Public Health Assessment for March Air Force Base (a/k/a March Air Reserve Base)March Air Force Base, Riverside County, California, EPA Facility, ID: CA4570024527

摘要

The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, ATSDR, was established byCongress in 1980 under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, also known as the Superfund law. The law set up a fund to identify and clean up our country's hazardous waste sites. The Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, and the individual states regulate the investigation and clean up of the sites. Since 1986, ATSDR has been required by law to conduct a public health assessment at each of the sites on the EPA National Priorities List. The aim of these evaluations is to find out if people are being exposed to hazardous substances and, if so, whether that exposure in harmful and should be stopped or reduced. If appropriate, ATSDR also conducts public health assessments when petitioned by concerned individuals. Public health assessments are carried out by environmental health scientists from ATSDR and from the states with which ATSDR has cooperative agreements. The public health assessment program allows the scientists flexibility in the format or structure of their response to the public health issues at hazardous waste sites.