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EPA's Reference and Equivalent Supporting NAAQS Implementation through Methods Research Program: Research, Development, and Analysis
Citation:
HALL, ERICS, M. BEAVER, R. W. LONG, AND R. W. VANDERPOOL. EPA's Reference and Equivalent Supporting NAAQS Implementation through Methods Research Program: Research, Development, and Analysis. EM: AIR AND WASTE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION'S MAGAZINE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGERS. Air & Waste Management Association, Pittsburgh, PA, 5(May 2012):8-12, (2012).
Impact/Purpose:
The National Exposure Research Laboratory′s (NERL′s) Human Exposure and Atmospheric Sciences Division (HEASD) conducts research in support of EPA′s mission to protect human health and the environment. HEASD′s research program supports Goal 1 (Clean Air) and Goal 4 (Healthy People) of EPA′s strategic plan. More specifically, our division conducts research to characterize the movement of pollutants from the source to contact with humans. Our multidisciplinary research program produces Methods, Measurements, and Models to identify relationships between and characterize processes that link source emissions, environmental concentrations, human exposures, and target-tissue dose. The impact of these tools is improved regulatory programs and policies for EPA.
Description:
. To assess the ambient concentration levels of the six criteria air pollutants regulated by National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) developed a systematic framework of: (a) field measurements of ambient air pollutant levels using samplers, monitors, analyzers, and measurement devices (both filter-based and non-filter-based); (b) protocols and methodologies for laboratory analyses of criteria air pollutants; (c) standard operating procedures for samplers, monitors, analyzers, and measurement devices; (d) procedures for testing and analysis of monitoring systems and implementing laboratory analyses; (e) quality assurance/quality control procedures governing field measurements, laboratory analyses, operations, and testing; and (f) research, development, analysis, and assessment of field measurement systems and laboratory analysis protocols. This comprehensive framework allows APA to determine if criteria air pollutants are being assessed in a manner that is standard, repeatable, and wwell-characterized from a measurements and analysis viewpoint.
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