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VOC Exposure in an Industry Impacted Community

EPA Grant Number: R828678C003
Subproject: 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: Stacey Katz/Gail Robarge,
Project Period: January 2, 2001 through December 31, 2005 (Extended to December 31, 2008)
RFA: Mickey Leland National Urban Air Toxics Research Center (NUATRC) (1997)
Research Category: Targeted Research , Air Quality and Air Toxics

Description:

Objective:

This objective of this study is to measure volatile organic compound (VOC) concentrations in residents of a South Baltimore community, whom are concerned about their proximity to industrial emissions. The project will provide VOC exposure information to the concerned community, apportion indoor and outdoor sources, and evaluate benzene as an exposure biomarker.

Approach:

This project was initiated in August 1999, under a previous EPA grant (Grant No. R824834C003), and will continue under this follow-on grant. Using organic vapor monitor VOC badges, 40 adults and 15 children will be monitored for indoor, outdoor, and personal concentration of VOCs such as benzene, 1,3-butadiene, and carbon tetrachloride. A control group in a reference community will consist of 15 adult-child combinations. In addition, 30 residents of the exposed community and 15 residents of the comparison unexposed community will be monitored for benzene exposure.

Expected Results:

We expect our results to show that area industrial emissions result in elevated levels of VOC exposure to local residents. VOC source apportionment will be sought based on the measurements of specific chemicals.

Publications and Presentations:

Publications have been submitted on this subproject: View all 3 publications for this subproject | View all 122 publications for this center

Journal Articles:

Journal Articles have been submitted on this subproject: View all 2 journal articles for this subproject | View all 46 journal articles for this center

Supplemental Keywords:

urban, air pollution, exposure, monitoring, industrial emissions, VOCs. , HUMAN HEALTH, POLLUTANTS/TOXICS, ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT, Air, Scientific Discipline, Health, RFA, PHYSICAL ASPECTS, Susceptibility/Sensitive Population/Genetic Susceptibility, Risk Assessment, Biology, Risk Assessments, Health Risk Assessment, Physical Processes, air toxics, Chemicals, particulate matter, Environmental Chemistry, Exposure, Air Pollution, biomarkers, chemical mixtures, exposure assessment, environmental hazard exposures, airborne urban contaminants, acute exposure, Acute health effects, Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), air contaminant exposure, co-pollutants, air quality, benzene, cardiopulmonary response, fine particles, industrial air pollution, butadiene, cardiopulmonary responses, human health risk, lung inflammation, toxics, acute cardiovascular effects, air pollutants, chronic health effects, PM 2.5, sensitive populations, acute lung injury, atmospheric chemistry, carbon tetrachloride, inhaled, atmospheric particulate matter, copollutant exposures, susceptible subpopulations, long term exposure, human susceptibility, human exposure, PM, particulate exposure

Progress and Final Reports:
2001 Progress Report
2002 Progress Report
2003 Progress Report
2004 Progress Report
Final Report

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

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