The toxicologic hazard of Superfund hazardous-waste sites

Reviews on Environmental Health

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 235-251

  Johnson, Barry L ^a   DeRosa, Christopher ^a  

^a AGENCY FOR TOXIC SUBSTANCES AND DISEASE REGISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARCINOGEN; TOXIC SUBSTANCE;

DATA BASE; ECOTOXICOLOGY; HAZARDOUS WASTE; HUMAN; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; UNITED STATES; WASTE DISPOSAL;

EID: 0031417434     PISSN: 00487554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/REVEH.1997.12.4.235     Document Type: Review

References (32)

1. Cortinas de Nava C. Worldwide overview of hazardous wastes. In: Andrews JS, Frumkin H, Johnson BL, Mehlman MA, Xintaras C, Bucsela JA, eds, Hazardous Waste and Public Health. Princeton: Princeton Scientific Publishing, 1994; 3-14.
2. Winter EF. Future outlook in the light of European unification: overview and critique. In: Andrews JS, Frumkin H, Johnson BL, Mehlman MA, Xintaras C, Bucsela JA, eds, Hazardous Waste and Public Health. Princeton: Princeton Scientific Publishing, 1994; 157.
3. Office of Technology Assessment (OTA). Coming clean: Superfund's problems can be solved. Washington, DC: OTA, 1989.
4. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Information System (CERCLIS). Washington, DC: EPA Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response, 1996, December.
5. Prepared statement of Carol M. Browner, Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, before the Committee on Environment and Public Works. Washington DC: Senate, March 5, 1997.
6. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). National Priorities List for uncontrolled hazardous waste sites: Final rule. Federal Register 1996; 61: 67655-67677.
7. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). National Priorities List for hazardous waste sites: Proposed rule. Federal Register 1996; 61: 67678-82.
8. National Research Council (NRC). Ranking Hazardous-Waste Sites. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1994; 29, 37.
9. General Accounting Office (GAO). Federal facilities: Consistent relative risk evaluations needed for prioritizing cleanups. Washington, DC: GAO, 1996.
10. Ruttenberg R, Weinstock D, Santamaria L. Labor market study of hazardous waste workers and associated emergency responders. Bethesda: Ruttenberg & Associates, 1996.
11. Association of State and Territorial Solid Waste Management Officials (ASTSWMO). A report on state/territory non-NPL hazardous waste site cleanup efforts for the period 1980-1992. Washington, DC: EPA, 1994.
12. Russell M, Colglazier EM, English MR. Hazardous waste remediation: The task ahead. Knoxville: University of Tennessee, 1991, A-3.10.
13. Federal Facilities Policy Group (FFPG). Improving federal facilities cleanup. Washington, DC: Council on Environmental Quality, 1995, 17.
14. U.S Congressional Budget Office (CBO). The total costs of cleaning up nonfederal Superfund sites. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1994.
15. General Accounting Office (GAO). Operating and maintenance activities will require billions of dollars. Washington, DC: GAO, 1995.
16. National Research Council (NRC). Environmental Epidemiology: Public Health and Hazardous Wastes, vol 1. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1991, 20-21; 114-115.
17. Heitgerd JL, Burg JR, and Strickland HG. A geographic information systems approach to estimating and assessing National Priorities List site demographics: racial and Hispanic origin composition. Int J Occup Med Tox 1995; 4:343-363.
18. Sexton K, Olden K, Johnson BL. Environmental justice: The central role of research in establishing a credible scientific foundation for informed decision making. Toxicol Indust Health 1993; 9: 685-727.
19. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR). Public Health Assessment Guidance Manual. Chelsea: Lewis Publishers, 1992.
20. Johnson BL. Nature, extent, and impact of Superfund hazardous waste sites. Chemosphere 1995; 31: 2415-2428.
21. Doll R, Peto R. The causes of cancer: quantitative estimates of avoidable risks of cancer in the United States. J Natl Cancer Inst 1981; 66:1191-1308.
22. Johnson BL. Hazardous waste: Human health effects. Toxicol Indust Health 1997; 13: 121-143.
23. Griffith J, Duncan R, Riggan W, Pellom A. Cancer mortality in U.S. counties with hazardous waste sites and ground water pollution. Arch Environ Health 1989; 44: 69-74.
24. Najem G, Thind L, Lavenhar M, Louria D. Gastrointestinal cancer mortality in New Jersey counties, and the relationship with environmental variables. Int J Epidemiol 1983; 12: 276-289.
25. Lagakos SW, Wessen BJ, Zelen M. An analysis of contaminated well water and health effects in Woburn, Massachusetts. J Am Statist Assoc 1986; 81: 583-596.
26. Massachusetts Department of Public Health. Woburn childhood leukemia follow-up study. Boston: State of Massachusetts, 1996.
27. DeRosa CT, Stevens Y-W, Johnson BL. Cancer policy framework for public health assessment of carcinogens in the environment. Toxicol Indust Health 1993; 9: 559-575.
28. Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ). Risk analysis: a guide to principles and methods for analyzing health and environmental risks. Washington, DC, 1989.
29. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR). Update on the status of the Superfund substance-specific applied research program. Federal Register 1996; 61: 14420-14427.
30. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR). Identification of priority data needs for 12 priority hazardous substances. Federal Register 1996; 61: 14430-14438.
31. Auer C. Notice of opportunity to initiate negotiations for TSCA Section 4 enforceable consent agreements. Federal Register 1994; 59: 49934-49938.
32. U.S. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. FY 1995 agency profile and annual report. Atlanta: ATSDR, 1996.