Multiple Air Toxics Exposure Study Working Paper Number 3. Urban Air Toxics Exposure Model: Development and Application

摘要

The South Coast Air Quality Management District of California has completed a Multiple Air Toxics Exposure Study (MATES) which examines the additive risk from a number of air toxics on an urban area. The project, though partially funded by EPA, is an example of how a State or local agency may approach assessing their local air toxics risks as is encouraged by EPA's Urban Air Toxics Program which results from EPA's Air Toxic Strategy. The report is a summary of the methods used by the California agency. Though not intended as an endorsement of the entire contents of the report, EPA is reproducing their report (working paper number 3) to benefit and encourage other agencies which may be contemplating such an assessment.