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NIOSH Docket Number 144:

Criteria Document Update: Occupational Exposure to Hexavalent Chromium

 

NIOSH is conducting a public review of the NIOSH draft document “ NIOSH Criteria Document Update: Occupational Exposure to Hexavalent Chromium.” This draft NIOSH document provides a review of the available literature and an update of NIOSH policies on occupational exposure to hexavalent chromium compounds.  This guidance document does not have the force and effect of law.

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Pre-Meeting Information
Draft NIOSH “Criteria Document Update: Occupational Exposure to Hexavalent Chromium,” September 2008 (229 pages, 65,490kb)
Letter to peer reviewers from Niemeier (NIOSH) - 10/14/08 (7 pages, 1,080kb)
Notice of request for public to submit comments and attend meeting; 73 FR 61874; 10/17/08 (2 pages, 1,990kb)
Meeting Information
Agenda for the NIOSH public meeting on “Criteria Document Update: Occupational Exposure to Hexavalent Chromium;” Cincinnati, OH - 1/22/09 (1 page, 516kb)
List of attendees - 01/22/09 (3 pages, 994kb)
Presentation titled, “Cr(VI) Criteria Document Update Development Process” by Geraci (NIOSH) - 01/22/09 (10 pages, 836kb)
Presentation titled, “History of NIOSH Hexavalent Chromium Process” by Lentz (NIOSH) - 01/22/09 (9 pages, 877kb)
Presentation titled, “I. Hexavalent Chromium and Lung Cancer in the Chromate Industry: A Quantitative Risk Assessment” by Park (NIOSH) 01/22/09 (22 pages, 2,500kb)
Presentation titled, “II. Thresholds and Other Non-linearities in the Relationship between Hexavalent Chromium and Lung Cancer” by Park (NIOSH) - 01/22/09 (7 pages, 875kb)
Presentation titled, “Criteria Document Update: Occupational Exposure to Hexavalent Chromium” by MacMahon (NIOSH) - 01/22/09 (10 pages, 1,119kb)
Presentation titled, “Testimony of CPRW  - the Center for Construction Research and Training on the NIOSH Criteria Document Update: Occupational Exposure to Hexavalent Chromium” by Susi (CPRW – the Center for Construction Research and Training) - 01/22/09 (5 pages, 276kb)
Post-Meeting Information
Notice of request for public to submit comments: Extension of comment period; 74 FR 4752; 1/27/09 (1 page, 507kb)
Submission to the docket from Mundt (ENVIRON International Corporation) –-12/31/08 (1 page, 165kb)
Submission to the docket from Susi (Center for Construction Research and Training) – 1/8/09 (1 page, 524kb)
Submission to the docket from Brown (Wood Preservative Science Council) – 1/9/09 (3 pages, 1,650kb)
Submission to the docket from Trippler (American Industrial Hygiene Association) – 2/26/09 (6 pages, 1,670kb)
Submission to the docket from Robinson (Color Pigments Manufacturers Association, Inc.) – 3/17/09 (8 pages, 1,940kb)
Submission to the docket from Alexeeff (California Environmental Protection Agency) – 3/27/09 (3 pages, 1,700kb)
Submission to the docket from Mezei (Electric Power Research Institute [EPRI) – 3/30/09 (9 pages, 4,700kb)
Submission to the docket from McMahon-Lohrer (Specialty Steel Industry of North America) – 3/31/09 (12 pages, 6,370kb)
Submission to the docket from Bor (Building and Construction Trades Department, AFL-CIO and The Center for Construction Research and Training) – 3/31/09 (20 pages, 7,380kb)

 

The NIOSH Docket