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RECORD NUMBER: 22 OF 1319

Main Title Acute Exposure Guideline Levels for Selected Airborne Chemicals. Volume 11.
CORP Author National Research Council, Washington, DC. Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology.; Department of Defense, Washington, DC.; Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC.
Year Published 2012
Report Number ISBN-978-0-309-25481-6; W81K04-11-D-0017; EP-W-09-007
Stock Number PB2012-107921
Additional Subjects Air pollution effects ; Environmental exposure ; Chemical industry ; Disasters ; Toxic substances ; Hazardous materials ; Health hazards ; Health effects ; Respiratory diseases ; Methyl isocyanate ; Industrial accidents ; Emergency planning ; Response ; Medical services
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NTIS  PB2012-107921 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
Collation 356p
Abstract
Extremely hazardous substances (EHSs) can be released accidentally as a result of chemical spills, industrial explosions, fires, or accidents involving railroad cars and trucks transporting EHSs. Workers and residents in communities surrounding industrial facilities where EHSs are manufactured, used, or stored and in communities along the nations railways and highways are potentially at risk of being exposed to airborne EHSs during accidental releases or intentional releases by terrorists. Pursuant to the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has identified approximately 400 EHSs on the basis of acute lethality data in rodents. As part of its efforts to develop acute exposure guideline levels for EHSs, EPA and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) in 1991 requested that the National Research Council (NRC) develop guidelines for establishing such levels.