Lead Exposure Associated with Renovation and Remodeling Activities : Summary Report

By Environmental Protection Agency

Book Id: WPLBN0000146802
Format Type: PDF eBook
File Size: 0.8 MB
Reproduction Date: 2007

Title:	Lead Exposure Associated with Renovation and Remodeling Activities : Summary Report
Author:	Environmental Protection Agency
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Ecology, Natural resource issues, Environemtal protection
Collections:	Environmental Awareness Library Collection
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Publisher:	United States Environmental Protection Agency


Citation APA MLA Chicago Agency, E. P. (n.d.). Lead Exposure Associated with Renovation and Remodeling Activities : Summary Report. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.us/

Description
Excerpt: This study was funded and managed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The study was conducted collaboratively by two organizations under contract to the Environmental Protection Agency, Battelle, and Midwest Research Institute. Each organization's responsibilities are listed below. Battelle Battelle was responsible for designing the study, recruiting participants, collecting worker questionnaire data and blood samples, creating and maintaining data bases, conducting statistical analysis, and producing the final report. Midwest Research Institute (MRI) MRI was responsible for field data collection of environmental samples, chemical analysis of environmental samples, and reporting of chemical analysis results. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency The Environmental Protection Agency was responsible for oversight in developing the study plan, managing and coordinating the study, and reviewing and editing this report. EPA Project Managers included Dan Reinhart, Darlene Watford, Susan Dillman, and Betsy Dutrow. Cindy Stroup was the Branch Chief of the Technical Programs Branch under whose direction the study was conducted.

Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS Page EXECUTIVE SUMMARY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii 1.0 INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.1 Scope and Objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1.2 Peer Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2.0 CONCLUSIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 3.0 DESIGN OF THE STUDY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 3.1 Data Collection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 3.2 Environmental Study Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 3.2.1 Objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 3.2.2 Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 3.3 Blood-Lead Study Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 3.3.1 Objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 3.3.2 Survey Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 3.3.3 Data Collected . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 3.4 Data Gaps and Limitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 4.0 RESULTS: EXPOSURE RELATED TO SPECIFIC R&R ACTIVITIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 4.1 Worker Exposure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 4.1.1 Summary Measures of Worker Exposure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 4.1.2 Relationship Between Blood-Lead Concentrations and Target Activities . 21 4.1.2.1 Construction of Statistical Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 4.1.2.2 Modeling Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 4.2 Occupant Exposure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 5.0 RESULTS: EXPOSURE ASSOCIATED WITH SPECIFIC R&R . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 5.1 Summary of Worker Profile Information in the Blood-Lead Study . . . . . . . . . . . 27 5.2 Worker Exposure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 5.3 Occupant Exposure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 6.0 REFERENCES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34