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Main Title Inventory of sources and environmental releases of dioxin-like compounds in the United States for the years 1987, 1995, and 2000 {electronic resource}
CORP Author Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC. National Center for Environmental Assessment.
Publisher National Center for Environmental Assessment, Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,
Year Published 2006
Report Number EPA/600/P-03/002F
Stock Number PB2007-104361
OCLC Number 76883584
Subjects Dioxins--Environmental aspects
Additional Subjects Inventories ; Air pollution sources ; Dioxins ; Emission factors ; Stationary pollutant sources ; Mobile pollutant sources ; Environmental transport ; Land ; Water ; Tables(Data) ; United States ; Environmental releases ; Toxicity equivalence (TEQ)
Internet Access
Description Access URL
http://cfpub.epa.gov/ncea/cfm/recordisplay.cfm?deid=159286
https://nepis.epa.gov/Exe/ZyPDF.cgi?Dockey=P100CINS.PDF
Holdings
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Status
EJAM POD Internet only Region 3 Library/Philadelphia, PA 12/08/2006
NTIS  PB2007-104361 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
Edition External Review Draft
Collation 677 ; 28 cm.
Abstract
The purpose of this document is to present a comprehensive inventory and overview of sources and environmental releases of dioxin-like compounds in the United States. The major identified sources of environmental releases of dioxin-like compounds are grouped into six broad categories: combustion sources, metals smelting, refining and process sources, chemical manufacturing sources, natural sources, and environmental reservoirs. Estimates of annual releases to land, air, and water are presented for each source category and summarized for reference years 1987, 1995, and 2000. The quantitative results are expressed in terms of the toxicity equivalence (TEQ) of the mixture of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxin (CDD) and polychlorinated dibenzofuran (CDF) compounds present in environmental releases using a procedure sanctioned by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1998. This TEQ procedure translates the complex mixture of CDDs and CDFs characteristic of environmental releases into an equivalent toxicity concentration of 2,3,7,8-tetrachorodibenzo-p-dioxin (2,3,7,8-TCDD), the most toxic member of this class of compounds. Using this WHO procedure, the annual releases of TEQDF-WHO98 to the U.S. environment over the three reference years are 13,965 g in 1987, 3,444 g in 1995, and 1,422 g in 2000. This analysis indicates that between reference years 1987 and 2000, there was approximately a 90% reduction in the releases of dioxin-like compounds to the circulating environment of the United States from all known sources combined. In 1987 and 1995, the leading source of dioxin emissions to the U.S. environment was municipal waste combustion; however, because of reductions in dioxin emissions from municipal waste combustors, it dropped to the fourth ranked source in 2000. Burning of domestic refuse in backyard burn barrels remained fairly constant over the years, but in 2000, it emerged as the largest source of dioxin emissions to the U.S. environment.
Notes
"EPA 600/P-03/002F." "November 2006." Title taken from title screen (viewed December 5, 2006).