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Notebook on Local Urban Air Toxics Assessment and Reduction Strategies
I. COMMUNITY CAPACITY BUILDING:
Section I concerns building local capacity and establishing partnerships to address air toxics issues.
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| Fact Sheets | ||||
| - Michigan Center for the Environment and Children's Health |  |
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| - Community Action Against Asthma - - Neighborhood Organizing Project | |
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| - ATSDR: Petitioned Public Health Assessment | |
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| - What You Can Expect from ATSDR | |
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| - About ATSDR | |
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| Workshop Presentations on Community Programs | ||||
| - Building Community and Institutional Capacity: Panel Introduction - Hank Topper, USEPA, OPT | |
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| - Building Community Capacity to Address Local Air Toxics Issues - Swati Prakash, WE ACT | |
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| - Building Capacity for Oregon's Air Toxics Program - Annette Leibe, Oregon DEQ | |
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| - West Jefferson County Community Task Force - Arnita Gadson, West County Environmental Information Center and Kentucky Pollution Prevention Center | |
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| - Common Urban Challenges - Glenn Goldstein, Clean Air Communities | |
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| - Cleveland Air Toxics Pilot Project - Steve Fruh, USEPA, OAQPS | |
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| - Asthma Resources on the Internet | |
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| - Foundations and Funding Organizations | |
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II. TOOLS FOR UNDERSTANDING LOCAL AIR TOXICS
Section II provides tools to identify and collect information on all local sources of air toxics, to measure and estimate air toxic concentrations from combined sources, to analyze information to identify "hotspots," and to set priorities to address air toxics.
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| Fact Sheets/Other Information | ||||
| - Emission Inventories | |
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| - National Toxics Inventory | |
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| - Air Toxics Monitoring: Overview | |
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| - Computer Modeling: Overview | |
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| - Computer Modeling: Dispersion Models | |
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| - Computer Modeling: Exposure Models | |
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| - Introduction to Air Toxics Risk Assessment | |
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| - Residual Risk- Dave Guinnup, USEPA, OAQPS | |
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| - Use of the NATA National Scale Assessment as a Scoping Tool for Urban-Scale Assessments - Dave Guinnup, Ted Palma and Roy Smith, USEPA, OAQPS | |
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| - Community/Local Air Toxics Assessments: Interpreting and Understanding Measured and Modeled Data - Dave Guinnup, USEPA, OAQPS | |
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| - The Total Risk Integrated Methodology (TRIM) - Dierdre Murphy, USEPA, OAQPS | |
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| - The Total Risk Integrated Methodology (TRIM) -- Peer Review - Dierdre Murphy, USEPA, OAQPS | |
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| - Hot Spot Exposure Assessment Program | |
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| Presentations Emission Inventories: |
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| - What is an Emission Inventory - Laurel Driver, USEPA, OAQPS | |
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| - Development of Neighborhood Scale Emission Inventories - Dale Shimp, CARB | |
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| - Developing a Local Air Toxics Inventory: Allegheny County's Approach - Gary Fischman, Allegheny County Health Dept. | |
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| - Allegheny County Health Department -- Summary by Hazardous Air Pollutants (HAP) of Point Source Emissions | |
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| - Constructing An Emissions Inventory -- Lessons Learned - David Lynch, USEPA OPPT | |
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| Assessment: | ||||
| - The Denver Urban Air Toxics Assessment: Methodology and Results - Gregg Thomas, Denver County Dept. of Public Health | |
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| - Using the Industrial Source Complex (ISCT3) Model as a Planning and Diagnostic Tool for Air Quality in Houston - Joe Touma, USEPA, OAQPS | |
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| - Monitoring for Air Toxics in Ohio - Diane McClure, Ohio EPA | |
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| Interpretation: | ||||
| - Ambient Air Monitoring Data: Approaches, Considerations, Limitations, and Evaluation - David Brymer and Laurel Carlisle, TNRCC | |
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| - Understanding Modeled Data in Risk Characterization - Ken Mitchell, USEPA, Region 4 | |
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| - ATSDR - National Exposure Registry, Trichloroethylene(TCE) Subregistry | 
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| Mobile Sources and Hot Spots: | ||||
| - The Baltimore Traffic Study - Tim Buckley, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University | |
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| - Understanding the Mobile Source Contribution to Ambient Hot Spots - Melinda D. Treadwell, Ph.D., NESCAUM | |
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III. IMPROVING AIR QUALITY
Section III looks at ways to design programs and take actions to reduce emissions and risks from air toxics.
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| - Indoor Air Toxics | |
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| - California's Plan to Reduce Diesel Particulate Matter Emissions | |
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| - California Diesel Fuel | |
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| - Maximum Achievable Control Technology Standards | |
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| - Integrated Urban Air Toxics Strategy | |
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| - Residual Risk Program | |
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| - Carl Moyer Clean Engine Incentive Program |
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| - South Coast Air Quality Management District: AQMD Rules |
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| - Heavy-Duty Diesel Emission Reduction Project Retrofit/Rebuild Component - NESCAUM | |
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| Presentations | ||||
| - Indoor Environments - Amanda Burkette, Ohio Indoor Air Program | |
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| - Mobile Source Air Toxics: Control Options - Carl Scarbro, USEPA, OTAQ | |
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| - California Diesel Risk Reduction Plan - Dale Shimp, CARB | |
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| - Air Toxics Flowchart | |
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| - EPA Design for the Environment (DfE) Auto Refinish Project - Mary Cushmac, USEPA Design for Environment | |
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| - Insight into Louisiana's Air Toxics Program - Alice Fredlund, Louisiana DEQ | |
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IV. APPENDICES
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| - Workshop Participant List | |
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| - Evaluation Summaries | |
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| - Workshop Agenda | |
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