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Executive Order 13045, signed by President Clinton in April 1997, directs federal agencies to identify and address environmental health and safety risks that disproportionately affect children, recognizing that children are more vulnerable due to their developing bodies and behaviors. The order establishes a Task Force co-chaired by the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the EPA Administrator to coordinate federal research and recommend protective strategies. It also requires agencies to evaluate the effects of significant regulations on children's health and safety before those rules take effect.

This 1996 Memorandum of Agreement establishes a 24-month air quality monitoring program near Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, involving the Port of Seattle, FAA, EPA, Washington State Department of Ecology, and the Puget Sound Air Pollution Control Agency. The program, funded at $195,000, focuses on measuring carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, and aircraft fuel particle residue to establish baseline air quality data and evaluate potential pollution impacts from planned airport expansion projects. The Port agreed not to proceed with expansion elements projected to cause carbon monoxide standard violations until monitoring is complete and, if necessary, mitigation measures are identified.

EPA Soil Screening Guidance: User’s Guide, Second Edition (Publication 9355.4-23, EPA/540/R-96/018), published July 1996 by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Emergency and Remedial Response (OERR), Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response. This Superfund guidance document provides soil screening levels (SSLs) and methodologies for evaluating contaminated soil at Superfund sites, including statistical approaches

EPA Superfund publication 9355.4-23 (April 1996), ‘Soil Screening Guidance: User’s Guide,’ issued by the United States Environmental Protection Agency Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response, Washington DC 20460. Exhibit AR033734. Includes Table C-4 presenting metal Kd values (L/kg) as a function of pH for metals including arsenic (Ag), barium (Ba), beryllium (Be), cadmium (Cd),

EPA Water Quality Standards Handbook, Second Edition (EPA-823-B-94-005a), August 1994, published by the EPA Office of Water (4305). Includes Appendix L: Interim Guidance on Determination and Use of Water-Effect Ratios for Metals, and a February 22, 1994 memorandum (EPA-823-B-94-001) from Tudor T. Davies, Director, Office of Science and Technology, to Water Management Division Directors Regions

Final Summary Report submitted to U.S. EPA Region 5 Air and Radiation Division by ViGYAN Inc., April 1993, estimating and evaluating cancer risks attributed to air pollution in southwest Chicago. The report assesses cancer risk from air pollutants in the southwest Chicago area, prepared under EPA contract for regional air quality and public health assessment.

EPA-600/3-84-099, published October 1984 by the U.S. EPA Environmental Research Laboratory, Duluth, Minnesota. Authored by Anthony R. Carlson, William A. Brungs, Gary A. Chapman, and David J. Hansen from EPA Environmental Research Laboratories in Duluth MN, Narragansett RI, Corvallis OR, and Gulf Breeze FL. Provides protocols for deriving numerical aquatic site-specific water quality criteria by

EPA document EPA 440/5-84-031 establishing ambient water quality criteria for copper, published by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Water Regulations and Standards, Washington D.C., pursuant to Section 304(a)(1) of the Clean Water Act of 1977 (P.L. 95-217). Authored by Robert W. Andrew (freshwater) and John H. Gentile (saltwater) at Environmental Research Laboratories in

This 1973 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency document establishes scientific criteria for understanding how noise affects public health and welfare, including hearing damage, annoyance, communication interference, and property value loss. Prepared by EPA's Office of Noise Abatement and Control under the Noise Control Act of 1972, it describes cause-and-effect relationships between noise exposure and human health impacts. The criteria laid out in this document were intended to serve as a foundation for developing future noise standards and regulations, though the document itself does not constitute a standard or regulation.