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ACS Committee for Environmental Improvement, Principles of Environmental Analysis, Ana/. Chem. 1983, 55, 2210-2218. 

Pflrman, S.. and the NSF Advisory Committee for Environmental Research and Education (2003). Complex Environmental Systems Synthesis for Earth. Life, and Society in the 2l Century, A report summarizing a 10-year outlook in environmental research and education for the National Science Eoundation, 68 pp. 

PEPAT also introduces a sort of international scrutiny on EIA within the Antarctic system. The draft CEE is forwarded to the Committee for Environmental Protection (CEP), an intergovernmental body to be established according to Art. 11... 

Frustration over seemingly little progress in development and deployment of technologies to accomplish the cleanup task in a better, safer, quicker, and more cost effective manner has led to the formation of a joint Federal-State effort named the Federal Advisory Committee for the Development of On-Site Innovative Technologies (DOIT Committee) for environmental restoration and waste management. 

A recent editorial in the Hometown Courier warned that highly vocal interest groups such as the Committee for Environmental Action have used their access to public television and radio to persuade voters to pass controversial ballot initiatives. This implies that media-savvy activists necessarily dominate any political debate. My contention, however, is that even the most vocal groups cannot set the political agenda unless the majority of the American people want to hear what they have to say. 

We evaluated the atmospheric dispersion of ammonia released in a major chemical accident near the town of lonava in central Lithuania. The course of the accident has been briefly described by Kletz (1991). More detailed reports have been prepared by the Lithuanian State Committee for Environmental Protection (1989) and by Andersson (1991). For a more complete description of this study, the reader is referred to Kukkonen et al. (1993). 

The liquid ammonia released formed a pool that was 70 cm deep in places. According to the chemical plant itself, about 1,400 tons of the spilled liquid ammonia evaporated. The pool caught fire, and the fire spread to a fertilizer store containing 15,000 tons of NPK till-11. It was theoretically estimated that a further 700 tons of ammonia was released into the environment due to the self-sustaining thermal decomposition of this material (Lithuanian State Committee for Environmental Protection, 1989). Substantial amounts of nitrogen oxides were also released from the fire. Seven people were killed, 57 injured, and about 32,000 evacuated in the course of the accident. 

Our computations are based on the release estimates provided by the authorities (Lithuanian State Committee for Environmental Protection, 1989). We have applied a long-range dispersion model that uses a Gaussian plume model up to a specified transition distance, and... 

The exact time of occurrence of the accident was 8 15 a.m. UTC (Universal Time Coordinated), March 20, 1989. All times given in this chapter are expressed as UTC. Intensive evaporation of the liquid pool lasted for up to about eight hours, and the fire was totally extinguished by 5 00 p.m. on March 22 (Lithuanian State Committee for Environmental Protection, 1989). The fire also resulted in releases of nitrogen oxides, fluoride, and chlorine into the air and escape of liquid pollutants into a nearby river. However, because their released amounts have not been quantitatively estimated in the available references, we address only the dispersion of ammonia in the air in this chapter. We also do not address the ammonia releases from the fire. 

In scenario 1, we assume that the total amount of ammonia vapor released into the air was 1,400 tons and that the duration of the release was eight hours. Scenario (1) is a best-guess estimate according to available release data (Lithuanian State Committee for Environmental Protection, 1989). However, because the rate of ammonia evaporation from the pool most likely decreased with time, most of the ammonia may have evaporated within a much shorter time. We therefore assume in scenario 2 a release of 1,000 tons of ammonia within one hour. Scenario 2 is a worst-case estimate for the release of ammonia into the air from the liquid pool. We have assumed a constant release rate at the ground level in both cases. 

The Lithuanian authorities reported some ammonia measurements on March 20, 1989 (Lithuanian State Committee for Environmental Protection, 1989). The largest measured concentration was 200 mg/m about 5 km downwind of the accident site at 3 00 to 4 30 p.m. UTC, and concentrations of about 20 to 25 mg/vo were measured at distances of from 5 to 12 km from the source. These values are not inconsistent with the concentration curves of release scenario 1 in Fig. 40.3. 

Lithuanian State Committee for Environmental Protection. 1989. A Report on the Ammonia Accident at... 

ACS Committee on Environmental Improvement Guidelines for Data Acquisition and Data Quality Evaluation in Environmental Chemistry, Ana/. Chem. 1980, 52, 2242-2249. 

FiuaUy, no discussion on poUution prevention would be complete without reference to the ac tivities of the 49-year-old International Organization for Standardization (ISO). ISO recently created Technical Committee 207 (TC 207) to begin work on new standards for environmental management systems (EMS). The ramifications, especiaUy to the chemical iudustiy, which has become heavUy involved in the development of these standards, wUl be great. TC 207 s activities are... 

Institut de Recherches de la Siderurgie, France International Organization for Standardization ISO Council Committee on Reference Materials International Union for Pure and Applied Chemistry Laboratory of the Government Chemist, UK, formerly NPL National Bureau of Standards, USA, now NIST National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards, USA National Institute for Biological Standards and Control, UK Japanese National Institute for Environmental Studies National Institute of Occup. Health, Oslo, Norway National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA, formerly NBS,... 

Dr. Honeycutt is a former chair and council representative for the Central North Carolina Section of the American Chemical Society. He is also a former chair of the Division of Agrochemicals for the American Chemical Society and is currently the Nominations Committee Chair for the Division of Agrochemicals. He served on the ACS Committee on Environmental Improvement for 9 years and is a consultant for this ACS committee. He is also a member of the International Commission of Occupational Health. 

American Academy of Pediatrics. 1998. Screening for elevated blood lead levels. Policy Statement. Committee on Environmental Health. Pediatrics 101(6) 1072-1078. 

The OECD Environment Committee has general supervisory responsibilities for environmental and health matters. This Committee supervises the work of the Chemicals Group, which in turn has overall responsibility for issues involving the control of substances. The OECD Chemicals Programme has two parts. 

The technical committee for facility safety (TAA1) is a committee that is organized under the auspices of 31a of the Bundeslmmissionsschutzgesetzes (German environmental legislation) by the (German) Federal Ministry for the Environment, Conservation of Nature and Reactor Safety. 

Hank C. Jenkins-Smith is professor of public policy at the George H.W. Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A M University in College Station. He holds the Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Chair of Business and Government at the Bush School. He was previously professor of political science and director of the Institute for Public Policy at the University of New Mexico. Professor Jenkins-Smith s areas of research include science and technology policy, environmental policy, public perceptions of environmental and technical risks, and national security policy. Professor Jenkins-Smith has written books on the public policy process and policy analysis and has served on a number of committees for the National Research Council. 

In 1992, the International Organisation for Standardisation established a technical committee on Environmental Management (TC207) to develop a series of standards on environmental management. This was subsequently published as the IS014000 series of standards. Although this is a field that is rapidly maturing, LCA has been criticized on a number of points. 

Dickson, D. R., and N. Quickert. The chemical composition of photochemical air pollution, pp. 27-51. In NRC Associate Committee on Scientific Criteria for Environmental Quality. Report No. 12. Photochemical Air Pollution Formation, Transport and Effects. Ottawa National Research Council of Canada, 1975. 

EMEA/CHMP - European Medicines Evaluation Agency/Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (2006) Doc Ref EMEA/CHMP/SWP/4447/00, guideline on the environmental assessment of medicinal products for human use, 12 pp... 

The NTP Executive Committee contains members from ATSDR, CPSC (Consumer Product Safety Commission), US-EPA, US-FDA (Food and Drug Administration), NCEH (National Center for Environmental Health)/CDC, NCI/NIH, NIH, NIOSH/CDC, and OSHA (Occupational Safety Health Administration). 

The first draft of the risk assessment reports are written by the Member States, which act as rapporteurs . Generally, one Member State acts as rapporteur for a prioritized substance or group of substances however, for some prioritized substances, more than one Member State can act as rapporteurs. The risk assessment process is coordinated by the ECB. Stakeholders are involved in the process through the Technical Committee for New and Existing Substances (TC NES). The Commission mediates the meetings, which attempt to reach consensus on the conclusions of the risk assessments. During the risk assessment process, the Scientific Committee on Health and Environmental Risks (SCHER) is requested to provide an opinion. 

Dr. Gold has served on the Panel of Expert Reviewers for the National Toxicology Program and on the boards of the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis and the Annapolis Center she was a member of the Harvard Risk Management Group and is at present a member of the Advisory Committee to the Director, National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). She is among the most frequently cited scientists in her field and was awarded the Annapolis Center Prize for risk communication. 

For these reasons, artifacts must be limited as part of a quality assurance program. As defined by the American Chemical Society Committee on Environmental Improvement (26), the objective of a quality assurance program is to reduce measurement errors to agreed upon limits and to assure that the results have a high probability of being acceptable quality. ... 

Charles F. Reinhardt has an M.D. from Indiana University School of Medicine and an M.Sc. in occupational medicine from Ohio State University School of Medicine. He recently retired after more than 30 years with the DuPont Company, where he was a plant physician, a physiologist, chief of the physiology section, research manager for environmental sciences, assistant director, and finally director of DuPont s Haskell Laboratory, a position he held until his retirement in 1996. Dr. Reinhardt has considerable expertise and experience in occupational medicine and toxicology and has served on numerous NRC panels and committees, including the Committee on Toxicology. 

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