The Multiple Air Toxics
Exposure Study III (MATES III) is a monitoring and evaluation study
conducted in the South Coast Air Basin (Basin). The study is a follow
up to
previous air toxics studies in the Basin and is part of the South Coast Air
Quality Management District Governing Board's
2003-04
Environmental Justice Workplan.
The MATES III Study consists of several elements. These include a
monitoring program, an updated emissions inventory of toxic air
contaminants, and a modeling effort to characterize risk across the Basin.
The study focuses on the carcinogenic risk from exposure to air toxics. It
does not estimate mortality or other health effects from particulate
exposures.
The
Mates III Technical Advisory Group was formed to provide feedback. The
advisory group includes environmentalists, business representatives, and
scientists; and their meetings are open to the public.
Mates
III Final Report (September 2008)
MATES
III Carcinogenic Risk Interactive Map
Click on the link for the Interactive Map of the South Coast Air Basin to identify the
estimated modeled carcinogenic risk from air toxics by geographic location
as shown in Figure ES-4 in the Executive Summary of the MATES III
Report. See Chapter 4 of the Report and Appendix IX for details of the
modeling analysis.
Links to previews of drafts and meetings are below:
Mates
III Draft Final Report (July 2008)
Public Consultation
Meeting
for the Revised Draft
August 26, 2008
Presentation
(PDF - 2,821k)
Mates III Technical Advisory
Group, August 12, 2008
Agenda and Presentations
The link to the comments
received on the January 2008 MATES III Draft Report follows:
Comments
The link to the MATES III
Draft Report (January 2008 version) follows:
MATES III Draft Report (January 2008)
Seven Public Workshops on MATES III were conducted in the months of February and March 2008
at various locations throughout the Basin. The link to the
presentation follows:
Presentation (PDF - 403k)
Past MATES III Technical Advisory Group Meeting
Agendas
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