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Final Report: VOC Exposure in an Industry Impacted Community
EPA Grant Number: R824834C003Subproject: this is subproject number 003 , established and managed by the Center Director under grant R824834
(EPA does not fund or establish subprojects; EPA awards and manages the overall grant for this center).
Center: Mickey Leland National Urban Air Toxics Research Center (NUATRC)
Center Director: Beskid, Craig
Title: VOC Exposure in an Industry Impacted Community
Investigators: Buckley, Timothy
Institution: Johns Hopkins University
EPA Project Officer: Katz, Stacey
Project Period: August 1, 1999 through December 31, 2000
RFA: Mickey Leland National Urban Air Toxics Research Center (NUATRC) (1997)
Research Category: Congressionally Mandated Center , Urban Air Toxics , Targeted Research
Description:
Objective:The objectives of this project were to: (1) provide volatile organic compound (VOC) exposure information to a concerned community; (2) apportion indoor and outdoor sources; and (3) evaluate benzene as an exposure biomarker.
The goal was to measure VOC concentrations for personal exposure assessment by monitoring individuals, indoor and outdoor environments, within a South Baltimore community in proximity to industrial emissions. The study is a response to community concerns over the potential health hazard due to the intensity and proximity of industrial sources. A sample of 40 adults and 15 children in 40 homes in this community will be monitored for indoor, outdoor, and personal exposures to VOCs. The substances measured included benzene; 1,3-butadiene; and carbon tetrachloride. In addition to monitoring individuals and environments in the community, control subjects (15 adult and child pairs), in a reference community were monitored. As a result of these measurements, source apportionment were attempted for these specific chemicals.
The NUATRC support supplements a previous Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) grant, which will monitor 30 residents of the exposed community, and 15 residents of the comparison unexposed community with organic vapor monitor VOC badges. The NUATRC support supplements National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences award to measure biomarkers of benzene exposure of the exposed community residents.
Summary/Accomplishments (Outputs/Outcomes):This project was developed in response to NUATRC RFA 98-03, "NUATRC New Investigators Small Grants Program," intended to foster the development of short-term research projects on exposures/health effects of urban air toxics by new investigators.
The study protocol was approved by the Johns Hopkins' Institutional Review Board and the human subject consent was in compliance with government regulations. The study also was in compliance with NUATRC and EPA quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC) guidelines.
The initial target community for the study had to be changed as it was bought by the City, and a new target community, Curtis Bay, was selected for the study. An appropriate control community, Hamden, which matched with the target community with respect to demographics and lack of exposures to industrial emission sources, was selected.
This period of the project involved hiring, training staff, preparation of protocols, characterization of the limit of detection and recovery of 3M organic vapor monitor badges, pilot testing, and initiation of the study. A random sample was selected for the study, and demographic comparisons were made between target and control communities.
Journal Articles:No journal articles submitted with this report: View all 2 publications for this subproject
Supplemental Keywords:urban, air pollution, exposure, monitoring, industrial emissions, VOCs. , Toxics, POLLUTANTS/TOXICS, Air, Geographic Area, Scientific Discipline, Health, RFA, Risk Assessments, Health Risk Assessment, Air Pollution Effects, air toxics, Chemicals, Biochemistry, particulate matter, Air Pollution, 33/50, Environmental Monitoring, State, epidemiology, Maryland (MD), airborne urban contaminants, minority children, health effects, Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), urban air, lung inflamation, benzene, sensitive subgroups, human health risk, air pollutants, human health effects, urban air quality, carbon tetrachloride, children, Baltimore, California, urban air pollution, human health, biomarker, human exposure, PM
Progress and Final Reports:
Original Abstract
Main Center Abstract and Reports:
R824834 Mickey Leland National Urban Air Toxics Research Center (NUATRC)
Subprojects under this Center:
(EPA does not fund or establish subprojects; EPA awards and manages the overall grant for this center).
R824834C001 Air Toxics Exposures Among Teenagers in New York City and Los Angeles - A Columbia-Harvard Study (TEACH)
R824834C002 Cardiopulmonary Response to Particulate Exposure
R824834C003 VOC Exposure in an Industry Impacted Community
R824834C004 A Study of Personal Exposure to Air Toxics Among a Subset of the Residential U.S. Population (VOC Project)
R824834C005 Methods Development Project for a Study of Personal Exposures to Toxic Air Pollutants
R824834C006 Relationship Between Indoor, Outdoor and Personal Air (RIOPA)
R824834C007 Development of the "Leland Legacy" Air Sampling Pump
R824834C008 Source Apportionment of Indoor Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) in Urban Residences
R824834C009 Development of a Personal Cascade Impactor Sampler (PCIS)
R824834C010 Testing the Metals Hypothesis in Spokane
R828678C001 Air Toxics Exposures Among Teenagers in New York City and Los Angeles—A Columbia-Harvard Study (TEACH)
R828678C002 Cardiopulmonary Effects of Metal-Containing Particulate Exposure
R828678C003 VOC Exposure in an Industry Impacted Community
R828678C004 A Study of Personal Exposure to Air Toxics Among a Subset of the Residential U.S. Population (VOC Project)
R828678C005 Oxygenated Urban Air Toxics and Asthma Variability in Middle School Children: A Panel Study (ATAC–Air Toxics and Asthma in Children)
R828678C006 Relationship between Indoor, Outdoor and Personal Air (RIOPA). Part II: Analyses of Concentrations of Particulate Matter Species
R828678C007 Development of the “Leland Legacy” Air Sampling Pump
R828678C008 Source Apportionment of Indoor PAHs in Urban Residences 98-03B
R828678C009 Development of a Personal Cascade Impactor Sampler (PCIS)
R828678C010 Testing the Metals Hypothesis in Spokane
R828678C011 A Pilot Geospatial Analysis of Exposure to Air Pollutants (with Special Attention to Air Toxics) and Hospital Admissions in Harris County, Texas
R828678C012 Impact of Exposure to Urban Air Toxics on Asthma Utilization for the Pediatric Medicaid Population in Dearborn, Michigan
R828678C013 Field Validation of the Sioutas Sampler and Leland Legacy Pump – Joint Project with EPA’s Environmental Technology Validation Program (ETV)
R828678C014 Performance Evaluation of the 3M Charcoal Vapor Monitor for Monitor Low Ambient Concentrations of VOCs
R828678C015 RIOPA Database Development
R828678C016 Contributions of Outdoor PM Sources to Indoor and Personal Exposures: Analysis of PM Species Concentrations” Focused on the PM Speciation and Apportioning of Sources
R828678C017 The Short and Long-Term Respiratory Effects of Exposure to PAHs from Traffic in a Cohort of Asthmatic Children