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Title Acute exposure guideline levels for selected airborne chemicals. Volume 10 / Committee on Acute Exposure Guideline Levels, Committee on Toxicology, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council
Published Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 306 pages) : illustrations
Series The compass series
Compass series (Washington, D.C.)
Contents FrontMatter -- Preface -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acute Exposure Guideline Levels for Selected Airborne Chemicals -- Volume 10 -- National Research Council Committee Review of Acute Exposure Guideline Levels of Selected Airborne Chemicals -- Roster of the National Advisory Committee for Acute Exposure Guideline Levels for Hazardous Substances -- Appendixes -- 1 N, N-Dimethylformamide -- 2 Jet Propellant Fuels 5 and 8 -- 3 Methyl Ethyl Ketone -- 4 Perchloromethyl Mercaptan -- 5 Phosphorus Oxychloride -- 6 Phosphorus Trichloride -- 7 Sulfuryl Chloride
Summary Extremely hazardous substances (EHSs)²can 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 nation's 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. In response to that request, the NRC published Guidelines for Developing Community Emergency Exposure Levels for Hazardous Substances in 1993. Subsequently, Standard Operating Procedures for Developing Acute Exposure Guideline Levels for Hazardous Substances was published in 2001, providing updated procedures, methodologies, and other guidelines used by the National Advisory Committee (NAC) on Acute Exposure Guideline Levels for Hazardous Substances and the Committee on Acute Exposure Guideline Levels (AEGLs) in developing the AEGL values. In 1998, EPA and DOD requested that the NRC independently review the AEGLs developed by NAC. In response to that request, the NRC organized within its Committee on Toxicology (COT) the Committee on Acute Exposure Guideline Levels, which prepared this report. Acute Exposure Guideline Levels for Selected Airborne Chemicals is the tenth volume of the series and documents for N, N-dimethylformamide, jet propellant fuels 5 and 8, methyl ethyl ketone, perchloromethyl mercaptan, phosphorus oxychloride, phosphorus trichloride, and sulfuryl chloride
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
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Subject Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous.
Environmental Exposure -- standards
Hazardous Substances -- standards
Air Pollutants -- standards
Hazardous Substances -- toxicity
MEDICAL -- Toxicology.
Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous
Form Electronic book
Author National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Acute Exposure Guideline Levels.
National Research Council (U.S.). Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology.
National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Toxicology.
National Research Council (U.S.). Division on Earth and Life Studies.
ISBN 9780309219884
0309219884
1283311976
9781283311977
0309219906
9780309219907
9786613311979
6613311979