Tooele Community Cancer Study __********************

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From: "Hughart, Joe" <jxh8@ATSOAA1.EM.CDC.GOV>
Subject: Tooele Community Cancer Study ********************

PETIONING ATSDR FOR HEALTH ASSESSMENTS & STUDIES AT SUPERFUND SITES

I received the following message in reponse to an article we published 
in our newsletter, "Citizens Report on the Military and the Environment",
and posted to this conference. This may be of help to other 
communities that are in the proximity of Superfund sites.

Aimee Houghton

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Thanks for the information about the Tooele Depot community cancer study in 
the April 1996 edition of "Military and the Environment". Tooele Depot 
is a Superfund site. The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease 
Registry is required under the Superfund law to conduct public health 
assessments, and if necessary, health studies, at Superfund sites such as 
Tooele Depot. Unfortunately, ATSDR does not have the resources to conduct 
assessments at all Superfund sites at once, so we have had to prioritize 
the sites for assessment and further study. If anyone would like ATSDR to 
place the Tooele Depot site in a higher prioritiy category for further 
assessment and health studies, they may do so by sending a petition for a 
public health assessment to the following address: 

Barry L. Johnson, Ph.D. 
Assistant Administrator, ATSDR 
Mailstop E28
1600 Clifton Road
Atlanta, GA 30333
phone (404) 639-0700, fax (404) 639-0744. 

Thanks. - Joe Hughart, Deputy Director, Office of Federal Programs, ATSDR.