California Department of Health Services

Catalog of STC andllC Ratings for Wall andEloorj Ceiling Assemblies, Office of Noise Control, California Department of Health Services, Berkeley, Calif., 1984. R. S. Jones, Noise and Vibration Control in Buildings, McGraw-HiU Book Co., Inc., New York, 1984. 

Hazardous Waste Reduction Checklist and Assessment Manualfor the Metal FinishingJndusty, California Department of Health Services, Alternative Technology Division, Toxic Substances Control Program, Sacramento, Calif., 1990. 

Sulfur Polymer Cement. SPC has been proven effective in reducing leach rates of reactive heavy metals to the extent that some wastes can be managed solely as low level waste (LLW). When SPC is combined with mercury and lead oxides (both toxic metals), it interacts chemically to form mercury sulfide, HgS, and lead sulfide, PbS, both of which are insoluble in water. A dried sulfur residue from petroleum refining that contained 600-ppm vanadium (a carcinogen) was chemically modified using dicyclopentadiene and oligomer of cyclopentadiene and used to make SC (58). This material was examined by the California Department of Health Services (Cal EPA) and the leachable level of vanadium had been reduced to 8.3 ppm, well below the soluble threshold limit concentration of 24 ppm (59). 

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Additionally, the EPA pubhshes a newsletter entitled Pollution Prevention News that contains information including EPA news, technologies, program updates, and case studies. The EPA s Risk Reduction Engineering Laboratoiy and the Center for Environmental Research Information has pubhshed several guidance documents, developed in cooperation with the California Department of Health Services. The manuals supplement generic waste reduction information presented in the EPA s Waste Minimization Opportunity Assessment Manual (Ref. 9). 

CDHS database, MTBE Drinking Water Standards and Monitoring Results, California Department of Health Services. Available at www.dhs.ca.gov/ps/ddwem/chemicals/MTBE/mtbeindex.htm, April 2006. 

In 1985, Berteau and Mengle (1985) of the California Department of Health Services and Maddy of the Department of Food and Agriculture conducted a preliminary review of pesticides used indoors. They noted several cases (six) from the Pesticide Illness Surveillance system in which illness was reported after structural pest control. Hypothetical exposure estimates for infants, children, and adults following label use for propoxur, DDVP, and chlorpyrifos were sometimes greater than toxic levels. In 1987, Berteau et al. (1989) reiterated the concern about the potential magnitude of indoor exposures, particularly for children. 

Berteau, P.E. and Mengle, D.M. (1985) An Assessment of the Hazard from Pesticide Absorption from Surfaces, Community Toxicology Unit, California Department of Health Services, Berkeley, May 17, 1985. 

In 1966 and 1967, when the use of endrin was not restricted, endrin was detected in 5 of 67 raw water samples from the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers (Schafer et al. 1969). At a later time when endrin use was substantially restricted, an Iowa study of 33 community water supplies using surface water found no detectable concentrations of endrin in the distribution systems (Wnuk et al. 1987). In an extensive water quality monitoring program conducted by the California Department of Health Services, endrin was detected (detection limit not specified) in only 2 of 5,109 public drinking water sources sampled from 1984 to 1992, at mean and maximum concentrations of 0.06 and 0.10 ppb, respectively (Storm 1994). Concentrations did not exceed the Maximum Concentration Level (MCL) of 0.2 ppb. In another recent study, endrin was not detected (detection limit not specified) in 32 samples each of raw water and highly treated reclaimed waste water undergoing evaluation as a possible supplement to raw water sources in San Diego, California (De Peyster et al. 1993). 

California Department of Health Services, 1989, Total Petroleum Hydrocarbons (TPH) Analysis — Gasoline and Diesel In California Water Resources Control Board Leaking Underground Fuel Tank (LUFT) Manual, Appendix C. 

CDHS. 1988. Notice of proposed rulemaking. June 23. Sacramento, CA California Department of Health Services. 

A demonstration was conducted with the California Department of Health Services in October 1988 at the U.S. Navy s 32nd Street Naval Station in San Diego, California. According to the technology developer, the cost to operate the demonstration project was 174.00/yd based upon 700 yd of contaminated soil processed (D15638R, p. 8). 

The information in Part I is from Reducing California s Metal-Bearing Waste Streams, prepared by Michael Melt-zer, Michael Callahan, and Tom Jensen of Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. for the California Department of Health Services, Toxic Substances Divisions, Alternative Technology Section, August 1989. 

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. would like to acknowledge the efforts of those who contributed to this project. In particular, we wish to thank Daniel Q. Garza, David Hartley, Ben Fries, Kim Wilhelm, and Dr. James Allen of the Alternative Technology Section, Toxic Substances Control Division of the California Department of Health Services for their guidance in the preparation of this report. 

Byszewski, C., and Mani, K.N. September 1989. "A Technology For Metal Waste Recovery." Metal Waste Management Alternatives Symposium Proceedings. California Department of Health Services, Alternative Technology Section. 

DHS. June 1987. Waste Audit Study Printed Circuit Board Manufacturers. California Department of Health Services, Toxic Substances Control Division, Alternative Technology Section. Prepared by Planning Research Corporation, San Jose, CA. 

DHS. June 1987. Aerospace Waste Minimization Project. California Department of Health Services, TRW, Inc., Northrop Corporation, and Hughes Aircraft Company. Prepared by Fred C. Hart Associates, Inc., Irvine, CA. California DHS Grant Contract No. 85-00170. 

Copies of hazardous waste control laws and regulations administered by the California Department of Health Services may be ordered by completing the form below and mailing it with the applicable payment to ... 

Alternative Technology Division Toxic Substances Control Program California Department of Health Services P.O. Box 942732 Sacramento, CA 94234-7320 (916) 324-1807... 

Coordination of the symposium and publication of the symposium proceedings was performed by Jacobs Engineering Group Inc., Hazardous and Toxic Materials Division, Pasadena, California, under contract to the California Department of Health Services. 

Also, as part of the WRAP Program, the EPA in cooperation with the California Department of Health Services is producing a series of industry specific manuals that address waste minimization opportunities in a variety of industries. These manuals are in various stages of development but are expected to be available by the Fall of 1989. The industries addressed in the series include (1) paint shops, (2) pesticides, (3) commercial printing, (4) metal fabricators, (5) circuit board manufacturing, (6) hospitals and (7) research and educational institutions. 

PRC Environmental Management, Inc. 1988. Waste Audit Study—Metal Finishing Industry. United States Environmental Protection Agency and California Department of Health Services, San Francisco, California. 

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