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Descriptions of 17.00 - 17.99 | SRC Folder Code HZ/SF/RE/HE | NARA General Records Schedule N1-412-99-23 |
Definition
All releasable health and risk assessments, whether prepared by Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) or others should be filed here. Any releasable correspondence related to these studies should also be filed in this category.
The ATSDR is part of the U.S. Public Health Service. ATSDR may conduct a Superfund public health assessment, which is an independent evaluation of whether exposure to a site poses a danger to the people who live and work near it. This helps to ensure that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) does not overlook or underestimate any threats. Both a human health risk assessment and a public health assessment study overall hazardous substance threats to people.
SDMS
Keyword (Click on keyword to see description)
17.01
ATSDR Public Health Assessment
17.02
Environmental Risk Assessment
17.05 General Correspondence
17.04 Health Assessment Prepared by Others
17.03 Screening
Level Ecological Risk Assessment
17.99 Other
17.01 ATSDR
Public Health Assessment
Memorandum or report containing factual information on the health
danger to the public, which forms the basis for the selection of the response
action. This report, prepared by the ATSD), is required for each
NPL site according to a mandatory schedule. ATSDR, in consultation
with EPA, sets the priorities for health assessments at NPL sites based
upon potential risk to human health, adequacy of existing data, and EPA's
NPL and Remedial Investigation / Feasibility Study (RI / FS) schedules.
These reports are easily identified by the title, "Health
Assessment", and the author is ATSDR.
17.02 Environmental
Risk Assessment
The Risk
Assessment is a report containing factual information on the risk
or endangerment to any species, which forms the basis for the selection
of the response action. The risk assessment estimates the current
and possible future risks to your health from the site. The goal is to
understand what levels of cleanup will be necessary to make sure communities
are protected. A human health risk assessment estimates the "baseline
risk." This is the likelihood of health problems occurring as a result
of the hazardous substances at the site.
These reports are easily identified by the title, "Risk Assessment". Often this is a part of the Remedial Investigation (RI) report, in which case this would be a secondary keyword.
17.03
Screening Level Ecological Risk Assessment
Screening Level Ecological Risk Assessments (SLERAs) assess the
need, and if required, the level of effort necessary, to conduct a detailed
or "baseline" ecological risk assessment for a particular site.
Although less detailed than a baseline Ecological Risk Assessment, SLERAs
still include the following components: 1) screening level
problem formulation and ecological effects characterization, 2) screening
level exposure estimate and risk calculation, and 3) scientific management
decision point indicating either negligible risk or continuation to a
baseline risk assessment.
17.04 Health
Assessment Prepared by Others
Memorandum or report containing factual information on the health
danger to the public, which forms the basis for the selection of the response
action prepared by universities, private companies or other agencies
besides the ATSDR.
17.05 General Correspondence
Any correspondence including letters, memoranda, notes, and record of communications
generated or received by the EPA.
17.99 Other
If the needed keyword code is not available, code to 17.99.