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Report on health risk of fire-affected buses completed
line of school buses EHAP finds no evidence of harm to children riding buses
EHAP has released a health consultation report that examines the health risk to children who ride buses affected in a 2006 fire. No parents of children or children who ride buses have reported health effects to the school district or the public health division. However, bus drivers began reporting health problems after driving fire-affected buses. The Oregon Occupational Safety Health Division opened an investigation and could not find anything in the buses that explains the drivers' symptoms. The Salem-Keizer School District asked EHAP to review the data to ensure that children's health wasn't at risk.
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Site Assessments in Oregon
DHS's EHAP Program works to assess and prevent human exposure to contamination at Oregon sites listed on the National Priority List (or Superfund sites) and at other hazardous waste sites that impact communities.
Portland Harbor Study
The Oregon Department of Human Services (DHS), in cooperation with Multnomah County Health Department, is advising the public of high levels of PCBs in fish caught from Portland Harbor, in the lower Willamette River.
Education and Outreach
What does EHAP do?
To carry out its goal and to serve the needs of the public, EHAP's staff, a program coordinator, a toxicologist, an epidemiologist, and a community health educator, conduct the following activities:
Partners and Related Programs
Request EHAP'S Help
EHAP becomes involved in sites where there may be a health hazard, at the request of concerned individuals and organizations.

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