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ATSDR MEDIA ANNOUNCEMENT

ATSDR Is Holding a Public Meeting About Washington County Air Quality

Meeting will be held May 24 in Marietta, Ohio

For Immediate Release: May 20, 2004

ATLANTA - The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), a public health agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, will hold a public meeting to update the community about its air modeling and other environmental health research activities in Marietta, Ohio.

The meeting will be held
May 24, 2004
6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Washington State Community College's Graham Auditorium
710 Colegate Dr.
Marietta, Ohio

The information about ATSDR's activities will be announced at the meeting.

An air model is a mathematical tool using computer mapping to show how contaminants move in the air. Because extensive sampling data were not available for Washington County, an air model was the best tool for estimating exposures to air pollution.

ATSDR staff will be joined at the meeting by researchers from the Ohio Department of Health and the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency.

For more information, community members can contact Environmental Health Scientist Jennifer Freed or Health Communications Specialist Dawn O'Connor, toll free, at 1-888-422-8737. Regional Representative Michelle Colledge in Chicago also may be contacted at 312-886-1462. Callers should refer to the Washington County Air Quality Site in Marietta, Ohio.

ATSDR, a federal public health agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, evaluates the human health effects of exposure to hazardous substances.

Established by Congress in 1980 under the Superfund law, ATSDR conducts public health assessments at each of the sites on the EPA National Priorities List, as well as other sites when petitioned. Headquartered in Atlanta, ATSDR is staffed by more than 400 health professionals including epidemiologists, physicians, toxicologists, engineers and public health educators.

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Members of the news media can request an interview with ATSDR staff by calling Jennifer Sarginson or Jill Smith in the ATSDR Office of Communication at 770-488-0700.

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Updated by R. Searfoss June 1, 2004
For more information, contact ATSDR at:
770-488-0700 or e-mail (news media)