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Addressing Community Health Concerns Around SeaTac Airport Response to the question, “Is it possible to monitor jet engine exhaust emissions or to model their path using data on prevailing winds and takeoff patterns?” March 2000 Prepared by Washington State Department of Health Washington State Department of Ecology Puget Sound Clean Air Agency In consultation with Public Health – Seattle & King County SeaTac Airport Area Community Representatives United States Environmental Protection Agency University of Washington Washington State University For more information contact Juliet VanEenwyk Washington State Department of Health (360) 236-4250 juliet.vaneenwyk@doh.wa.gov Naydene Maykut Puget Sound Clean Air Agency (206) 689-4062 nmaykut@pscleanair.org John Williamson Washington State Department of Ecology (425) 649-7118 jwil461@ecy.wa.gov Additional copies of this report are available at: http://www.doh.wa.gov/EHSPHL/Epidemiology/NICE/default.htm CONTENTS Abbreviations.................................................................................................................................................. ii Executive Summary ........................................................................................................................................ 1 Preface ............................................................................................................................................................ 5 Background..................................................................................................................................................... 5 Conclusions Based On Previous Air Quality Studies...................................................................................... 6 Rationale For Further Study............................................................................................................................ 7 Health Issues............................................................................................................................................ 7 Environmental Justice.............................................................................................................................. 8 Recommendations........................................................................................................................................... 9 Goals of an Air Quality Study.................................................................................................................. 9 General Recommendations For an Air Quality Study.............................................................................. 9 Methods ........................................................................................................................................................ 10 Manual Methods .................................................................................................................................... 10 Automated Methods............................................................................................................................... 11 Quality Assurance Procedures ............................................................................................................... 11 Data Analysis And Interpretation.................................................................................................................. 12 Initial Data Analysis .............................................................................................................................. 12 Additional Data Analysis ....................................................................................................................... 14 Timeframe..................................................................................................................................................... 16 Estimated Costs as of March 2000................................................................................................................ 17 References..................................................................................................................................................... 18 Attachment 1: Committee Members ............................................................................................................. 19 Attachment 2: Summary of Recent Studies................................................................................................... 21 Attachment 3: Draft List of Recommended Pollutants For Air Monitoring.................................................. 25 Attachment 4: Compendium Method TO-11A.............................................................................................. 27 Attachment 5: Compendium Method TO-13A.............................................................................................. 29 Attachment 6: Compendium Method…

Executive Order 12898 of February 11, 1994 Federal Actions To Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low-Income Populations By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows: Section 1–1.Implementation. 1–101. Agency Responsibilities. To the greatest extent practicable and per- mitted by law, and consistent with the principles set forth in the report on the National Performance Review, each Federal agency shall make achiev- ing environmental justice part of its mission by identifying and addressing, as appropriate, disproportionately high and adverse human health or environ- mental effects of its programs, policies, and activities on minority populations and low-income populations in the United States and its territories and possessions, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the Commonwealth of the Mariana Islands. 1–102. Creation of an Interagency Working Group on Environmental Justice. (a) Within 3 months of the date of this order, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (‘‘Administrator’’) or the Administrator’s designee shall convene an interagency Federal Working Group on Environ- mental Justice (‘‘Working Group’’). The Working Group shall comprise the heads of the following executive agencies and offices, or their designees: (a) Department of Defense; (b) Department of Health and Human Services; (c) Department of Housing and Urban Development; (d) Department of Labor; (e) Department of Agriculture; (f) Department of Transportation; (g) Depart- ment of Justice; (h) Department of the Interior; (i) Department of Commerce; (j) Department of…

This document has been approved for general availability. It doas not constitute a standard, specification, or regulation. Ftw Ale bJ tbe Baperlntendent of Doeamenta, U.S. OOTernment Prlntlnc OIBce, WubJncton, D.C. 21M02 ·Price *1.96 FOREWORD The Noise Control Act of 1972 requires that the Administrator of The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) develop and publish criteria with respect to noise. These criteria are to "reflect the scientific kno~ledge most useful in indicating the kind and extent of all identi- fiable effects of noise on the public health and welfare which may be expected from differing quantities and qualities of noise." This document meets that requirement. The terms "criteria and standards" are generally used interchangeably in the scientific communities concerned with noise and its control. However, in accordance with the intent of the U.S. Congress, criteria for environmental pollutants are to reflect an honest appraisal of available knowledge relating to health and welfare effects of pollutants, (in this case, noise). The criteria are descriptions of cause and effect relationships. Standards and regulations must take into account not only the health and welfare considerations described in the criteria, but also, as called for in the Noise Control Act of 1972, technology, and cost of control. This criteria document, therefore, serves as a basis for the establishment of the recommended envir- onmental noise level goals to be related to the "Effects Document" called for by Section 5(a)(2) of the Noise Control Act. That document, along with this criteria document, will become the basis for standards…