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Hazard Standard Risk Analysis -- TSCA Section 403

RISK ANALYSIS TO SUPPORT STANDARDS
FOR LEAD IN PAINT, DUST, AND SOIL
(EPA 747-R-97-006)
June 1998
 

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Executive Summary (PDF)
1.0 Introduction (PDF)

PART I - RISK ASSESSMENT
2.0 Hazard Identification (PDF)
3.0 Exposure Assessment (PDF)
4.0 Dose-Response Assessment (PDF)
5.0 Risk Characterization (PDF)

PART II - RISK MANAGEMENT
6.0 Analysis of Example Options for the §403 Standards (PDF)
7.0 References (PDF)

LIST OF APPENDICES

All appendices A through G (PDF)

  • Appendix A - Glossary
  • Appendix B - Health Effects Associated with Exposure to Lead and Internal Lead Doses in Humans
  • Appendix C1 - Characterizing Baseline Environmental-Lead Levels in the Nation's Housing Stock
  • Appendix C2 - Method for Computing Confidence Intervals Associated with Estimates in the Exposure Assessment and Risk Characterization
  • Appendix D1 - Assumptions and Scientific Evidence to Account for the Effect of Pica for Paint
  • Appendix D2 - Results of Three Published Meta-Analyses on the Relationship Between IQ Point Loss and Childhood Blood-Lead Levels
  • Appendix E1 - Methodology for Estimating Health Effects from Blood-Lead Distribution
  • Appendix E2 - Generating Distribution of Blood-Lead Concentrations Based on Model-Predicted Geometric Mean and Geometric Standard Deviation
  • Appendix F1 - Methodology for Estimating Post-Intervention Distribution of Children's Blood-Lead Concentrations Resulting from Proposed §403 Rules
  • Appendix F2 - Estimation of Primary Prevention Efficacy Using Model of Bone-Lead Mobilization
  • Appendix G - Health Effects Associated with Exposure to Lead and Internal Lead Doses in Humans

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