ... studies under paragraph (7), establishing a registry under paragraph (8), establishing a health surveillance program under paragraph (9), or through other means. In using the results of health assessments for determining additional actions to be taken under this section, the Administrator...
Page 13 - ... previously been prepared. Profiles required under this paragraph shall be revised and republished as necessary, but no less often than once every 3 years. Such profiles shall be provided to the States and made available to other interested parties. (4) The Administrator of the ATSDR shall provide consultations upon request on health issues relating to exposure to hazardous or toxic substances, on the basis of available information, to the Administrator of EPA, State officials, and local officials.
Page 15 - Sciences and the National Library of Medicine of the National Institutes of Health, as well as with other Federal agencies.
Page 44 - ... amounts appropriated to the Department of Defense, and such personnel of the Department of Defense as may be necessary for the preparation of such health advisories. The Secretary and the Administrator shall enter into a memorandum of understanding regarding the manner in which this subsection shall be carried out, including the manner for transferring funds and personnel and for coordination of activities under this subsection. "(e) CROSS REFERENCE.— Section 104(i) of CERCLA applies to facilities...
Page 12 - Whenever in the Judgment of the Administrator of ATSDR it is appropriate on the basis of the results of a health assessment, the Administrator of ATSDR shall conduct a pilot study of health effects for selected groups of exposed individuals in order to determine the desirability of conducting full scale epidemiological or other health studies of the entire exposed population.