[CPEO-BIF] TCE under review

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Cleanup guidelines lag

Health-risk assessment under review

By Dan Shapley
Poughkeepsie Journal (NY)
February 20, 2005

People living at polluted sites nationwide could be exposed to the toxin
trichloroethylene, or TCE, at levels higher than the Environmental
Protection Agency identified as a health concern in 2001, because the
EPA never set new cleanup standards based on its study. 

The health-risk analysis that identified the danger TCE posed to those
who breathe even minute amounts was never translated into EPA policy,
despite the recommendation of its own Science Advisory Board. At the
prompting of industry and other federal agencies, the EPA has subjected
the analysis to a review by the National Academy of Sciences. 

That review will take more than a year, leaving those who live at
polluted sites and the agencies responsible for remedying them using
cleanup guidelines for the ubiquitous solvent that vary from state to
state, and even within the boundaries of one town -- East Fishkill in
Dutchess County. 

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For the entire article,
http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/today/frontpage/stories/fr022005s2.shtml

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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