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Hazard Standard Risk Analysis -- TSCA Section 403

RISK ANALYSIS TO SUPPORT STANDARDS
FOR LEAD IN PAINT, DUST, AND SOIL
(EPA 747-R-97-006)
June 1998



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Table of Contents (PDF) (18 pp, 74K)
Executive Summary (PDF) (16 pp, 66K)
1.0 Introduction (PDF) (21 pp, 69K)

PART I - RISK ASSESSMENT
2.0 Hazard Identification (PDF) (22 pp, 91K)
3.0 Exposure Assessment (PDF) (81 pp, 784K)
4.0 Dose-Response Assessment (PDF) (32 pp, 443K)
5.0 Risk Characterization (PDF) (48 pp, 691K)

PART II - RISK MANAGEMENT
6.0 Analysis of Example Options for the §403 Standards (PDF) (71 pp, 1.7MB)
7.0 References (PDF) (34 pp, 111K)

LIST OF APPENDICES
Appendices A through C (PDF) (47 pp, 340K)
  • Appendix A Glossary
  • Appendix B Health Effects Associated with Exposure to Lead and Internal Lead Doses in Humans
  • Appendix C1 Characterizing Baseline Environmental-Lead Levels in the Nation's Housing Stock
  • Appendix C2 Method for Computing Confidence Intervals Associated with Estimates in the Exposure Assessment and Risk Characterization

  • Appendices D Through F (PDF) (38 pp, 230K)

  • Appendix D1 Assumptions and Scientific Evidence to Account for the Effect of Pica for Paint
  • Appendix D2 Results of Three Published Meta-Analyses on the Relationship Between IQ Point Loss and Childhood Blood-Lead Levels
  • Appendix E1 Methodology for Estimating Health Effects from Blood-Lead Distribution
  • Appendix E2 Generating Distribution of Blood-Lead Concentrations Based on Model-Predicted Geometric Mean and Geometric Standard Deviation
  • Appendix F1 Methodology for Estimating Post-Intervention Distribution of Children's Blood-Lead Concentrations Resulting from Proposed §403 Rules
  • Appendix F2 Estimation of Primary Prevention Efficacy Using Model of Bone-Lead Mobilization

  • APPENDIX G Health Effects Associated with Exposure to Lead and Internal Lead Doses in Humans

  • Pages 1-68 (PDF) (68 pp, 496K)
  • Pages 69-81 (PDF) (13 pp, 2.6MB)
  • Pages 82-93 (PDF) (12 pp, 1.3MB)
  • Pages 94-105 (PDF) (12 pp, 1.2MB)

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