Criteria documents

Receptors. The receptor can be a person, animal, plant, material, or ecosystem. The criteria and hazardous air pollutants were so designated because, at sufficient concentrations, they can cause adverse health effects to human receptors. Some of the criteria pollutants also cause damage to plant receptors. An Air QuaUty Criteria Document (12) exists for each criteria pollutant and these documents summarize the most current Hterature concerning the effects of criteria pollutants on human health, animals, vegetation, and materials. The receptors which have generated much concern regarding acid deposition are certain aquatic and forest ecosystems, and there is also some concern that acid deposition adversely affects some materials. 

Air Quality Criteria for Oxone and Other Photochemical Oxidants, PubUcation No. EPA-600-8-84-020F, 5 vols., U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, N.C., 1986. EPA pubUshes separate criteria documents for aU the criteria poUutants and they are updated about every five years. 

OSHA has a TWA standaid on a weight of Sb basis of 0.5 mg/for antimony in addition to a standard TWA of 2.5 mg/m for fluoride. NIOSH has issued a criteria document on occupational exposure to inorganic fluorides. Antimony pentafluoride is considered by the EPA to be an extremely hazardous substance and releases of 0.45 kg or more reportable quantity (RQ) must be reported. Antimony triduoride is on the CERCLA bst and releasing of 450 kg or more RQ must be reported. 

NIOSH has issued a criteria document (30) on occupational exposure to inorganic fluorides. 

OSHA has a standard time-weighted average (TWA) of 2.5 mg/m based on fluoride. NIOSH has issued a criteria document (24) on occupational exposure to inorganic fluorides. 

The EPA is reviewing and revising the Air QuaUty and Other Photochemical Oxidants (Criteria Document) and reevaluating the national ambient air quahty standards (158). The EPA is also proposing that manufacturers (>10,000 lb 03/yr) and users (>25,000 lb 03/yr) submit data annually to the EPA on estimated ozone releases (159). 

Principles for the Toxicological Assessment of Pesticide Residues in Food, IPCS Environmental Health Criteria Document No. 104, International Programme on Chemical Safety, Geneva, Switzedand, 1990, 117 pp. 

In 1971 the OSHA standard for benzene (20 CFR, Part 1910.0000) adopted a permissible exposure limit (PEL) of 10 ppm benzene measured as an 8-h TWA. In October of 1976 NIOSH updated its earlier criteria document on benzene and recommended that OSHA lower the benzene exposure standard from 10 to 1 ppm. This proposed implementation was blocked by the United States Supreme Court iu 1980 on the basis of iusufficient evidence linking benzene to cancer deaths. By the mid-1980s convincing evidence of the carciuogenicity of benzene appeared through animal studies which justified reconsideration of the 1 ppm PEL (130). 

The effects attributed to air pollutants range from mild eye irritation to mortality. In most cases, the effect is to aggravate preexisting diseases or to degrade the health status, making persons more susceptible to infection or development of a chronic respiratory disease. Some of the effects associated with specific pollutants are listed in Table 7-2. Further information is available in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency criteria documents summarized in Chapter 22. 

Prepare a table similar in format to Tables 22-1 through 22-6 for another pollutant not yet required by the administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to have a criteria document. 

Summary cntena for occupational exposure limits 1996 (with updates/changes 1997, 1998, 1999) Tnmethylbenzenes criteria document for an OEL Pulverized fuel ash cntena document for an OEL N,N-dimethylacetamide cntena document for an OEL... 

Tetrafluoroethane (HEC 134a) criteria document for an OEL Methyl methacrylate criteria document for an OEL... 

Sulphur Oxides and Suspended Particulate Natter. Environmental Health Criteria Document No. 8, Geneva, Switzerland, 1979. 

Concise International Chemical Assessment Documents (CICADs) are published by the International Programme on Chemical Safety (IPCS) — a cooperative programme of the World Health Organization (WHO), the International Labour Organization (ILO), and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). CICADs have been developed from the Environmental Health Criteria documents (EHCs), more than 200 of which have been published since 1976 as authoritative documents on the risk assessment of chemicals. 

EPA. 1980b. Water quality criteria documents availability. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Federal Register 45 79318-79379. 

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