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Estimating Exposures and Incremental 

Health Effects from Lead due to 

Renovation, Repair, and Painting 

Activities in Public and Commercial 

Buildings 

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Contents 

Appendix A. Exterior Analysis Input Variable Values ....................................................................... A-1

Appendix B. Interior Analysis Input Variable Values ........................................................................ B-1

Appendix C. Renovated Building Characteristics .............................................................................. C-1

Appendix D. Renovation Characteristics ......................................................................................... D-1

Appendix E. Receptor Building Characteristics ................................................................................. E-1

Appendix F. Soil and Hard Surface Parameters ................................................................................. F-1

Appendix G. AERMOD Variables ..................................................................................................... G-1

Appendix H. Exterior Emission Rates .............................................................................................. H-1

Appendix I. Interior Fraction Emitted ............................................................................................... I-1

Appendix J. Dust Model for Exterior Analysis ................................................................................... J-1

Appendix K. Loading to Concentration Conversion .......................................................................... K-1

Appendix L. Estimates of Exposure Factors ...................................................................................... L-1

Appendix M. Updates to the Leggett Model ................................................................................... M-1

Appendix N. Background Media Concentrations and Intakes ........................................................... N-1

Appendix O. Population Biokinetic Variability ................................................................................. O-1

Appendix P. Concentration-Response Curves Supporting Information ............................................. P-1

Appendix Q. Approach to estimate universe of P&CBs .................................................................... Q-1
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Acronyms and Abbreviations 

Acronym / Abbreviation Stands For 

AERMOD American Meteorological Society (AMS) and the U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) Regulatory Model Improvement Committee (AERMIC) Model 

AIC Akaike Information Criteria 

ASHRAE American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers

BMD Benchmark Dose 

BMDL Benchmark Dose Level 

CBECS Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey 

CBP County Business Pattern 

CBSA Core Based Statistical Areas 

CDC Center for Disease Control 

CDF Cumulative Distribution Function 

COF Child Occupied Facility 

CVDM Cardiovascular Disease Mortality 

DOE Department of Energy (US Department of) 

DOT Department of Transportation (US Department of) 

EFSS Environmental Field Sampling Study 

EPA Environmental Protection Agency 

GFR Glomerular Filtration Rate 

GSA General Services Administration 

GSD Geometric Standard Deviation 

GM Geometric Mean 

HEPA High Efficiency Particulate Air 

HUD Housing and Urban Development (US Department of) 

HVAC Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning 

IEUBK Integrated Exposure Uptake Biokinetic Model for lead 

IQ Intelligence Quotient. Also Full Scale Intelligent Quotient (FSIQ) 

LBP Lead Based Paint 

LCL Lower Confidence Level 

LEV Local Exhaust Ventilation 

LRRP Lead Renovation Repair and Painting 

MSA Metropolitan Statistical Areas 
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Acronym / Abbreviation Stands For 

MSE Mean Squared Error 

NEXHAS National Human Exposure Assessment Survey 

NHANES National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 

NLCD National Land Cover Database 

NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology 

P&CBs public and commercial buildings 

QCLCD Quality Controlled Local Climatological Data 

PbB blood lead 

RECS Residential Energy Consumption Survey 

SAB Science Advisory Board 

SAMSON Solar and Meteorological Surface Observational Network 

SD Standard Deviation 

SE Standard Error 

UCL Upper Confidence Level 

USGS United States Geological Survey 

VF Ventilation Factor 

TSCA Toxic Substances Control Act 

XRF X-Ray Fluorescence 
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Appendix A. Exterior Analysis Input Variable Values 

Appendix A presents a summary of all inputs used by the exterior Monte Carlo model. All inputs, their

values, and the methodology used to calculate the inputs are discussed in detail in the remainder of the 

Appendices. Table A-1 presents the inputs that are used to define a scenario, while Table A-3 presents

the variables used in the Monte Carlo model. The “input 1” and “input 2” columns in Table A-3 

correspond to different types of values depending on the distribution type, as shown in Table A-2. For

example, input 1 and input 2 are the “mean” and “standard deviation” for a normal distribution and are

the “geometric mean” and “geometric standard deviation (GSD)” for lognormal variables. For variables 

that use a discrete distribution in the Monte Carlo model or that vary by building type, the values and 

probabilities used are shown in the tables in the remainder of Appendix A. 

Table A-1. Scenario-specific inputs. 

Input Input name Available Inputs Unit

s 

Renovation Activity RenoScenario 

Dry scraping, Wet Scraping, Power sanding without HEPA, 

Power sanding with HEPA, Heat gun, Needle gun without 

HEPA, Needle gun with HEPA, Window/door replacement, 

Trim replacement, Torching, Demolition 

n/a 

Distance from Renovation RenoDistance 5, 50, 150, 300, 650, and 800 ft 

Size of Renovation RenoClass F1T1, F1T2, F1T3, F2T1, F2T2, F2T3, F3T1, F3T2, F3T3 n/a 

Vintage of Renovation RenoVintage Pre-1930, 1930-1949, 1950-1959, 1960-1979 n/a 

Horizontal Containment HorPlasticOnOff Present or not present n/a 

Vertical Containment VertPlasticOnOff Present or not present n/a 

Receptor Building Types RecType Residence, Industrial building, Agricultural building, 

Public/Commercial building, or School. n/a 

Age Groups Age 0-10 , 18-49, 50-80 n/a 

Table A-2. Key to Definition of “Input 1” and “Input 2” in Table A-3 for Different Distribution Types. 

Distribution 

Type Input 1 Input 2 

Point estimate Value N/A 

Uniform Lower Limit Upper Limit 

Normal Mean Standard Deviation 

Lognormal Geometric Mean Geometric Standard Deviation 

Discrete Reference to Table where Values and Probabilities are Presented N/A 
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Table A-3. Exterior Analsyis Monte Carlo Inputs. 

Module Distribution Type Parameter Units 

Input 1 

(Mean, GM, Point 

Estimate or Table 

with Values) 

Input 2 

(SD, 

GSD, 

or 

N/A) 

Upper 

Bound 

Lower 

Bound 

D

Reno Bldg Point GlassFrac None Table A-4 NA N/A N/A ApReno Bldg Point NonGlassArea ft2 Table A-4 NA N/A N/A ApReno Bldg Point WindowDoorArea ft2 Table A-4 NA N/A N/A ApReno Bldg Point TrimArea ft2 Table A-4 NA N/A N/A ApReno Bldg Point ContainmentArea ft2 Table A-4 NA N/A N/A ApReno Bldg Lognormal WallLoadingp1930 (XRF) g/cm2 0.00607 2.90 0.0509 0.00072 ApReno Bldg Lognormal WallLoading19301949 (XRF) g/cm2 0.00377 2.38 0.0214 0.00067 ApReno Bldg Lognormal WallLoading19501959 (XRF) g/cm2 0.00253 2.30 0.0134 0.00048 ApReno Bldg Lognormal WallLoading19601979 (XRF) g/cm2 0.00335 2.34 0.0183 0.00061 ApReno Point RenoRate Days Table A-4 NA N/A N/A ApReno Point RenovationDuration Days Table A-4 NA N/A N/A ApReno Point FracPaintRemoved None Table A-5 NA N/A N/A ApReno Point FractionAerosolized None Table A-5 NA N/A N/A Ap

Ap

Reno Point FractionBulk None Table A-5 NA N/A N/A ApReno Point H_Plastic_Eff None 0.95 NA N/A N/A ApReno Point V_Plastic_Eff None 0.91 NA N/A N/A ApReceptor Discrete ReceptorVintageResidential None Table A-6 NA N/A N/A ApReceptor Discrete ReceptorVintageAgricultural None Table A-6 NA N/A N/A ApReceptor Discrete ReceptorVintageIndustrial None Table A-6 NA N/A N/A ApReceptor Discrete ReceptorVintageCommercial None Table A-6 NA N/A N/A ApReceptor Discrete ReceptorVintageSchool None Table A-6 NA N/A N/A Ap
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Module Distribution Type Parameter Units 

Input 1 

(Mean, GM, Point 

Estimate or Table 

with Values) 

Input 2 

(SD, 

GSD, 

or 

N/A) 

Upper 

Bound 

Lower 

Bound 

D

Receptor Discrete ReceptorHtResidential None Table A-6 NA N/A N/A ApReceptor Discrete ReceptorHtAgricultural None Table A-6 NA N/A N/A ApReceptor Discrete ReceptorHtIndustrial None Table A-6 NA N/A N/A ApReceptor Discrete ReceptorHtCommercial None Table A-6 NA N/A N/A ApReceptor Discrete ReceptorHtSchool None Table A-6 NA N/A N/A ApReceptor Discrete CeilingHeightResidential M Table A-6 NA N/A N/A ApReceptor Discrete CeilingHeightAgricultural M Table A-6 NA N/A N/A ApReceptor Discrete CeilingHeightIndustrial M Table A-6 NA N/A N/A ApReceptor Discrete CeilingHeightCommercial M Table A-6 NA N/A N/A ApReceptor Discrete CeilingHeightSchool M Table A-6 NA N/A N/A ApReceptor Lognormal HouseVolumeResidential m3 390.5 2.06 1664.8 91.6 ApReceptor Lognormal BldgVolumeAgricultural m3 5227 3.14 51459 531 ApReceptor Lognormal BldgVolumeIndustrial m3 5227 3.14 51459 531 ApReceptor Lognormal BldgVolumeCommercial m3 1371 3.00 12372 152 ApReceptor Lognormal BldgVolumeSchool m3 2794 4.20 49206 159 ApReceptor Normal AirExchangeRateResidential hr-1 0.63 0.65 1.93 0.001 ApReceptor Normal AirExchangeRateAgricultural hr-1 1.5 0.87 3.24 0.001 ApReceptor Normal AirExchangeRateIndustrial hr-1 1.5 0.87 3.24 0.001 ApReceptor Normal AirExchangeRateCommercial hr-1 1.5 0.87 3.24 0.001 ApReceptor Normal AirExchangeRateSchool hr-1 1.5 0.87 3.24 0.001 ApReceptor Point DustModelPenetration None 1 NA N/A N/A ApReceptor Point DustModelResuspension hr-1 0.00014 NA N/A N/A ApReceptor Point DustModelDeposition hr-1 0.65 NA N/A N/A Ap
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Module Distribution Type Parameter Units 

Input 1 

(Mean, GM, Point 

Estimate or Table 

with Values) 

Input 2 

(SD, 

GSD, 

or 

N/A) 

Upper 

Bound 

Lower 

Bound 

D

Receptor Lognormal PartTrackRateResidential g/day 0.61 2.52 3.85 0.096 ApReceptor Lognormal PartTrackRateAgricultural g/day 1.79 2.52 11.254 0.279 ApReceptor Lognormal PartTrackRateIndustrial g/day 1.79 2.52 11.254 0.279 ApReceptor Lognormal PartTrackRateCommercial g/day 62.0 2.52 390.5 9.7 ApReceptor Lognormal PartTrackRateSchool g/day 29.9 2.52 188.4 4.7 ApReceptor Discrete MatFrac None 0.13 or 0 NA N/A N/A ApReceptor Discrete PctCarpetResidential None 

Table A-7

NA N/A N/A Ap

Receptor Discrete PctCarpetAgricultural None 

Table A-7

NA N/A N/A Ap

Receptor Discrete PctCarpetIndustrial None 

Table A-7

NA N/A N/A Ap

Receptor Discrete PctCarpetCommercial None 

Table A-7

NA N/A N/A Ap

Receptor Discrete PctCarpetSchool None NA N/A N/A Ap
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Module Distribution Type Parameter Units 

Input 1 

(Mean, GM, Point 

Estimate or Table 

with Values) 

Input 2 

(SD, 

GSD, 

or 

N/A) 

Upper 

Bound 

Lower 

Bound 

D

Table A-7

Receptor Discrete CleanFreqResidential None 

Table A-7

NA N/A N/A Ap

Receptor Discrete CleanFreqAgricultural None 

Table A-7

NA N/A N/A Ap

Receptor Discrete CleanFreqIndustrial None 

Table A-7

NA N/A N/A Ap

Receptor Discrete CleanFreqCommercial None 

Table A-7

NA N/A N/A Ap

Receptor Discrete CleanFreqSchool None 

Table A-7

NA N/A N/A Ap

Receptor Point FloorCleanSlope None 0.113 NA N/A N/A Ap
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Module Distribution Type Parameter Units 

Input 1 

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with Values) 

Input 2 

(SD, 

GSD, 

or 

N/A) 

Upper 

Bound 

Lower 

Bound 

D

Receptor Point FloorCleanInt None -0.5546 NA N/A N/A ApReceptor Point CarpetCleanSlope None -0.4296 NA N/A N/A ApReceptor Point CarpetCleanInt None 0.6584 NA N/A N/A ApReceptor Point FloorCleanEffMin None 0.06 NA N/A N/A ApReceptor Point CarpetCleanEffMin None 0.15 NA N/A N/A ApSoil Point RainFreq Days Table A-8 NA N/A N/A ApSoil Point TrackInRainEffHardSurface None 0.5 NA N/A N/A ApSoil Point TrackInRainEffSoil None 0 NA N/A N/A ApSoil Point SoilDensity g/m3 2600000 NA N/A N/A ApSoil Point TrackInDepthHardSurface mm 1 NA N/A N/A ApSoil Point TrackInDepthSoil cm 1.5 NA N/A N/A ApSoil Point TrackInPorosityHardSurface None 0.2 NA N/A N/A ApSoil Point TrackInPorositySoil None 0.2 NA N/A N/A ApAir Discrete MetRegion None Table A-8 NA N/A N/A ApAir Point ParticleSize μm Table A-9 NA N/A N/A ApAir Point ParticleDensity g/cm3 2 NA N/A N/A ApAir Equation ObstructAdjust None Table A-10 NA N/A N/A ApLoad Conc Point LoadingConcenMean None 0.881 NA N/A N/A ApLoad Conc Point LoadingConcenSlope None 0.421 NA N/A N/A 0 Load Conc Point LoadingConcenInt None 5.145 NA N/A N/A ApLoad Conc Point LoadingConcenDF None 1643 NA N/A N/A 0 Load Conc Point LoadingConcenErrorVar None 0.544 NA N/A N/A ApLoad Conc Point LoadingConcenIntSE None 0.0182 NA N/A N/A Ap
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Input 1 

(Mean, GM, Point 

Estimate or Table 

with Values) 

Input 2 

(SD, 

GSD, 

or 

N/A) 

Upper 

Bound 

Lower 

Bound 

D

Load Conc Point LoadingConcenSlopeSE None 0.0094 NA N/A N/A ApLoad Conc Point LoadingConcenT None 1.961 NA N/A N/A ApActivity Discrete TimeSpentValues None Table A-11 NA N/A N/A ApActivity Uniform TimeSinceLastReno Years 0 4.2 N/A N/A ApActivity Discrete AgeProb None 

Table A-12 

NA N/A N/A Ap

Activity Point MaternalPbB μg/dL 0.747 NA N/A N/A ApBckground Lognormal BgAirConc μg/m3 0.02 5.52 0.61 0.0007 ApBckground Point BgSoilConcIndustrial μg/g 197.3 NA N/A N/A ApBckground Point BgSoilConcCommercial μg/g 49.97 NA N/A N/A ApBckground Lognormal BgSoilConcResidentialp1930 μg/g 367.4 3.53 4569.8 29.5 ApBckground Lognormal BgSoilConcResidential19301949 μg/g 144.1 3.69 1958.3 10.6 ApBckground Lognormal BgSoilConcResidential19501959 μg/g 79.6 3.77 1131.3 5.6 ApBckground Lognormal BgSoilConcResidential19601979 μg/g 24.2 3.29 261.4 2.2 ApBckground Lognormal BgSoilConcResidentialp1979 μg/g 15.8 2.32 85.3 2.9 ApBckground Lognormal BgSoilConcAgricultural μg/g 17.1 1.75 52.4 5.6 ApBckground Lognormal BgSoilConcSchool μg/g 28.0 3.00 252 3.1 ApBckground Lognormal BgDustLoadResidentialp1930 μg/ft2 3.97 4.76 89.81 0.18 ApBckground Lognormal BgDustLoadResidential19301949 μg/ft2 1.94 7.76 116.80 0.03 ApBckground Lognormal BgDustLoadResidential19501959 μg/ft2 1.14 2.65 7.97 0.16 ApBckground Lognormal BgDustLoadResidential19601979 μg/ft2 0.79 4.25 14.27 0.04 ApBckground Lognormal BgDustLoadResidentialp1979 μg/ft2 0.49 3.38 5.55 0.04 ApBckground Lognormal BgDustLoadNonResidential μg/ft2 0.80 2.25 5.00 0.13 Ap
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Input 1 

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Estimate or Table 

with Values) 

Input 2 

(SD, 

GSD, 

or 

N/A) 

Upper 

Bound 

Lower 

Bound 

D

Bckground Discrete Leggett_Background_Intakes μg/day Appendix N.1 NA N/A N/A ApBckground Discrete Leggett_Background_PbB μg/dL Appendix N.1 NA N/A N/A ApBlood Lead Point Exposure Factors for Intake various Appendix L.4 NA N/A N/A ApBlood Lead Point PbB_GSD None 1.9 NA N/A N/A Ap
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Table A-4. Characteristics of the Renovated Building Size. 

Building 

ID1

Fraction of 

Surface 

Area that 

is Glass2

Component Surface Areas Renovation Durations Containment 

Area 

Non-glass 

building 

surface area 

(ft2)

2

Window & 

door surface 

area (ft2)

3

Trim 

surface 

area 

(ft2)

 3

Duration, 

replace 

windows 

and doors 

(days) 4

Duration, 

other 

activities 

(days) 4

Area inside 

containment 

(ft2)

5

F1T1 0.12 1,266 171 155 2 0.5 1,840 

F1T2 0.13 2,502 354 321 4 1 3,280 

F1T3 0.14 4,972 621 633 8 2 6,160 

F2T1 0.15 2,439 280 323 4 1 1,840 

F2T2 0.18 4,726 623 701 7 2 3,280 

F2T3 0.18 9,451 1,146 1,381 12 4 6,160 

F3T1 0.14 3,706 351 457 6 1.5 1,840 

F3T2 0.17 7,177 799 1,000 12 3 3,280 

F3T3 0.26 19,198 3,053 3,776 36 9 9,040 

1Building sizes were calculated from CBECS data (US EIA, 2003), 

2Glass surface area was calculated from CBECS micro-data (USE EIA, 2003) 

3Window, door, and trim areas were calculated using methodology provided by EPA 

4Durations were calculated using rate of removal from RSMeans (Mossman and Plotner, 2009) and (Capouch, 2011) 

5Containment area does not include the area of the renovation building itself. 

 
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Table A-5. Activity-specific fraction of paint removed, aerosolized, and 

remaining as bulk. 

Renovation Activity 

Fraction of 

Paint 

Removed

(FracRem)

Fraction of 

Paint 

Aerosolized 

(AerosolFrac)

1

Fraction of Paint 

Emitted as Bulk 

Particulate 

(PartDebFrac)

2

Power Sanding 0.15 0.248 0.051 

Needle Gun 0.15 0.244 0.055 

Torching 0.15 0.180 0.056 

High Heat Gun 0.15 0.081 0.056 

Low Heat Gun 0.15 0.077 0.059 

Dry Scrape 0.15 0.070 0.060 

Window/Door 

Replacement 0.15 0.069 0.060 

Trim Replacement 0.15 0.070 0.060 

Demolition 1.0 0.009 0.060 

1US EPA, 2007a and Farfel et al., 2003 

2

Lee and Domanski, 1999 

3Choe et al., 2000 

Table A-6. Receptor Building Characteristics with Probabilities or Distributions 

Receptor 

Type 

AERMO

D Type 

Cumulative Probabilities for 

Vintage 

Cumulative 

Probabilities for 

Height (stories) Ceil. 

Ht. 

(m) 

Building 

Volume (m3) 

Pre1930 

1930

to 

1949 

1950 

to 

1959 

1960 

to 

1979 

Post 

to 

1979 

1 2 3 GM GSD 

Agricultural Rural 0.07 0.12 0.18 0.41 1.00 1 0 0 8.53 5227 1.94 

Industrial Urban 0.07 0.12 0.18 0.41 1.00 1 0 0 8.53 5227 1.94 

Commercial / 

Government Urban 0.13 0.22 0.31 0.61 1.00 0.64 0.89 1.00 2.74 1371 2.25 

Schools Urban 0.05 0.14 0.30 0.61 1.00 0.73 0.88 1.00 3.35 2794 1.86 

Residences Urban 0.10 0.17 0.29 0.57 1.00 0.58 0.89 1.00 2.44 391 2.06 
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Table A-7. Receptor Cleaning Frequency, Carpet, Air Exchange Rate, and Track-in Rate with Probabilities or 

Distributions 

Receptor 

Type 

Cumulative Probabilities for Cleaning Frequency 

Cumulative 

Probabilities for 

Percent Carpet 

AER (hr-1) 

Particulate 

Tracking Rate 

(g/day) 

Every 

working 

day 

(5 days/ 

week) 

Every 

third 

day 

Every 

week 

(1 day/ 

week) 

Every 

other 

week 

(1 day/ 

2 

weeks) 

Every 

fourth 

week 

(1 day/ 

4 

weeks) 

All 

Carpet 

All 

Floor Mean SD Mean SD 

Agricultural 0.1 0.3 0.7 0.9 1.0 0.08 1.0 1.5 0.87 1.77 2.52 

Industrial 0.2 0.6 0.8 0.9 1.0 0.08 1.0 1.5 0.87 1.77 2.52 

Commercial/ 

Government 0.2 0.6 0.8 0.9 1.0 0.45 1.0 1.5 0.87 61.49 2.52 

Schools 0.4 0.6 0.8 0.9 1.0 0.27 1.0 1.5 0.87 29.67 2.52 

Residences 0.1 0.3 0.7 0.9 1.0 0.52 1.0 0.63 0.65 0.61 2.52 

Table A-8. Meteorological Characteristics 

Model 

Index Region Region Name 

Inland 

or 

Coastal 

Location (Surface 

Station) 

Location (Upper-air 

Station) 

Cumulative 

Probability 

Based on 

Population 

in Each 

Region 

Number of 

days 

between 

rain 

events

(days) 

M1 1 East North 

Central Inland Iowa City IA Davenport IA 0.08 9 

M2 

2 Northeast 

Inland Pittsburgh PA Township PA 0.18 7 

M3 Coastal Camp Springs MD Sterling VA 0.28 7 

M4 

3 Northwest 

Inland Idaho Falls ID Riverton WY 0.3 8 

M5 Coastal Everett WA Salem OR 0.32 8 

M6 

4 South 

Inland Topeka KS Topeka KS 0.39 13 

M7 Coastal Lake Charles LA Lake Charles LA 0.46 13 

M8 

5 Southeast 

Inland Atlanta GA Peachtree City GA 0.55 7 

M9 Coastal New River NC Morehead City NC 0.64 7 

M10 6 Southwest Inland Grand Junction CO Denver CO 0.69 16 

M11 

7 West 

Inland Las Vegas NV Flagstaff AZ 0.755 22 

M12 Coastal Point Mugu CA Vandenberg AFB CA 0.82 22 

M13 8 West North 

Central Inland Sioux Falls SD Omaha NE 0.84 14 

M14 9 Central Inland Rockford IL Davenport IA 1 7 
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Table A-9. Particle Size Distribution Used in AERMOD Modeling. 

Size Class Cumulative Probability 

in Size Class 

< 2.5 μm 0.02 

2.5 – 10 μm 0.74 

10 – 20 μm 1 

Table A-10. Summary statistics for the custom distribution for the obstruction adjustment. 

Minimum 5

th Percentile Mean 95th Percentile Maximum 

Adjustment factor 0.10 0.70 1 1.32 5.3 

Table A-11. Cumulative Distributions for Time Spent (Fraction of the Week) in Different Building Types for 

Each Age Range. 

Building 

Type 

Cumulative 

Probability 

Age Range 

0-<5 5-<17 18-<49 50-80 

Residence 0.05 0.58 0.52 0.41 0.46 

0.10 0.65 0.57 0.47 0.52 

0.25 0.79 0.66 0.55 0.61 

0.52 0.90 0.79 0.68 0.81 

0.75 0.98 0.92 0.86 0.94 

0.90 1.00 0.99 0.96 1.00 

0.95 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 

1 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 

Agricultural 0.05 0.01 0.02 0.01 0.01 

0.10 0.01 0.02 0.01 0.02 

0.25 0.02 0.04 0.04 0.03 

0.52 0.05 0.07 0.13 0.10 

0.75 0.08 0.14 0.36 0.20 

0.90 0.10 0.18 0.49 0.34 

0.95 0.13 0.19 0.54 0.36 

1 0.13 0.31 0.67 0.65 
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Building 

Type 

Cumulative 

Probability 

Age Range 

0-<5 5-<17 18-<49 50-80 

Industrial 0.05 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 

0.10 0.01 0.01 0.02 0.02 

0.25 0.01 0.01 0.17 0.14 

0.52 0.01 0.03 0.34 0.34 

0.75 0.02 0.14 0.38 0.38 

0.90 0.02 0.19 0.44 0.42 

0.95 0.02 0.33 0.47 0.46 

1 0.02 0.33 0.53 0.57 

Commercial/ 

Government 

0.05 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.02 

0.10 0.01 0.01 0.03 0.03 

0.25 0.03 0.04 0.07 0.06 

0.52 0.06 0.08 0.19 0.14 

0.75 0.10 0.14 0.36 0.31 

0.90 0.16 0.22 0.43 0.40 

0.95 0.20 0.27 0.47 0.44 

1 0.33 0.43 0.60 0.55 

School 0.05 0.03 0.08 0.01 0.01 

0.10 0.07 0.13 0.00 0.01 

0.25 0.14 0.22 0.03 0.04 

0.52 0.24 0.27 0.11 0.09 

0.75 0.35 0.30 0.27 0.28 

0.90 0.40 0.34 0.34 0.35 

0.95 0.41 0.38 0.38 0.38 

1 0.46 0.44 0.51 0.44 
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Table A-12. Cumulative Probabilities for Each Age Range 

Age 0-10 Age 18-<50 Age 50-80 

Age Cumulative 

Probability Age Cumulative Probability Age Cumulative Probability 

0 0.08 18 0.03 50 0.053 

1 0.17 19 0.07 51 0.101 

2 0.26 20 0.10 52 0.150 

3 0.35 21 0.14 53 0.198 

4 0.45 22 0.17 54 0.245 

5 0.54 23 0.20 55 0.293 

6 0.63 24 0.23 56 0.338 

7 0.72 25 0.26 57 0.381 

8 0.81 26 0.29 58 0.424 

9 0.91 27 0.32 59 0.464 

10 1.00 28 0.35 60 0.507 

29 0.38 61 0.545 

30 0.42 62 0.583 

31 0.45 63 0.622 

32 0.48 64 0.657 

33 0.51 65 0.690 

34 0.53 66 0.719 

35 0.56 67 0.747 

36 0.59 68 0.774 

37 0.62 69 0.800 

38 0.65 70 0.824 

39 0.68 71 0.846 

40 0.72 72 0.867 

41 0.75 73 0.887 

42 0.78 74 0.906 

43 0.81 75 0.924 

44 0.84 76 0.941 

45 0.87 77 0.956 

46 0.90 78 0.971 

47 0.93 79 0.986 

48 0.97 80 1.000 

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A.1. References for Appendix A 

Capouch S. (2011). Personal Communication by email between Heidi Hubbard of ICF International and 

Scott Capouch, Construction Project Manager and Professional Engineer with 10 years of 

experience, of US NIEHS. Title of email: Lead Paint Removal – estimating info. February 2, 2011. 

Choe K; Trunov M; Grinshpun S; Willeke K; Harney J; Trakumas S; Mainelis G; Bornschein R; Clark S; 

Friedman W. (2000). Particle settling after lead-based paint abatement work and clearance 

waiting period. American Industrial Hygiene Association Journal 61: 798-807. 

Farfel M; Orlova A; Lees P; Rohde C; Ashley P; Chisolm J. (2003). A study of urban housing demolitions as 

sources of lead in ambient dust: demolition practices and exterior dust fall. Environmental 

Health Perspectives 111(1128-1234). 

Lee and Domanski. (1999). Development of pollutant release estimates due to abrasive blasting for lead

paint removal from New York City department of transportation steel bridges, Pittsburg, PA, Air 

and Waste Management Association. 

Mossman M; Plotner S; Babbitt C; Baker T; Balboni B, Eds. (2009). RSMeans Facilities Construction Cost 

Data. 

US Energy Information Administration. (2003) Commercial Building Energy Consumption Survey (CBECS). 

Available online at: 

http://www.eia.gov/emeu/cbecs/cbecs2003/public_use_2003/cbecs_pudata2003.html 

US EPA. (2007a). Draft final report on characterization of dust lead levels after renovation, repair, and 

painting activities. Prepared for EPA’s Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxcis (OPPT). Available 

online at: http://www.epa.gov/lead/pubs/duststudy01-23-07.pdf 
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Appendix B. Interior Analysis Input Variable Values 

Appendix B presents a summary of all inputs used by the interior Monte Carlo model. All inputs, their

values, and the methodology used to calculate the inputs are discussed in detail in the remainder of the 

Appendices. Table B-1 presents the inputs that are used to define a scenario, while Table B-3 presents

the variables used in the Monte Carlo model. The “input 1” and “input 2” columns in Table B-3 

correspond to different types of values depending on the distribution type, as shown in Table B-2. For

example, input 1 and input 2 are the “mean” and “standard deviation” for a normal distribution and are

the “geometric mean” and “geometric standard deviation” for lognormal variables. For variables that 

use a discrete distribution in the Monte Carlo model or that vary by building type, the values and 

probabilities used are shown in the tables in the remainder of Appendix B. 

 
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Table B-1. Scenario-specific inputs. 

Input Input name Available Inputs Units 

Renovation Activity RenoScenario 

Dry scraping, Wet Scraping, Door Planing 

without HEPA, Door Planing with HEPA, Heat 

gun, Window Removal, Cabinet Removal, Cut 

outs, Demolition 

n/a 

Building Use Type BldgUse 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 n/a 

Room Sizes and 

Configurations RoomSize 2 to 4 different sizes for each building use type ft2

Carpeting in 

Renovated Rooms Carpet Present or Not Present n/a 

Rooms Renovated RoomsRen Combinations of Room 1, Room 2, and/or 

Room 3 n/a 

Location of Exposed 

Person in Building Loc Work room in work area, work room outside work area, adjacent room n/a 

Intensity of 

Renovation Job JobIntens 5%, 25%, 50%, or 100% n/a 

Fraction of Paint 

Removed FracPaint 15%, 50%, or 100% n/a 

Vintage of Renovation RenoVintage Pre-1930, 1930-1949, 1950-1959, 1960-1979 n/a 

Horizontal 

Containment HorPlasticOnOff Present or not present n/a 

Vertical Containment VertPlasticOnOff Present or not present n/a 

Cleaning Type CleanType Baseline or specialized n/a 

Age Groups Age 0-10, 18-49, 50-80 n/a 

Table B-2. Key to Definition of Variables by Distribution Type. 

Distribution Type Input 1 Input 2 

Point estimate Value N/A 

Uniform Lower Limit Upper Limit 

Normal Mean Standard Deviation 

Lognormal Geometric Mean Geometric Standard Deviation 

Discrete Reference to Table where Values and 

Probabilities are Presented N/A 
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Table B-3. Interior Analsyis Monte Carlo Inputs. 

Module Distribution Type Parameter Units 

Input 1 

(Mean, GM, 

Point 

Estimate or 

Table with 

Values) 

Input 2 (SD, 

GSD, or N/A) Upper Bound L

B

Reno Bldg Point CeilingHeightBldg1 ft Table B-4 NA N/A N/A Reno Bldg Point CeilingHeightBldg2 ft Table B-4 NA N/A N/A Reno Bldg Point CeilingHeightBldg3 ft Table B-4 NA N/A N/A Reno Bldg Point CeilingHeightBldg4 ft Table B-4 NA N/A N/A Reno Bldg Point CeilingHeightBldg5 ft Table B-4 NA N/A N/A Reno Bldg Point FloorAreaBldg ft 

Mapped to exterior building types, then use Table B-5

NA N/A N/A 

Reno Bldg Point GlassFrac None Table B-4 NA N/A N/A Reno Bldg Point CabinetFrac None Table B-4 NA N/A N/A Reno Bldg Lognormal WallLoadingp1930 g/cm2 0.00630 2.5932 0.00094 0.0Reno Bldg Lognormal WallLoading19301949 g/cm2 0.00334 2.6347 0.00048 0.0Reno Bldg Lognormal WallLoading19501959 g/cm2 0.00314 2.4725 0.00051 0.0Reno Bldg Lognormal WallLoading19601979 g/cm2 0.00366 2.6982 0.00050 0.0Reno Bldg Point JobArea ft2 10 ft out from wall NA N/A N/A Reno Bldg Point RoomInRoomThreshold None 

Room size of at least 3800 ft, job 

NA N/A N/A 
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Module Distribution Type Parameter Units 

Input 1 

(Mean, GM, 

Point 

Estimate or 

Table with 

Values) 

Input 2 (SD, 

GSD, or N/A) Upper Bound L

B

area no more than 5% of room 

Reno Point FractionEmitted None Table B-6 NA N/A N/A Reno Point HEPAEfficiency None 90% NA N/A N/A Reno Point DustGeneratingRate ft2/hr Table B-6 NA N/A N/A Reno Point RestofRenovationMultiplier None Table B-6 NA N/A N/A Reno Point RuleCleaningEfficiency None Table B-7 NA N/A N/A Reno Point HorizontalPlasticEfficiency None Table B-7 NA N/A N/A Reno Point AdjacentRoomFactor, No Vertical Plastic None 0.0057 NA N/A N/A Reno Point AdjacentRoomFactor, With Vertical Plastic None 0.0045 NA N/A N/A Reno Point Sill Factor None 3.86 NA N/A N/A Reno Point PercentExposureSill None 1% NA N/A N/A Receptor Lognormal PartTrackRate g/day Table B-4 NA N/A N/A Receptor Discrete MatFrac None 0.13 or 0 NA N/A N/A Receptor Point FloorCleanInt None -0.5546 NA N/A N/A Receptor Point CarpetCleanSlope None -0.4296 NA N/A N/A Receptor Point FloorCleanEffMin None 0.06 NA N/A N/A Receptor Discrete CleaningFreq None NA N/A N/A 
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Module Distribution Type Parameter Units 

Input 1 

(Mean, GM, 

Point 

Estimate or 

Table with 

Values) 

Input 2 (SD, 

GSD, or N/A) Upper Bound L

B

Table B-8

Load Conc Point LoadingConcenMean None 0.881 NA N/A N/A Load Conc Point LoadingConcenSlope None 0.421 NA N/A N/A Load Conc Point LoadingConcenInt None 5.145 NA N/A N/A Load Conc Point LoadingConcenDF None 1643 NA N/A N/A Load Conc Point LoadingConcenErrorVar None 0.544 NA N/A N/A Load Conc Point LoadingConcenIntSE None 0.0182 NA N/A N/A Load Conc Point LoadingConcenSlopeSE None 0.0094 NA N/A N/A Load Conc Point LoadingConcenT None 1.961 NA N/A N/A Activity Discrete TimeSpentValues None Table B-9 NA N/A N/A Activity Uniform TimeSinceLastReno Months 

1, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 40 or 50 

N/A N/A N/A 

Activity Discrete AgeProb None Table A-12 NA N/A N/A Activity Point MaternalPbB μg/dL 0.747 NA N/A N/A Bckground Lognormal BgDustLoad μg/ft2 0.8 2.5 5 0.1Bckground Discrete Leggett_Background_Intakes μg/day Appendix N.4 NA N/A N/A Bckground Discrete Leggett_Background_PbB μg/dL Appendix N.4 NA N/A N/A Blood Lead Point PbB_GSD None 1.9 NA N/A N/A Blood Point Exposure Factors for Intake various Appendix NA N/A N/A 
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Module Distribution Type Parameter Units 

Input 1 

(Mean, GM, 

Point 

Estimate or 

Table with 

Values) 

Input 2 (SD, 

GSD, or N/A) Upper Bound L

B

Lead L.4 
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Table B-4. Interior Analysis Renovated Building Variables. 

Building Types 

Room 

Size 1 

(ft2) 

Room 

Size 2 

(ft2) 

Room 

Size 3 

(ft2) 

Room 

Size 4 

(ft2) 

Ave. 

Perc. 

Glass 

Percent of 

Wall that is 

Cabinet 

Ceiling 

Height 

Track In 

Rate 

GM 

(g/day) 

Track 

In Rate 

GSD 

1 Office, outpatient 

healthcare, and public 

order/safety 

60 200 600 3900 20% 13% 9 15.45 2.52 

2 Warehouse, food 

sales, religious 

worship, and public 

assembly 

200 9100 N/A 20% 45% 28 0.52 2.52 

3 Food service, service, 

strip shopping mall, 

enclosed mall, and 

retail other than mall 

1800 3800 8400 N/A 20% 13% 28 100.79 2.52 

4 Education 200 1300 12200 N/A 20% 13% 20 29.91 2.52 

5 Lodging, Nursing, 

inpatient health care, 

and laboratory 

300 1300 6200 N/A 20% 13% 11 28.44 2.52 
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Table B-5. Mapping Interior Buildings to Exterior Building Sizes. 

Building Types F1T1 F2T1 F3T1 F1T2 F2T2 F3T2 F1T3 F2T3 F3T3

Floor Area (ft2) 1,296 5,184 20,736 2,592 10,368 41,472 3,888 15,552 139,968 

Cumulative Probability For each Interior Building Type 

1 Office, 

outpatient 

healthcare, and 

public 

order/safety 

0.25 0.38 0.50 0.63 0.75 0.82 0.88 0.95 1.00

2 Warehouse, 

food sales, 

religious 

worship, and 

public 

assembly 

0.05 0.25 0.38 0.50 0.75 0.82 0.88 0.95 1.00

3 Food service, 

service, strip 

shopping mall, 

enclosed mall, 

and retail other 

than mall 

0.05 0.25 0.38 0.50 0.75 0.82 0.88 0.95 1.00

4 Education 0.05 0.25 0.38 0.50 0.58 0.67 0.75 0.95 1.00

5 Lodging, 

Nursing, 

inpatient 

health care, 

and laboratory 

0.05 0.12 0.18 0.25 0.38 0.50 0.62 0.75 1.00
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Table B-6. Interior Analysis Renovation Activity Parameters. 

Activity type 

Fraction of 

Paint That 

Remains as 

Lead Dust 

Rate of "dust 

generating" 

phase in ft2/hr 

Rest of 

Renovation 

Multiplier 

Window, Saw 0.2137 42 0.5 

Door Planing 0.1118 45 15 

Heat Gun Plaster 0.0572 45 15 

Dry Scrape 0.0380 45 15 

Window, No Saw 0.0155 42 0.5 

Heat Gun Wood 0.0119 45 15 

Door Planing, with HEPA 0.0112 45 15 

Cutouts 0.0056 45 2 

Cabinet/Shelf Removal 0.0030 45 2 

Demolition 0.0031 45 0.5 

Table B-7. Interior Analysis Control Option Efficiencies. 

Control Option 

Horizontal 

Plastic / Rule 

Cleaning 

Efficiency 

Specialized Cleaning with 

Horizontal Plastic 0.993

Base Cleaning with 

Horizontal Plastic 0.956

Specialized Cleaning with No 

Horizontal Plastic 0.975

Baseline Cleaning with No 

Horizontal Plastic 0.943
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Table B-8. Interior Analysis Disbribution of Cleaning Frequencies 

Building Type 

Every 

working 

day (5 

days/week) 

Every third 

day 

(approx) (2 

days/week) 

Every 

week (1 

day/week) 

Every 

other 

week (1 

day/2 

weeks) 

Every 

fourth 

week (1 

day/4 

weeks)

1 Office, outpatient healthcare, 

and public order/safety 0.2 0.6 0.8 0.9 1.0 

2 Warehouse, food sales, religious 

worship, and public assembly 0.2 0.6 0.8 0.9 1.0 

3 Food service, service, strip 

shopping mall, enclosed mall, and 

retail other than mall

0.4 0.6 0.8 0.9 1.0 

4 Education 0.4 0.6 0.8 0.9 1.0 

5 Lodging, Nursing, inpatient 

health care, and laboratory 0.4 0.6 0.8 0.9 1.0 

Table B-9. Cumulative Distributions for Time Spent (Fraction of the Week) in Different Building Types for 

Each Age Range. 

Building Type Cumulative 

Probability 

Age Range 

0-<5 5-<18 18-<50 50-80 

1 Office, outpatient 

healthcare, and public 

order/safety 

0.05 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 

0.10 0.01 0.01 0.03 0.02 

0.25 0.01 0.01 0.16 0.08 

0.52 0.02 0.03 0.32 0.25 

0.75 0.04 0.08 0.36 0.35 

0.90 0.07 0.18 0.41 0.40 

0.95 0.12 0.35 0.44 0.43 

1 0.12 0.42 0.53 0.50 

2 Warehouse, food sales, 

religious worship, and 

public assembly 

0.05 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 

0.10 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 

0.25 0.02 0.04 0.02 0.02 

0.52 0.05 0.08 0.05 0.05 

0.75 0.10 0.13 0.14 0.10 

0.90 0.12 0.19 0.34 0.19 

0.95 0.12 0.23 0.39 0.30 

1 0.12 0.34 0.49 0.42 
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Building Type Cumulative 

Probability 

Age Range 

0-<5 5-<18 18-<50 50-80 

3 Food service, service, 

strip shopping mall, 

enclosed mall, and retail 

other than mall 

0.05 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 

0.10 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 

0.25 0.02 0.02 0.03 0.03 

0.52 0.04 0.05 0.05 0.05 

0.75 0.07 0.09 0.11 0.08 

0.90 0.12 0.16 0.22 0.15 

0.95 0.12 0.21 0.33 0.20 

1 0.12 0.32 0.47 0.38 

4 Education 0.05 0.01 0.08 0.01 0.01 

0.10 0.04 0.13 0.01 0.01 

0.25 0.11 0.21 0.03 0.04 

0.52 0.12 0.27 0.13 0.09 

0.75 0.12 0.30 0.28 0.28 

0.90 0.12 0.33 0.34 0.35 

0.95 0.12 0.38 0.39 0.38 

1 0.12 0.43 0.49 0.45 

5 Lodging, Nursing, 

inpatient health care, and 

laboratory 

0.05 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 

0.10 0.02 0.02 0.02 0.02 

0.25 0.02 0.03 0.04 0.03 

0.52 0.04 0.06 0.10 0.06 

0.75 0.07 0.21 0.34 0.16 

0.90 0.12 0.36 0.43 0.34 

0.95 0.12 0.42 0.50 0.40 

1 0.12 0.56 0.63 0.56 
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Appendix C. Renovated Building Characteristics 

Appendix C includes information for how the renovated building characteristics were determined for the

Approach. Each section includes information about the selected data source and how (if at all) the data 

were processed to estimate point estimates or distributions for the Monte Carlo model. 

C.1. Exteriors 

In this Approach, the modeled characterization of lead emitted from renovation activities is dependent

upon how the renovation building is characterized, which includes specifying its size (both the total 

building size and the size of different components), height, and vintage. These variables in turn are used 

to estimate the amount of paint on the building and the lead content of that paint. This section 

describes the methodology used to select the building characteristics in this Approach. 

C.1.1. Building Block Approach 

To capture the emissions from a range of building sizes, a unit-based Approach was developed that 

characterized emissions from a specified amount of surface area on a renovated building. Then, each 

building is modeled as though one section (or “block”) of the building is undergoing renovation at a 

time, with the renovation proceeding around the perimeter of the building. This method accounts for 

the fact that renovations are typically performed on finite sections of a building at a given time rather 

than on the entire surface area of the building at once. 

In this Approach, the renovation block area was constructed to represent the typical wall surface area

disturbed by a four-person crew in two hours when performing paint removal jobs. Each renovated 

building is assumed to have a square footprint, and the total square footage of a side of the building is 

broken up into incremental numbers of these renovation blocks. The building was also assumed to have 

windows (applied in the modeling as a fraction of the block that is glass) estimated based on CBECS and 

to have doors every 32.8 ft (10 m) around the perimeter of the building on the first floor. 

 
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Figure C-1. Largest renovation building with renovation blocks and point sources. 

In this Approach, a separate fate and transport model run (see Appendix 2.3) is needed for each activity 

that has a different job rate. Job rates were collected for each activity from the RSMeans construction 

cost manual, a guide that provides typical crew output (e.g., in square feet per day) for different 

renovation activities. (see Appendix C). Using the block approach above standardizes the rate of 

renovation for the paint removal and trim/door activities and greatly reduces the required number of 

fate and transport model simulations. The variability and uncertainty associated with these rates is 

recognized. 

For the purposes of the exterior renovation Approach, the use type of the renovated building is not 

needed. It is assumed that only the exterior attributes of the building are necessary. However, when the 

Approach models both exterior and interior renovation activities simultaneously, the renovated building 

is treated as both a “renovated” and “receptor” building, and the use type is incorporated for track in 

back into the same P&CB, as described in Section 4 of the Approach document. 

C.1.2. Building Sizes 

The renovated building size definitions were determined using the Commercial Building Energy 

Consumption Survey (CBECS) data (US EIA, 2003), a survey that represents the entire US commercial 

building stock. CBECS presents the overall building square footage based on building size (in eight bins) 

and number of floors in the building (in five bins). The size bins ranged from “1,000 to 5,000 sf” to “Over 

500,000 sf.” The metadata which included information about malls was used for the analysis. 

The number of floors were presented as “one”, “two”, “three”, “four to ten”, and “above 10.” It was 

estimated from these data that 67 percent of commercial buildings in the US are 1 story, 22 percent are 

two stories, and 11 percent are more than two stories. Based on these estimates, three building height 

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To account for skewness of the dataset, a lognormal distribution was fit to the binned CBECS data 

separately for each of these three height categories, and a “small”, “medium”, and “large” building 

footprint was estimated for each of the height bins. The analysis proceeded in the following steps: 

1. For the one story buildings, the upper bound of each CBECS size bin was noted. For “Over 

500,000 sf”, no maximum value was available to use as an upper bound. Thus, the upper bound 

was set to a maximum of 1,000,000 square feet. Subsequent sensitivity analysis indicated the 

predictions were not heavily dependent on this number. 

2. The cumulative probability was estimated for each size bin. This probability was found by finding 

the percentage of total buildings in the bin and performing a cumulative sum of the probabilities 

for that bin and all lower bins. 

3. An initial geometric mean and geometric standard deviation were assigned to the overall 

distribution across bins. The Excel® function “lognormdist” was used to find the cumulative 

probability in the Lognormal corresponding to the upper bound in each bin. 

4. The “Goal Seek” Excel® function was used to adjust the geometric mean and geometric standard 

deviation until the sum of the squares of the errors between the actual and modeled cumulative 

probabilities across the bins was minimized. 

5. This final geometric mean and geometric standard deviation pair was used to simulate 1,000 

values. The means were taken in each tertile, and were used as the renovation building sizes. 

6. The analysis was repeated for the two-story and three-and-above-story buildings. 

This gave a total of nine different renovation building sizes. These building footprints were then rounded 

to the nearest size that created an even number of renovation “blocks”. 

Buildings that are taller than 3 stories are likely to have lower concentrations of lead due to larger

ventilation factors, when compared to shorter buildings. However, taller buildings may transport lead

longer distances due to fewer obstructions and prevailing meteorological conditions between the 

renovated building and the receptor building. Taller buildings, as well as potential future CBECS data, 

could be considered in the future. 

C.1.3. Percent Glass 

The fraction of the building that is glass was estimated using CBECS microdata (US EIA, 2003). This 

dataset presents data for individual buildings, including the size, number of stories, percent glass, and 

sampling weights used to make the data set representative of US commercial building stock. The CBECS 

data were mapped to the nine building sizes, as described in Appendix C.1.2. From these data, an 

average percent glass was found for each building size. The weights from the CBECS survey were 

included to ensure the means were nationally representative. 
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Table C-1. Characteristics of the RenovatedBuilding Size. 

Building ID 

Fraction of 

Surface Area that 

is Glass2

F1T1 0.12 

F1T2 0.13 

F1T3 0.14 

F2T1 0.15 

F2T2 0.18 

F2T3 0.18 

F3T1 0.14 

F3T2 0.17 

F3T3 0.26 

The percent glass used for interiors (Appendix C.2.5) is different than that used for exteriors. In interiors, 

the percent glass is analyzed by different building types of all sizes, where variation proves to be small. 

For the exterior analysis, percent glass is analyzed not by building type but by building size, as shown 

here. 

C.1.4. Size of Renovated Building Components 

Three renovation activities (trim removal, four wall window/door replacement, and one wall 

window/door replacement) are performed on specific building components rather than on the entire 

exterior painted surface area. Thus, emissions for these activities could not be estimated based solely on 

the total surface area of the walls of the building. Instead, the surface area of these building 

components had to be estimated, as described below.

The area comprised of window frame trim was estimated by assuming that a typical window is 3.2 ft by 

3.2 ft and has a 0.3 ft wide frame around the exterior. The total number of windows was estimated by 

dividing the area that was glass (determined by multiplying the exterior surface area of the building by 

the percent glass) by the area of each window (10.24 ft2

) and rounding to the nearest whole number. 

The number of windows was multiplied by the area of frame associated with each window (4.20 ft2) to 

calculate the total area of window trim. 

Doors were assumed to be located every 32.8 ft (10 m) around the perimeter of the building on the first 

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other trim, not associated with windows and doors, was set equal to that of window and door trim plus 

an additional 5 percent of the non-glass exterior surface area of the wall. 

A summary of the values selected for each of the nine building types is provided in Table C-2. 

Table C-2. The parameters of buildings modeled with varying size of disturbance. 

Building 

ID1

Building 

footprint 

(sf) 

# of 

Stories 

Non-glass 

building surface 

area (sf) 

Window & 

door surface 

area (sf) 

Trim 

surface 

area (sf) 

Total # of 

blocks 

F1T1 1,296 1 1,268 171 155 8 

F1T2 5,184 1 2,504 354 321 16 

F1T3 20,736 1 4,974 621 633 32 

F2T1 1,296 2 2,429 284 326 16 

F2T2 5,184 2 4,943 535 623 32 

F2T3 20,736 2 9,429 1,155 1,389 64 

F3T1 1,296 3 3,701 351 457 24 

F3T2 5,184 3 6,874 925 1,111 48 

F3T3 46,656 3 17,533 3,738 4,377 144 

 

1

F1 = Floor 1, T1 = Tertile 1 

C.1.5. Containment Area 

The containment area captures the area covered by horizontal plastic (if used) and the distance from the 

building to the vertical plastic (if used). The Approach assumes that horizontal plastic is placed 10 ft out 

from the job wall. This distance was selected based on inspection of the Dust Study data. Typically, lead 

dust loadings tended to drop to at least 2% of their value just next to the wall at a distance of 10 ft. If 

vertical plastic is used, it is assumed that the plastic is 10 ft from the job wall. Using the total building 

footprint area and the assumption that the building is square, the containment area is calculated using 

the building wall lengths and the assumption of 10 ft linear feet out from the job wall. 

C.1.6. Vintage of the Renovated Building 

The concentration of lead in the exterior paint of a building was assumed to be a function of the age of 

the building. This assumption is based on the fact that the concentration of lead in paint has decreased 

with time, particularly leading up to and following the ban on lead paint in residential structures in 1978. 

Buildings that were built in 1979 to present were not modeled due to the assumption that few, if any, of 

these building would contain lead-based paint. However, the number of newer buildings that may 

contain lead based paint is unknown. Four vintage bins were considered for the renovated building: Pre1930, 1930-1949, 1950-1959, and 1960-1979, which is consistent with the vintage bins used in the 

benefits analysis performed in support of the residential Lead Renovation, Repair and Painting (LRRP) 

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C.1.7. Amount of Lead in the Paint on the Building 

X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) measurements provide empirical data about the amount of lead on the walls 

of buildings of various vintages. In general, XRF techniques quantify lead mass per unit area through 

multiple layers of paint on the wall. For the Approach, the XRF distributions for the four oldest vintages 

were estimated from the HUD National Housing Survey (US EPA, 1998a). In the HUD report, Table 2 

provides descriptive statistics. The geometric mean for exterior components was used directly from the

report; the geometric standard deviation was estimated using the reported mean and geometric mean. 

The geometric mean, geometric standard deviation, and average lead content in paint (all vintages) are

shown in Table C-3 below. 

Table C-3. Lead XRF measurements by vintage for exterior analysis.

Renovation vintage bin 

XRF Loadings (g/cm2) 

Geometric mean Geometric standard 

deviation Average 

Pre-1930 0.00607 2.90 0.01068 

1930-1949 0.00377 2.38 0.00549 

1950-1959 0.00253 2.30 0.00358 

1960-19791 0.00331 2.34 0.0048 

1This vintage bin contains data from houses from 1960-1978, but it is considered 

representative of the 1960-1979 bin. 

The geometric mean loading from the Pre-1930 vintage results in an estimate of 19.6 percent lead in the 

paint. This estimate can be compared to sources which indicated that before 1940, paints were often 10 

and sometimes up to 50 percent lead (NDHHS, 2011). 

The lead content in the paint and the density of particles are solved using the equations: 

PaintDens frac DensityPb frac DensityRest

frac

PaintLayer s PaintDens

XRF WallPaintCov UnitConv

= × + − ×

=

×

× ×

1( )

XRF = the XRF-measured amount of lead on the wall (g/cm2 wall)

WallPaintCov = the amount of area covered by a single gallon of paint 

 (ft2

/gallon) 

UnitConv = a conversion factor to convert from gallons to cm3 and 

 from cm2 to ft2

PaintLayers = the number of layers of paint on the wall 

PaintDens = the density of the paint (g paint/cm3 paint) 
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frac = the fraction of paint which is lead by weight (unitless) 

DensityPb = the density of lead (g/cm3) 

DensityRest = the density of the rest of the paint (other than lead) 

 (g/cm3

) 

All of the equation variables above were assumed to be fixed, aside from the XRF measurements. 

According to the EPA Wall Paint Exposure Model (USEPA 2001), the typical coverage of paint 

(WallPaintCov) is 400 ft2

/gallon or 0.0025 gallons per ft2. The density of lead is 11.3 g/cm3, and the 

density of the rest of the paint is assumed to be 1 g/cm3. 

C.2. Interiors 

In this Approach, the modeled characterization of lead emitted from renovation activities is dependent

upon how the renovation building is characterized, which includes specifying its use, room sizes, height, 

and vintage. These variables in turn are used to estimate the amount of paint on the building and the

lead content of that paint. This section describes the methodology used to select the building 

characteristics in the Approach. 

C.2.1. The Building Use Type 

As discussed in Section 5.1.1 of the main report, the use type of a building will affect key attributes of 

both the building itself and the time people spend in the building per day. For example, a large 

warehouse will have one or two larger spaces with multiple smaller rooms, and individuals will visit 

infrequently. In contrast, hotels will have numerous small rooms, and individuals may stay for days or

months at a time. 

The CBECS survey provides information about the number of buildings in the U.S. in different use 

categories, as shown in 
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Table C-4. These CBECS categories were mapped to 5 assessment categories for this Approach, where 

CBECS categories were grouped according to layouts, room sizes, and expected time spent patterns. A 

total of 5 assessment categories were chosen to ensure adequate coverage of different building types 

but also to balance the resource needs of the Monte Carlo analysis. 
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Table C-4. CBECS Buildings and Mapped Assessment Categories 

CBECS Category DOE Categories Assessment Categories 

Office 

Small Office 

Medium Office 

Large Office 1. Office, outpatient 

healthcare, and public 

order/safety Outpatient health care Outpatient Healthcare 

Public order and safety 

Non-refrigerated warehouse 

Warehouse 

2. Warehouse, food sales, 

religious worship, and 

public assembly 

Refrigerated warehouse 

Food sales Supermarket 

Religious worship None 

Public assembly None 

Food service Quick Service Restaurant 

Full Service Restaurant 3. Food service, service, 

strip shopping mall, 

enclosed mall, and retail 

other than mall 

Service None 

Strip shopping mall Strip Mall 

Enclosed mall None 

Retail other than mall Stand-alone Retail 

Education Secondary School 4. Education 

Lodging Small Hotel 

Large Hotel 5. Lodging, Nursing, 

inpatient health care, and 

laboratory 

Nursing None 

Inpatient health care Hospital 

Laboratory None 

Other None 

None 

Vacant None 

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Table C-5 presents the representative room sizes for five types of model buildings. To develop these 

estimates, we began with 14 DOE Reference Buildings (Deru et al 2011). The DOE data provided the size

and frequency of each type of zone within the Reference Buildings. In most cases, a zone was 

synonymous with room; however, we determined that some zones needed to be combined to form one 

room. For example, Stand-Alone Retail was composed of five zones. It was our judgment that four of 

the five zones would likely exist in a single room. Accordingly, we combined the Core Retail, Point of 

Sale, Front Retail, and Front Entry zones into one Core Retail zone. Similarly, we determined that some 

zones needed to be subdivided into multiple rooms. For example, zones used as offices were much 

larger than the average office size according to other sources (IFMA 2010) (Miller 2012). To address 

this, we divided the area of the office zones by the average office size to determine the number of 

concurrent rooms within an office zone. In addition, we determined that some zones needed to be 

eliminated. We removed from our data zones representing a building’s entire basement, zones that 

were not climate controlled, and zones with zero occupancy, meaning that individuals do not occupy 

those spaces. 

Some of the sizes of the DOE reference buildings appeared to be considerably larger than the average 

sized buildings observed in the CBECS data. In particular, the Warehouse, Supermarket, and StandAlone Retail DOE reference buildings all had rooms larger than the average sized building of that type

according to CBECS. We adjusted the sizes of these buildings and their rooms so that the size of the 

building after the adjustments matched the size of the average building of that type in CBECS. The sizes 

of single large rooms were adjusted downward and when there were multiple smaller rooms the 

number of rooms was adjusted downward. For example, the DOE warehouse building had 14.3 offices 

that were 178 square feet, 1 bulk storage room that was 34,497 square feet and one fine storage room 

that was 14,998 square feet. This implies a building size of 52,040 square feet when the average 

warehouse building size according to the CBECS data is only 21,603 square feet, 42 percent of the DOE 

reference building size. Thus, we adjusted the size of the two large rooms by multiplying their square 

footage by 42% and adjusted the number of offices downward by 41.5%. Thus, the new building had 5.9 

offices that were 178 square feet, 1 bulk storage room that was 14,319 square feet and one fine storage 

room that was 6,226 square feet. 

After making the adjustments to the data described above, we calculated the prevalence of rooms by 

size for 5 categories of model buildings. To calculate these prevalence rates, each room within the DOE 

model building was weighted according to the weight assigned by DOE for that zone and each DOE 

building was weighted according to their frequency in the CBCES. Cut-points used to group the rooms 

into 2-4 size bins for each of the 5 model building categories were selected based on a visual inspection 

of the data so that no group represented less than 2 percent of the rooms in that model building (for 

example, the rooms in rows shaded the same color in were grouped together). Within each of these 

groups, the weighted average room size was calculated and rounded to the nearest 10ft2 for room sizes 

below 100ft2 and to the nearest 100ft2 for rooms greater than 100ft2. The resulting room sizes and room 

frequencies are shown in 
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Table C-5. Room Sizes For Each Assessment Building Category 

Model Buildings Room Size (ft2)

Percentage Weight 

Within Model 

Building 

Within All 

Buildings

1 Office, outpatient healthcare, and 

public order/safety 

60 2% 1% 

200 89% 53% 

600 5% 3% 

3,900 4% 2% 

2 Warehouse, food sales, religious 

worship, and public assembly 

200 72% 4% 

9,100 28% 1% 

3 Food service, service, strip shopping 

mall, enclosed mall, and retail other 

than mall 

1,800 72% 4% 

3,800 18% 1% 

8,400 11% 1% 

4 Education 

200 42% 7% 

1,300 54% 9% 

12,200 3% 1% 

5 Lodging, Nursing, inpatient health 

care, and laboratory 

300 80% 11% 

1,300 16% 2% 

6,200 4% 1% 

C.2.3. Designing Three-Room Renovation Units 

We can limit our modeling to three-room renovation units by making the simplifying assumption that 

exposures to individuals in rooms adjacent to more than 2 renovated rooms is equivalent to the 

exposures to individuals in rooms adjacent to 2 renovated rooms. 

A renovation project might involve disturbing LBP in multiple rooms that are also adjacent to other 

rooms. The exposure model is designed to account for this by modeling the exposure in each affected 

room as a separate scenario. For example, consider a 5 room renovation in a hotel that can be 

represented by the configuration below in Table C-7. 

Table C-6: Example Configuration for 5 Room Hotel Renovation 

(rooms sharing walls are adjacent)

Room A 

(not 

renovated)

Room B 

(not 

renovated)

Room C 

(renovated)

Room D 

(renovated)

Room E 

(renovated)

Room F 

(renovated)

Room G 

(renovated)

Room H 

(not 

renovated)

Room I 

(not 

renovated)

We represented this renovation with 7 configurations of 3 rooms (see Table C-7). The exposure was 

modeled for individuals in Room 2 only. For example, although Room C appears in three different rows 

below in Table C-8, the exposures to the individuals in room C are only modeled in the second row. 
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Thus, this approach allows us to use a three room renovation configuration to model a renovation that 

involves any number of rooms. 

Table C-7: Example of 5 Room Hotel Renovation Represented by Three-Room Configurations 

Room 1 

(room adjacent to where 

occupants are) 

Room 2 

(room with occupants) 

Room 3 

(room adjacent to where 

occupants are) 

Room A 

(not renovated) 

Room B 

(not renovated) 

Room C 

(renovated) 

Room B 

(not renovated) 

Room C 

(renovated) 

Room D 

(renovated) 

Room C 

(renovated) 

Room D 

(renovated) 

Room E 

(renovated) 

Room D 

(renovated) 

Room E 

(renovated) 

Room F 

(renovated) 

Room E 

(renovated) 

Room F 

(renovated) 

Room G 

(renovated) 

Room F 

(renovated) 

Room G 

(renovated) 

Room H 

(not renovated) 

Room G 

(renovated) 

Room H 

(not renovated) 

Room I 

(not renovated) 

C.2.4. Ceiling Height 

The ceiling heights for each building type were estimated using the DOE reference buildings. For each 

building type in a given Approach building category, the reference buildings had a range of ceiling 

heights. Values corresponding to main rooms were favored over values in rooms deemed to have fewer 

occupants (e.g., for a quick service restaurant, the dining room and kitchen ceiling heights were favored 

over the “attic” ceiling height). A representative ceiling height was then chosen for each building 

category, as shown in Table C-8. Because the DOE buildings do not include either agricultural or 

industrial buildings, a representative value from a warehouse was used instead. 

Table C-8. Ceiling Heights For Each Assessment Building Category 

Building Category Ceiling Height 

(ft) 

1 (Office, outpatient healthcare, Public Order and 

Safety) 9 

2 (Warehouses, Food Sales, Religious Worship, 

Public Assembly) 

28 

3 (Food Service, Service, Strip Mall, Retail) 28 

4 (Education) 20 

5 (Lodging, Nursing, Inpatient Health Care, Lab) 11 
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C.2.5. Percent Glass 

The percent glass is a variable collected from the CBECS. An analysis was conducted to determine if the 

percent glass varied by building type. Only slight variation was found as all buildings reported 

approximately 20% glass surfaces. Percentages were derived by combining CBECS categories to match 

each of the Approach building categories. Then, the adjusted weight variable was used to estimate the 

nationally-representative fraction of glass in each Approach category. Percent glass as analyzed by 

building category for the interiors analysis differs slightly from percent glass as analyzed by building size 

for the exteriors analysis. 

Table C-9. Percent Glass for Each Approach Interior Building Category 

Building Category 

Sum of 

Percent Glass 

Weight* 

ADJWEIGHT 

Sum of 

ADJWeight 

Average 

Percent Glass 

0 (Vacant, Other) 49,175 252,552 19.5% 

1 (Office, outpatient healthcare, Public Order and 

Safety) 205,167 1,015,125 20.2% 

2 (Warehouses, Food Sales, Religious Worship, 

Public Assembly) 291,045 1,469,782 19.8% 

3 (Food Service, Service, Strip Mall, Retail) 300,137 1,576,039 19.0% 

4 (Education) 79,684 385,923 20.6% 

5 (Lodging, Nursing, Inpatient Health Care, Lab) 28,839 159,329 18.1% 

C.2.6. Amount of Shelving 

The one data source found that quantifies the amount of shelving in a public building is from the Child 

Care Center Survey data (HUD 2003). Using the raw data, entries were separated into “wall” and 

“cabinet” categories. “Built in cabinets” were counted as “cabinets”; all other data types were not. The 

total wall area and cabinet area reported for each room (of each childcare center) were calculated. 

Where both a cabinet and wall area existed for the same room, the cabinet to wall ratio was estimated 

(N=102). The area of all cabinets and walls were used in the calculation, regardless of whether they 

tested positive for lead or not. The resulting statistics are shown below in Table C-10. The standard

deviation is larger than the mean, indicating significant variability in this variable within the data. 

Should additional data become available regarding the amount of shelving by building type, EPA could 

make different assumptions. The generic high and medium estimates derived below may not best 

represent the variability within a given building category. 
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Table C-10 Estimated Percentage of Interior Wall that is Cabinet/Shelf in Child Care Centers 

Statistic Cabinet to 

Wall Ratio 

MIN 0.3% 

MAX 96.6% 

MEAN 13.1% 

STD 16.1% 

In order to estimate the amount of shelving in each room of each example building, buildings were 

mapped to specific cabinet “bins” defined using the CCC data: 

 “High incidence of cabinetry/shelving”: use the mean plus two standard deviations from the CCC 

data, or 45% 

 “Medium incidence of cabinetry/shelving”: use the mean from the CCC data, or 13% 

 “Low incidence of cabinetry/shelving”: use the mean minus two standard deviations from the CCC 

data, or 0%. 

The mappings and values are shown in Table C-11. 

Table C-11 Estimated Percentage of Interior Wall that is Cabinet/Shelf in Approach Building Categories

Building Types 

Cabinet/ 

Shelf 

Category 

Percent 

of Wall 

that is 

Cabinet 

1 Office, outpatient healthcare, and public order/safety Medium 13% 

2 Warehouse, food sales, religious worship, and public 

assembly 

High 45% 

3 Food service, service, strip shopping mall, enclosed mall, 

and retail other than mall 

Medium 13% 

4 Education Medium 13% 

5 Lodging, Nursing, inpatient health care, and laboratory Medium 13% 

C.2.7. Vintage of the Renovated Building 

The concentration of lead in the exterior paint of a building was assumed to be a function of the age of 

the building. This assumption is based on the fact that the concentration of lead in paint has decreased 

with time, particularly leading up to and following the ban on lead paint in residential structures in 1978. 

Four vintage bins were considered for the renovated building: Pre-1930, 1930-1949, 1950-1959, and 
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1960-1979, which is consistent with the vintage bins used in the benefits analysis performed in support 

of the residential Lead Renovation, Repair and Painting (LRRP) rule. 

C.2.8. Amount of Lead in the Paint in the Building 

The distributions for the amount of lead in the paint for interior components were estimated as 

described in Section C.1.8, but the interior analysis used the interior component estimates for the HUD 

data source (US EPA, 1998a), Table 2, as shown in Table C-12. 

Table C-12. Lead XRF measurements by vintage for interior analysis.

Renovation vintage bin 

XRF Loadings (g/cm2) 

Geometric mean Geometric standard 

deviation Average 

Pre-1930 0.00630 2.59 0.00992 

1930-1949 0.00334 2.63 0.00534 

1950-1959 0.00314 2.47 0.00473 

1960-19791

0.00366 2.70 0.00599 

1This vintage bin contains data from houses from 1960-1978, but it is considered representative of the 1960-1979 

bin. 

C.3. References for Appendix C: 

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). 2003. First National Environmental Health 

Survey of Childcare Centers.” 

Deru et al (2011). U.S. Department of Energy Commercial Reference Building Models of the 

NationalBuilding Stock. Technical Report National Renewable Energy Laboratory. TP-5500-46861 

IFMA, (2010), Space and Project Management Benchmarks: IFMA Research Report #34.NDHHS 2011 

Miller, Norm, (2012), Estimating Office Space per Worker. Draft Report. 

US EIA (2003) Commercial Building Energy Consumption Survey (CBECS). Available online at: 

http://www.eia.gov/emeu/cbecs/cbecs2003/public_use_2003/cbecs_pudata2003.html 

US EPA. (1998a). Risk analysis to support standards for lead in paint, dust, and soil. Appendix G: Health 

effects associated with exposure to lead and internal lead doses in humans. (Report No. EPA 

747-R-97-006). Washington, DC: US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Pollution 

Prevention and Toxics. Available online at: http://www.epa.gov/lead/pubs/toc.pdf. 
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US EPA. (2001). Wall Paint Exposure Model Version 3.2 Users Guide. Washington, DC: US Environmental 

Protection Agency, Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics (OPPT). Available online at: 

http://www.epa.gov/opptintr/exposure/pubs/wpemman.pdf. 
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Appendix D. Renovation Characteristics 

Appendix D includes information for how the renovation job characteristics were determined for 

the Approach. Each section includes information about the selected data source and how (if at 

all) the data were processed to estimate point estimates or distributions for the Monte Carlo 

model. 

D.1. Exteriors 

In this Approach, the transport of lead downwind from the renovated building is determined by 

both the amount of lead emitted and the time over which the lead is emitted. The variables 

describing these two variables include the rate of renovation, the fraction of paint removed as 

both aerosol and bulk during the activity, and the efficacy of any containment options 

employed. 

D.1.1. Rate of Renovation 

Two different sources were considered to determine the rate of renovation for each of the 

renovation activities. The Dust Study (US EPA, 2007a), which is used to estimate the fraction of 

paint emitted in each job (see Appendix H), reported the area of the wall and the associated job 

duration for each experiment. Rates of renovation for each renovation activity type were 

estimated based on these data, as shown in Table D-1. For activities with more than one 

experiment in the Dust Study, the standard deviation is also provided. In general, the standard 

deviations are large and indicate large variations in the rates of removal, in part stemming from 

the small number of experiments performed. In addition, three activities had only a single 

experiment and as a result are subject to large uncertainty. 

Owing to these large uncertainties, the RSMeans Facilities Construction Cost Manual (Mossman 

and Plotner, 2009) was used as an alternative to determine the average rate of lead paint 

removal. For the paint removal activities, RSMeans reports that surface preparation for a one 

person crew is 86 ft2

 per day for aluminum siding, steel siding, and gypsum board. RSMeans 

does not provide information on typical crew sizes. In lieu of reported data, personal 

communication with a professional engineer at the National Institute of Environmental Health 

Sciences, who is an expert in the field of construction project management, estimated that a 

typical crew for a commercial or public exterior renovation consists of approximately four 

workers (Capouch, personal communication, 2011). The actual crew size may vary by building 

or job type. Additional information on this variable would help inform the rate of renovation for 

exterior renovation activities with larger crews working at a faster rate and smaller crews 

working at a lower rate. This translates to approximately 344 ft2

 per hour for the four person 
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crew assumed in the AERMOD modeling. This rate was rounded to 360 ft2 per hour to ensure 

each of the modeled building panels could be finished within an increment of one day. 

Table D-1. Comparison of Dust Study and RSMeans removal rates

 

Dust Study Removal Rates (ft2/hr) RSMeans 

Removal 

Rates 

RSMeans 

Removal 

Rates For 

a 4 

Person 

Crew in 

an 8 hour 

day 

(ft2/hr) 

RSMeans 

Removal 

Rates For 

a 4 

Person 

Crew in 

an 8 hour 

day 

(ft2/day) 

Approach 

Removal 

Rates 

(ft2/day) 

No. Of 

Experiments 

(N) 

Mean Standard 

Deviation 

Power Sanding 2 54 5 86 ft2

/day 43 344 360 

Needle Gun 1 3 N/A 86 ft2

/ day 43 344 360 

Torching 2 35 2 86 ft2

/ day 43 344 360 

High Heat Gun 1 6 N/A 86 ft2

/ day 43 344 360 

Low Heat Gun 1 18 N/A 86 ft2

/ day 43 344 360 

Dry Scrape 4 154 46 86 ft2

/ day 43 344 360 

Replace Exterior 

Door 2 32 7 84 ft2/ day 42 336 360 

Trim Replacement 2 96 119 64 ft/ day 16 128 180 

Demolition N/A 900 ft3/ day 38 300 360 

The trim removal rate was taken for the RSMeans estimate for “Trim”, which gives a value of 64 

ft/day. To estimate the square footage for a 4 person crew, it was assumed that the trim had a 

width of 6 inches and the RSMeans value was multiplied by 4*0.5=2. This yielded an estimate of 

128 ft2/day. This value was rounded to 180 ft2

 per day to ensure the modeled building panel 

could be finished within an increment of half a day. 

For door removal, a value of 84 ft2

/day was taken from the RSMeans manual. Assuming a four 

person crew, this yields 336 ft2/day. Again, this value was rounded to 360 ft2/day to ensure a 

single building block could be renovated in increments of whole days. 

Finally, the demolition rate was taken from the RSMeans with a value of 900 ft3

/day. To convert 

to ft2/day, it was assumed that the walls were 4 inches thick, giving a value of 300 ft2/day. This 

value was rounded to 360 ft2/day to ensure a single building block could be renovated in 

increments of whole days. 
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D.1.2. Job Duration 

For each building size, the total job duration can be calculated using the number of blocks on 

the building, the fraction of the block being renovated, and rate of renovation. The Approach 

assumes that the crew works an 8 hour shift each day during the day and does not work at 

night. Then, 

	 = 
 × 	 × 

 × 
	 × 8	h

where: 

JobDuration = total duration of the renovation job (days)

NumBlock = the number of “blocks” in the building being 

renovated 

BlockSize = the size of each building block (ft2) 

ComponentFrac = the fraction of the building block that is made up of 

the 

 component being renovated (e.g., trim) (ft2

) 

RenoRate = the surface area that can be renovated by a four 

person 

 crew in an hour 

In order to simplify the estimation of the job durations and limit the total number of AERMOD 

simulations, similar renovation rates were set equal (as discussed above in Section D.1.2) and a 

block was defined as the area from which a crew could prepare the painted surface in 2 hours, 

as discussed in Section C.1.1. 

D.1.3. Fraction of Paint Removed 

For the modeling Approach, a representative surface preparation fraction is used for all the 

different possible substrate types and removal methods. This fraction was estimated using 

information in the RSMeans manual (Mossman and Plotner 2009). RSMeans indicates that full 

removal of all exterior lead paint by a four person crew can be performed at a rate of 45 square 

feet per hour, while surface preparation rates vary between 240 (wood shingles) and 344 

(aluminum siding, steel siding, and gypsum board) square feet per hour for different substrates. 

To estimate the fraction removed during surface preparation, it was assumed that removing a 

certain mass of paint can be done at a constant rate, but the surface preparation takes less time 

because less total paint is removed compared with total lead remediation. Thus, the surface 

preparation rates were divided by the lead removal rate to estimate the fraction of paint 

removed during surface preparation. This yielded a range of 13 to 19%. A representative value 

of 15% was selected for the modeling Approach. Because this value is expected to vary across 
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different substrates and removal methods, the selection of this value introduces uncertainty in 

the modeling Approach. 

D.1.4. Fraction of Paint Emitted As Aerosol By Activity 

The fraction of paint emitted as an aerosol was estimated using several different data sources. 

The primary data source is EPA’s Dust Study (US EPA, 2007a), which is the most comprehensive 

study of lead dust generation by renovation activities to date. Other data sources were used to 

supplement the Dust Study as noted in each subsection below in order to include additional 

exterior renovation activity types. 

D.1.4.1. Jobs Included in the Dust Study 

The Dust Study was used to characterize the fraction of lead on the wall that is emitted from the 

eight exterior renovation activities studied in the report: paint removal by dry scraping, power 

sanding, torching, use of heat guns, and use of a needle gun, and replacement of exterior doors 

and trim (US EPA 2007a). In the Approach, particles may be either bulk particles that are larger 

and remain closer to the renovated building or aerosol particles that are in the size class that 

can be transported away from the renovated building. Using the Dust Study data, the fraction of 

removed paint that becomes aerosolized is estimated for each of these activities, as described in 

Appendix H. 

After the activities were processed, emission fractions for both the interior Dust Study 

experiments and the exterior Dust Study experiment were combined. Because the Dust Study 

used vertical plastic to encase the job area, the conditions were likely similar to interior jobs. 

And, because the emission fraction calculations take into account differences in the amount of 

lead in paint in interior and exterior building environments, the experiments were deemed 

similar enough that they could be combined across the interior and exterior experiments to 

estimate an overall fraction. Thus, the power sanding (exterior) and door planing (interior) 

experiments were combined and the geometric mean across all the different experiments was 

used to describe a “sanding” emission fraction. Similarly, the geometric mean was taken across 

the experiments for all other activity types as well. 

In addition, the heat gun experiments for both interior and exterior experiments were also 

combined. The interior calculations revealed that the emission fraction from heat gun activities 

performed on plaster substrates was considerably higher than the fraction for activities 

performed on wood substrates. Thus, heat gun experiments were divided into separate plaster 

and wood activities and the geometric mean across the interior and exterior experiments across 

each was used for the emission fractions. In the Monte Carlo model, these two different 

substrate types were sampled assuming equal probability of occurrence to get health effect 

estimates for a generic heat gun activity. 
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D.1.4.2. Jobs that Include Local Ventilation (HEPA filters) 

In addition to the jobs examined in the Dust Study, the Approach also considers activities where 

the use of local ventilation (e.g., a HEPA filter) may reduce the emission of lead dust. The 

Battelle 2009 memo entitled “Effectiveness of Power Tool Shrouds to Reduce Dust Dispersion 

(DRAFT)” provides a summary of references found during a 2009 literature search that 

measured the reduction in airborne dust levels or exposure levels after implementation of HEPA 

filters for a variety of sawing, sanding, and grinding activities. The studies looked at 

effectiveness when a variety of different surfaces were disturbed, with many studies looking at 

grinding concrete or mortar. Most of these activities are expected to produce small (e.g., < 

PM2.5) particles similar to the power sanding, door planing, and needle gun activities in the 

Dust Study. 

The results are fairly consistent, with most results showing efficiencies in the low 90% range. In 

particular, one study that looked at cut off saws in the construction industry (Thorpe et al 1999). 

found efficiencies of 90%. Figure D-1 summarizes the findings by study, where the lowest 

efficiency captured in the study is chosen as representative. The green bar shows the Thorpe et 

al. study. Based on this range, 90% is deemed an appropriate efficiency for power sanding, door 

planing, and needle gun activities. This is not at the high end of the range but instead is chosen 

to be representative of efficiency during actual (rather than hypothetical “best”) use of the LEV 

equipment. 

Some of the studies also looked at implementation of wet techniques compared to dry 

techniques and found a similar efficiency, so 90% is also deemed appropriate for wet activities. 

In order to include these activities that include local ventilation, the estimated emission fraction 

was -multiplied by (1-efficiency) = 0.10. 
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Figure D-1. Summary of HEPA Efficiency Data in the Literature 

D.1.4.3. Demolition 

Demolition of building walls was not one of the renovation activities included in the Dust 

Study. However, the literature review report submitted to EPA on January 21, 2011 included 

sources that measured dust emission from demolition activities. Two studies, Beck et al. (2003) 

and Stefani et al. (2005), measured dust generation from the implosion of large structures that 

were not expected to be analogous to small scale demolition of building walls. Mucha et al. 

(2009) collected dust samples near sites where the demolition of homes was occurring. 

However, they did not provide information on the size of the demolitions or the proximity of the 

samplers to the demolition, so it was not possible to calculate an emission rate. 

Farfel et al. (2003) tracked the lead dust fall rate as measured at 10 m from the renovation 

during the demolition of two blocks of row houses in Baltimore. In a subsequent paper (Farfel 

et al., 2005), levels of settled lead dust collected 100 m from demolition sites were measured 

before, immediately after, and 1 month after demolition were presented. 

By subtracting the pre-demolition lead dust level from the measurement taken immediately 

post-demolition, it was possible to determine the lead dust loading that was attributed to the 
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demolition. Farfel et al. (2003) provides detailed information on the demolition itself, including 

the vintage of the rowhouses (pre-1950), the dates of the demolitions (10/27/99 and 

4/19/2000), the duration (8 hrs), the size (40 m x 50 m, 38 m x 46 m), number of houses 

demolished (26, 27), and concentration of lead in the paint on the row houses (ranging from 

below detect to above the limit of quantification, 9.9 mg/cm2

.) 

Because measurements at only 10 m and 100 m were available, the methodology used to 

calculate emissions for the Dust Study activities could not be applied. Instead, AERMOD was 

used to estimate an emission rate which would give loading values consistent with the 

measured values. An AERMOD run was conducted with a unit emission rate which characterized 

the source using the averaged source data provided by Farfel et al. (2003) and meteorological 

data from http://www.weatherunderground.com for the dates of the demolition. Receptors 

were placed 10 m and 100 m downwind of the demolitions. The hourly deposition rate was 

calculated at both 10 m and 100 m distances downwind, and these values were summed in time 

to estimate the cumulative loading after nine hours (eight hours of demolition plus one hour of 

settling time) to be consistent with measurement methodology in Farfel et al. (2003). 

The values calculated with the AERMOD run were compared to the Farfel et al. (2003) values to 

back-calculate the emission rates. It was determined that the values measured at 10 m from the 

renovation were likely much too low. Because 10 m is in the near-field range, particularly 

considering the extremely large source, it is likely that there is a large amount of variability in 

these numbers. Because only a limited number of measurements were collected, it was 

determined that the emission rate based on the 100 m data was more reliable. 

The values calculated with AERMOD gave the emission rate in units of mg of lead per second 

consistent with the demolition of the row houses. However, for a building of different size with 

a different demolition rate and total square footage and with different lead content in the paint, 

the lead emission rate per second will be different. The rate of demolition of the row houses 

was determined by estimating the exterior wall surface area of the row houses using data 

provided in Farfel et al. (2003.) This was estimated at 7,818 m2

 for the average surface area of 

building demolished (averaged across the two different demolition events.) The total duration 

of demolition was 8 hrs, yielding a rate of exterior wall demolition of 2.92 ft2/s. Dividing the lead 

dust emission rate in mg/s by the demolition rate in ft2/s, results in a lead dust emission rate in 

units of mg/ft2 exterior wall. 

The lead loadings measured on different row houses varied widely, as such, the geometric mean 

lead loading for houses built between 1930 and 1949, 3.77 mg/cm2

, was used. (The 

determination of the geometric mean wall lead loadings by building vintage is discussed in 

Appendix 2.1.1.4.) By dividing the amount of lead emitted, on a per square foot basis, by the 
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amount of lead on the wall, on a per square foot basis, the aerosol fraction of lead emitted was 

estimated to be 0.009. 

D.1.4.4. Summary and Benchmarking of Results 

The resulting fractions of paint emitted as aerosol for each renovation activity is presented in 

Table D-2. Lee and Domanski (1999) examined the release of lead and abrasives during 

sandblasting operations to remove lead paint from bridges. They estimated that 9 percent of the 

lead on the bridge could be released as aerosol due to sandblasting. The emission fractions in 

this Approach tend to be on the order of this estimate. Power sanding without HEPA, needle 

gun without HEPA, and torching all predict emission fractions higher than 9%. Overall, the Lee 

and Domanski (1999) study compares favorably with the magnitudes of the emission fractions 

estimated here. 

Table D-2. Fraction of paint on the wall which is emitted as aerosolized 

particulate. 

Job Type Fraction of Paint Aerosolized 

Power Sanding, without HEPA 0.112

Power Sanding, with HEPA* 0.011

Needle Gun, without HEPA 0.244

Needle Gun, with HEPA* 0.024

Torching 0.180

Heat Gun, Plaster 0.057

Heat Gun, Wood 0.012

Dry Scrape 0.038

Wet Scrape* 0.0038 

Window/Door Replacement 0.069

Trim Replacement 0.070

Demolition 0.009

*These emission fractions are estimated using efficiencies applied to the activity 

above them, as discussed in Section D.1.6 

D.1.5. Fraction of Paint Emitted as Particulate Debris by Activity 

Small particulate removed during the renovation will be emitted as aerosolized particles. Larger 

bulk particles will fall to ground during the renovation. The bulk particles themselves, however, 

may have a wide range of sizes. The largest of these, referred to here as “bulk debris,” are easily 

seen and picked up, and these will likely be removed during post-job clean-up. In contrast, 

smaller bulk particles, referred to here as “particulate debris,” will be more difficult to see and 

clean. Particulate debris may remain on the ground after the job and be available for tracking 

indoors, depending on the use of horizontal plastic and the efficiency of the plastic in trapping 

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Lee and Domanski (1999) evaluated the removal of lead paint from bridges due to sandblasting 

and the subsequent release of particles. They estimated that 9 percent of the lead in the paint 

on the bridge could be released as aerosolized particles. In addition, of the bulk material 

generated, an additional 6 percent would have an aerodynamic diameter less than 50 μm. 

In this Approach it was assumed that the amount of particulate debris available for track-in 

corresponded to this “less than 50 μm” size class. In the absence of further information about 

this fraction in other paint removal activities, the 6 percent value was applied to all the 

renovation activities. To estimate the fraction of total paint on the wall released as particulate 

debris, the following equation was used: 

where: 

PartDebFrac = fraction of paint on the wall emitted as particulate 

debris

AerosolFrac = fraction of paint on the wall emitted as aerosol 

The final particulate debris fractions by renovation activity are shown in Table D-3. 

Table D-3. Fraction of paint on the wall which is emitted as bulk 

particulate. 

Job Type Fraction of Paint Emitted As 

Particulate Debris 

Power Sanding, without HEPA 0.0593

Power Sanding, with HEPA 0.0533

Needle Gun, without HEPA 0.0585

Needle Gun, with HEPA 0.0454

Torching 0.0492

Heat Gun, Plaster 0.0566

Heat Gun, Wood 0.0593

Dry Scrape 0.0577

Wet Scrape 0.0598

Window/Door Replacement 0.0559 

Trim Replacement 0.0558 

Demolition 0.0595 

PartDebFrac = 1( − AerosolFrac) × 06.0
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D.1.6. Containment Efficiencies 

As discussed in the main Approach document, both horizontal and vertical plastic were included 

as exposure control options. To estimate the horizontal containment efficiency, the Dust Study 

data for each activity type were used to find the ratio of the loading under the plastic to the 

loading on top of the plastic, as shown in Table D-4. An average across all activities, or an 

efficiency of 0.95, was used as a representative horizontal plastic efficiency. 

Table D-4. Horizontal containment efficiency.

Renovation Activity 

Loading on 

top of plastic 

(μg/ft2) 

Loading 

underneath 

plastic (μg/ft2) 

Efficiency 

Door Replacement 32653 32 0.999 

Trim Replacement 44474 648 0.985 

Dry Scrape 12004 89 0.992 

Needle Gun 7713 270 0.966 

High Heat Gun 37431 3149 0.922 

Power Sanding 111388 4896 0.957 

Torching1 5447 8565 0.388 

Low Heat Gun 18000 388 0.978 

1Torching data were assumed to be anomalous and not included in 

calculations. 

As discussed in the main document, fewer data were available to calculate the efficiency of dust 

captured by vertical containment. Iyiegbuniwe et al. (2006) presented data for the efficiency of 

containments used during bridge de-leading by abrasive blasting and found an efficiency of 91% 

for lead particles. In the absense of additional data, this value was used for the vertical 

containment efficiency for all renovation activities. 

D.2. Interiors 

In this Approach, the exposure to lead emitted during interior renovation activities are 

characterized by the amount of lead emitted, the area over which the lead spreads, and the 

amount of time the lead loading remains elevated. The variables describing these two variables 

include floor area in the job area, the fraction of paint removed, the overall building size, the 

rate of renovation, the fraction of removed paint that remains as lead dust, the efficiencies of 

any control options used to mitigate the dust, and the relative exposure from floors versus 

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D.2.1. Job Intensity 

The job intensity describes the fraction of the wall surface area (painting jobs and cutouts jobs), 

the fraction of the cabinets/shelves (cabinet removal jobs), or the fraction of the windows 

(window replacement jobs) in the room that are affected by the renovation. 

For all jobs, a low, middle, and high intensity were selected. For painting, cabinetry, and 

windows, representative values of 15%, 50%, and 100% are the representative intensity values. 

In addition, a very low case was added for painting to account for jobs that just require small 

paint removal and touch up work within a larger room. For this case, a value of 5% was selected. 

For cutouts, it was more difficult to determine what an appropriate intensity range would be. 

The Approach assumes this activity covers renovation activities involving electrical receptacles 

and lighting fixtures as well as larger jobs involving creating new windows/doors or performing 

HVAC work. An internet and literature search was conducted to find construction standards for 

light fixtures, thermostats, wall outlets, plumbing access, HVAC ductwork, windows, and doors. 

Very little information on construction standards for these indoor construction additions was 

found. 

However, standards from the International Code Council and the U.S. Government GSA present 

minimum requirements and provide some guidance that was used to inform the Approach 

assumptions. Based on the information found for lighting and power receptacle requirements, 

calculations were made to estimate the fraction of total wall square footage needed to rewire or 

relight a room. The estimates for lighting are assumed to capture the fraction of the ceiling area, 

but they are converted to an equivalent wall area for ease of implementation in the Approach. 

For lighting, the fraction is between 0.004% to 0.2% using the GSA ranges of required power 

density and the example lighting fixture sizes found in an internet search. For receptacles placed 

every 6 ft (a conservative assumption based on requirements for a GSA “communication room”), 

the fraction of wall is 0.2%. Thus, cutouts for installing electrical outlets or ceiling lighting are 

expected to be less than 1% of the total wall area. Extensive information on cutout sizes for 

HVAC work could not be found, so an upper range of 10% of wall space was assumed. 

Comparing this range (< 1% to 10%) with the intensities for the other jobs, the assumption was 

made that the cutout intensities were 1/10 of the intensities in the other activities. This yielded 

low, middle, and high estimates of 1.5%, 5%, and 10%. 

The range of intensities are shown in Table D-5 In the Approach, renovation scenarios may 

include one or more job activity types. For the purposes of calculating the fraction of 

components disturbed during the renovation, the assumption was made that the entire job was 

either “low”, “middle”, or “high”. For painting jobs only, the “very low” option was also 

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Table D-5. Job Intensities Describing Fraction of Room Components Disturbed During Renovation 

Activity Type Very Low Low Middle High 

Paint removal 5% 15% 50% 100% 

Cabinetry/shelves N/A 15% 50% 100% 

Cutouts N/A 1.5% 5% 10% 

D.2.2. The Fraction of Paint Removed 

In addition to the intensity (fraction of wall area affected), the paint removal jobs also need the 

fraction of paint layers on the wall that are removed during the renovation. In preparing to 

paint, the crew may only prepare the surface by removing the degraded top layers of paint or 

they may remove the paint down to the substrate. To represent surface preparation, a fraction 

removed of 15% was selected based on the analysis described in Appendix D.1.3. In addition, 

paint removal fractions of 50% and 100% were included for each paint removal renovation job 

to cover the range of expected removal fractions. 

D.2.3. The Job Area and Exposure for Different Occupants 

Within the room being renovated, the effective job floor area over which the lead dust spreads 

may be equal either the entire room (for smaller rooms and larger jobs) or only a portion of the 

room (for larger rooms and smaller jobs). To estimate the effective spread of the lead dust, the 

Dust Study data were examined. As described in Appendix I, experiments where the job area 

could be identified were used to estimate regression equations. These equations describe the 

exponential decrease in lead loading with distance from the job wall. These regression 

equations were examined to find the typical distance where the renovation-related lead 

loadings reach 5% of their value just next to the job wall. Based on this analysis, a representative 

value of 10 ft was selected to describe the length of a job out from the wall. 

Then, for each renovated room size, the job area was estimated using the following equation, 

which calculates the floor area in the job area assuming the length of the room is twice the 

width and making sure not to double count corners: 

 = 	

	 × !	"h #6 × %




2

− 4 × !	"h)

where: 
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JobArea = Floor area next to the job walls over which the lead 

dust 

 spreads

intensity = The fraction of the room components being 

renovated 

jobwidth = The length of the job area out from the job wall 

RoomArea = The area of the room being renovated 

After estimating this job area, the job area was compared with the overall room area for the 

different room sizes and job intensities in the interior analysis, as shown in Table D-6. For the 

job area to be considered different from the room area, a threshold of 3% was applied to the 

ratios. In these cases, it was deemed reasonable that the job could be thought of as an isolated 

“room within a room” compared with the remainder of the room area. Based on this threshold, 

in any cases where the job intensity was 5% and the room size was greater than or equal to 

3800 ft2, the job size was considered to be smaller than the room size and the activity was 

treated as a “room within a room” scenario (as shown with the shading in Table D-6). Actual 

conditions where a “room within a room” scenario would be present are unknown, but could be 

adjusted at a later time if additional information should become available suggesting either a 

higher or a lower threshold (i.e. 2%, 4%, 6%, 8%, or 10%). 

Table D-6. Comparison of Job Size to Floor Size 

Room 

Floor 

Area 

(ft2) 

Room 

Width 

(ft) 

Room 

Length 

(ft) 

Job 

Size 

5% 

Ratio 

Job to 

Floor 

Size 

Job 

Size 

25% 

Ratio 

Job to 

Floor 

Size 

Job 

Size 

50% 

Ratio 

Job to 

Floor 

Size 

60 5.5 11.0 3.0 5.0% 15.0 25.0% 30.0 50.0% 

200 10.0 20.0 10.0 5.0% 50.0 25.0% 100.0 50.0% 

300 12.2 24.5 16.7 5.6% 83.7 27.9% 167.4 55.8% 

600 17.3 34.6 32.0 5.3% 159.8 26.6% 319.6 53.3% 

1,300 25.5 51.0 56.5 4.3% 282.4 21.7% 564.9 43.5% 

1,800 30.0 60.0 70.0 3.9% 350.0 19.4% 700.0 38.9% 

3,800 43.6 87.2 110.8 2.9% 553.8 14.6% 1107.7 29.1% 

3,900 44.2 88.3 112.5 2.9% 562.4 14.4% 1124.8 28.8% 

6,200 55.7 111.4 147.0 2.4% 735.2 11.9% 1470.3 23.7% 

8,400 64.8 129.6 174.4 2.1% 872.1 10.4% 1744.2 20.8% 

9,100 67.5 134.9 182.4 2.0% 911.8 10.0% 1823.6 20.0% 

12,200 78.1 156.2 214.3 1.8% 1071.5 8.8% 2143.1 17.6% 

For these “room within a room” scenarios, exposure was estimated for two different theoretical 

occupants, as shown in the right panel of Figure D-2; in some cases, some occupants will be in 
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the actual job area (either during or after the renovation event), so exposure is estimated using 

the lead dust emitted divided by the job area. 

*"	*"	
+,-.	/01/	-2234/56 =

71/89:;6618

<-.=01/

 

 Equation D-1 

 Other occupants may be in the remainder of the room and have a relatively small interaction 

with the renovated-related lead dust. In these cases, the rest of the room is treated as if it were 

an adjacent room, so these occupants are exposed to the lead dust emitted divided by the rest 

of the room area and multiplied by the “adjacent factor”. 

*"	*"	
+01>6?-@?0--:	-2234/56 =

71/89:;6618

A1>6-@A--:=01/

× "  

 Equation D-2 

In cases where the job area is the full room area (left panel of Figure D-2), exposure for only a 

single work room occupant is estimated: 

*"	*"	
+B-0C	0--:		-2234/56 =

71/89:;6618

A--:=01/

 

 Equation D-3 

The location of occupants included in the Approach are: 

 In work room, allowed in workspace throughout renovation- exposure begins at the 

beginning of renovation activity 

 In work room, not allowed in workspace throughout renovation- exposure begins after the 

renovation activity 

 In an adjacent room- exposure begins at the beginning of renovation activity 

Loadings are estimated for each occupant location in a particular renovated building scenario. 

*"	*"	
+/8,/2156	0--:	-2234/56 =

71/89:;6618

=8,/2156A--:=01/ × "  

 Equation D-4 

The full range of exposed occupants is shown in 
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Table D-7. Different Room Occupants During Dust-Generating Phase 

Allowed in 

work area 

during 

renovation

? 

Work room occupants 

Adjacent 

occupants Work area = room area Work area <> Room Area 

Allowed - Work room occupant EQ D3 - Job area occupant EQ D-1 

- Rest of room occupant EQ D-2 Adjacent 

occupant 

EQ D-4 Not Allowed - Work room occupant Exposure = 0 - Job area occupant Exposure = 0 

- Rest of room occupant EQ D-2 

Small Room, Intensity = 5%: 

Job Area = Room Area

Large Room, Intensity = 5%: 

Job Area < Room Area 

“Room within a Room”

Figure D-2. Diagram of work area with the renovated room. 

D.2.4. Mapping Interior Building Types to Exterior Buildings 

The exterior analysis covers receptors downwind from a renovated building. However, the 

exterior renovation can also affect occupants of the renovated building itself. If interior and 

exterior renovations are going on simultaneously, the occupants may be exposed to lead dust 

levels elevated by both exterior and interior renovations. 

 
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Thus, each interior scenario is simulated three ways: 

 Assuming no exterior job is happening simultaneously, 

 Assuming a “low” exterior job is happening simultaneously, and 

 Assuming a “high” exterior job is happening simultaneously. 

For jobs where an exterior renovation is happening, the contribution is added in two different 

ways: 

 The renovation-only dust loading value estimated from an exterior simulation is added in to 

the post-renovation loadings after the interior job, and 

 The track-in of renovation-only soil lead is included throughout the remainder of the interior 

simulation. 

Thus, representative low and high soil and dust levels are needed to represent these exterior 

jobs. A subset of the full exterior simulations were examined and the 25th and 75th percentile 

values at the 0ft receptor were calculated to represent these low and high estimates, as shown 

in Table D-8. 

Table D-8. Representative Exterior Renovation-Only Dust and Soil Values for Use in the Interior 

Analysis 

Low (25th percentile) High (75th percentile)

Dust (μg/ft2) Soil (μg/g) Dust (μg/ft2) Soil (μg/g)

6.3 3.9 62.9 27.5 

 As in the exterior analysis dust model, the track-in loading contribution is estimated as 

BuildingArea

PbSoilConcen TrackingRate MatFrac TrackingLoadingPb× × 1( − )

=

where: 

TrackingLoading = accumulation of tracked-in lead loading on the 

floor in a day (μg/ft2

-day) 

PbSoilConcen = concentration of lead in the tracked-in soil (μg/g)

TrackingRate = rate at which particulate is deposited on front mats 

(g/day) 

MatFrac = fraction of total tracked material which is 

deposited on the front mat (as opposed to the 

remainder of the house) 

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BuildingArea = the total floor area of the building over which the

lead is tracked (ft2) 

In order to implement this equation, the total building square footage is needed; however, for 

the interior Approach, only three rooms of a building are modeled at a time based on the 

assumption used for this modeling approach that lead dust does not travel further than one 

room away from the renovated room. 

To estimate the total building square footages, the interior building types were mapped to the 

exterior building model sizes (F1T1, F1T2, F1T3, F2T1, F2T2, F2T3, F3T1, F3T2, or F3T3). The 

CBECS data (US EIA, 2003) were used to estimate the fraction of total buildings in each building 

category that were in each size class. Then, these probabilities were cumulative summed to get 

the cumulative probability distribution, as shown in Table D-9. In the Monte Carlo code, a 

random number is used to select a building size for each building type for each iteration where 

an exterior job is included. 

Table D-9. Probability Distribution for Interior Building Types Mapped to Exterior Building Sizes 

Buildings that use Layout 

Cumulative Probability 

F1T1 F2T1 F3T1 F1T2 F2T2 F3T2 F1T3 F2T3 F3T3 

SIZE (total floor area in ft2) 1,296 5,184 20,736 2,592 10,368 41,472 3,888 15,552 139,968 

1 Office, outpatient healthcare, 

and public order/safety 0.25 0.38 0.50 0.63 0.75 0.82 0.88 0.95 1.00 

2 Warehouse, food sales, 

religious worship, and public 

assembly

0.05 0.25 0.38 0.50 0.75 0.82 0.88 0.95 1.00 

3 Food service, service, strip 

shopping mall, enclosed mall, 

and retail other than mall

0.05 0.25 0.38 0.50 0.75 0.82 0.88 0.95 1.00 

4 Education 0.05 0.25 0.38 0.50 0.58 0.67 0.75 0.95 1.00 

5 Lodging, Nursing, inpatient 

health care, and laboratory 0.05 0.12 0.18 0.25 0.38 0.50 0.62 0.75 1.00 

D.2.5. Rate of Renovation – Dust Generating Phase 

As discussed in Appendix D.1.2, the RSMeans Facilities Construction Cost Manual (Mossman and 

Plotner, 2009) was used to determine the average rates for the renovation activities. The 

interior analysis utilizes the same surface preparation, window removal, and demolition as used 

in the exterior analysis. The values are repeated in Table D-10. 

Additional activity rates are needed for the interior analysis. For the cabinet/shelf removal 

activity, the RSMeans “minor building deconstruction, kitchen cabinets” entry was used. This 
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value is 18 linear feet for a 2 person crew per day. Assuming 3 ft high cabinets, this corresponds 

to a rate of 108 ft2

/day. 

For the cutouts activity, the RSMeans “receptacle and switch plates, electrical demolition, 

remove” entries were averaged. The units in RSMeans are “output per day” assuming one 

worker. Assuming the average receptacle is 0.12 ft2, this gives an average rate of 4.1 ft2/day for 

a two person crew. 

Table D-10. Rates of Dust-Generating Phase in Interior Analysis 

Activity Type Rate for a Four Person 

Crew (ft2/day) 

Paint removal 360 

Window Removal 336 

Cabinet/shelf removal 108 

Cutouts 4 

Demolition 360 

The duration of each activity is then estimated as:

	D3>6E1510/6;5F =



	 × G

	



where: 

DurationDustGenerating = Duration of the dust-generating phase of the 

renovation (days) 

ComponentArea = The area of the component being renovated (wall, 

cabinet, or window) 

Intensity = The fraction of the room components being 

renovated 

Rate = The rate of renovation (ft2

/day) 

After the duration is estimated for each separate room and each separate renovation activity, 

they are summed to give the total duration for the job. 

D.2.6. Rate of Renovation – Rest of Renovation Phase 

After the dust-generating phase is complete, the Approach assumes the crew proceeds with the 

rest of the renovation, including painting, installation, etc. To estimate the rest of renovation 

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For paint removal, RSMeans interior Paintings and Coatings activities were averaged to get a 

rate of 1,340 ft2

/day for one worker. This gives a corresponding estimate of 5,360 ft2/day for a 

four person crew. 

For windows, the RSMeans entries for “Windows, replacement” were averaged to give an 

estimate of 7.2 windows per day for a two person crew. Assuming a window size of 10.24 ft2 as 

in other parts of the Approach, this gives a total of 148 ft2/day for a four person crew. 

For cutouts, the RSMeans entries for installation of “Receptacle Devices” were averaged to give 

a value of 9.0 receptacles per day for a one person crew. Again assuming a square footage of 

0.21 ft2 for each receptacle, this gives an estimate of 4.3 ft2/day for a four person crew. 

For cabinets, the RSMeans entries for “Custom Cabinets” were averaged to give a value of 

twenty cabinets per day for a two person crew. Using the accompanying cabinet dimensions in 

the RSMeans entries, this gave an average rate of 239 ft2

/day for a four person crew. 

For demolition, a general “rebuild” activity rate was estimated using all the other rest-ofrenovation rates averaged with additional RSMeans entries for “Framing” (373 ft2

/hr) and 

“Drywall installation” (70 ft2

/hr). Averaging all the rates gave an overall estimate of 1,776 ft2/day 

for a four person crew. 

Each dust-generating and rest-of-renovation activity with the corresponding estimate rates is 

shown in Table D-11. The rest-of renovation rates were divided by the dust-generating rates and 

rounded to yield the final “divisor” in the table. To estimate the rest-of-renovation duration, the 

dust-generating duration is divided by this number:

	A1>6-@A15-H/6;-5 =

	D3>6E1510/6;5F

	I	=26;H;6J

where: 

DurationRestofRenovation = Duration of the rest-of-renovation phase of the 

renovation (days) 

DurationDustGenerating = Duration of the dust-generating phase of the 

renovation (days) 

DivisorActivity = The activity-specific divisor to relate the two 

durations 

As with the dust-generating durations, the rest-of-renovation durations are estimated 

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Table D-11. Rates of Rest-of-Renovation Phase in Interior Analysis 

Dust-Generating 

Activity Type 

Rate for a 

Four Person 

Crew 

(ft2/day) 

Rest-of-Renovation 

Activity Type 

Rate for a 

Four Person 

Crew 

(ft2/day) 

Divisor for 

Rest-ofRenovation 

Duration 

Paint removal 360 Painting 5,360 15 

Window Removal 336 Window Installation 148 0.5 

Cabinet/shelf removal 108 Cabinet Installation 239 2 

Cutouts 4 Receptacle Installation 4 1 

Demolition 360 Rebuilding 1,776 5 

D.2.7. Fraction of Paint Emitted 

The fraction of paint emitted as lead-containing dust was estimated using several different data 

sources. The primary data source is EPA’s Dust Study (US EPA, 2007a), which is the most 

comprehensive study of lead dust generation by renovation activities to date. Other data 

sources were used to supplement the Dust Study, as noted in the subsections below, in order to 

include additional interior renovation activity types. 

D.2.7.1. Jobs Included in the Dust Study 

The Dust Study was used to characterize the fraction of lead on the wall that is emitted from the 

six interior renovation activities studied in the report: paint removal by dry scraping, door 

planing, and use of heat guns; window removal; cabinet removal, and cut outs (US EPA 2007a). 

Using the Dust Study data, the fraction of removed paint that remains as small floor dust 

particulate is estimated for each of these activities, as described in Appendix I. 

After the activities were processed, emission fractions for both the interior Dust Study 

experiments and the exterior Dust Study experiment were combined. Because the Dust Study 

used vertical plastic to encase the job area, the conditions were likely similar to interior jobs. 

And, because the emission fraction calculations take into account differences in the amount of 

lead in paint in interior and exterior building environments, the experiments were deemed 

similar enough that they could be combined across the interior and exterior experiments to 

estimate an overall fraction. Thus, the power sanding (exterior) and door planing (interior) 

experiments were combined and the geometric mean across all the different experiments was 

used to describe a “sanding” emission fraction. Similarly, the geometric mean was taken across 

the experiments for all other activity types as well. 

In addition, the heat gun experiments for both interior and exterior experiments were also 

combined. The interior calculations revealed that the emission fraction from heat gun activities 

performed on plaster substrates was considerably higher than the fraction for activities 
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performed on wood substrates. Thus, heat gun experiments were divided into separate plaster 

and wood activities and the geometric mean across the interior and exterior experiments across 

each was used for the emission fractions. In the Monte Carlo model, these two different 

substrate types were sampled assuming equal probability of occurrence to get health effect 

estimates for a generic heat gun activity. 

Finally, inspection of the window removal experiments revealed a bimodal pattern, with a group 

of high emitting experiments and a group of lower emitting experiments. Based on the 

experiment notes provided in the Dust Study, the higher emitting experiments used saws to 

remove the window, while the lower emitting experiments used a crowbar or other method to 

remove the window. Thus, the activity was broken into two separate activities: window, with 

saw and window, no saw. In the Monte Carlo model, each was assumed to occur with equal 

probability in a given window removal iteration. 

D.2.7.2. Jobs that Include Local Ventilation (HEPA filters) 

In addition to the jobs examined in the Dust Study, the Approach also considers activities where 

the use of local ventilation (e.g., a HEPA filter) may reduce the emission of lead dust. As 

described in Appendix D.1.4.2, a HEPA efficiency of 0.9 was used in the Approach. In the interior 

analysis, it was applied to the door planing activity. 

D.2.7.3. Demolition 

Demolition of building walls was not one of the renovation activities included in the Dust 

Study. However, the EFSS documents renovation activities performed in houses and the 

associated loadings (US EPA 1998). The report provides nearly all the information needed to 

estimate the fraction of emitted paint that lands as small dust particulate. As stated in the 

report, the demolition experiments were part of the Controlled Experimentally Designed (CED) 

experiments that were completed in row houses in Baltimore and single-family dwellings in 

Denver. The EFSS measured both the personal air monitoring concentrations of the workers and 

the floor loadings after the experiment was completed. Then, an exponential distribution of the 

loading away from the demolished wall as a function of distance was estimated, and the 

resulting equations was used to estimate the total amount of lead within 6 feet of the wall. 

This equation was then further adjusted in the EFSS report so that it represents the loading from 

a standardized work area within the room where demolition experiments were conducted. The 

average amount of lead in the surface substrate in the demolished rooms was also specified in 

μg/cm2

. So, then, to get the fraction released as: 

K1:;6618 =

*"	
+	 × L

L × M × N
	I

where: 
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fracemitted = The fraction of paint removed from the wall that 

remains on the floor as small dust particles 

Loading = The average lead dust loading on the floor (μg/ft2) 

WorkArea = The work-area of the renovated room (ft2

) 

WallArea = The wall area of the renovated room (ft2) 

XRF = The mass of lead on the wall per unit area (μg/cm2

) 

UnitConv = A term to convert from cm2

 to ft2

Unfortunately, the EFSS does not provide detailed information about the definition of the “unit” 

room or about how exactly the conversion was done from experimental results to results for 

loadings presented in table 8C-10. Thus, the “WorkArea” and “WallArea” variables are not 

directly available in the EFSS. The loadings shown in 8C-3, and estimated in EFSS Table 8C-10 

are representative of the six foot gradient work area adjacent to the demolition activity. 

It was also assumed that the rooms where the demolition activities took place were typical 

residential rooms with 8 foot ceilings of rectangular shape, 14 feet wide by 28 feet long. In 

determining the fraction emitted, the same answer is calculated whether you assume the 14 

foot wall or the 28 foot wall was demolished. 

 
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Figure D-3. Copy of EFSS Figure 8C-3 showing the lead dust emitted as a function of distance from 

the wall for each activity. 

Variable Value for 14 

ft Wall 

Value for 28 

ft Wall 

Source

Loading 3,250 μg/ft2 3,250 μg/ft2

EFSS Table 8C-10, converting to μg/ft2

Work Area 84 ft2

168 ft2 84 ft2 = 14 ft. multiplied by 6 ft.

168 ft2= 28 ft. multiplied by 6 ft. 

 

WallArea 104,048 cm2

208,096 cm2 104,048 cm2= 14 ft multiplied by 8 ft multiplied 

by 929 cm2/ft2 

208,096 cm2= 14 ft multiplied by 8 ft multiplied 

by 929 cm2/ft2 

XRF 840 μg/cm2

840 ug/cm2 Geometric Mean from EFSS Table 8C-11 

fracemitted 0.0031 

0.0031

Equation 

So, the estimated fraction of lead on a wall that is emitted as lead dust when the wall is 

demolished is 0.0031 (or 0.31%). 

D.2.7.4. Summary and Benchmarking of Results 

The resulting fractions of removed paint that remain on the floor as lead dust for all the interior 

activities are shown in Table D-12. Activities using a saw or power sander emit the most lead 

dust, while demolition and cutout jobs emit the least. 

Table D-12. Fraction of paint removed that remains as small dust 

particulate. 

Job Type Fraction of Paint Aerosolized 

Window, With Saw 0.2137 

Door Planing, without HEPA 0.1118 

Heat Gun, Plaster 0.0572 

Dry Scrape 0.0380 

Window, No Saw 0.0155 

Heat Gun, Wood 0.0119 

Door Planing, with HEPA 0.0112 

Cutouts 0.0056 

Cabinet Removal 0.0030

Demolition 0.0031 
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As mentioned above, the different experiments in the Dust Study (US EPA 2007a) were 

aggregated for a single activity type by taking the geometric mean across all experiment types. 

As a quality assurance step, these geometric means were used to try to back-calculate the 

loading in each room. Then, the estimated loading was compared with the mean measured 

loading and the range of measured loadings in the room. 

Figure D-4 shows the actual loadings versus the predicted loadings for the interior Dust Study 

experiments. Owing to the wide spread in the values, the graph is shown in log scale. The graph 

reveals there is no systematic bias between the predicted and experimental loadings. The 

overall R2

 (estimated using the raw data and not using a natural log transformation) is 0.61. In 

addition, of the 60 interior experiments, 50 of the predicted mean loadings lay within the overall 

range of loadings captured in the different sample trays for each experiment. The remaining 10 

were examined, but no single reason was apparent for the over or under prediction of the 

loadings as they were spread across different types of renovation activities and experiment 

conditions. Overall, this quality assurance step indicated the estimated emission fractions were 

reasonable and appropriate based on the jobs performed in the Dust Study. 
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Figure D-4. Actual Experimental Mean Loadings from the Dust Study as a Function of the Predicted 

Mean Loadings using the Geometric Mean Estimates of Fraction Emitted, Log-log scale 

D.2.8. Containment Efficiencies 

The Dust Study (US EPA 2007a) considered three different control options to mitigate the 

occupant exposure to lead dust: 

 Horizontal plastic in the work room, covering the floor and removed after the renovation 

job, 

 Vertical plastic over the doorways in the work room, isolating the room from the remainder 

of the building, and 

 Wet mop cleaning with an additional verification step to ensure lead dust was removed to 

acceptable levels. 

These different activities were grouped into four different options: 

1. Verification cleaning with horizontal and vertical plastic, 

2. Non-Verification cleaning with horizontal and vertical plastic, and 

3. Verification cleaning without horizontal or vertical plastic, 

4. Non-Verification cleaning without horizontal or vertical plastic. 

In the Approach, horizontal and vertical plastic are isolated from each other by assuming that 

horizontal plastic only affects the work room and vertical plastic only affects the adjacent room. 

In addition, the cleaning step only affects the work room. Thus, control efficiencies for both the 

work room and adjacent room need to be calculated for each of the four Dust Study control 

options. By comparing across two different options, the Approach can isolate the effects from 

either verification cleaning, horizontal plastic, or vertical plastic. 

D.2.8.1. Work Room Control Option Efficiencies 

To estimate the work room control option efficiencies, the “post work” and “post cleaning” 

room-average lead loading results from the Dust Study were compared for each experiment. 

The post cleaning value represents the value after the room has been cleaned (non-verification 

or verification cleaning) and the horizontal plastic has been removed (if present). The ratio of 

the “post cleaning” and “post work” values gives an efficiency factor for the cleaning 

(mitigation) step for each experiment. 

In addition to this data source, an additional data source was located. Grinshpun et al. (2002) 

looked at different control options after different renovation activities in a chamber study. The 

authors were contacted and the original data from the experiments were obtained. Air 

concentrations were continuously measured in a small chamber after doors containing lead 

based paint were either sanded for dry scraped. Air concentration values were converted to 

approximate loading values using the equation: 
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*" ≈ 	 ×  × PQ	 × 	R	+h × N
	I

where: 

FLOORLOADPb = Floor lead loading at the end of the experiment 

(μg/m2)

INAIRCONCPb = indoor concentration of lead in air during 

experiment (μg/m3)

DustDep = deposition rate (h-1)

ExperimentDuration = duration in hours of the experiment (h)

CeilingHeight = height of the ceiling in the renovated room (m)

To estimate the deposition rate, a data source including both air concentrations and dust 

loadings was used to optimize the depositions for different activity types. The Dust Study air 

concentrations were used to estimate the dust loadings using the above equations. For each 

activity type, the depositions were then optimized to give the least mean square error between 

the predicted and actual mean floor loadings. This gave depositions of 0.09 hr-1 for sanding 

activities and 4 hr-1 for scraping activities. 

These values were applied to the Grinshpun experiments and the loadings were 

estimated. Estimated loadings agreed well with measured loadings taken at the corresponding 

time step. Then, the control options were mapped to the closest Dust Study control option, and 

the Grinshpun et al. (2002) efficiencies were estimated. 

Finally, the geometric mean across the different efficiencies for each control option for the 

aggregated Grinshpun et al. and Dust Study data were estimated. This gave final control option 

efficiencies shown in Table D-13. All the different work practice activities provide high 

efficiencies (>94%), although these efficiencies are applied to very large post-work loading 

values. Thus, even small differences in the efficiency factors can lead to large differences in 

exposure after the renovation job is complete. 

Table D-13. Work Room Control Option Efficiencies. 

Control Option Efficiency 

Verification cleaning with horizontal plastic 0.993 

Baseline cleaning with horizontal plastic 0.956 

Verification cleaning without horizontal plastic 0.975 

Baseline cleaning without horizontal plastic 0.943 
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D.2.8.2. Adjacent Room Control Option Multipliers 

For the adjacent room control options, only the Dust Study (US EPA 2007a) data were used. In 

this case, the post-work values in the “observation room” and the work room were compared. 

The ratio was estimated for each experiment in each Dust Study control option and then the 

average across the experiments was calculated for each control option. Because the ratio was 

estimated before any cleaning practice was performed, the difference between verification and 

non-verification cleaning in the work room had no effect. Thus, the final ratios were estimated 

by taking the geometric mean across control options 1 and 2 (both with vertical plastic) and 

control options 3 and 4 (both without vertical plastic. The resulting adjustment factors, 

summarized in Table D-14, are applied to the post-work work room loadings to estimate the 

associated adjacent room loadings. 

Table D-14. Adjacent Room Adjustment Factors 

Control Option Efficiency 

With vertical plastic 0.0045 

Without vertical plastic 0.0047 

D.2.9. Exposure from Window Sills 

In the Dust Study, samples were taken both on the floor and on the window sill after renovation 

experiments (US EPA 2007a). The window sills loadings tended to be much higher than the floor 

loadings, suggesting exposure to the window sills should be included in the exposure analysis. 

First, the ratio between the sill loading and the floor loading in the post-work experiment phase 

was estimated for each Dust Study experiment. The average across all the different experiments 

gave a multiplier of 3.86. Thus, in the Approach, the sill loadings are estimated by multiplying 

the rest-of-renovation loadings by 3.86. 

No literature exists describing the relative ingestion from window sills versus floor dust for 

either children or adults. In lieu of this information, the estimated ratio between the typical 

window sill surface area and the floor area of public and commercial buildings was used. 

Assuming that the room is 20% glass (see Appendix C.2.5) and that the windows are of constant 

height, then the windows extend over 20% of the perimeter. Assuming 4” sills and varying the 

overall square footage of the room from 200 to 10,000 ft2, the sill to floor ratio is between 0.2% 

and 2%. Thus, a representative value of 1% was selected, and it was assumed the exposure ratio 

between sill and floor is the same as the ratio in square footage. Thus, the total loading 

exposure is estimated as: 

*"	
+STU /H1 = K@V--0 × *"	
+@V--0 + K>;VV × *"	
+>;VV
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*"	
+STU /H1 = 0.99 × *"	
+@V--0 + 0.01 × 3.86 × *"	
+@V--0

 where: 
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Loadingexp ave = Average lead dust loading the person is exposed to 

in the 

 renovated building (μg/ft2) 

Loadingfloor = Lead loading on the floor in the renovated building

(μg/ft2) 

Loadingsill = Lead loading on the window sills in the renovated 

building 

 (μg/ft2

) 

fracfloor = The fraction of the ingestion of dust that is from 

floors 

fracsill = The fraction of the ingestion of dust that is from 

sills 

D.3. References for Appendix D 

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implosion on airborned particulate matter in an Urban community. Journal of the Air 

and Waste Management Association 54(10): 1256-1264.

Capouch S. (2011). Personal Communication by email between Heidi Hubbard of ICF 

International and Scott Capouch, Construction Project Manager and Professional 

Engineer with 10 years of experience, of US NIEHS. Title of email: Lead Paint Removal – 

estimating info. February 2, 2011. 

Farfel M; Orlova A; Lees P; Rohde C; Ashley P; Chisolm J. (2003). A study of urban housing 

demolitions as sources of lead in ambient dust: demolition practices and exterior dust 

fall. Environmental Health Perspectives 111(1128-1234). 

Farfel M; Orlova A; Lees P; Rohde C; Ashley P; Chisolm Jr. J. (2005). A study of urban housing 

demolition as a source of lead in ambient dust on sidewalks, streets, and alleys. Environ 

Res 99(2): 204-213. 

Grinshpun et al (2002). Efficiency of Final Cleaning for Lead-Based Paint Abatement in Indoor 

Environments. Applied Occupational and Environmental Hygiene. Volume 17. Issue 3. 

Iyiegbuniwe E; Conroy L; Scheff P. (2006). Emission factors development for the control of lead 

and other metals during bridge paint removal. Environmental Informatics 4:244-261. 

Lee and Domanski. (1999). Development of pollutant release estimates due to abrasive blasting 

for lead paint removal from New York City department of transportation steel bridges, 

Pittsburg, PA, Air and Waste Management Association. 
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Mossman M; Plotner S; Babbitt C; Baker T; Balboni B, Eds. (2009). RSMeans Facilities 

Construction Cost Data. 

Mucha A; Stites N; Evens A; MacRoy P (2009). Lead dustfall from demolition of scattered site 

family housing: Developing a sampling methodology. Environmental Research 109(143-

148). 

Thorpe et al 1999. Measurements of the effectiveness of dust control on cut-off saws used in 

the construction industry. Ann Occup Hyg 43 (7): 443-456. 

US EIA (2003) Commercial Building Energy Consumption Survey (CBECS). Available online at: 

http://www.eia.gov/emeu/cbecs/cbecs2003/public_use_2003/cbecs_pudata2003.html 

US EPA. (1998). Risk analysis to support standards for lead in paint, dust, and soil. Appendix G: 

Health effects associated with exposure to lead and internal lead doses in humans. 

(Report No. EPA 747-R-97-006). Washington, DC: US Environmental Protection Agency, 

Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics. Available online at: 

http://www.epa.gov/lead/pubs/toc.pdf. 

US EPA. (2007a). Draft Final Report on Characterization of Dust Lead Levels After Renovation, 

Repair, Painting Activities. Prepared for EPA’s Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics 

(OPPT). Available at: http://www.epa.gov/lead/pubs/duststudy01-23-07.pdf 
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Appendix E. Receptor Building Characteristics 

The dust model required inputs which were either sampled or which used central tendency 

estimates, depending on the available data and on the expected sensitivity of the model results 

on each parameter. The variable values/distributions are discussed further below. 

E.1. Receptor Distances 

For the exterior analysis, the receptors were assumed to be at a series of distances from the 

renovated building. Initial scoping runs were done with receptors spaced at 50 ft, 100 ft, 150 ft, 

200 ft, 300 ft, 450 ft, 650 ft, 900 ft, 1250 ft, and 3500 ft. Inspection of results indicated very low 

air, soil, and dust concentrations at distances past 650 ft. For this Approach, a representative set 

of distances were set at 0ft, 50 ft, 150 ft, 300 ft, 650 ft, and 800 ft. The 0 ft receptor was added 

as a representation of the impacts on interior dust on the renovated building itself; in the model 

runs, it was set at a nominal distance of 5 ft from the building perimeter. 

E.2. Receptor Types 

For the exterior analysis, the receptor types need to cover all P&CBs, child-occupied facilities, 

and residences that might be located near a renovated building. For the exterior analysis, the 

buildings were broken into categories based on expected building size and characteristics of the 

amount of time spent in the building. Buildings need to be included whether they are likely to 

have lead based paint or not, since these receptor buildings are not the source of the 

renovation-related lead dust. The chosen categories included: 

 Agricultural buildings 

 Industrial buildings 

 Commercial/Governmental buildings 

 Schools, and 

 Residences 

For interiors, the renovated and receptor buildings are the same building. The selection of 

building types for that analysis is discussed in Appendix C.2.1. 

E.3. Receptor Vintage 

The vintage of the receptor building helps determine the background air, dust, and soil values to 

use in conjunction with the renovation-derived lead media. In this Approach, the background 

air, dust, and soil values are constant across all the public and commercial buildings owing to a 

general scarcity of more detailed information in the literature. Thus, the receptor vintage is only 
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needed for the residential receptors. For those receptors, the Residential Energy Consumption 

Survey (RECS) was used to estimate the proportion of U.S. homes in each of the analysis vintage 

bins. In estimating the proportion in each bin, the sample weights provided in the survey were 

incorporated to ensure the distribution is nationally representative. The resulting cumulative 

distribution function is shown in Table E-1. 

Table E-1. Residential Building Vintage Cumulative Distribution 

Cumulative Probabilities for Residential Vintage 

Pre-1930 1930to 

1949 

1950 to 

1959 

1960 to 

1979 

Post1979 

0.10 0.17 0.29 0.57 1.00 

E.4. Receptor Ceiling Height and Building Height 

For the exterior analysis, the receptor building ceiling height is needed for the indoor dust 

model, while the building height is needed to select the appropriate AERMOD run from the 

choice of three different receptor heights. To select the ceiling heights, the NIST CONTAM 

example buildings were used. For each building type, the example buildings were used to find a 

representative ceiling heights; because the example buildings do not cover agricultural or 

industrial buildings, warehouses were used as a proxy. 

The number of stories was estimated using the DOE 2005 Residential Energy Consumption 

Survey (RECS) (US EIA, 2005) for residences and from the DOE 2003 Commercial Building Energy 

Consumption Survey (CBECS) (US EIA, 2003) for the public and commercial buildings. The 

surveys provide information about the numbers of buildings in different story bins. The sample 

weights were used to estimate the proportion of buildings that are 1 story, 2 stories, or 3 or 

more stories. The resulting ceiling heights and distribution for number of stories are shown in 

Table E-2. 

Table E-2. Receptor Ceiling Heights and Distribution of Number of Stories 

Receptor Type Ceil. Ht. (m) 

Cumulative Probabilities for 

Height (stories) 

1 2 3 

Agricultural 8.53 1 0 0 

Industrial 8.53 1 0 0 

Commercial / Government 2.74 0.64 0.89 1.00 

Schools 3.35 0.73 0.88 1.00 

Residences 2.44 0.58 0.89 1.00 
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E.5. Receptor Volume 

The receptor volume (needed only for the exterior analysis) was taken from the DOE 2005 

Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS) (US EIA, 2005) for residences and from the DOE 

2003 Commercial Building Energy Consumption Survey (CBECS) (US EIA, 2003)for the public and 

commercial buildings. For CBECS, the different CBECS building types were mapped to the 

analysis building types as shown in Table E-3. CBECS does not separately report building 

parameters for agricultural or industrial buildings, so warehouses were used as a proxy for those 

two building types. 

Table E-3. Mapping from Exterior Approach Building Categories to CBECS Categories 

ICF Categories CBECS Categories 

Agricultural and Industrial 

 '05'='Nonrefrigerated warehouse' 

 '11'='Refrigerated warehouse' 

 '91'='Other' 

Schools '14'='Education' 

Commercial/Governmental 

 '02'='Office' 

 '04'='Laboratory' 

 '06'='Food sales' 

 '07'='Public order and safety' 

 '08'='Outpatient health care' 

 '12'='Religious worship' 

 '13'='Public assembly' 

 '15'='Food service' 

 '16'='Inpatient health care' 

 '17'='Nursing' 

 '18'='Lodging' 

 '23'='Strip shopping mall' 

 '24'='Enclosed mall' 

 '25'='Retail other than mall' 

 '26'='Service' 

The survey reports the square footages, and these were multiplied by the ceiling heights in DOE 

2005 Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS) (US EIA, 2005) for residences and from the 

DOE 2003 Commercial Building Energy Consumption Survey (CBECS) (US EIA, 2003) for the 

public and commercial buildings. The surveys provide information about the numbers of 

buildings in different story bins. The sample weights were used to estimate the proportion of 
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buildings that are 1 story, 2 stories, or 3 or more stories. The resulting ceiling heights and 

distribution for number of stories are shown in Table E-2. 

Table E-2 and converted to cubic meters to estimate the volumes. The sample weights in each 

survey were used when estimating the geometric mean and geometric standard deviation for 

each building type to ensure the distributions are nationally representative. The resulting 

volume distributions are shown in Table E-4 

Table E-4. Receptor Building Characteristics with Probabilities or Distributions 

Receptor Type 

Building Volume (m3) 

GM GSD 

Agricultural 5227 1.94 

Industrial 5227 1.94 

Commercial / Government 1371 2.25 

Schools 2794 1.86 

Residences 391 2.06 

E.6. Air Exchange Rate 

A literature search was conducted to find appropriate air exchange rates for different types of 

public and commercial buildings; a few sources were located that provided information, as 

shown below in Table E-5. However, the IMC and ASHRAE ventilation standards were rejected 

because they reported in units based on occupancy, a variable that is not captured in the 

Approach. All other sources were based on small sample sizes or were based on modeling rather 

than measurements. For this reason, the values from the EPA Exposure Factors Handbook for 

“non-residential buildings” were used for all the public and commercial building types 

(industrial, agricultural, commercial/governmental, and schools) while the values from the EPA 

Exposure Factors Handbook for “residential buildings” was used for residences (US EPA 2011). 

These values are shaded in Table E-5. For consistency across the two categories, the mean and 

standard deviation were used to estimate a normal distribution (as opposed to using the 

geometric mean and geometric standard deviation to estimate a lognormal distribution for 

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Table E-5. Sources Considered for the Air Exchange Rates 

Source Building Category N Mean StDev GM GSD Range 

US EPA 2011 Exposure 

Factors Handbook 

(based on Turk et al., 

1987) 

Non-residential 

buildings 1.5 0.87  

US EPA 2011 Exposure 

Factors Handbook Residential buildings 0.63 0.65 0.46 2.25 

Turk et al 1987 

Educational 7 1.9 0.8 to 3.0 

Office (<100k sf) 8 1.5 0.3 to 4.1 

Office (>100k sf) 14 1.8 0.7 to 3.6 

Library 3 0.6 0.3 to 1.0 

Multiuse 53 1.4 0.6 to 1.9 

Commercial (all) 40 1.5 0.87 0.3 to 4.1 

EPA BASE Study Office buildings 100 1.8 2.1 

Fradella et al., 2005 Warehouse 4 0.6 to 2.8 

IMC Standards 

Findings are reported in 

L/s/person 

Educational 

classroom 15 

Public assembly 

space or theatre 15 

General or office 

conference room 20 

Office building 

office 20 

Hotel, motel, 

resort

15 

ASHRAE Standards 

Findings are reported as 

minimum cfm/person 

Education 7.5-10 

Office 5 

Retail 7.5 

Hotel 5 

Public assembly 7.5-10 

E.7. Penetration Efficiency 

The penetration efficiency has been modeled for particles of various size classes and has been 

measured in a few field studies to be less than one (e.g., Dockery and Spengler, 1981; Freed et 

al. , 1983; Liu and Nazaroff, 2001). However, unlike the above studies, in a field study that 

simultaneously controlled for penetration and deposition, the penetration efficiency (P) was 

found to be near 1 for all size classes (Thatcher and Layton, 1995); a similar result was also 
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reported for PM2.5 for homes in California (Ozkaynak et al. , 1996). Thus, the penetration 

efficiency (P) was set to 1 for the mechanistic model. 

E.8. Deposition Rate 

The deposition rate (DustModelDep) was set to 0.65 h-1 based on information in the Exposure 

Factors Handbook (USEPA, 1997) based on a paper by Wallace (1996). The value for PM10 was 

selected, as most of the suspended particulate in the home is expected to fall within this size 

range. The resuspension rate (Λ) of 1.4 x 10-4 s-1 was taken from values calculated from 

Thatcher and Layton (1995) for particles between 5 μm and 10 μm. 

E.9. Resuspension Rate 

The resuspension rate (R) varies strongly according to what activity is being undertaken in the 

home. Resuspension rates during periods where humans are still or absent are lower than 

during periods of human activity. Vacuuming, in particular, introduces much higher 

resuspension. For the Approach model, an intermediate value was taken from values calculated 

in Layton and Beamer (2009) for homes in the NHEXAS Midwest region (1.4 x 10-4 h-1). This value 

incorporates the increased resuspension rate during an episode when one person was walking 

through the room. 

E.10. Particulate Tracking Rate 

E.10.1.Residences 

The particulate tracking term represents the mass of dust being tracked into a building during a 

day from all occupants who enter the building. For residences, this number was estimated from 

Von Lindern et al. (2003), who measured the amount of particulate deposited on front mats in 

276 houses in two locations near the Bunker Hill Superfund Site. The lead levels reported in the 

paper are expected to be high-end and are not expected to represent general population 

exposures. However, the assumption is made that the rate of accumulation of dust (as opposed 

to the lead in the dust) on doormats is not strongly affected by the location and can be used to 

represent track-in to the receptor locations. 

A distribution was developed by combining the data in the two locations in the 1998 site-wide 

analysis (their Table 4, number 4) and assuming the sample mat was 0.318 m2 (as reported in 

Thatcher and Layton, 1995 for a similar type of analysis). The geometric mean and geometric 

standard deviation were estimated for the pooled data to be 0.0789 g/day and 2.52, 

respectively. Since this represents the amount of lead that remained on the doormat in the 

study, it was divided by the estimated fraction of dirt that remains on a doormat (see Appendix 

E.11) to get a final distribution with geometric mean and geometric standard deviation 0.61 
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g/day and 2.52, respectively. The tracking rate was sampled as part of the Monte Carlo analysis 

with a lognormal distribution. 

E.10.2.Public and Commercial Buildings 

This track in rate in residences was scaled to other types of P&CB using information inferred 

about the number of people per household within the 276 homes, how often those individuals 

entered their home on a given day, and how many people enter a typical P&CB: 

]	
+^&`a =

]	
+A1>;81521 × 
P
	^&`a


P
	A1>;81521

where: 

TrackingRateP&CB = Tracking rate into a public and commercial building

(g/day) 

TrackingRateResidence = Tracking rate into residences (g/day) 

NumEntriesP&CB = Number of people entering the public and 

commercial building each day 

NumEntriesResidence = Number of people entering the residence each day 

Limited information is available within the Von Lindern et al 2003 study on the activity patterns 

of individuals living within those homes. Information on the number of people per household 

and the number of times they entered their home per day was estimated from other data 

sources. The homes were sampled in 1998 from the towns of Smelterville, ID and Kellogg, ID. 

The American Community Survey has information on the number of people per household for 

all cities and towns in the United States. However, this information was not collected in 1998. 

Census data for 1990, 2000, and 2010 on the number of people per household in the State of 

Idaho is also available. This information is consistent with what is reported in Von Lindern et al 

2003, that approximately 84% of the households had less than 3 adults living in the household, 

and approximately 26% of the households had more than 3 adults. Homes with and without 

children were sampled, so the number of people per household rather than the number of 

people per family was chosen as a more appropriate metric. Information from these five data 

sources were averaged together an average value of 2.48 people per household was chosen, as 

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 Table E-6. Estimates of Numer of People Per Household in Smelterville and Kellogg, ID 

Data Source People Per 

Household 

ACS Smelterville. ID 2008-2013 1.97 

ACS Kellogg, ID 2008-2013 2.29 

Idaho US Census 2010 people per household 2.66 

Idaho US Census 2000 people per household 2.69 

Idaho US Census 1990 people per household 2.79 

Average 2.48 

Information on real-time activity patterns of people and how they move into and out of 

buildings is limited. Traditional activity pattern data shows how long individuals spend in 

different microenvironments based on self-reported questionnaires. One study using real-time 

GPS monitors found a difference in exposures for a full time worker who left and entered their 

home one time per day, and a stay-at-home parent who left and returned to their home two 

times per day. (Dons et al 2011). Another study monitored 265 elderly home owners, and found 

that they left and re-entered their homes an average of 2 times per day over 33 months. (Kaye 

et al 2011). For this analysis, it was assumed that each occupant of the residences enters and 

leaves the residence twice a day, so the total number of entries is 


P
	A1>;81521 = 2.48 × 2 = 4.96

Then, the estimates were made for the number of entries into public and commercial buildings 

of different use types. The methodologies are based on a 2010 U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) 

report analyzing door-opening frequency, Energy Saving Impact of ASHRAE 90.1 Vestibule 

Requirements: Modeling of Air Infiltration Through Door Openings (Cho et al., 2010). The 

number of times a PnCB is entered is estimated to be half of the door-opening frequency. 

Table E-7 presents the door-opening frequency per day for each building type. Building sizes are 

calculated using the Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey (CBECS). Peak 

frequencies (persons per hour) are obtained directly from field data or are derived from building 

occupancy estimates. For retail and strip mall stores, customers are assumed to use the 

entrance door two times within 1 hour (once when they enter and once when they leave). 

Therefore, the door-opening frequency during peak hours is twice the occupancy. For all other 

building types, people are assumed to stay longer than 1 hour in the building, and so the peak 

door-opening frequency is equal to the number of occupants. It is assumed that off-peak 

frequency (per hour) is one-tenth of the value during the peak hour for all buildings except for 

restaurants and hospitals, which do not use peak and off-peak hours in their frequency 

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from Energy Saving Impact of ASHRAE 90.1 Vestibule Requirements: Modeling of Air Infiltration 

Through Door Openings (Cho et al., 2010). 

The average daily door-opening frequency is the sum of the frequency for all peak building 

hours and the frequency for all off-peak building hours each day. Because the door-opening 

schedule differs for weekdays and weekends for some buildings, the average door-opening 

frequency is also weighted by day of the week. 

Table E-8 presents estimates for the frequency of entries per day, which are assumed to be half 

of the total door-opening frequency, for each exposure group. A building’s average frequency of 

entries per square foot per day is weighted by its relative prevalence within an exposure group, 

and scaled up to the average building size for the group to estimate average entries per day for 

each exposure group, with the exception of exposure group 2. For exposure group 2, a building’s 

entries per day is estimated without scaling because the size of industrial and agricultural 

buildings is unknown. The derivation of the inputs used to estimate entries for each P&CB is 

described in more detail below. 

E.10.2.1.Office 

The number of workers for small office, medium office, large office, and warehouse buildings 

are based on the Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey (CBECS) data by the Energy 

Information Administration (EIA) (EIA, 2003). 

E.10.2.2.Quick-Service and Sit-down Restaurant 

The number of customers visiting quick-service and sit-down restaurants is derived from a field 

study by Claar et al (1985). Claar et al. (1985) reports an average of 898 daily customers for 

quick service restaurants and 284 daily customers for sit-down restaurants. For quick-service 

restaurants, it is assumed that half of the customers will use the drive-through. Therefore, an 

estimated 449 customers (898/2) visit quick-service restaurants and 284 (568/2) customers visit 

sit-down restaurants daily. If customers enter once and leave once per visit, the door-opening 

frequency for customers is 898 for quick-service and 568 for sit-down restaurants. 

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, the 

average number of employees per establishment is 15.37 for limited-service restaurants and 

20.36 for full-service restaurants (BLS, 2013b; BLS, 2013c). If employees enter and leave the 

restaurant once per day, the door-opening frequency for employees is 30.74 (15.37 * 2) and 

40.72 (20.36 * 2) for quick-service and sit-down restaurants, respectively. 

The average door-opening frequency for quick-service and sit-down restaurants is the sum of 

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E.10.2.3. Strip Mall and Stand-alone Retail 

Field data from Yuill (1996) indicate an average door-opening frequency of 153 openings/hour 

for stand-alone retail stores. If it is assumed that customers do not stay longer than one hour, 

each customer will use the entrance door two times within one hour. Therefore, occupancy is 

estimated to be half of the average door-opening frequency: 76.5. 

The strip mall is assumed to have the same number of people per entrance zone area as the 

stand-alone retail store. Based on the DOE retail prototype, the entrance zone area is about 69.8 

percent of the total store area (U.S. DOE, 2010). The area occupied per person for stand-alone 

retail is determined to be 91.4 ft2 ([69.8% * 10,028 ft2] / 76.5). Therefore, the occupancy for a 

stripmall is 177 (69.8% * 23,223 ft2] / 91.4). 

E.10.2.4. Secondary School 

The number of staff for secondary schools is derived from the CBECS data (EIA, 2003). The 

national average of teacher-to staff ratio in 2009 was 0.505, and the national average of student 

to teacher ratio was 15.4 (U.S. Department of Education, 2012a; U.S. Department of Education, 

2012b). The number of students is estimated using these two ratios, and the total school 

occupancy is the sum of the number of students and staff. 

E.10.2.5. Small and Large Hotel 

Based on the CBECES data, small hotels have an average of 4.82 staff members and 29.7 rooms 

available, and large hotels have an average of 47.5 staff members and 127 rooms available (EIA, 

2003). It is assumed that the hotels have a 65 percent occupancy rate and 1.5 guests stay in 

each room (American Hotel and Lodging Association, 2007). Therefore, approximately 29.0 

guests stay at the small hotel (29.7 * 65% * 1.5) and approximately 124 (127 * 65% * 1.5) stay in 

the large hotel. The occupancy of small and large hotels is the sum of the number of staff and 

guests. 

E.10.2.6. Hospital 

An average of 470 employees work during the main shift for inpatient care facilities (EIA, 2003). 

Because hospital employees work in shifts, the peak and off-peak operating schedule is not 

applied. We assume that staff work 8 hour shifts (i.e. three shifts per day) and that the number 

of staff working the night shift is half the number working the main shift. If each employee 

enters the hospital once and leaves once per day, then the door-opening frequency for workers 

is 2350 ((470 * 2 * 2) + (470 / 2 * 2)). 

An average of 20.82 people are discharged from the hospital per day (U.S. Department of Health 

and Human Services, 2010). It is assumed that the number of people admitted per day is equal 

to the number of people discharged per day. Thus, the door-opening frequency for non-ER 

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In addition, an average of 68.82 people visit the Emergency Department per day and 58.29 

people are discharged daily (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2010). Therefore, 

10.53 people per day are admitted to the hospital from the ER. These 10.53 people are assumed 

to be included in the number of people admitted to the hospital per day; therefore, to avoid 

double-counting, it is assumed that the number of people who are discharged from the ER is 

equal to the number of people who enter. Note that these ER discharges are distinct from the 

20.82 non-ER discharges. Thus, the door-opening frequency for ER patients is 116.58 (58.29 * 2). 

The average door-opening frequency for the hospital is the sum of the frequencies for 

employees, non-ER patients, and ER patients. 

E.10.2.7.Outpatient Health Care 

The average door-opening frequency is estimated to be 123 openings/hour, based on field data 

from Yuill (1996). 

E.10.2.8. Warehouse- Industrial Buildings 

Employee and establishment data for the industrial sector are retrieved from the U.S. Census 

Bureau 2009 County Business Patterns (CBP) and a report that estimated the universe of P&CB 

buildings, the methodology of their report is described in Appendix Q (U.S. Census Bureau, 

2009). The CBP data indicate 12,879,161 employees in the industrial sector. See Appendix Q for 

methods that estimated 2,400,604 industrial buildings. Occupancy is therefore 5.36 people per 

building. 

E.10.2.9. Warehouse- Agricultural Building 

According to the CBP data, there are 153,829 employees in the agricultural sector (U.S. Census 

Bureau, 2009). See Appendix Q for methods that estimated 7,877,314 agricultural buildings. 

Therefore, the occupancy is 0.02 people per building. 

E.10.2.10. Supermarket 

According to the Food Marketing Institute (FMI), median weekly sales and weekly sales per 

transaction are $318,170 and $35.01, respectively (FMI, 2012). This implies an average of 1,298 

customers per day ([$318,170/$35.01]/7), and .028 customers per square foot per day 

(1,298/46,000 ft2

; FMI, 2012). We calculate the customers per day in an 8,314 ft2 supermarket to 

be 234.65 (8,314 ft2*.028). Including an average of 10.94 employees entering the building once 

per day, the total door-opening frequency per day is estimated to be 491.18 ([234.65 + 10.94] * 

2; EIA, 2003). 

It should be noted that some estimations in this analysis make use of older data, such as the 

1996 field-study by Yuill and the 1985 study by Claar et al. Due to industry changes since the 

time of data collection, it is possible that the current average occupancy of the buildings differs 

from the estimates used in this analysis. In addition, the door-opening frequencies for some 
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buildings are likely to be greater than the estimates listed in Table E-7. This is due to additional 

visitors that are not included in the peak occupancy count. For example, hospital visitors, 

apartment visitors, and restaurant food suppliers are not included in occupancy estimates. 

Furthermore, many large hotels frequently host conventions, conferences, and other events 

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Table E-7. Average Door-Opening Frequency for 16 PnCBs 

Building 

Category1 

CBECS 

Average 

Floor 

Area (ft2) 

Number of Peak 

Hours 

Number of OffPeak Hours Peak 

Occupancy 

(persons) 

Peak 

Frequency 

(persons 

per hour) 

Off-Peak 

Frequency 

(persons 

per hour) 

Average 

Frequency Week- per day Deriva

day Week- end Week- day Week- end 

(a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f) (g)=(f) x 0.1 (h) 

SOFF 5,951 3 0 10 0 13.39 13.39 1.3393 38.27 ([5*[(a)(f) + MOFF 71,909 3 0 10 0 171.82 171.82 17.1825 490.93 ([5*[(a)(f) + LOFF 655,409 3 0 10 0 1,487.25 1,487.25 148.7249 4,249.28 ([5*[(a)(f) + OUTP 10,409 11 0 2 0 123.00 123.00 12.3000 984.00 ([5*[(a)(f) + WH 21,603 3 0 10 0 10.26 10.26 1.0255 29.30 ([5*[(a)(f) + WH (Ind.) N/A 3 0 10 0 5.36 5.36 0.5365 15.33 ([5*[(a)(f) + WH (Ag.) N/A 3 3 10 10 0.02 0.02 0.0020 0.08 ([5*[(a)(f) + SUP 8,314 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A 491.18 2*(((((318,1QSR 3,345 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A 928.74 (898*2/2)+ FSR 6,585 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A 608.72 (284*2) + (2SART 10,028 8 8 4 4 76.50 153.00 15.3000 1,285.20 ([5*[(a)(f) + STRIP 23,223 8 8 4 4 177.16 354.33 35.4326 2,976.34 ([5*[(a)(f) + SSCL 37,024 2 0 9 0 235.98 235.98 23.5981 488.82 ([5*[(a)(f) + SHTL 14,990 3 3 13 13 33.77 33.77 3.3768 145.20 ([5*[(a)(f) + LHTL 97,102 3 3 13 13 171.34 171.34 17.1340 736.76 ([5*[(a)(f) + HOS 241,416 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A 2,513.11 (471*2*2) + 1SOFF — Small Office; MOFF — Medium Office; LOFF — Large Office; HOS — Hospital; WH — Warehouse (Ind.=Industrial; Ag.=Agricultural); SUP — Supermarket; QSR — Qu

Service Restaurant; STRIP — Strip Mall; SSCL — Secondary School; OUTP — Outpatient Healthcare; SHTL — Small Hotel; LHTL — Large Hotel; SART — Stand-alone Retail Note: Values may not calculate exactly due to rounding
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Table E-8. Estimated Entries Per Day for Each Building Category 

Building 

Category1 

CBECS 

Average 

Floor Area 

(ft2) 

Exposure 

Group 

Average 

Frequency of 

Entries per ft2

per day 

CBECS Building 

Frequency Building 

Weight 

Weighted 

Entries per ft2

per day2 

CB

F

Building 

Category 

Exposure 

Group 

SOFF 5,951 

1 

0.003215 756,965 

944,624 

80.13% 

0.008863 

MOFF 71,909 0.003414 61,875 6.55% LOFF 655,409 0.003242 4,965 0.53% OUTP 10,409 0.047266 120,819 12.79% WH 21,603 

2 

0.000678 384,012 

10,747,915 

3.57% 

N/A 

WH (Ind.) N/A N/A 2,400,604 22.34% WH (Ag.) N/A N/A 7,877,314 73.29% SUP 8,314 .029539 85,985 0.80% QSR 3,345 

3 

0.138846 78,190 

795,451 

9.83% 

0.067810 

FSR 6,585 0.046218 161,213 20.27% SART 10,028 0.064081 346,625 43.58% STRIP 23,223 0.064081 209,423 26.33% SSCL 37,024 4 0.006601 68,014 68,014 100.00% 0.006601 SHTL 14,990 

5 

0.004843 69,949 

97,447 

71.78% 

LHTL 97,102 0.003794 19,607 20.12% 0.004661 HOS 241,416 0.005205 7,890 8.10% 1SOFF — Small Office; MOFF — Medium Office; LOFF — Large Office; HOS — Hospital; WH — Warehouse (Ind.=Industrial; Ag.=Agricultural); SUP — Supermarket; QSR — 

Service Restaurant; STRIP — Strip Mall; SSCL — Secondary School; OUTP — Outpatient Healthcare; SHTL — Small Hotel; LHTL — Large Hotel; SART — Sta

2For exposure group 2, weighted entries per ft2 per day cannot be calculated because the size of industrial and agricultural buildings is unknown. 

Note: Values may not calculate exactly due to rounding
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Based on the above information, the residential particulate track-in rate distribution was scaled 

for each of the analysis public and commercial building types. The final distributions are shown 

in Table E-9. 

Table E-9. Particulate Tracking Rate for Analysis Receptor Types 

Analysis Receptor Type 

Geometric 

Mean 

(g/day) 

Geometric 

Standard 

Deviation 

Exterior 

Agricultural 1.79 2.52 

Industrial 1.79 2.52 

Commercial/Governmental 61.99 2.52 

Schools 29.91 2.52 

Residences 0.61 2.52 

Interior 

Office, service, outpatient healthcare, and public order/safety 15.45 2.52 

Warehouse, food sales, religious worship, and public assembly 0.52 2.52 

Food service, strip shopping mall, enclosed mall, and retail 

other than mall 100.79 2.52 

Education 29.91 2.52 

Lodging, Nursing, inpatient health care, and laboratory 28.44 2.52 

E.11. Fraction of Dirt Remaining on Floor Mat 

Some fraction of dirt tracked into a building will be deposited on a floor mat near the entry way. 

To estimate this fraction, the Approach uses Thatcher and Layton (1995), which measured the 

difference between particulate accumulation in tracked and untracked areas in the home as well 

as the amount on the front mat. The assumption was made that 75 percent of the home will 

contain tracked dirt, and the other 25 percent consists of corners or other less accessible areas 

in which people do not walk as frequently. Using this assumption and the information about the 

amount of mass on the front mat, the tracked areas of the home, and the untracked areas of the 

home in Thatcher and Layton (1995), an estimated 13 percent of tracked-in mass remains on the 

front mat and 87 percent is carried into the homes. To account for the variability within the 

universe of building types, it was assumed that some buildings have floor mats and some do not. 

In the absence of data for this variable, it was assumed that 50% of all buildings had front mats 

and 50% did not. 

E.12. Percentage of Building that is Carpeted 

The percent of a residence that is carpeted was derived from two different data sources. First, 

data taken from the National Survey of Lead and Allergens in Housing indicate that nearly all 
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homes (over 90%) had some carpeting or rugs in one or more of the rooms sampled (HUD 

2002). The arithmetic mean of the percent of area carpeted was 52% (EPA 2008). 

The second method used a typical home layout and estimated upper and lower bounds of 

typical carpeting based on assigning each room as either carpeted, not carpeted, or having a 

specific probability of being carpeted. Two methods were used to estimate the overall square 

footage of a typical home. The first method used the average whole house volume of 492 m3

presented in the EPA 2011 Exposure Factors Handbook (EPA 2011). Estimates for room volumes 

are available from standard consumer exposure models (EPA 2007), and were scaled up to 

match the 492 m3 whole house volume. Room volumes were divided by 2.59 meters (assuming 

8.5 ft. ceilings) and multiplied by 10.76 to convert from meters squared to feet squared. 

The second method used the generic floor plan for a single home presented in EPA’s 

Formaldehyde Indoor Air Model and estimated total square footage within different room 

types. Both methods assumed that kitchens, bathrooms, and utility rooms are always noncarpeted, that living rooms/dens, bedrooms, and dining rooms are always carpeted, that 

hallway and stair spaces have a 50% chance of being carpeted, and that storage closets, garages, 

and attics have a 25% chance of being carpeted. These methods yielded percent carpeting 

estimates of 57% and 59% (Table E-10), both of which support the estimate derived from HUD 

National Survey of Lead and Allergens data. In the Approach, residences were represented as 

being carpeted 52% of the time and hard surface flooring the other 48% of the time. 

Table E-10. Estimate of Percent Carpet Using a Typical House Layout 

Method 1 

Room Type Room 

Volume 

Room 

Size 

Number 

of 

Rooms 

Total 

Square 

Footage 

Carpet, Non-Carpet, 

Mix 

Percent 

Carpet 

Bedroom 36 150 3 449 Carpet 

57% 

Living Room, Den 48 199 2 399 Carpet 

Bathroom 18 75 2 150 Non-Carpet 

Laundry Room, Utility Room 20 83 2 166 Non-Carpet 

Dining Room 20 83 1 83 Carpet 

Kitchen 36 150 1 150 Non-Carpet 

Hallway, Stairwells, Closets 70 291 1 291 Mix (Assume 50%) 

Storage Closets, Garage, Attic 86 357 1 357 Mix (Assume 25%) 

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Method 2 

Room Type Square Feet Carpet, Non-Carpet, Mix Percent 

Carpet 

Bedrooms (3) 562 Carpet 

59% 

Living Room (1) 203 Carpet 

Bathroom (2.5) 154 Non-Carpet 

Laundry Room (1) 20 Non-Carpet 

Dining Room (1) 145 Carpet 

Kitchen (1) 150 Non-Carpet 

Hallway (3), Stairwells (1) 109 Mix (Assume 50%) 

Storage Closets (3), Garage (1), Attic (0) 489 Mix (Assume 25%) 

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For public and commercial buildings, the Commercial Flooring Maintenance Report (Ciprus, 

2013) was used. The publisher provided estimates of the percentage of different building types 

that are carpeted in the United States. These estimates were used to create cumulative 

distribution functions for the probability a building is carpet or hard surface flooring, as shown in 

Table E-11. These estimates were obtained for the exterior analysis building types only; in the 

interior analysis, the carpeting status is treated as a scenario variable, with separate results 

provided for carpeted and non-carpeted floor types.

Table E-11. Cumulative Probability Distribution For Flooring Type in Public and Commercial 

Buildings and Residences 

Receptor Type 

% Carpet 

All 

Carpet All Floor Data Source 

Agricultural 0.08 1 Cirpus 2013 

Industrial 0.08 1 Cirpus 2013 

Commercial/Governmental 0.45 1 

Cirpus 2013 

Schools 0.27 1 Cirpus 2013 

Residences 0.52 1 HUD 2002 

E.13. Cleaning Frequency 

Cleaning frequency (CleanFreq) represents a particularly sensitive variable, so a literature search 

was undertaken to identify all readily available data sources for residences and P&CBs. 

In residences, there are two sources of data on cleaning frequency reported in the Exposure 

Factors Handbook (USEPA, 2011). The first is the National Human Activity Pattern Survey. One 
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of the questions in the follow-up questionnaire for this Survey was the “frequency that floors 

were swept or vacuumed.” There were 4,663 respondents for this question, although a subset 

of these respondents comprised young children less than 11. Respondents in the top three age 

categories (12-17, 18-64, and >64) were believed to better represent individuals who most often 

clean. Thus, results are broken out by all respondents and respondents over age 11. 

Available survey responses were not a specific frequency, but ranges: nearly every day, three to 

five times a week, once or twice a week, once or twice a month, less often, never, or don’t 

know. In order to estimate distributions of cleaning frequency from the survey, each of these 

ranges was represented by a single point estimate in the middle of the range, as shown below in 

Table 1. For the cases that were unbounded (less often, never, and don’t know), we chose to 

represent the ranges as “once every two months”, “once every year”, and “not available”, 

respectively. All individuals for which data were not available were excluded from the analysis. 

The data from respondents above the age of 11 were used estimate the average, median, and 

standard deviation values are presented in Table E-13-1. 

The second data source on cleaning frequency reported in the Exposure Factors Handbook is the 

National Usage Survey of Household Cleaning Products. Respondents were asked how 

frequently they performed various cleaning tasks. Two of the tasks were cleaning bathroom 

floors and cleaning kitchen floors. These are reasonable surrogates for cleaning frequency of 

floors. The results are shown in Table E-13-1. 

In addition, there are two newer data sources that were not available at the time the 2011 

version of the Exposure Factors Handbook was being compiled. The Michigan Department of 

Community Health initiated a Home-Based Environmental Intervention and Education program 

for Families with Pediatric Asthma in Michigan. 234 respondents were asked how frequently 

the vacuumed their child’s bedroom and other rooms of the home at baseline and after a six 

month intervention. The mean and standard deviation values are reported in Table E-13-1 

(Largo et al 2011). 

As part of the Study of Use of Products and Exposure Related Behavior (SUPERB) study, 

California residents were asked questions about their cleaning habits. The population was 

comprised of two general groups: households with parents of young children and households 

with older adults. Results were further split based on whether the primary cleaner was a man 

or a woman. The mean, standard deviation, median, and 90th percentile values are reported in 

Table E-12 (Moran et al 2012). 

Across these four studies, there is a large range of cleaning frequencies in residences. The 

standard deviations, when available are large compared with the means, indicating significant 
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variability. The means are also larger than the medians, suggesting a larger percentage of 

residences may be cleaned more frequently rather than less frequently. 

Table E-12. Summary of Cleaning Frequencies from Available Data Sources for Residences. Times 

per month 

Data Source and Activity Median Mean Standard 

Deviation 

Exposure Factors Handbook 2011: NHAPS, adults 

only, "vacuum' 8 11.4 8.5 

Exposure Factors Handbook 2011: National 

Usage Survey, Clean kitchen or bathroom floor 4 6 

Moran et al 2012., women, 

houses with young children 

Dry Mop hard 

floors 4 7.2 7.6 

Wet Mop hard 

floors 4 6.4 8.4 

Sweep Hard 

floors 12 14.2 11.5 

Vacuum hard 

floors 4 7.3 6.9 

Vacuum carpet 5 9.0 8.0 

Moran et al 2012., women, 

older adults 

Dry Mop hard 

floors 4 5.4 5.6 

Wet Mop hard 

floors 4 4.5 5.6 

Sweep Hard 

floors 4 8.6 8.0 

Vacuum hard 

floors 4 5.2 5.8 

Vacuum carpet 4 4.7 4.7 

Largo et al 2011 Michigan 

Vacuuming floor 

in child's 

bedroom 

3.2 2.1 

Vacuuming floor 

in other rooms 3.8 1.9 

In public and commercial building, sources of cleaning frequency data include the ISSA, the 

worldwide cleaning industry association, the GSA, and the cleaning schedules from various 

universities. The information contained in the ISSA’s CompuClean calculator suggests that the 

maximum cleaning frequency of public and commercial building floors would be 260 days per 

year, every working day, or approximately 5 days per week. This value is generally supported by 

information available in GSA standard leases, which apply to most government buildings. Other 

types of buildings, including retail space and warehouses, may be cleaned more or less 

frequently for various reasons. However, data is generally not available for these types of 

buildings. Readily available information on cleaning frequency is summarized in Table E-13. 
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Table E-13. Summary of Cleaning Frequencies from Available Data Sources for Public and 

Commercial Buildings 

Data Source Narrative 

Cleanings 

per 

Week 

The Carpet and Rug Institute’s Carpet Maintenance 

Guidelines For Commercial Applications 

lower traffic areas: vacuum 2 to 3 d/wk 2 

The Carpet and Rug Institute’s Carpet Maintenance 

Guidelines For Commercial Applications 

high traffic area: vacuum daily 5 

GSA Property Managers Book, COF sweep, mop, or scrub floor; thoroughly 

vacuum all carpet daily 

5 

GSA Standard Lease, Section 6-07 sweep, spot vacuum carpets; clean 

restroom fixtures, floors daily 

5 

ISSA 540 Cleaning Times As Used in CompuClean 

v10 

Carpet spot cleaning, vacuuming, 260 

d/y 

5 

Purdue University vacuum carpet, dust mop floors weekly 1 

Purdue University conference rooms: vacuum carpet, 

dust mop floors weekly 

1 

Purdue University libraries: vacuum carpet 2 d/wk 2 

Purdue University Auditoriums: Vacuum 3 d/wk 3 

Purdue University classrooms and conference rooms: 

daily (mopping floors; spot vacuuming) 

5 

Purdue University dust mop floors 2 d/wk; wet mop 1

d/wk 

1 

Purdue University vacuum, dust mop floors 3 d/wk 3 

Purdue University Childcare facility: Vacuum and dust 

mop daily 

5 

University of Minnesota vacuum and mop 1 d/wk 1 

University of Minnesota classrooms and conference rooms: 

vacuum and mop 1 d/wk 

1 

University of Minnesota autoscrub, mop public floors daily 5 

Kettering University vacuum, dust/spot mop hard floors in 

office suites & lounges 2 d/wk 

2 

Kettering University general cleaning 5 d/wk (vacuum, mop) 5 

Tulane University daily (mopping floors; spot vacuuming) 5 

ISSA 540 Cleaning Times As Used in CompuClean 

v10 Healthcare 

365 days per year 7 

ISSA 540 Cleaning Times As Used in CompuClean 

v10 Lodging 

365 days per year 7 

Suffield, CT Green Cleaning Program School: Clean classrooms 3 d/wk 3 

Stratford, CT Green Cleaning Program Statement School: Clean classrooms daily 5 

ISSA 540 Cleaning Times As Used in CompuClean 

v10 Schools 

School: 180 d/y 2 

An overall range of cleaning frequencies was constructed based on available data and matched 

to the different building types. To match each one, a central estimate was found using the most 

commonly reported cleaning frequency for that building type in the literature. Then each 
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building type was assigned to other surrounding frequency bins according to the approximate 

range in the literature. In order to complete the distribution, the probability that a given 

building is in each category must be assigned. These weights were assigned assuming the central 

frequency had the highest probability and the probabilities tapered linearly in both the lower 

and higher frequency directions. The distributions are shown in Table E-14. 

Table E-14. Cleaning Frequency Distributions by Building Type 

Analysis Receptor Type 

Cleaning Frequency 

Every 

working 

day (5 

days/week) 

Every third 

day 

(approx) (2 

days/week) 

Every 

week (1 

day/week) 

Every 

other 

week (1 

day/2 

weeks) 

Every 

fourth 

week (1 

day/4 

weeks) 

Exterior 

Agricultural 0.1 0.3 0.7 0.9 1.0

Industrial 0.2 0.6 0.8 0.9 1.0

Commercial/Governmental 0.2 0.6 0.8 0.9 1.0

Schools 0.4 0.6 0.8 0.9 1.0 

Residences 0.1 0.3 0.7 0.9 1.0 

Interior 

1 Office, outpatient healthcare, 

and public order/safety 0.2 0.6 0.8 0.9 1.0

2 Warehouse, food sales, 

religious worship, and public 

assembly 

0.2 0.6 0.8 0.9 1.0

3 Food service, service, strip 

shopping mall, enclosed mall, 

and retail other than mall 

0.4 0.6 0.8 0.9 1.0 

4 Education 0.4 0.6 0.8 0.9 1.0 

5 Lodging, Nursing, inpatient 

health care, and laboratory 0.4 0.6 0.8 0.9 1.0 

E.14. Cleaning Efficiency 

Cleaning efficiency (CleanEff) has been found to vary according to the type of flooring (carpeting 

versus hard floor) and the total amount of lead on the floor. After an exposure event 

introducing more lead into the environment, the fraction of lead removed from a carpet will 

depend on the cleaning iteration, with higher efficiencies after the first cleaning iteration and 

lower efficiencies after multiple iterations due to electrostatic interactions which trap the 

particles within the carpet. For hard surfaces, the efficiency will depend on the total particle 
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loading on the floor, with higher efficiencies for higher loadings. Once higher loadings associated 

with a high exposure event have been cleaned away, the efficiencies associated with routine 

cleaning are expected to be low. The RRP Approach derived cleaning efficiency equations based 

on the Clemson Environmental Technologies Laboratory (2001) efficiency data (USEPA, 2008a). 

For the hard floor equation, the efficiency depends on the loading values (in μg/ft2) according to 

the equation: 

Absolute cleaning efficiency = 0.113 * ln(Loading) - 0.555 

For the carpet equation, the efficiency depends on the cleaning iteration according to the 

equation:

Absolute cleaning efficiency = -0.430 * ln(CleanIteration) + 0.658 

These equations are appropriate for high loadings after an interior renovation event. These 

equations are retained for this modeling effort. 

However, because these equations are not applicable for low loadings or for numerous routine 

cleaning iterations, it is necessary to define a lower limit on the efficiency to prevent predictions 

of negative efficiencies. A lower limit of 6 percent removal was selected for hard floors (at low 

loadings) and 15 percent efficiency was set for carpets (after numerous iterations). These values 

were based on the minimum cleaning efficiency reported for the final round of cleaning in the 

Clemson data. 

E.15. References for Appendix E 

American Hotel & Lodging Association. 2007. The 2007 Lodging Industry Profile. Washington, 

DC. Available at: http://www.ahla.com/uploadedFiles/AHLA/Press_Room/ 

Lodging_Industry_Profile/LIP2007.pdf 

Cho,H., Gowri, K. and Liu, B. 2010. Energy Saving Impact of ASHRAE 90.1 Vestibule 

Requirements: Modeling of Air Infiltration through Door Openings. U.S. Department of 

Energy, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. 

Claar, C.N., R.P. Mazzucchi, and J.A. Heidell. 1985. The Project on Restaurant Energy 

Performance—End-use Monitoring and Analysis, PNL-5462, Pacific Northwest National 

Laboratory, Richland, WA. 

Dockery, D; Spengler, J. (1981). Indoor-outdoor relationships of respirable sulfates and particles. 

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Energy Information Administration (EIA), 2003 Commercial Buildings Energy 

ConsumptionSurvey. Available at: http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cbecs/ 

Food Marketing Institute (FMI). 2012, Supermarket Facts: Industry Overview 2012. Accessed 

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Freed J; Chambers T; Christie W; Carpenter C. (1983). Methods for assessing exposure to 

chemical substances: Volume 2. (Report No. EPA- 560/5-83/015 pp: 70-73.)Washington 

DC, Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics (OPPT). 

HUD (U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development). (2002). National Survey of Lead 

and Allergens in Housing: Final Report, Revision 6. Office of Lead Hazard 

Control. October 31. Available at: 

http://www.hud.gov/offices/lead/techstudies/survey.cfm#natsurvey 

Largo et al 2011. Healthy Homes University: A home-based environmental intervention and 

education program for families with Pediatric Asthma in Michigan. Public Health 

Reports. 2011 Supplement 1. Volume 126 (14-26). 

Layton D; Beamer P. (2009). Migration of contaminated soil and airborne particles to 

indoordust. Envir. Science and Technol. 43: 8199-8205. 

Moran et al 2012. Frequency and longitudinal trends of household care product use. 

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Liu D; Nazaroff W. (2001). Modeling pollutant penetration across building envelopes. 

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Ozkaynak H; Xue J; Spengler J; Wallace L; Pellizzari E; Jenkins P. (1996). Personal exposure 

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Thatcher T; Layton D. (1995). Deposition, rsuspension, and penetration of particles within a 

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U.S. Census Bureau. 2009. 2009 County Business Patterns. Available at: 

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Farmers, Ranchers, and Other Agricultural Managers. Accessed October 18, 2013. 

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U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). 2013b. Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages. U.S. 

total, full-service restaurants, private ownership. Accessed October 18, 2013. Available 

at: http://www.bls.gov/cew/ 

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total, limited-service restaurants, private ownership. Accessed October 18, 2013. 

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Education Statistics 2011, Table 86: Staff employed in public elementary and secondary 

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Education Statistics 2011, Table 71: Teachers, enrollment, and pupil/teacher ratios in 

public elementary and secondary schools, by state or jurisdiction: Fall 2009. Accessed 

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von Lindern I; Spalinger S; Bero B; Petrosyan V; von Braun, M. (2003). The influence of soil 

remediation on lead in house dust. Sci. Total Environ 303(1-2): 59-78. 

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Association 46(2): 98-126. 

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Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Inc., Atlanta, GA. 
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Appendix F. Soil and Hard Surface Parameters 

Several soil and hard surface parameters are needed to estimate the soil and hard surface loading 

concentration time series. The following Appendix details the sources for these parameters. 

F.1. Runoff Removal Frequency (RainFreqDays) 

The runoff removal frequency was needed for each of the nine climate regions. A report by the US DOT 

and US GS (2010) reports the average number of rain events per year in climate regions in the US, where 

an event is defined as a rain event resulting in at least 0.1 inches of rain and at least 6 hours between 

events. The data were digitized using GetData® software and 365 days per year was divided by the mean 

days between events to get the average number of events per year. The 15 climate regions correspond 

to US EPA “rain zones” and do not exactly match the climate regions. The rain zones were averaged, 

where appropriate, to approximately map the rain zones to the 9 climate regions. The resulting days 

between rain events is shown in Table F-1. 

Table F-1. Days between rain events

Climate Region Name Days Between Rain 

Events (days) 

1 (East North Central) 9 

2 (Northeast) 7 

3 (Northwest) 8 

4 (South) 13 

5 (Southeast) 7 

6 (Southwest) 16 

7 (West) 22 

8 (West North Central) 14 

9 (Central) 7 

F.2. Runoff Removal Efficiency (TrackInRainEff) 

During each rain event, some percentage of the standing dirt on the hard surface will be 

removed. It was assumed that 50 percent of the dirt layer was removed from the patio during 

each rain event (Batroney et al., 2010). This does not apply to soil. It was assumed that once 

present in the soil, lead persists throughout the duration of the exposure event. 
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F.3. Dust Layer Density (TrackInDensity) 

McKone et al. (2001) report a typical soil density of 2,600 kg/m3. The particles on the hard surface will 

be a mix of particles from the renovation and soil particles. In the Approach, the hard surface particle 

density was set equal to the soil density owing to a lack of more specific hard surface data. 

F.4. Dust Layer Depth (TrackInDepth) 

The thickness of the surface soil layer assumed in TRIM.FaTE model simulations performed for EPA 

OAQPS ranges from 1 cm for non-agricultural soils to 20 cm for tilled agricultural soils (USEPA, 2009a). In 

order to be adequately conservative, a yard surface soil layer thickness of 1.5 cm was assumed to 

remain consistent with the methodology used to collect soil samples for comparison to the soil lead 

hazard standards. 

For an outdoor hard surface, the layer thickness represents the thickness of the dirt layer on top of the 

hard surface. No appropriate value could be identified in the literature. Based on professional judgment, 

a value of 1 mm was selected for the hard surface layer thickness. 

F.5. Dust Layer Porosity (TrackInPorosity) 

McKone et al. provided an estimate for the soil porosity of 20 percent or 0.2. In reality, the dust 

layer on the hard surface may be more or less porous than the soil. In the absence of further 

data sources for hard surfaces, the soil value was used in the Approach. 

F.6. References for Appendix F 

Batroney T; Wadzuk B; Traver, R. (2010) A Parking Deck's First Flush. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, 

15(2): 123-128. 

McKone T; Bodnear A; Hertwich E. (2001). Development and evaluation of state-specific landscape data 

sets regional multimedia models. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Report No. LBNL43722. 

US DOT and USGS. (2010). Methods for Development of Planning-Level Estimates of Stormflow at 

Unmonitored Stream Sites in the Conterminous United States. Office of Project Development 

and Environmental Review. Publication No. FHWA-HEP-09-005. Washington, DC. Available 

online at: http://webdmamrl.er.usgs.gov/g1/FHWA/FHWA-HEP-09-005/FHWA-HEP-09-005.pdf 

U.S. EPA (2009a). Risk and Technology Review (RTR) risk assessment methodologies: For review by the 

EPA’s Science Advisory Board. Case Studies – MACT I petroleum refining sources & portland 
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cement manufacturing. (Report No. EPA-452/R-09-006.) Research Triangle Park, NC: U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards. 
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Appendix G. AERMOD Variables 

G.1. Meteorology 

The methods used to process meteorology data for use in the AERMOD runs of the current analysis are 

discussed in Appendix G.1.1, while the additional details about the sources of meteorology-related data 

are discussed in Appendix G.1.2. 

G.1.1. Methods for Estimating Meteorological Conditions 

To account for the fact that renovation may occur in any part of the country, an analysis was performed 

to determine sets of meteorological conditions that together would be representative of the entire US.

Similar methodology has been used previously for other EPA research, including modeling near roadway 

pollutants for the Office of Transportation and Air Quality (US EPA, 2011). 14 stations were selected 

from 9 climate regions in the U.S. 

EPA provides guidance for the use of meteorological data for air quality dispersion modeling in Appendix 

W to 40 CFR Part 51. The guidance specifies that the meteorological data selected should be spatially 

and temporally representative of the transport and dispersion conditions in the area of concern. The 

meteorological data used in this public and commercial buildings analysis must be representative of the 

conditions at the sources considered, yet general enough to represent broad regions. While it would be

ideal to formulate an entirely objective procedure for use in evaluating representativeness, no generally 

accepted analytical or statistical technique is available to determine representativeness of 

meteorological data (US EPA, 2000). Determining how well a given station represents the encompassing 

climate region is more difficult than determining how well a station represents a project site. Although 

various methods could be used for this analysis, the following Approach was chosen. 

G.1.1.1. Selecting Representative Stations 

As a starting point, the meteorology station(s) for each climate region were selected based on an 

analysis previously performed (US EPA, 2011). In that 2011 analysis, as discussed in further detail in

Appendix G.1.2, 392 active meteorological stations were identified in each climate region. To obtain 

hourly mixing heights, the (1) hourly surface, (2) twice-daily upper-air, and (3) monthly 

micrometeorological data were input into the AERMET preprocessor. 

Next, the ventilation factor (VF) was calculated for each station. The VF is a combination of wind speed 

and mixing height that relates pollution dispersion potential to the local setting. More specifically, the 

VF is defined as the product of a representative wind speed and local mixing height and effectively 
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represents a measurement of the dispersion flux through an idealized box around a source of pollution.

In area per unit time, VF increases with either increasing mixing height or increasing wind speed, thus 

increasing the idealized volume in which pollutants are allowed to mix and dilute. In US EPA (2011), in 

order to estimate the VF consistently, all hourly surface wind data were translated to a standard 2-m 

height by assuming a standard logarithmic wind profile. This corrects measurements made at different 

heights between stations to a single value to make inter-comparisons between datasets viable. It also 

establishes a consistent height within the mixing layer to use for comparisons. This height-corrected 

wind speed was multiplied by the AERMET-determined hourly mixing height, which was taken as the 

greater of the convective and mechanical mixing height values. 

Station representativeness was determined based on the range of VFs at a station relative to that of the 

encompassing climate region. This method ensures that the selected single station adequately 

represents the range of dispersive conditions present in the mixing layer in a region. A time series of 

hourly VFs was developed in US EPA (2011) spanning the full year of hourly records, minus any missing 

hours, for each station. A small number of stations were not used due to large amounts of missing data. 

Specific quantiles of the cumulative distribution function (CDF) of each annual VF data series (the 5th

, 

25th, 50th, 75th, and 95th percentiles) were determined and then averaged for each station, creating a 

mean and standard deviation in the annual estimate of the 5th, 25th, 50th, 75th, and 95th percentile values 

of VF for each station. 

After each station was processed, the stations in a climate region were aggregated to estimate the 

means and standard deviations of climate-region-wide 5th, 25th, 50th, 75th, and 95th percentile VFs. 

Finally, the quantile data (xj) from each station in each climate region (g) was individually compared to 

that of the aggregate of all stations in the region (h), using a χ

2

-type analysis. The station that exhibited 

the smallest value of χ

2

 was taken as representative of the region as a whole. This type of test is used to 

compare two sets of data to determine whether they are drawn from the same parent distribution. Its 

application is appropriate in this case because the statistic is being used in a relative sense to compare 

between subsets of the full distribution. 

For the current analysis, the same representative stations identified in US EPA (2011) were used. In 

addition, for the five climate regions bordering the Pacific or Atlantic Oceans or the Gulf of Mexico, if the 

selected station was near a coastline, then an additional station was included that was inland, or vice 

versa. More specifically, the additional station selected in each coastal region (a) was well inland if the 

first station was coastal (or relatively coastal if the first station was inland), (b) was in a different state 

from the first station, (c) experienced wind conditions that were significantly different from the first 
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station, and (d) had high-frequency wind data available for the target period. Note that the χ

2

 values 

were not considered for these additional stations. 

Table G-1 shows the selected surface station(s) for each climate region, along with their corresponding 

upper-air stations and the χ

2

 values determined from comparing its CDFs of VF values against the entire 

climate region’s CDFs of VFs. Figure G-1 shows a map of the selected stations. Each of the χ

2

 values for 

the first station selected per region was much less than one, indicating good relative agreement 

between the sets of VFs. The χ

2

 values for four of the five additional selected stations were greater than 

one, though the χ

2

 values were not considered in selecting these additional stations. 

G.1.1.2. Processing the Data from the Selected Stations 

The 2007 through 2010 data (the analysis period for this project) for these 14 stations were then 

reprocessed for the purposes of the current dispersion and deposition analyses. The hourly surface 

meteorological data were re-downloaded in a format friendlier to AERMET than the format used in the 

above analysis to select the 14 stations (see Appendix G.1.2 for more information). Annual 

determinations of surface wetness were reevaluated using additional data. Then, several reprocessing 

methods were used to reduce the number of calm and missing wind values as well as the number of 

missing mixing height values, increasing the number of hours for which AERMOD can produce dispersion 

and deposition data. 

The first method of replacing calm or missing wind data used the AERMINUTE preprocessor (version 

11325 11/21/2011) with one-minute wind observations in order to reduce the number of calm winds 

compared to the typical hourly wind reports. The source of these one-minute data is discussed in 

Appendix G.1.2. One input to AERMINUTE is the date on which the ice-free wind sensor (i.e., sonic 

anemometer) was installed, as the sensitivity of the instrumentation dictates how AERMINUTE 

processes light wind speeds. Table G-1 provides these installation dates. Note that the Camp Springs, 

MD station in the Northeast climate region is not an ASOS station, so AERMINUTE was not used for that 

station. Using AERMINUTE outputs when running AERMET (version 13350; 12/16/2013) significantly 

reduced the occurrences of calm winds in most of the data, and it also reduced the number of missing 

wind observations. AERMET was also run using settings that randomized hourly wind direction 

observations (which are typically reported in tens of degrees) and avoided substitutions of missing cloud 

cover data (which was known to be coded incorrectly in the version of AERMET being used). 

After substitutions of wind data using AERMINUTE, the second method of replacing missing data used 

methods similar to EPA’s guidelines for replacing missing meteorology data, as described in US EPA 

(1992). The data replacement methods used here generally followed EPA’s “objective” steps, but those 

objective methods do not necessarily replace every instance of missing data – in these cases, EPA 
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suggests some subjective steps which rely to a large extent on professional judgment. Additional steps

were developed for this analysis that identify reasonable replacements for missing data, to the extent

that the existing data allows. In general, variables were replaced so that an average of nearby hours is 

preferred, but otherwise the same hour of day from other neighboring days were used. This method 

was applied to missing mechanical mixing heights (during non-convective conditions), convective mixing

heights (during convective conditions), and temperature data. For wind data, missing values were 

replaced by first preferring an average of nearby hours, and when that was not successful the average 

was taken of other nearby hours. The averaging process for wind direction values used the scalar 

components of the wind vector. Missing convective mixing heights during non-convective hours, 

mechanical mixing heights during convective hours, and surface heat fluxes (which is the parameter 

used to determine whether or not the boundary layer is convective) were not replaced. 

The resulting wind roses for the 14 selected stations are shown in Figure G-2. Note that wind roses 

indicate both wind speed and direction, while the VFs used in US EPA (2011) to select the stations only 

include wind speed. Thus, elements of variation between stations in each region (e.g., wind direction 

patterns) will occur that are not included in the representativeness determination. 

G.1.2. Sources of Meteorological Data for AERMOD 

In a previous study (US EPA, 2011), meteorological data were collected from stations around the US and

grouped into climate regions. The station data were then analyzed to select one to two stations per 

climate region. This Appendix gives further details about the sources of the meteorological data used to 

select the final 14 stations used in the current analysis and then to process the data for those stations 

for use in this analysis. 

G.1.2.1. Surface Meteorological Data for Station Selection 

The Quality Controlled Local Climatological Data (QCLCD) dataset used for this analysis is available from 

NOAA and covers thousands of surface meteorological stations within the US at an hourly resolution and

includes all fields necessary for processing in the AERMOD Meteorological Processor (AERMET) and 

running AERMOD (NOAA, 2011a). However, no pre-existing tools were found capable of translating the 

QCLCD data into a form AERMET can read. Thus, scripts were developed in-house for US EPA (2011) to 

translate this QCLCD surface data in both of its formats (the QCLCD data underwent a change in format 

in June 2007) into the Solar and Meteorological Surface Observational Network (SAMSON) format 

accepted by AERMET. Some of the differences in fields prior to and subsequent of the format change are

noted in the QCLCD update documentation (NOAA, 2011b). 

To reduce processing time and meet the objectives of this project, only the 392 stations in the QCLCD 

dataset that were active during the 2006 through 2010 modeling period and within U.S. Census 
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urbanized areas were considered. Urbanized areas are defined as densely settled territories that contain 

50,000 or more people each (US Census Bureau, 2011). Core-based statistical areas (CBSAs) or 

metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) were not considered due to the fact that some CBSAs are MSAs 

(those containing at least one urbanized areas) while others are not (those containing one urban cluster 

of at least 10,000 people), and, unlike urbanized areas, CBSAs can contain whole counties (US Census 

Bureau, 2011). To further reduce processing time, the US EPA (2011) analysis to select stations 

representative of climate regions covered a three-year time frame (2008 through 2010), although the 

final processing for use in the current dispersion modeling analysis utilized years 2007 through 2010. 

Each of the lower 48 states (except Delaware) and Washington, DC contained at least one of these 392 

surface stations. As an example of the distribution, four states (New Hampshire, South Dakota, Vermont, 

and Wyoming) and Washington, DC, each contained one station, while California contained 48 stations. 

Each of the nine climate regions contained at least 10 stations – ranging from 10 stations in Climate 

Region 9 (the Central region, covering the Ohio Valley) to 84 stations in Climate Region 5 (the Southeast 

region). 

An additional input necessary for AERMET execution and for VF calculation is the anemometer height. 

For ASOS stations, these values were taken from a NOAA dataset (NOAA, 2011d) containing 

anemometer heights from 2009. Roughly 75 percent of the stations (298) considered here were 

included in this table. All remaining stations, as well as three stations where the anemometer height was 

reported as 0 m above ground level, were assumed to be at a standard 10 m height. 

G.1.2.2. Surface Meteorological Data for the Current Analysis 

When the data for the 14 selected meteorological stations were reprocessed for the purposes of the 

current analysis, the hourly surface data were redownloaded in Integrated Surface Hourly format (NCDC,

2013b), which works better with AERMET than does the QCLCD data used in the station selection 

analysis. The one-minute wind data used for the current analysis were obtained from NOAA (NOAA, 

2013a). 

G.1.2.3. Upper-Air Meteorological Data 

Upper-air data was collected for US EPA (2011) from NOAA’s ESRL database (NOAA, 2011c). There were 

approximately 79 upper-air stations in the “lower 48” states active during the 2006 through 2010 period 

used to select representative stations. The upper-air station network has less coverage than for surface 

stations. While most states have an upper-air station (some have multiple), nine states do not. Some 

surface stations are more than 100 km from the nearest upper-air station, and the nearest upper-air 

station might not have the same geographic and climate characteristics as the surface station. Because

of these differences between the surface and upper-air datasets, each surface station was first matched 
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with its closest upper-air station. Then, each proximate match was scrutinized to be sure that the 

surface station and upper-air station shared similar geographic and meteorological characteristics. For a 

surface station that did not share these characteristics with its proximate upper-air station, that upperair station was replaced with the closest upper-air station that did share these characteristics. For 

example, a coastal surface station was matched with a coastal upper-air station even if an inland upperair station was physically closer. This resulted in 59 upper-air stations being matched with the 392 

surface stations. This pairing was chosen to appropriately capture regional dispersion characteristics. 

The same upper-air station data were used for the current analysis. 

G.1.2.4. Micrometeorological Data for Station Selection 

Surface characteristics surrounding the surface meteorological station are also required for AERMET 

processing. AERMET requires the land use distributions of the study sites in order to estimate values of 

three important surface characteristics (surface roughness length, albedo, and Bowen ratio). Surface 

roughness length contributes to AERMOD’s estimations of surface turbulence and boundary layer 

stability. Albedo affects the amount of solar radiation absorbed by the surface, which affects boundary 

layer height and stability. The Bowen ratio describes how much surface heat is lost to the boundary 

layer through conduction and convection versus through evaporation, which affects the height and 

stability of the convective boundary layer. 

AERMOD’s land-use preprocessor, AERSURFACE, was used to calculate the distribution of land use types 

surrounding each station using the 1992 National Land Cover Database (NLCD) (USGS, 2010). In order for

AERSURFACE to tailor its calculations for a specific location, it also requires information on the location’s 

climate (i.e., snowiness, season definitions, and aridity). Using NCDC climate normal contour maps, 

monthly season assignments were made for US EPA (2011) based on median frost/freeze dates and 

monthly average temperatures, the snowiness assignment was made based on average snow-day data, 

and aridity was determined using annual average rainfall data. AERSURFACE has the ability to calculate

separate surface roughness for a maximum of 12 directional sectors out to a distance of up to 5 km, and 

these sector roughness values are then assigned to each hour of modeling based on that hour’s wind 

direction. The maximum number of sectors, evenly dispersed, for every station (12 30-degree sectors 

starting with due North) along with the recommended default distance of 1 km, was used. In the US EPA 

(2011) analysis, all stations were assumed to have “average” wetness for moisture flux calculations. 

Each station was also characterized as an airport station in the preliminary analysis, which lowers the 

surface roughness values for the commercial/industrial/ transportation land cover type (which is 

otherwise assumed to have higher surface roughness values representative of a developed area with 

buildings). This is a reasonable assumption because most of the 392 surface stations are at airports. 

Using all of these data, AERSURFACE used look-up tables to identify the values of the three surface 

characteristics (see Appendix A of the AERSURFACE User’s Guide [USEPA, 2008b]). 
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G.1.2.5. Micrometeorological Data for the Current Analysis 

To use data from the 14 selected station pairs in AERMOD runs, the wetness and airport determinations 

were revisited to tailor them to the surface station sites. For wetness, the 2007 through 2010 annual 

rainfall amounts for each station were compared to the climate normal annual rainfall amount from the 

closest station in the 1981-2010 30-year NCDC climate normal dataset. For a given year, if a station 

received at least 25 percent more rainfall than the climatological normal, it was processed in 

AERSURFACE as “wet” for that year; if a station received at least 25 percent less rainfall, it was “dry”; 

and, otherwise, it was “average”. Each of the 14 selected station pairs was confirmed to be at an airport, 

and all other settings used in the station selection analysis were unchanged when rerunning 

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Table G-1. Selected surface and paired upper-air stations representing each climate region. 

Climate 

Region 

Surface Station Upper-air Station 

WBAN Call 

Sign Location 

Coastal or Inland, 

with 

approximate 

distances to 

water for coastal 

Installatio

n Date of 

Ice Free 

Wind 

Sensor 

Latit. Longit. WBAN Location Latit. Lo

1 

(East North 

Central) 

14937 KIOW Iowa City, IA Inland 10/20/200 5 41.633 -91.543 94982 Davenport , IA 41.6 -9

2 

(Northeast) 

13705 KADW 

Camp 

Springs, 

MD 

Coastal (31 km 

from Chesapeake 

Bay, 60 km from 

Atl. Ocean) 

Not ASOS 38.811 -76.867 93734 Sterling, VA 38.98 -7

14762 KAGC Pittsburgh , PA Inland 4/3/2007 40.355 -79.922 94823 Township, PA 40.53 -8

3 

(Northwest) 

24222 KPAE Everett, WA 

Coastal (4 km from 

Puget Sound, 50 km 

from Salish Sea, 180 

km from Pac. 

Ocean) 

3/29/2007 47.908 -122.28 24232 Salem OR 44.92 -12

24145 KIDA Idaho Falls, ID Inland 1/30/2007 43.516 -112.06 24061 Riverton, WY 43.06 -10

4 (South) 

13920 KFOE Topeka, KS Inland 9/7/2006 38.95 -95.664 13996 Topeka, KS 39.07 -9

03937 KLCH 

Lake 

Charles, 

LA 

Coastal (41 km 

from Gulf of 

Mexico) 

4/19/2007 30.125 -93.228 03937 

Lake 

Charles, 

LA 

30.12 -9
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Climate 

Region 

Surface Station Upper-air Station 

WBAN Call Sign Location 

Coastal or 

Inland, with 

approximate 

distances to 

water for 

coastal 

Installati

on Date 

of Ice 

Free 

Wind 

Sensor 

Latit. Longit. WBAN Location Latit. Lo

5 

(Southeast) 

93727 KNCA New River, NC Coastal (20 km from Atl. Ocean) Unknowna 34.7 -77.433 93768 Morehead City, NC 34.7 -7

13874 KATL Atlanta, GA Inland 3/27/2007 33.64 -84.427 53819 Peachtree City, GA 33.35 -8

6 

(Southwest) 23066 KGJT 

Grand 

Junction, 

CO 

Inland 3/13/2007 39.134 - 108.538 23062 Denver, CO 39.77 -10

7 (West) 

93111 KNTD Point Mugu, CA Coastal (2 km from Pac. Ocean) 10/1/2007 34.117 - 119.110 93214 Vandenbe rg AFB, CA 34.75 -12

23169 KLAS Las Vegas, NV Inland 4/25/2007 36.079 - 115.155 53103 Flagstaff, AZ 35.23 -11

8 

(West North 

Central) 

14944 KFSD Sioux Falls, SD Inland 8/22/2006 43.577 -96.754 94980 Omaha, NE 41.32 -9

9 

(Central) 94822 KRFD Rockford, IL Inland 5/22/2007 42.196 -89.093 94982 Davenport , IA 41.6 -9
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Figure G-1. Map of selected surface and paired upper-air stations representing each climate region. 
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Figure G-2. Wind roses for each selected regionally representative station, 2007-2010. 

G.2. Emissions 

To account for the fact that renovations may occur during any season, the renovation emission 

progression around the building blocks was begun four times during a model year, on January 1st, April 

1

st, July 1st, and October 1st. This progression was also repeated for four different years, each with 

different meteorological conditions (see below). Then, the air concentrations from each renovation hour 

for all of the 16 seasons (4 years × 4 seasons/year) were aligned for each receptor location and averaged 

to give a central tendency estimate of the air concentrations across the seasons at that location. Then, 

the time series of these central tendency concentrations were used in the Monte Carlo model. 

G.3. Deposition 

The size of the particles emitted during the renovation will affect the deposition and air concentrations 

at each receptor in AERMOD. If the relative mix of particle sizes includes more coarse particles, the 
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concentrations at the closest receptors will be larger and the concentrations at the farthest receptors 

will be smaller because the larger particles will tend to deposit closer to the renovated building. 

AERMOD (version 13350; 12/16/2013), deposition was modeled using AERMOD deposition “method 1” 

algorithm (USEPA, 2009b), which requires the specification of the fraction of particulate matter in each 

size category modeled and the density of the particles. Thus, in order to accurately model the emissions 

due to the full set of renovation activities, different deposition values were used for different renovation 

activities. 

Before the selected size distributions and particle density are discussed, it is noted that the AERMOD

modeling is intended to model the particulate containing lead (such as renovation-derived dust) rather

than lead itself; then, the emission rates are used to estimate the lead mass emitted as part of that 

particulate. Thus, the deposition values should be consistent with the emitted lead-containing 

particulate (assumed primarily to be paint particles) rather than the lead on the particulate. 

Three size classes, 2.5, 10, and 20 μm, were selected for all AERMOD runs. Choe et al. (2000) measured 

airborne particulate concentrations when doors with lead paint were dry scraped and dry sanded. They 

measured the mass fractions in sizes up to 20 μm because their preliminary experiments showed no 

appreciable mass above 20 μm after the renovation activity. The line corresponding to the 0th hour after 

abatement in Choe et al’s Figure 3 was digitized using the GetData®

 software program (GetData®, 2008). 

Then, the fraction of mass in each of the three size classes was estimated by (1) multiplying each 

concentration density by the dlog(d) to get the incremental concentration at that diameter, (2) 

performing a cumulative sum across all diameters to get the cumulative concentration at each diameter,

and (3) identifying the cumulative concentration for each of the three target size classes (2.5, 10, and 20 

μm), and (4) finding the incremental concentration in each size bin. For dry scraping, 2 percent was less 

than 2.5 μm, 72 percent was between 2.5 and 10 μm, and 26 percent was between 10 and 20 μm. For 

sanding, 4 percent was less than 2.5 μm, 62 percent was between 2.5 and 10 μm, and 34 percent was 

between 10 and 20 μm. The two different particle size distributions were each run and determine to 

have less than a 2% effect on air or soil lead concentrations. To reduce the number of AERMOD runs 

required all activities were modeled using the particle size distribution resulting from dry scraping. 

For the particle density, the density was set equal to 2 g/cm3 to be representative of the density of leadcontaining paint. If the released particles consist of building substrate as well as paint, the particle 

density may be somewhat larger or smaller. In addition, the exact density will depend on the fraction of 

lead in the paint, which varies by the year the paint was applied and from building to building. Thus, this 

assumption introduces uncertainty in the modeling. It was not computationally feasible, however, to 

perform AERMOD runs for every particle density. Early scoping results indicated that AERMOD particle 

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G.4. Urban/Rural 

Each AERMOD modeling run for each combination of renovated building, renovation activity pattern, 

and meteorology data were run twice – once using AERMOD’s urban setting with an arbitrary 

population of 1 million people, and once not using the rural setting. 

For the Approach, agricultural buildings were modeled with AERMOD’s rural option; all other receptor 

building types were modeled with AERMOD’s urban option. AERMOD’s urban modeling option 

parameterizes one of the effects of the urban heat island—the decreased nighttime cooling that creates

a “convective-like” nighttime boundary layer with enhanced heating and turbulence compared to an 

adjacent, nonurban area. Because the renovations occur only during the day and the urban effect occurs

primarily at night, the difference between simulated air concentrations using the urban versus rural 

model setting is expected to be minimal. Early test runs indicated that differences in modeled air 

concentrations were less than 1 percent in approximately 90 percent of the simulated scenario-days. For 

the small percentage of scenarios where this distinction does make a difference, EPA could consider 

additional data sources that describe how often different building types occur in urban or rural locations 

by adding this as a sampled variable. 

Urban areas tend to experience increased daytime surface heating and decreased nighttime surface 

cooling compared to rural areas. They experience such heating due both to densely distributed human 

activity and to ground cover and building materials that absorb solar radiation during the day and slowly 

release it overnight. By contrast, rural areas with natural vegetation cover release daytime heating fairly 

quickly overnight, allowing rural areas to cool overnight relatively faster than urban areas. These nearsurface heating and cooling aspects also affect stability, turbulence, and mixing heights, all of which 

affect the transport of chemicals in the air. The urban setting in AERMOD parameterizes an urban area’s 

decreased nighttime cooling by creating a nighttime boundary layer with a taller mixing height and 

enhanced heating and turbulence compared to an adjacent, non-urban area. The magnitude of these 

urban effects in AERMOD is partially controlled by a user-input value for urban population. 

The urban option is not intended to affect daytime conditions, which in AERMOD is defined as hours 

when the atmosphere is unstable. However, there can be a sharp and artificial discontinuity in mixing 

height when daytime begins and the modeled urban effect shuts off, so the fifth AERMOD revision 

(version 11059, 02/28/2011) implemented a transition period that allows the urban mixing height 

adjustments to continue until the daytime mixing height becomes taller. 

In some simplistic test runs with AERMOD, the urban option and any necessary daytime transition 

adjustments affected the modeled air concentration and deposition fluxes during approximately 10 

percent of hours in the 9am-to-5pm renovation window used in the current analysis. During these 
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affected times, the urban option increases average air concentrations and deposition fluxes by 

approximately a factor of 2, though the effect averaged across the whole renovation window is closer to 

10 or 20 percent. These simplistic AERMOD test runs and their results should not be interpreted as 

representative of all urban-setting scenarios or of building renovation activities in particular; the intent 

was only to show the conditions where the urban setting impacts modeling results, with some notion of 

magnitude of impact. 

G.5. Obstruction Adjustment 

The presence of obstructions between the source building and the receptor may either provide an 

enhancement or protection to the receptor from the renovation-derived lead-containing dust. The 

windfield will be influenced by the buildings such that emitted dust may be channeled around and over 

the obstruction building and concentrated in a mixing “rotor” zone on the leeward side of the building. 

Thus, receptors located near the obstruction might be exposed to either a larger concentration (in the

rotor zone) or smaller concentration (outside the rotor zone). 

The Approach takes this potential obstruction effect into account. However, it is not feasible 

quantitatively to model the effects of the infinite number of combinations of sources, obstructions, and 

receptors. Thus, a distribution of protection/enhancement factors was developed and sampled during 

the Monte Carlo modeling. These factors are then applied to the AERMOD concentrations to account for 

potential obstruction effects. 

Early scoping results evaluated the effects of 13 obstruction scenarios were modeled using the BPIPPRIME algorithms in AERMOD to find the greatest protection and enhancement effects introduced by a 

third building, termed an obstruction, that is located near to both the source and receptor location and 

disrupts the windfield around the receptor location. These exploratory model runs were performed with 

a grid of 1,381 downwind receptors, rather than the 160 receptors locations used in the Monte Carlo 

modeling. It was found that the greatest effect occurred when an obstruction was located very near the

source building and angled orthogonally to the source building. In that scenario, the maximum modeled

protective factor was approximately 0.1, meaning the resulting air concentrations were 10 percent the 

level found in the case of no obstruction, and the maximum enhancement factor was approximately 5.3, 

or 530 percent greater than when no obstruction building was present. 

For this analysis, eight additional obstruction scenarios were modeled in an attempt to find the greatest 

effect of an obstruction. The scenarios including variations on placing the obstruction closer to the

source building, elongating the obstruction (i.e., a rectangular, rather than square, configuration), and 

placing obstructions in series (i.e., more than one obstruction). The protective and enhancement effects 

produced by the original orthogonal scenario tested for the transport analysis seemed to represent a 
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ceiling, as the additional tested scenarios produced nearly identical magnitudes of protective and 

enhancement effects, but did not exceed those found in the original scenario. This is illustrated by the 

results of three obstruction scenarios presented in Figure G-3. 

From the obstruction scenario tests, the following general observations on the effects of obstructions on 

the modeled air concentration were found: 

• For any given hour, the effect of the obstruction is minimal to zero for at least half of the 

compass directions (i.e., the directions upwind of the source building are not affected by the 

obstruction). 

• For most of the reasonable combinations of source buildings and obstructions, the maximum 

protection and enhancement factors of an obstruction were not less than 0.1 or greater than 

5.3, respectively. 

• Among the locations where the obstruction affected modeled air concentrations, the effects 

were relatively large at relatively few locations and relatively small, that is, near one, at a 

majority of locations. 

Given the above observations, a distribution was developed to describe the expected effect of an 

obstruction on modeled air concentrations. First, it was assumed that all receptors upwind of the 

modeled renovation will experience no effect from an obstruction on a given modeling hour. To 

replicate this, a number of receptors equal to the number modeled downwind but with no obstruction 

effect (protection/enhancement factor equal to one) were added to the results of each modeling run, 

resulting in 2,762 reported values. These values were then sorted from smallest to largest for each 

scenario. The worst case and average of all obstruction cases were plotted, as shown in Figure G-3 and

the distributions were described using the following equations: 

For the 1st the 32nd percentiles: ObsAdj= 0.15*ln(perc)+1.15 

For the 33rd to 87th percentiles: ObsAdj= 1 

For the 88th to 100th percentile: ObsAdj = exp(perc25) 

where ObsAdj = obstruction adjustment 

 Perc = percentile of distribution 

The obstruction adjustment was also bound by the overall minimum and maximum found 

experimentally, 0.1 and 5.3, respectively. 
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Figure G-3. Distribution used to describe the effect of an obstruction building on air concentrations at a 

given receptor. 

G.6. References for Appendix G 

Choe K; Trunov M; Grinshpun S; Willeke K; Harney J; Trakumas S; Mainelis G; Bornschein R; Clark S; 

Friedman W. (2000). Particle settling after lead-based paint abatement work and clearance waiting 

period. American Industrial Hygiene Association Journal 61: 798-807. 

GetData®

. (2008). GetData® Graphic Digitizer. http://www.getdata-graph-digitizer.com/download.php

NOAA (2011a). Quality Controlled Local Climatological Data (QCLCD [ 2.4.4]): Documentation. Effective

January, 2005. Available online at: http://cdo.ncdc.noaa.gov/qclcd/qclcddocumentation.pdf. 

NOAA (2011b). Quality Controlled Local Climatological Data (QCLCD [ 2.4.4]): Quality Controlled LCD 

Improvements/Differences/Updates. Available online at: 

http://cdo.ncdc.noaa.gov/qclcd/qclcdimprovements.pdf. 
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NOAA (2011c). NOAA/ESRL Radiosonde Database. Available online 

at:http://www.census.gov/geo/www/cob/ua_metadata.html. 

NOAA (2011d). National Weather Service Surface Observations Program: Wind Tower Dataset. 

Availableonline at: http://www.weather.gov/ops2/Surface/documents/windtower.xls. 

US EPA. (2011). Development of a Microscale “Meta-model” for Estimating Near-road Impacts 

ofEmissions from Archetypal High-traffic Roads, Contract EP-C-06-094, WA 4-06 Final Report, 

Prepared for 

U.S. EPA, Office of Transportation and Air Quality, by ICF International, September 30, 2011. 
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Appendix H. Exterior Emission Rates 

EPA’s Dust Study (US EPA, 2007a) is the most comprehensive study of lead dust generation by 

renovation activity to date. It was used to characterize the lead-emissions from eight of the exterior

renovation activities considered: paint removal by dry scraping, power sanding, torching, use of high and 

low temperature heat guns, and use of a needle gun; and replacement of exterior doors and trim. An 

emission rate was estimated for each of these renovation activities using the methodology described 

below. The ninth activity, demolition, used a different methodology described in Appendix B.10. 

To design an analysis framework for estimating lead aerosol emissions due to renovation of a building 

from the Dust Study, it is necessary to understand the study methodology and the experimental 

variables captured in the study. Figure H-1 shows the typical layout of an experiment in the Dust Study. 

The steps of the experiments were generally as follows: 

An area of wall (or trim, door, railing, or porch ceiling) was selected and specified as the disturbed area. 

The area around the disturbed area was prepared for the experiment. Plastic was placed on the ground 

and had a specified length along the wall (referred to as the plastic “width” or the “along-wall” 

direction) and a length perpendicular to the wall (referred to as the plastic “distance from wall” or the 

“out-from-wall” direction). The plastic included “rule plastic” closer to the job and “beyond rule plastic” 

further from the job. In addition, vertical plastic was used at the edges of the ground plastic to encase 

the job and limit horizontal transport of dust outside the job area. 

The job was performed and the time needed to completely perform the renovation within the 

disturbance area was noted. 

The dust loading in units of mass of lead per square foot was measured at six different 

distances from the wall for each experiment. To support the estimation of emission rates, the 

contractor who collected the data in the Dust Study, Battelle, provided maps for each 

experiment showing the geometry of the plastic and the placement of the sample trays. This 

information is not presented in the Dust Study report but is provided in this Appendix in 

Sections 0 to H.14. 

Either a single experiment or multiple experiments were performed for each activity, with six 

measurements of surface loading per experiment. 
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To estimate the fraction of paint on the wall in the Dust Study emitted during a specific activity, 

it is necessary to estimate the total amount of dust that was removed and introduced into the 

air during the activity as a fraction of the total amount of paint that was on the wall. The total 

amount of emitted dust must be estimated from the loading values in the Dust Study by 

accounting for spatial differences in the loading and integrating the loading over the area of the 

plastic. In this Approach, the emission calculation is achieved by 

1. Along-wall distribution: Performing several conversions on the loading data and estimating an alongwall distribution of dust, 

2. Out-from-wall distribution: Generating a regression equation for the loading as a function of 

distance from the wall to estimate the out-from-wall distribution of dust, 

3. Total dust emitted: Integrating the loading on the plastic in the along-wall and out-from-wall 

directions to estimate the total dust emitted during the job, 

4. Total paint on wall: Estimating the total amount of paint originally on the wall before the 

experiment began, and 

5. Emission fraction: Estimating the fraction of paint on the wall that was emitted as aerosol particles. 

Each of these steps is described in general terms below. Then, specific details (including the 

experiment maps) are provided for each experiment in the remainder of the Appendix. 
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Figure H-1. Schematic of the Dust Study experimental set-up. 

H.1. Loading Data Conversions and Along-Wall Distribution of Paint 

Dust 

Because each experiment was performed using different total wall disturbance sizes, the fraction of 

paint emitted was calculated on a per square foot of disturbed wall basis. Thus, each Dust Study lead

loading was divided by the area disturbed in the experiment to get the loading in units of lead mass per 

square foot of plastic and per square foot of wall disturbed: 

AreaDist

LeadLoad LeadLoad per wall unit =

where: 

LeadLoadper wall unit = the total lead loading on the plastic per unit of wall area 

 disturbed (μg/ft2/ft2) 

LeadLoad = the total lead loading on the plastic (μg/ft2

) 

AreaDist = the total wall area disturbed during renovation (ft2

) 

In addition, because each experiment was performed on buildings with different compositions of lead 

within the paint, the fraction emitted was calculated based on the total amount of paint dust emitted 

rather than the total amount of lead emitted. This conversion assumes that each experiment within an 

activity should produce nearly uniform amounts of paint dust per square foot disturbed, even though 

the amount of lead will vary according to the lead content in the paint. To make this conversion, each

lead loading was divided by the percentage of lead in the paint specified in the Dust Study to 

Sample Trays

Plastic Containment

Out-From-Wall Direction
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approximate loadings in units of mass of paint particles per square foot of plastic and per square foot of 

wall disturbed (see equation below). 

frac g mg

LeadLoad

PaintDustLoad perwallunit

perwallunit 1000 /

1

μ

= ×

where: 

LeadLoadper wall unit = the total lead loading on the plastic per unit of wall area 

 disturbed (mg/ft2/ft2) 

PaintDustLoadper wall unit = the total paint dust loading on the plastic per unit of wall 

 area disturbed (mg/ft2/ft2) 

frac = the fraction of paint which is lead by weight (unitless) 

Note that this conversion assumes that all the emitted particles are paint particles and does not account 

for the fact that the total emitted dust might include wall substrate particles as well. Thus, the 

estimated paint dust emission rate will not represent the total dust emitted during the activity but is 

intended to account for all the lead emitted, assuming that there is lead in the paint but not within the 

substrate or other disturbed portions of the building. 

Next, the along-wall distribution of dust was estimated. Following inspection of the general trends in the 

Dust Study experiments, it was assumed that the loadings were relatively constant over the width of the 

job and then tapered linearly to zero at the edge of the ground plastic in the along-wall direction (see 

Figure H-2). Thus, if measurements were made at locations wider than the job width (for example, 

Sample X in Figure H-2), these measurements were adjusted using a linear relationship to approximate 

the loading within the job area (for example, Sample Xadj in Figure H-2). In the event that experimentspecific dust distributions differed from this general format, the distribution used is noted in the 

experiment-specific information in Sections 0 to H.14. 

To make this linear conversion, the following equation was used: 

per wall unit PaintDustLoad per wall unit DistPlast DistMeasure

DistPlast PaintDustLoadAdj

−

=

where: 

PaintDustLoadAdjper wall unit = the total paint dust loading on the plastic per unit of wall 

 area disturbed adjusted to the level within the job area 

(mg/ft2

/ft2) 

PaintDustLoadper wall unit = the total paint dust loading on the plastic per unit of wall 

 area disturbed (mg/ft2/ft2) 

DistPlast = the distance between the edge of the job and the 
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 containment plastic (ft) 

DistMeasure = the distance between the edge of the job and the 

 measurement (ft) 

All of these distances were calculated from the information in the Dust Study job maps provided by 

Battelle. Because the dust is measured over discrete areas 1 ft wide, the measurements are assumed to

apply to the center of the measurement area. Thus, the loadings were assumed to taper to zero over a 

distance 1 ft wider than shown in the diagrams. This assumption causes the loadings to fall to zero in the 

center of the 1 ft box next to the containment plastic. The alternative assumption (loadings going to 

zero at the center of the box just inside the containment plastic) was not used, since non-zero 

measurements were available at those locations in the Dust Study. 
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Figure H-2. Schematic of Assumed Along-Wall Distribution of Loading 

H.2. Regression of Dust Study Data by Renovation Activity

To estimate the distribution of dust in the out-from-wall direction within the job area, a regression 

analysis was performed on the PaintDustLoadAdjper wall unit values (or the PaintDustLoadper wall unit values if 

no adjustment was necessary because the measurement was made within the job area) at each 

corresponding distance from the wall with Microsoft Excel® using the following equation for exponential 

decay: 

 

Out-FromWall Direction

Along-Wall Direction

Constant Loadings 

in Job Area

Tapered

To Zero 

Outside 

Job Area

Tapered

To Zero 

Outside 

Job Area

x Distance to 

Measurement

Distance to Vertical 

Plastic

Job Area

Horizontal Rule Plastic

Horizontal Beyond Rule Plastic

Vertical Containment Plastic

xadj

x Dust Study Loading Measurement

xadj Adjusted Dust Study Loading Measurement

Dust Loading per ft

2 disturbed

Lateral Linear Taper Region
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Shape Dist PaintDustR egress Load e×

= 0 ×

where: 

PaintDustRegress = paint dust loading (mg/ft2/ft2 disturbed) 

Load0 = loading just below the job at 0 ft (mg/ft2/ft2 disturbed) 

Shape = shape of exponential regression (/ft) 

Dist = distance from renovation activity (ft) 

Before performing the regressions, an adjustment was made to account for the presence of large bulk 

material in the Dust Study. Dust Study samples were collected and reported as “with bulk” and “without

bulk”. Owing to the nature of the activities, some of the material removed during the renovation was 

expected to be too large to be released into the air. However, bulk samples in the Dust Study include 

samples in which either the particles were too large to be captured in a wipe sample (which should be 

excluded from this Approach) or where there was too much dust to be collected in a wipe sample (which 

should be included in this Approach). There is no way to separate these two different types of samples. 

Thus, an empirical correction was made to account for the large bulky particles. It was assumed that 

most of these bulky particles would fall within three ft of the job wall (assuming they fell directly 

downward). Thus, any bulk samples collected within two ft of the job were excluded from the 

regression. In addition, any samples designated as “bulk” samples taken at three ft from the renovation 

wall were also excluded from the regression, since it was assumed that large debris could reach that 

distance for some of the activities. This correction allowed the samples at further distances (where bulk 

is assumed to be absent) to define the shape of the regression curve. Comparing the regression 

parameters both before and after the correction, the power sanding regression coefficients changed 

very little while the dry scraping coefficients changed dramatically. This trend is as expected and 

provides some indication that this Approach is appropriate, as power sanding is expected to emit few 

bulky particles while dry scraping emissions could be dominated by bulky particles. 

H.3. Total Amount of Dust Emitted 

Once these regression equations were determined, the total amount of dust on the plastic was 

estimated by combining the along-wall (Appendix H.1) and away-from-wall (Appendix H.2) distributions 

and integrating to get the total mass. This was done by estimating the mass within the job area, 

estimating the mass outside the job area, and then adding the two together. For the mass within the job 

area, the mass was found by integrating the regression expression over the length of the plastic (outfrom-wall direction) and multiplying by the width of the job (along-wall direction): 
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(e ) JobWidth

Shape

Load

MassDust Shape LenPlast

inside = × − ×

×

1

0

where: 

MassDustinside = paint dust mass on the plastic inside the job area (mg/ft2

 

 disturbed) 

Load0 = loading just below the job at 0 ft (mg/ft2 disturbed) 

Shape = shape of exponential regression (ft-1) 

LenPlast = length of plastic in the out-from-wall direction (ft) 

JobWidth = the width of the job in the along-wall direction (ft)

For the mass outside the job area, that is, collected on either side of the area disturbed, the mass was 

found by finding the area within each linear taper region (one on each side) according to the equation: 

PlastWidth Outside

JobWidth

MassDustIn side assDust M outside / side = 5.0 ×

where: 

MassDustoutside/side = paint dust mass on each side of the plastic outside the job area 

(mg/ft2 disturbed) 

MassDustinside = paint dust mass on the plastic inside the job area (mg/ft2 

 disturbed) 

JobWidth = the width of the job (ft)

PlastWidthOutside = the width of the plastic beyond the job on one side only (ft)

The above equation reflects the assumption that in the region outside the job area, the total mass will 

taper linearly from being equal to that within the job area down to zero at the edge of the plastic. 

Finally, 

total inside outside side Numberside MassDust = MassDust + MassDust / ×

where: 

MassDusttotal = total paint dust mass on the plastic (mg/ft2 disturbed) 

MassDustinside = paint dust mass on the plastic inside the job area (mg/ft2 

 disturbed) 

MassDustoutside/side = paint dust mass on the plastic outside the job area (mg/ft2 

 disturbed) 

Numberside = Number of linear taper areas adjacent to the job area (0, 1, or 2) 
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H.4. Amount of Paint on the Wall 

To estimate the total amount of paint on the wall for each renovation experiment, first the paint density 

and number of layers of paint were estimated. The average paint density for each activity was estimated 

for the Dust Study jobs using the fraction of lead in paint according to the equation: 

PaintDens = frac × DensityPb + 1( − frac ) × Density Rest

where: 

PaintDens = the density of the paint (g paint/cm3 paint) 

frac = the fraction of paint which is lead by weight (unitless) 

DensityPb = the density of lead (g/cm3) 

DensityRest = the density of the rest of the paint (other than lead) (g/cm3) 

The density of lead is 11.3 g/cm3, and the density of the rest of the paint is assumed to be equal to 1 

g/cm3 consistent with the solid portion of modern paint (assumed to be lead-free), as calculated from 

Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) sheets. 

The number of layers of paint on the wall at the time of the Dust Study job was estimated by assuming 

that painting had been done every seven years since the time the building was constructed. This value of 

seven years was selected based on information about typical renovation frequencies in child care 

centers (CCC data). For each of these previous painting jobs on the building, it was assumed that the 

surface was prepared for painting and then a layer of paint was applied. There is no way of knowing 

what method was used to remove paint and prepare the surface in these prior painting jobs. Thus, the 

representative value of 15% removal for surface preparation (Section D.1.3) was used in estimating the

fraction of paint removed during each previous painting job. The Dust Study jobs were performed in 

2006. Thus, the number of layers of paint in 2006 for each Dust Study building construction date were 

estimated and are shown in Table H-1. 

In some cases, the age of the renovated building was unknown. The Dust Study residences were built 

between 1900 and 1925, and a table provided within the Dust Study report indicates that nearby 

properties were built between 1900 and 1920. For this analysis, a representative building year of 1920 

was selected as a year within that range. 

For the actual paint removal jobs performed during the Dust Study, Battelle provided information about

the degree of paint removal. Some jobs were surface preparation activities (removed only a fraction of

the total paint on the wall), while others removed all the paint on the wall. The fraction removed tended 
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to depend on the method used to perform the job, as shown in Table H-2. Thus, the amount of paint 

removed during each Dust Study job was estimated by multiplying the number of layers of paint 

estimated to be on the building in 2006 by the estimated fraction of paint removed during the particular 

job (100% for removal jobs and 15% for surface preparation jobs). 

 Table H-1. Layers of Paint By Vintage and Building Type 

Building Construction 

Date 

Estimated Layers of Paint 

On Buildings in 2006 at the Start 

of the Dust Study 

1900 6.2 

1910 5.3 

1918 5.0 

1920 5.0 

1925 4.7 

1967 3.3 

Table H-2. Fraction of paint on the wall that is removed in the 

Dust Study experiments. 

Job Type Fraction of Paint Assumed to Be 

Removed During Dust Study Jobs 

Power Sanding Paint Removal; 100% 

Needle Gun Paint Removal; 100% 

Torching Paint Removal; 100% 

High Heat Gun Paint Removal; 100% 

Low Heat Gun Paint Removal; 100% 

Dry Scrape Surface Preparation; 15% 

Trim Replacement Surface Preparation; 15% 

Door Replacement Surface Preparation; 15% 

These values were then used to estimate the total amount of paint removed from the wall in the Dust 

Study job per square foot of wall: 

WallPaintRemove d = WallPaintCov × PaintDens ×UnitConv × LayersOfPai nt × FracRemove d

where: 
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WallPaintRemoved = the total paint per square foot of wall removed during the 

 Dust Study job (mg/ft2 wall) 

WallPaintCov = the amount of paint which covers a single square foot of 

 wall (gallons/ft2) 

UnitConv = a conversion factor to convert from gallons to cm3

 and from 

 mg to g 

PaintDens = the density of the paint (g paint/cm3

 paint) 

LayersOfPaint = the number of layers of paint 

FracRemoved = the fraction of the total layers of paint that were removed 

 during the Dust Study job 

H.5. Percentage of Paint Emitted By Activity 

Finally, the fraction of paint on the wall emitted per activity is estimated by dividing the amount emitted 

during the activity (Appendix H.3) by the total amount on the wall (Appendix H.4). 

WallPaint

MassDust

FracEmitted total

=

where: 

FracEmitted = fraction of paint removed from wall that is emitted as 

 aerosol 

MassDusttotal = total paint dust mass on the plastic (mg/ft2

 disturbed) 

WallPaint = the total paint per square foot of wall (mg/ft2

 wall) 

Then, the fractions for the different experiments were combined with the fractions from any available 

interior experiments, and the geometric mean across the different experiments was used to represent 

the overall activity emission fraction. The resulting emission fractions are shown in Table D-2. 

For comparison purposes, Lee and Domanski (1999) examined the release of lead and abrasives during 

sandblasting operations to remove lead paint from bridges. They estimated that 9 percent of the lead on 

the bridge could be released as aerosol due to sandblasting. The emission fractions in this Approach 

tend to be on the order of this estimate. Power sanding, torching, and needle gun activities have a 

higher emission fraction, and these activities are expected to have a high potential for emission. The Lee 

and Domanski (1999) study suggests the emission fractions estimated here are reasonable. 
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Table H-3. Fraction of paint on the wall which is emitted as 

aerosolized particulate. 

Renovation Activity 

Fraction of 

Paint 

Removed 

(FracRem)

Fraction of 

Paint 

Aerosolized 

(AerosolFrac)

1

Fraction of 

Paint Emitted 

as Bulk 

Particulate 

(PartDebFrac)

2

Power Sanding 0.15 0.248 0.051 

Needle Gun 0.15 0.244 0.055 

Torching 0.15 0.180 0.056 

High Heat Gun 0.15 0.081 0.056 

Low Heat Gun 0.15 0.077 0.059 

Dry Scrape 0.15 0.070 0.060 

Window/Door 

Replacement 0.15 0.069 0.060 

Trim Replacement 0.15 0.070 0.060 

Demolition 1.0 0.009 0.060 

The general approach above was applied to the experiments in the Dust Study to compute the emission 

fractions. However, individual deviations from the generic layout and sampling protocol in Figure H-1 

required additional assumptions in some experiments. The remainder of the Appendix details the 

assumptions, input data, regression results, and emission fraction calculations for each experiment. The 

figures in each Appendix represent the maps provided by Battelle, but all crosshatching (which 

represents regions where linear tapering is used to adjust loadings) were added during the estimation of 

the emission rates. 
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H.6. Power Sanding 

H.6.1. Experiment 2 

The geometry of Experiment 2 (see Figure H-3) was similar to the generic geometry in Figure H-2. . 

Because the measurement in Sample 1 was very high even though it was far to the left of the job area, 

loadings were not tapered linearly to zero at the edge of the plastic in this experiment. Instead, it was 

assumed that the dust generated during the power sanding experiments was emitted with momentum 

and could therefore travel laterally to further distances. Thus, the loadings were assumed to be constant 

across the entire width of the plastic (35 ft) and not just the width of the job (10 ft). 

The measured lead loadings and associated distances are shown in Table H-4. No adjustments were 

made to the loadings since no linear tapering was assumed in this experiment. The loadings were 

divided by the size of the job (100 ft2

) and the fraction of lead in the paint (0.117) to estimate the dust 

loadings per ft2 disturbed in Table H-4. Sample 1 was excluded from the regression because it was 

within 3 ft of the job. Then, the natural logs of all loadings were used with the distances to estimate the 

regression parameters in 
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Table H-5. Regression Statistics in Experiment 2

. Here, intercept is the intercept of the linear regression in log space, and Load at 0 ft is the assumed 

loading at 0 ft calculated as exp(intercept). 

The integral was performed over the regression equation out to a distance of 17 ft, which was the 

extent of the non-rule plastic. Masses were estimated both within the job area and outside the job area 

as shown in Table H-6. The estimated paint density using the lead fraction was 2.21 g/cm3. Because the 

renovated building was built in 1918, it was assumed to have 5.0 layers of paint at the time of the job. 

Power sanding was a paint removal activity, so all 5.0 layers were assumed to be removed. These values

were used to estimate the total amount of paint on the wall, giving a final emission fraction of 0.108. 

Figure H-3. Layout of Power Sanding Experiment 2 

Table H-4. Dust Loading Measurements and Adjustments in Experiment 2

ID Dist. From 

Wall (ft) 

Adj. Dist. 

(ft) 

Lead Loading 

(Dust Study) 1

Lead Loading 

(adjusted) 

Dust Load per 

ft2 Disturbed 2

Adjustment 

Parameters 

1 1 NA 4,666,776 NA 398.87 None 

1

2

3

6

5

4

1 Sample number

Job

Rule plastic

Beyond-rule plastic

Approximate placement of vertical containment
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2 5 NA 328,358 NA 28.06 None 

3 11 NA 102,291 NA 8.74 None 

4 15 NA 56,460 NA 4.83 None 

5 14 NA 82,678 NA 7.07 None 

6 12 NA 63,192 NA 5.40 None 

1

 Measurements that include bulk material are denoted in italics 

2

 Measurements included in regression denoted in bold type 
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Table H-5. Regression Statistics in Experiment 2

Statistic Value 

Shape -0.17 

Intercept 4.09 

R

2

0.90 

Load at 0 ft (mg/ft2 plastic/ft2 disturbed) 59.71 

Table H-6. Estimated Total Dust Emitted, Total 

Paint on Wall, and Emission Fraction in Experiment 2 

Estimated Masses and Emission Fractions Value 

Mass of Dust Within Job Area (mg/ft2 disturbed) 3,306 

Mass of Dust Not Within Job Area (mg/ft2 disturbed) 8,266 

Total Mass of Dust on Plastic (mg/ft2 disturbed) 11,572 

Total Paint on Surface (mg/ft2 disturbed) 107,206 

Fraction Emitted 0.108 

H.6.2. Experiment 3 

The geometry for Experiment 3 is shown in Figure H-4. Similar to Experiment 2, the loadings in 

Experiment 3 were not tapered linearly to zero at the edge of the plastic in this experiment. Again, it 

was assumed that the dust generated during the power sanding experiments was emitted with 

momentum and could therefore travel laterally to further distances. Thus, the loadings were assumed to

be constant across the entire width of the plastic (36 ft) and not just the width of the job (12 ft). 

The measured lead loadings and associated distances are shown in 
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Table H-7. Dust Loading Measurements and Adjustments in Experiment 3

. No adjustments were made to the loadings since no linear tapering was assumed in this experiment. 

The loadings were divided by the size of the job (100 ft2

) and the fraction of lead in the paint (0.131) to 

estimate the dust loadings per ft2 disturbed in 
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Table H-7. Dust Loading Measurements and Adjustments in Experiment 3

. Sample 1 was excluded from the regression because it was within 3 ft of the job. Then, the natural logs 

of all loadings were used with the distances to estimate the regression parameters in Table H-8. Here,

intercept is the intercept of the linear regression in log space, and Load at 0 ft is the assumed loading at 

0 ft calculated as exp(intercept). 

The integral was performed over the regression equation out to a distance of 17 ft, which was the 

extent of the non-rule plastic. Masses were estimated both within the job area and outside the job area 

as shown in Table H-9. The estimated paint density using the lead fraction was 2.35 g/cm3. Because the 

renovated building was built in 1918, it was assumed to have 5.0 layers of paint at the time of the job. 

Power sanding was a paint removal activity, so all 5.0 layers were assumed to be removed. These values

were used to estimate the total amount of paint on the wall, giving a final emission fraction of 0.387. 

 Figure H-4. Layout of Power Sanding Experiment 3 

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Table H-7. Dust Loading Measurements and Adjustments in Experiment 3

ID Dist. From 

Wall (ft) 

Adj. Dist. 

(ft) 

Lead Loading 

(Dust Study) 1

Lead Loading 

(adjusted) 

Dust Load per 

ft2 Disturbed 2

Adjustment 

Parameters 

1 3 NA 8,289,211 NA 632.76 None 

2 8 NA 225,843 NA 17.24 None 

3 12 NA 124,748 NA 9.52 None 

4 14 NA 17,309 NA 1.32 None 

5 17 NA 9,486 NA 0.72 None 

6 15 NA 16,255 NA 1.24 None 

1

 Measurements that include bulk material are denoted in italics 

2

 Measurements included in regression denoted in bold type 

Table H-8. Regression Statistics in Experiment 3

Statistic Value 

Shape -0.39 

Intercept 6.17 

R

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0.89 

Load at 0 ft (mg/ft2 plastic/ft2 disturbed) 476.65 

Table H-9. Estimated Total Dust Emitted, Total 

Paint on Wall, and Emission Fraction in Experiment 3

Estimated Masses and Emission Fractions Value 

Mass of Dust Within Job Area (mg/ft2 disturbed) 14,748 

Mass of Dust Not Within Job Area (mg/ft2 disturbed) 29,496 

Total Mass of Dust on Plastic (mg/ft2 disturbed) 44,244 

Total Paint on Surface (mg/ft2 disturbed) 114,229 

Fraction Emitted 0.387 

H.7. Torching 

The torching experiments were conducted on the ceilings of two different porches at residences. 

Scaffolding was used in both cases, and the scaffolding had gaps in it (to allow material to fall to the 

plastic during the experiment) and was dismantled prior to sample collection (to allow material on the

scaffolding to fall onto the plastic). Because of these two details in the experimental setup, the torching 
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loadings were noted to be very high at large distances from the porch, and many of the samples were 

bulk samples, making the regression calculations difficult. 

Thus, the torching experiments were treated differently to account for the scaffolding presence and the 

high bulk loadings. The high heat gun experiment (Experiment 66, see Appendix H.9) was also conducted 

on a ceiling (the awning over a door at a school). Three of the measurements were bulk loadings. Thus,

the regression results calculated when excluding the bulk results from Experiment 66 were used to 

estimate the loadings at 0, 1, and 2 ft from the awning. Then, these predicted loadings (assumed to 

account for the non-bulk mass) were divided by the total bulk and non-bulk measurement at each 

distance to estimate the fraction that was bulk. The results are shown in Table H-10. In general, the

ratio was fairly consistent at the three distances with an average value of 0.50. 

Because the high heat gun paint removal technique is considered to be the most similar to the torching

paint removal technique, this fraction was applied to the torching bulk measurements to estimate the 

non-bulk portion. This conversion is reflected in the “Lead Loading (adjusted)” columns in Table H-11 

and Table H-14. Then, all the measurements were included in the regressions to estimate the emission 

fractions as described for each experiment below. 

Table H-10. Torching Adjustment For Bulk Estimated from High Heat Gun 

Experiment

Dist. From Job (ft) 

Bulk Dust 

Measurement Per 

ft2 Disturbed 

(mg/ft2/ft2) 

Regression 

Prediction 

(mg/ft2/ft2) 

Ratio 

0 151.38 79.52 0.53 

1 90.13 39.28 0.44 

2 35.84 19.40 0.54 

Average 0.50 

H.7.1. Experiment 37 

As discussed above, Experiment 37 removed paint on a porch ceiling at a residence (see Figure H-5). All 

bulk measurements were adjusted by a factor of 0.50 as discussed above to approximate the non-bulk 

portion. Then, the loadings were divided by the size of the job (98 ft2) and the fraction of lead in the 

paint (0.0518) to estimate the dust loadings per ft2 disturbed in Table H-11. Because of the presence of 

the scaffolding that extended further than the porch area, the loadings were assumed to be constant all 

the way to the edge of the rule plastic, where very high bulk loadings were measured in the experiment. 

Thus, the adjusted distance was estimated to be 0 ft for all measurements under the porch or on the 
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rule plastic and the distance from the edge of the rule plastic to the measurement for the others. Then, 

the natural logs of loadings from all samples were used to estimate the regression parameters in Table

H-12. Here, intercept is the intercept of the linear regression in log space, and Load at 0 ft is the 

assumed loading at 0 ft calculated as exp(intercept). 

The masses were estimated in two different regions as shown in 
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Table H-13. Estimated Total Dust Emitted, Total 

Paint on Wall, and Emission Fraction in Experiment 37 

. Under the job and on the rule plastic, the mass was estimated as the regression prediction at 0 ft (Load 

at 0 ft) multiplied by the area of the porch and rule plastic. Next, the mass on the beyond-rule plastic is 

estimated by integrating the regression equation over the length of the plastic (4 ft) and multiplying by 

the width (20 ft). The estimated paint density using the lead fraction was 1.28 g/cm3. Although the 

vintage of the renovated building was unknown, nearby buildings were believed to have been built at 

the same time and were built in 1920. Therefore, the building was assumed to have been built in 1920 

and to have 5.0 layers of paint at the time of the job. Torching was a paint removal activity, so all 5.0 

layers were assumed to be removed. These values were used to estimate the total amount of paint on 

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Figure H-5. Layout of Torching Experiment 37 

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Table H-11. Dust Loading Measurements and Adjustments in Experiment 37

ID 

Dist. 

From 

Wall (ft) 

Adj. Dist. 

(ft) 

Lead Loading

(Dust Study) 1

Lead 

Loading 

(adjusted) 

Dust Load 

per 

ft2

Disturbed 2

Adjustment Parameters 

1 4.5 0 1,134,829 567,414 214.44 

Distance adjusted to be from 

edge of rule plastic; Loading 

adjusted by factor of 0.5 to 

convert to non-bulk 

2 12 0 919 NA 0.35 Distance adjusted to be from 

edge of rule plastic 

3 10 0 349,644 174,822 66.07 

Distance adjusted to be from 

edge of rule plastic; Loading 

adjusted by factor of 0.5 to 

convert to non-bulk

4 15 2 144 NA 0.05 Distance adjusted to be from 

edge of rule plastic 

5 15 2 190 NA 0.07 Distance adjusted to be from 

edge of rule plastic 

6 15 2 145 NA 0.05 Distance adjusted to be from 

edge of rule plastic 

1

 Measurements that include bulk material are denoted in italics 

2

 Measurements included in regression denoted in bold type 

Table H-12. Regression Statistics in Experiment 37

Statistic Value 

Shape -2.83 

Intercept 2.83 

R

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0.67 

Load at 0 ft (mg/ft2 plastic/ft2 disturbed) 17.01 
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Table H-13. Estimated Total Dust Emitted, Total 

Paint on Wall, and Emission Fraction in Experiment 37 

Estimated Masses and Emission Fractions Value 

Mass of Dust Within Job Area (mg/ft2 disturbed) 4,422 

Mass of Dust Not Within Job Area (mg/ft2 disturbed) 120 

Total Mass of Dust on Plastic (mg/ft2 disturbed) 4,543 

Total Paint on Surface (mg/ft2 disturbed) 62,054 

Fraction Emitted 0.073 

H.7.2. Experiment 38 

As discussed above, Experiment 38 removed paint on a porch ceiling at a residence (see Figure H-6). All 

bulk measurements were adjusted by a factor of 0.50 as discussed above to approximate the non-bulk 

portion. Measurements made outside the job width were adjusted using a linear taper distance of 2 ft. 

This assumes the mass was the same on both sides but the loadings were somewhat higher on the left 

portion. Then, the loadings were divided by the size of the job (80 ft2) and the fraction of lead in the 

paint (0.114) to estimate the dust loadings per ft2

 disturbed in Table H-14. Because of the presence of 

the scaffolding that extended further than the porch area, the loadings were assumed to be constant all 

the way to the edge of the rule plastic, where very high bulk loadings were measured in the experiment. 

Thus, the adjusted distance was estimated to be 0 ft for all measurements under the porch or on the 

rule plastic and the distance from the edge of the rule plastic to the measurement for the others. Then, 

the natural logs of loadings from all samples were used to estimate the regression parameters in Table

H-15. Here, intercept is the intercept of the linear regression in log space, and Load at 0 ft is the 

assumed loading at 0 ft calculated as exp(intercept). 

The masses were estimated in two different regions as shown in 
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Table H-16. Estimated Total Dust Emitted, Total 

Paint on Wall, and Emission Fraction in Experiment 38 

. The mass in the job area includes both the mass under the job and on the rule plastic within the job

area and the mass on the beyond-rule plastic within the job area. The mass under the job and on the 

rule plastic was estimated as the regression prediction at 0 ft (Load at 0 ft) multiplied by the area of the 

porch (11 ft by 5 ft) and rule plastic (11 ft by 5 ft). Next, the mass on the beyond-rule plastic within the 

job area was estimated by integrating the regression equation over the length of the plastic (4 ft) and 

multiplying by the width (11 ft). Finally, the masses outside the job width were tapered linearly 

assuming a taper distance of 2 ft to reflect the distance on the left portion of the job. This assumes the 

mass was the same on both sides but the loadings were somewhat higher on the left portion. The 

estimated paint density using the lead fraction was 2.18 g/cm3

. Because the renovated building was built 

in 1900, it was assumed to have 6.2 layers of paint at the time of the job. Torching was a paint removal 

activity, so all 6.2 layers were assumed to be removed. These values were used to estimate the total 

amount of paint on the wall, giving a final emission fraction of 0.287. 
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Figure H-6. Layout of Torching Experiment 38 

 

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Table H-14. Dust Loading Measurements and Adjustments in Experiment 38

ID 

Dist. 

From 

Wall (ft) 

Adj. 

Dist. (ft) 

Lead Loading

(Dust Study) 1

Lead 

Loading 

(adjusted) 

Dust Load 

per 

ft2

Disturbed 2

Adjustment Parameters 

1 2 0 29,401,680 14,700,840 1611.93 

Distance adjusted to be from edge of 

rule plastic; Loading adjusted by factor 

of 0.5 to convert to non-bulk 

2 10.5 0 1,560,303 780,152 85.54 

Distance adjusted to be from edge of 

rule plastic; Loading adjusted by factor 

of 0.5 to convert to non-bulk

3 9 0 1,819,556 909,778 99.76 

Distance adjusted to be from edge of 

rule plastic; Loading adjusted by factor 

of 0.5 to convert to non-bulk

4 16.5 4 632 1264 0.14 

Distance adjusted to be from edge of 

rule plastic; Loading adjusted to 

estimate loading within job area 

5 16.5 4 1,766 NA 0.19 Distance adjusted to be from edge of 

rule plastic 

6 16.5 4 1,051 2,102 0.23 

Distance adjusted to be from edge of 

rule plastic; Loading adjusted to 

estimate loading within job area 

1

 Measurements that include bulk material are denoted in italics 

2

 Measurements included in regression denoted in bold type 

Table H-15. Regression Statistics in Experiment 38

Statistic Value 

Shape -1.79 

Intercept 5.48 

R

2

0.93 

Load at 0 ft (mg/ft2 plastic/ft2 disturbed) 239.60 
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Table H-16. Estimated Total Dust Emitted, Total 

Paint on Wall, and Emission Fraction in Experiment 38 

Estimated Masses and Emission Fractions Value 

Mass of Dust Within Job Area (mg/ft2 disturbed) 26,356 

Mass of Dust Not Within Job Area (mg/ft2 disturbed) 6,527 

Total Mass of Dust on Plastic (mg/ft2 disturbed) 32,884 

Total Paint on Surface (mg/ft2 disturbed) 114,542 

Fraction Emitted 0.287 

H.8. Needle Gun 

H.8.1. Experiment 65 

Experiment 65 removed paint from a raised railing in a school courtyard (see Figure H-7). Thus, 

assumptions had to be made to account for this geometry. Plastic extended all around the job. It was 

assumed that the total masses emitted both in front of and behind the railing were equal. On the outer 

edge to the left of the job, the loadings were tapered to zero using a distance to the edge of the plastic 

of 8 ft. Sample 2 was adjusted to estimate the associated loading within the job area, and the adjusted 

loadings are shown in 
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Table H-17. Dust Loading Measurements and Adjustments in Experiment 65

. 

The loadings were divided by the size of the job (30 ft2

) and the fraction of lead in the paint (0.053) to 

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Table H-17. Dust Loading Measurements and Adjustments in Experiment 65

. Samples 1, 2 and 3 were excluded from the regression since they were within 3 ft of the job. Then, the 

natural logs of all loadings were used with the adjusted distances to estimate the regression parameters 

in Table H-18. Here, intercept is the intercept of the linear regression in log space, and Load at 0 ft is the 

assumed loading at 0 ft calculated as exp(intercept). 

The integral was performed over the regression equation out to a distance of 12 ft (the length in front of 

the job) with a job width of 23 ft and then multiplied by two to account for the plastic behind the job. 

The estimated paint density using the lead fraction was 1.55 g/cm3. Because the renovated building was 

built in 1967, it was assumed to have 3.3 layers of paint at the time of the job. Needle gun was a paint 

removal activity, so all 3.3 layers were assumed to be removed. These values were used to estimate the 

total amount of paint on the wall in Table H-19, giving a final emission fraction of 0.244. 
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Figure H-7. Layout of Needle Gun Experiment 65 

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Table H-17. Dust Loading Measurements and Adjustments in Experiment 65

ID Dist. From 

Wall (ft) 

Adj. Dist. 

(ft) 

Lead Loading 

(Dust Study) 1

Lead Loading 

(adjusted) 

Dust Load per 

ft2 Disturbed 2

Adjustment 

Parameters 

1 3 NA 381,586 NA 239.99 None 

2 3 NA 21,158 NA 13.31 None 

3 2 NA 888,167 NA 558.60 None 

4 6 NA 20,344 NA 12.79 None 

5 6 NA 8,431 NA 5.30 None 

6 12 NA 1,327 NA 0.83 None 

1

 Measurements that include bulk material are denoted in italics 

2

 Measurements included in regression denoted in bold type 

Table H-18. Regression Statistics in Experiment 65

Statistic Value 

Shape -0.38 

Intercept 4.40 

R

2

0.90 

Load at 0 ft (mg/ft2 plastic/ft2 disturbed) 81.29 

Table H-19. Estimated Total Dust Emitted, Total 

Paint on Wall, and Emission Fraction in Experiment 65 

Estimated Masses and Emission Fractions Value 

Mass of Dust Within Job Area (mg/ft2 disturbed) 9,699 

Mass of Dust Not Within Job Area (mg/ft2 disturbed) 1,687 

Total Mass of Dust on Plastic (mg/ft2 disturbed) 11,386 

Total Paint on Surface (mg/ft2 disturbed) 46,717 

Fraction Emitted 0.244 

H.9. High Heat Gun 

H.9.1. Experiment 66 

Experiment 66 removed paint on an awning above a door in a school courtyard (Figure H-8). Thus, 

assumptions had to be made to account for this geometry. Plastic extended to the left of the job. There 
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was a raised railing to the left of the job, but because the job was done on an awning at a height of 7 to 

15 ft, it was assumed that the dust could travel over the railing and spread to the vertical school wall. In 

addition, it was assumed that the dust could spread the full length to the containment plastic in front of 

the job. The total masses emitted both in front of and just to the left of the awning were assumed to 

decrease exponentially with distance from the awning edge. In the remaining portion of plastic, it was 

assumed that loadings tapered both from the upper area and right area, tapering to zero over a length 

of 19 ft (from the upper portion to the containment plastic) and over a length of 15 ft (from the right 

portion over to the vertical wall of the school). 

The loadings were divided by the size of the job (30 ft2

) and the fraction of lead in the paint (0.183) to 

estimate the dust loadings per ft2 disturbed in Table H-20. Sample 6 was adjusted to approximate the 

value of the loading within the width of the job. Samples 1, 2 and 3 were excluded from the regression 

since they were within 3 ft of the job. Then, the natural logs of loadings from Samples 4, 5, and 6 were 

used to estimate the regression parameters in Table H-21. Here, intercept is the intercept of the linear 

regression in log space, and Load at 0 ft is the assumed loading at 0 ft calculated as exp(intercept). 

The masses were estimated in three different regions. Under the job, the mass was estimated as the 

regression prediction at 0 ft (Load at 0 ft) multiplied by the area of the awning (5 ft by 9 ft). Next, the 

masses within the two job areas (lower and to the left of the job) were estimated by integrating the 

regression out to 15 ft and multiplying by a width of 5 ft (left portion) and integrating the regression out 

to 19 ft and multiplying by a width of 9 ft (lower portion). Finally, the mass in the remaining taper region 

was estimated by tapering the left and lower portions of the within-job loadings to zero over the 

remaining area. The estimated paint density using the lead fraction was 2.89 g/cm3

. Because the 

renovated building was built in 1967, it was assumed to have 3.3 layers of paint at the time of the job. 

High heat gun was a paint removal activity, so all 3.3 layers were assumed to be removed. These values 

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Figure H-8. Layout of High Heat Gun Experiment 66 

Vertical wall of school

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Table H-20. Dust Loading Measurements and Adjustments in Experiment 66 

ID 

Dist. 

From 

Wall (ft) 

Adj. Dist. 

(ft) 

Lead Loading

(Dust Study) 1

Lead 

Loading 

(adjusted) 

Dust Load per

ft2 Disturbed 2 Adjustment Parameters 

1 7 2 196,760 NA 35.84 Distance adjusted to be from 

edge of awning 

2 5 1 494,822 NA 90.13 Distance adjusted to be from 

edge of awning 

3 3 0 831,062 NA 151.38 Distance adjusted to be from 

edge of awning 

4 11 6 14,124 NA 2.57 Distance adjusted to be from 

edge of awning 

5 16 11 318 NA 0.06 Distance adjusted to be from 

edge of awning 

6 13 8 349 407 0.07 

Distance adjusted to be from 

edge of awning; Loading 

adjusted to estimate loading 

within job area 

1

 Measurements that include bulk material are denoted in italics 

2

 Measurements included in regression denoted in bold type 

Table H-21. Regression Statistics in Experiment 66

Statistic Value 

Shape -0.71 

Intercept 4.38 

R

2

0.70 

Load at 0 ft (mg/ft2 plastic/ft2 disturbed) 79.52 
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Table H-22. Estimated Total Dust Emitted, Total 

Paint on Wall, and Emission Fraction in Experiment 66 

Estimated Masses and Emission Fractions Value 

Mass of Dust Under Job Area (mg/ft2 disturbed) 3,578 

Mass of Dust Within Job Area (mg/ft2 disturbed) 1,578 

Mass of Dust Not Within Job Area (mg/ft2 disturbed) 1,917 

Total Mass of Dust on Plastic (mg/ft2 disturbed) 7,073 

Total Paint on Surface (mg/ft2 disturbed) 87,288 

Fraction Emitted 0.081 

H.10.Low Heat Gun 

H.10.1. Experiment 64 

Experiment 64 removed paint from a door at the bottom of a stairwell in a school courtyard (see Figure 

H-9). Thus, assumptions had to be made to account for this geometry. The space at the bottom of the 

stairs was confined and loadings measured there (even at distances greater than 3 ft from the door) 

were very high and included bulk material (Samples 2 and 4). Bulk samples 1, 2 and 4 were excluded 

from the regression. Sample 3 was not excluded because the presence of the corner was assumed to 

mediate the transfer of bulk material from the door to that location. Finally, it was assumed that 

because the job was performed at the bottom of a flight of stairs, the dust would not travel further than 

the edge of the plastic. 

The loadings were divided by the size of the job (75 ft2

) and the fraction of lead in the paint (0.315) to 

estimate the dust loadings per ft2

 disturbed in 
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Table H-23. Dust Loading Measurements and Adjustments in Experiment 64

. Samples 3, 5, and 6 were adjusted to estimate the associated loading within the job area, and the 

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Table H-23. Dust Loading Measurements and Adjustments in Experiment 64

. Then, the natural logs of loadings from Samples 3, 5, and 6 were used to estimate the regression 

parameters in Table H-24. Here, intercept is the intercept of the linear regression in log space, and Load 

at 0 ft is the assumed loading at 0 ft calculated as exp(intercept). 

The mass within the job area was estimated by integrating the regression equation over a length of 8 ft 

and multiplying by the job width of 5 ft. The mass outside the job area was estimated by calculating the 

integrated mass between 1 ft and 8 ft (to account for the presence of the corner) and tapered linearly 

assuming a taper distance of 6 ft. The estimated paint density using the lead fraction was 4.26 g/cm3. 

Because the renovated building was built in 1967, it was assumed to have 3.3 layers of paint at the time 

of the job. Low heat gun was a paint removal activity, so all 3.3 layers were assumed to be removed. 

These values were used to estimate the total amount of paint on the wall, giving a final emission 

fraction of 0.077. 

Figure H-9. Layout of Low Heat Gun Experiment 64 

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Table H-23. Dust Loading Measurements and Adjustments in Experiment 64

ID

Dist. 

From 

Wall (ft)

Adj. Dist. 

(ft)

Lead Loading

(Dust Study) 1

Lead Loading

(adjusted)

Dust Load per

ft2 Disturbed 2 Adjustment Parameters

1 1 NA 130,674,045 NA 5,531.18 None 

2 5 NA 1,133,090 NA 47.96 None 

3 3 NA 2,538,052 NA 107.43 None 

4 7 NA 2,692,069 NA 113.95 None 

5 8 NA 26,587 NA 1.13 None 

6 7 NA 16,235 NA 0.69 None 

1

 Measurements that include bulk material are denoted in italics 

2

 Measurements included in regression denoted in bold type 

Table H-24. Regression Statistics in Experiment 64

Statistic Value 

Shape -0.83 

Intercept 7.16 

R

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0.99 

Load at 0 ft (mg/ft2 plastic/ft2 disturbed) 1290.60 

Table H-25. Estimated Total Dust Emitted, Total 

Paint on Wall, and Emission Fraction in Experiment 64 

Estimated Masses and Emission Fractions Value 

Mass of Dust Within Job Area (mg/ft2 disturbed) 7,800 

Mass of Dust Not Within Job Area (mg/ft2 disturbed) 2,045 

Total Mass of Dust on Plastic (mg/ft2 disturbed) 9,845 

Total Paint on Surface (mg/ft2 disturbed) 128,483 

Fraction Emitted 0.077 
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H.11.Dry Scrape 

H.11.1. Experiment 1 

The geometry of Experiment 1 (see Figure H-10) was similar to the generic geometry in Figure H-1. The 

beyond-rule plastic spread far to the left of the job. However, it was assumed that in the dry scrape 

experiment, the dust would tend to be largely bulk pieces and would not spread far in the lateral 

direction. Thus, the right width (3 ft) was used to taper the loadings to zero. 

The measured lead loadings and associated distances are shown in Table H-26. No adjustments were 

necessary to approximate loadings within the job area, since all measurements were taken within the 

job width. The loadings were divided by the size of the job (90 ft2

) and the fraction of lead in the paint 

(0.135) to estimate the dust loadings per ft2

 disturbed in Table H-26. Sample 1 was excluded from the 

regression because it was within 3 ft of the job. Then, the natural logs of all loadings were used with the 

distances to estimate the regression parameters in Table H-27. Here, intercept is the intercept of the 

linear regression in log space, and Load at 0 ft is the assumed loading at 0 ft calculated as exp(intercept). 

The integral was performed over the regression equation out to a distance of 17 ft, which was the 

extent of the non-rule plastic. Masses were estimated both within the job area (8 ft wide) and outside 

the job area as shown in Table H-28. The estimated paint density using the lead fraction was 2.40 g/cm3. 

Because the renovated building was built in 1918, it was assumed to have 5.0 layers of paint at the time 

of the job. Dry scrape was a surface preparation activity, so 15% of the paint layers were assumed to be 

removed. These values were used to estimate the total amount of paint on the wall, giving a final 

emission fraction of 0.015. 
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Figure H-10. Layout of Dry Scrape Experiment 1 

 

1

2

3

4

5

6

1 Sample number

Job

Rule plastic

Beyond-rule plastic

Lateral linear taper region

Approximate placement of vertical containment
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Table H-26. Dust Loading Measurements and Adjustments in Experiment 1

ID

Dist. 

From 

Wall (ft)

Adj. Dist. 

(ft)

Lead Loading 

(Dust Study) 1

Lead Loading 

(adjusted)

Dust Load per 

ft2 Disturbed 2

Adjustment 

Parameters

1 1 NA 12,516,130 NA 1,030.13 None 

2 5 NA 48,865 NA 4.02 None 

3 7 NA 8,227 NA 0.68 None 

4 8 NA 4,018 NA 0.33 None 

5 12 NA 916 NA 0.08 None 

6 17 NA 893 NA 0.07 None 

1

 Measurements that include bulk material are denoted in italics 

2

 Measurements included in regression denoted in bold type 

Table H-27. Regression Statistics in Experiment 1

Statistic Value 

Shape -0.31 

Intercept 1.97 

R

2 0.78 

Load at 0 ft (mg/ft2 plastic/ft2 disturbed) 7.17 

Table H-28. Estimated Total Dust Emitted, Total 

Paint on Wall, and Emission Fraction in Experiment 1 

Estimated Masses and Emission Fractions Value 

Mass of Dust Within Job Area (mg/ft2 disturbed) 185 

Mass of Dust Not Within Job Area (mg/ft2 disturbed) 69 

Total Mass of Dust on Plastic (mg/ft2 disturbed) 254 

Total Paint on Surface (mg/ft2 disturbed) 17,435 

Fraction Emitted 0.015 

H.11.2. Experiment 21 

The geometry of Experiment 21 (see Figure H-11) was similar to the generic geometry in Figure H-1. The 

job was not centered with respect to the plastic. The larger width on the left (6 ft) was used to taper the 

within-job loadings to zero at the edge of the plastic. This reflects the assumption that the total amount 
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of dust will be the same on both sides, but the loadings to the right will be somewhat higher since the 

dust spreads over a smaller distance. This is reflected in the diagram with darker crosshatching on that 

side. 

The measured lead loadings and associated distances are shown in 
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Table H-29. Dust Loading Measurements and Adjustments in Experiment 21

. No adjustments were necessary to approximate loadings within the job area, since all measurements 

were taken within the job width. The loadings were divided by the size of the job (150 ft2

) and the 

fraction of lead in the paint (0.013) to estimate the dust loadings per ft2 disturbed in 
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Table H-29. Dust Loading Measurements and Adjustments in Experiment 21

. Sample 1 was excluded from the regression because it was within 3 ft of the job. Then, the natural logs 

of all loadings were used with the distances to estimate the regression parameters in Table H-30. Here, 

intercept is the intercept of the linear regression in log space, and Load at 0 ft is the assumed loading at 

0 ft calculated as exp(intercept). 

The integral was performed over the regression equation out to a distance of 18 ft, which was the 

extent of the non-rule plastic. Masses were estimated both within the job area (16 ft wide) and outside 

the job area as shown in Table H-31. The estimated paint density using the lead fraction was 1.13 g/cm3. 

Because the renovated building was built in 1920, it was assumed to have 5.0 layers of paint at the time 

of the job. Dry scrape was a surface preparation activity, so 15% of the paint layers were assumed to be 

removed. These values were used to estimate the total amount of paint on the wall, giving a final 

emission fraction of 0.041. 
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Figure H-11. Layout of Dry Scrape Experiment 21 

1

2

3

4

6

5

1 Sample number

Job

Rule plastic

Beyond-rule plastic

Lateral linear taper region

Approximate placement of vertical containment
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Table H-29. Dust Loading Measurements and Adjustments in Experiment 21

ID Dist. From 

Wall (ft) 

Adj. Dist. 

(ft) 

Lead Loading 

(Dust Study) 1

Lead Loading 

(adjusted) 

Dust Load per 

ft2 Disturbed 2

Adjustment 

Parameters 

1 1 NA 1,463,974 NA 750.76 None 

2 7 NA 2,266 NA 1.16 None 

3 11 NA 401 NA 0.21 None 

4 13 NA 263 NA 0.13 None 

5 18 NA 165 NA 0.08 None 

6 15 NA 552 NA 0.28 None 

1

 Measurements that include bulk material are denoted in italics 

2

 Measurements included in regression denoted in bold type 

Table H-30. Regression Statistics in Experiment 21

Statistic Value 

Shape -0.20 

Intercept 1.18 

R

2

0.72 

Load at 0 ft (mg/ft2 plastic/ft2 disturbed) 3.25 

Table H-31. Estimated Total Dust Emitted, Total 

Paint on Wall, and Emission Fraction in Experiment 21 

Estimated Masses and Emission Fractions Value 

Mass of Dust Within Job Area (mg/ft2 disturbed) 248 

Mass of Dust Not Within Job Area (mg/ft2 disturbed) 93 

Total Mass of Dust on Plastic (mg/ft2 disturbed) 342 

Total Paint on Surface (mg/ft2 disturbed) 8,255 

Fraction Emitted 0.041 

H.12.Experiment 75 

The geometry of Experiment 75 (see Figure H-12) was similar to the generic geometry in Figure H-1. The 

job was not centered with respect to the plastic. The larger width on the left (6 ft) was used to taper the 

within-job loadings to zero at the edge of the plastic. This reflects the assumption that the total amount 

of dust will be the same on both sides, but the loadings to the right will be somewhat higher since the 
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dust spreads over a smaller distance. This is reflected in the diagram with darker crosshatching on that 

side. 

The measured lead loadings and associated distances are shown in Table H-32. No adjustments were 

necessary to approximate loadings within the job area, since all measurements were taken within the 

job width. The loadings were divided by the size of the job (100 ft2

) and the fraction of lead in the paint 

(0.013) to estimate the dust loadings per ft2 disturbed in Table H-32. Sample 1 was excluded from the 

regression because it was within 3 ft of the job. Then, the natural logs of all loadings were used with the 

distances to estimate the regression parameters in Table H-33. Here, intercept is the intercept of the 

linear regression in log space, and Load at 0 ft is the assumed loading at 0 ft calculated as exp(intercept). 

The integral was performed over the regression equation out to a distance of 16 ft, which was the 

extent of the non-rule plastic. Masses were estimated both within the job area (16 ft wide) and outside 

the job area as shown in Table H-34. The estimated paint density using the lead fraction was 1.13 g/cm3. 

Because the renovated building was built in 1920, it was assumed to have 5.0 layers of paint at the time 

of the job. Dry scrape was a surface preparation activity, so 15% of the paint layers were assumed to be 

removed. These values were used to estimate the total amount of paint on the wall, giving a final 

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Figure H-12. Layout of Dry Scrape Experiment 75 

Table H-32. Dust Loading Measurements and Adjustments in Experiment 75

ID Dist. From 

Wall (ft) 

Adj. Dist. 

(ft) 

Lead Loading 

(Dust Study) 1

Lead Loading 

(adjusted) 

Dust Load per 

ft2 Disturbed 2

Adjustment 

Parameters 

1 1 NA 1,961,779 NA 1509.06 None 

2 4 NA 13,794 NA 10.61 None 

3 7 NA 1,774 NA 1.36 None 

4 8 NA 1,159 NA 0.89 None 

5 15 NA 183 NA 0.14 None 

6 12 NA 469 NA 0.36 None 

1

 Measurements that include bulk material are denoted in italics 

2

 Measurements included in regression denoted in bold type 

1

2

3

4

6

5

1 Sample number

Job

Rule plastic

Beyond-rule plastic

Lateral linear taper region

Approximate placement of vertical containment
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Table H-33. Regression Statistics in Experiment 75

Statistic Value 

Shape -0.36 

Intercept 3.24 

R

2

0.93 

Load at 0 ft (mg/ft2 plastic/ft2 disturbed) 25.61 

Table H-34. Estimated Total Dust Emitted, Total 

Paint on Wall, and Emission Fraction in Experiment 75 

Estimated Masses and Emission Fractions Value 

Mass of Dust Within Job Area (mg/ft2 disturbed) 1,130 

Mass of Dust Not Within Job Area (mg/ft2 disturbed) 424 

Total Mass of Dust on Plastic (mg/ft2 disturbed) 1,553 

Total Paint on Surface (mg/ft2 disturbed) 8,255 

Fraction Emitted 0.188 

H.12.1. Experiment 40 

The geometry of Experiment 40 (see Figure H-13) was similar to the generic geometry in Figure H-1. The 

job extended over the entire width of the plastic, so no linear tapering or loading adjustments were 

necessary. 

The loadings were divided by the size of the job (250 ft2

) and the fraction of lead in the paint (0.157) to 

estimate the dust loadings per ft2

 disturbed in Table H-35. Sample 1 was excluded from the regression 

because it was within 3 ft of the job. Then, the natural logs of all loadings were used with the distances 

to estimate the regression parameters in Table H-36. Here, intercept is the intercept of the linear 

regression in log space, and Load at 0 ft is the assumed loading at 0 ft calculated as exp(intercept). 

The integral was performed over the regression equation out to a distance of 12 ft, which was the 

extent of the non-rule plastic. Masses were estimated within the job area (20 ft wide). The estimated 

paint density using the lead fraction was 2.62 g/cm3. Because the renovated building was built in 1920, it 

was assumed to have 5.0 layers of paint at the time of the job. Dry scrape was a surface preparation 

activity, so 15% of the paint layers were assumed to be removed. These values were used to estimate 

the total amount of paint on the wall, giving a final emission fraction of 0.038. 
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Figure H-13. Layout of Dry Scrape Experiment 40 

Table H-35. Dust Loading Measurements and Adjustments in Experiment 40

ID Dist. From 

Wall (ft) 

Adj. Dist. 

(ft) 

Lead Loading 

(Dust Study) 1

Lead Loading 

(adjusted) 

Dust Load per 

ft2 Disturbed 2

Adjustment 

Parameters 

1 6 NA 13,796 NA 0.35 None 

2 2 NA 11,480,352 NA 292.49 None 

3 4 NA 268,359 NA 6.84 None 

4 11 NA 7,303 NA 0.19 None 

5 9 NA 11,701 NA 0.30 None 

6 10 NA 15,959 NA 0.41 None 

1

 Measurements that include bulk material are denoted in italics 

2

 Measurements included in regression denoted in bold type 

2

3

1

5

6

4

1 Sample number

Job

Rule plastic

Beyond-rule plastic

Approximate placement of vertical containment
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Table H-36. Regression Statistics in Experiment 40

Statistic Value 

Shape -0.41 

Intercept 2.70 

R

2

0.70 

Load at 0 ft (mg/ft2 plastic/ft2 disturbed) 14.92 

Table H-37. Estimated Total Dust Emitted, Total 

Paint on Wall, and Emission Fraction in Experiment 40 

Estimated Masses and Emission Fractions Value 

Mass of Dust Within Job Area (mg/ft2 disturbed) 721 

Mass of Dust Not Within Job Area (mg/ft2 disturbed) 0 

Total Mass of Dust on Plastic (mg/ft2 disturbed) 721 

Total Paint on Surface (mg/ft2 disturbed) 19,091 

Fraction Emitted 0.038 

H.13.Trim Replacement 

H.13.1. Experiment 4 

Experiment 4 removed trim from the side of a home and was performed on two separate sides of the 

building (see Figure H-14). Thus, assumptions had to be made to account for this geometry. It was 

assumed that the loadings were constant on both walls within the job area. On the outer edges of the 

job on both walls, the loadings were tapered to zero using a distance to the edge of the plastic of 5 ft. 

Between the two sections of job wall, the loadings were assumed to taper linearly from both directions 

using a width of 7 ft in both directions. In actuality, the distance was 8 ft for the upper portion of the 

job. Thus, this assumption reflects that the total mass contribution will be the same from both directions 

even though the mass from the upper portion can spread over a wider distance. Samples 1, 2, and 6 

were adjusted to estimate the associated loading within the job area, and the adjusted loadings are 

shown in Table H-38. Sample 1 was also adjusted so that the distance reflected the distance to the 

corner of the wall (3 ft). 

The loadings were divided by the size of the job (40 ft2

) and the fraction of lead in the paint (0.153) to 

estimate the dust loadings per ft2 disturbed in Table H-38. Samples 2 and 3 were excluded from the 

regression since they were within 2 ft of the job. Sample 1 was included in the regression. It is within 3 ft 
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of the job but was not a bulk measurement. Then, the natural logs of all loadings were used with the 

adjusted distances to estimate the regression parameters in Table H-39. Here, intercept is the intercept 

of the linear regression in log space, and Load at 0 ft is the assumed loading at 0 ft calculated as 

exp(intercept). In this case, the regression coefficient is low, indicating there is additional uncertainty in 

this emission estimate. 

The integral was performed over the regression equation out to a distance of 7 ft, which was the extent 

of the non-rule plastic in the lower portion of the job. The same distance was used for the upper 

portion, reflecting the assumption that the total mass contribution will be the same from both directions 

even though the mass from the upper portion can spread over a wider distance. Masses were estimated 

both within the job area and outside the job area (the two edge taper regions and the middle “double 

taper” region) as shown in Table H-40. The estimated paint density using the lead fraction was 2.58 

g/cm3

. Because the renovated building was built in 1920, it was assumed to have 5.0 layers of paint at 

the time of the job. Trim replacement was a surface preparation activity, so 15% of the paint layers 

were assumed to be removed. These values were used to estimate the total amount of paint on the 

wall, giving a final emission fraction of 0.070. 
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Figure H-14. Layout of Trim Replacement Experiment 4 

2

1 3

4 6

5

1 Sample number

Job

Rule plastic

Beyond-rule plastic

Lateral linear taper region

Approximate placement of vertical containment
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Table H-38. Dust Loading Measurements and Adjustments in Experiment 4

ID 

Dist. 

From 

Wall (ft) 

Adj. Dist. 

(ft) 

Lead Loading

(Dust Study) 1

Lead Loading

(adjusted) 

Dust Load per

ft2 Disturbed 2 Adjustment Parameters 

1 2 3 3,951 NA 0.65 

Distance adjusted to be linear 

distance from job; Loading 

adjusted to estimate loading 

within job area

2 1 NA 1,652,382 2,065,478 337.50 Loading adjusted to estimate 

loading within job area 

3 2 NA 110,776 NA 18.10 None 

4 5 NA 59,027 NA 9.64 None 

5 6 NA 26,040 NA 4.25 None 

6 5 NA 52,742 263,710 43.09 Loading adjusted to estimate 

loading within job area 

1

 Measurements that include bulk material are denoted in italics 

2

 Measurements included in regression denoted in bold type 

Table H-39. Regression Statistics in Experiment 4

Statistic Value 

Shape 0.86 

Intercept -2.32 

R

2

0.38 

Load at 0 ft (mg/ft2 plastic/ft2 disturbed) 0.10 

Table H-40. Estimated Total Dust Emitted, Total 

Paint on Wall, and Emission Fraction in Experiment 4 

Estimated Masses and Emission Fractions Value 

Mass of Dust Within Job Area (mg/ft2 disturbed) 747 

Mass of Dust Not Within Job Area (mg/ft2 disturbed) 560 

Total Mass of Dust on Plastic (mg/ft2 disturbed) 1,307 

Total Paint on Surface (mg/ft2 disturbed) 18,790 

Fraction Emitted 0.070 
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H.13.2. Experiment 36 

Experiment 36 removed trim from the edge of a porch. The geometry is shown in Figure H-15. Three of 

the samples were collected within 3 ft of the job and were excluded from the regression (see Table 

H-41). However, the remaining three samples were all collected at the same distance from the edge of 

the porch (7 ft). Thus, in the absence of data at multiple distances, no regression can be performed. This 

experiment was excluded from the emission rate calculation. 

Figure H-15. Layout of Trim Replacement Experiment 36 

2 3

1

4 5 6

Sidewalk

1 Sample number

Job

Rule plastic

Beyond-rule plastic

Approximate placement of vertical containment
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Table H-41. Dust Loading Measurements and Adjustments in Experiment 36

ID Dist. From 

Wall (ft) 

Adj. Dist. 

(ft) 

Lead Loading 

(Dust Study) 1

Lead Loading 

(adjusted) 

Dust Load per 

ft2 Disturbed 2

Adjustment 

Parameters 

1 3 NA 154,825 NA 15.36 None 

2 2 NA 2,991,198 NA 296.75 None 

3 2 NA 1,794,377 NA 178.01 None 

4 7 NA 18,536 NA 1.84 None 

5 7 NA 128,549 NA 12.75 None 

6 7 NA 209,520 NA 20.79 None 

1

 Measurements that include bulk material are denoted in italics 

2Measurements included in regression denoted in bold type 

H.14.Door Replacement 

H.14.1. Experiment 34 

Experiment 34 replaced a door at a home. The geometry is shown in Figure H-16. Three of the samples 

were collected within 3 ft of the job and were excluded from the regression (see Table H-42). However, 

the remaining three samples were all collected at the same distance from the edge of the porch (6 ft). 

Thus, in the absence of data at multiple distances, no regression can be performed. This experiment was 

excluded from the emission rate calculation. 

Figure H-16. Layout of Door Replacement Experiment 34 

1

2 3

4 5 6

1 Sample number

Job

Rule plastic

Beyond-rule plastic

Lateral linear taper region

Approximate placement of vertical containment
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Table H-42. Dust Loading Measurements and Adjustments in Experiment 34

ID Dist. From 

Wall (ft) 

Adj. 

Dist. (ft) 

Lead Loading 

(Dust Study) 1

Lead Loading

(adjusted) 

Dust Load per

ft2 Disturbed 2 Adjustment Parameters 

1 1 NA 217,108 248,123 94.52 Loading adjusted to estimate 

loading within job area 

2 3 NA 76,118 86,992 33.14 Loading adjusted to estimate 

loading within job area 

3 3 NA 13,886 27,772 10.58 Loading adjusted to estimate 

loading within job area 

4 6 NA 30,489 NA 11.61 None 

5 6 NA 81,048 129,677 49.40 Loading adjusted to estimate 

loading within job area 

6 6 NA 1,086 8,688 3.31 Loading adjusted to estimate 

loading within job area 

1

 Measurements that include bulk material are denoted in italics 

2Measurements included in regression denoted in bold type 

H.14.2. Experiment 35 

The geometry of Experiment 35 (Figure H-17) was similar to the generic geometry in Figure H-1. The job 

was not centered with respect to the plastic. The larger width on the left (8 ft) was used to taper the 

within-job loadings to zero at the edge of the plastic. This reflects the assumption that the total amount 

of dust will be the same on both sides, but the loadings to the right will be somewhat higher since the 

dust spreads over a smaller distance. This is reflected in the diagram with darker crosshatching on that 

side. 

The measured lead loadings and associated distances are shown in 
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Table H-43. Dust Loading Measurements and Adjustments in Experiment 35

. Samples 1, 4, and 6 were adjusted to approximate the loadings at those distances within the job width. 

These adjusted loadings are shown in 
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Table H-43. Dust Loading Measurements and Adjustments in Experiment 35

. The loadings were divided by the size of the job (25 ft2) and the fraction of lead in the paint (0.112) to 

estimate the dust loadings per ft2

 disturbed in 
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Table H-43. Dust Loading Measurements and Adjustments in Experiment 35

. Samples 1 and 3 were excluded from the regression because they were within 2 ft of the job. Sample 2 

was within 3 ft of the job, but it was not a bulk measurement so it was retained in the regression. Then, 

the natural logs of all loadings were used with the distances to estimate the regression parameters in 

Table H-44. Here, intercept is the intercept of the linear regression in log space, and Load at 0 ft is the 

assumed loading at 0 ft calculated as exp(intercept). In this case, the regression coefficient is low, 

indicating there is additional uncertainty in this emission estimate. 

The integral was performed over the regression equation out to a distance of 8 ft, which was the extent 

of the non-rule plastic. Masses were estimated both within the job area (4 ft wide) and outside the job 

area as shown in Table H-45. The estimated paint density using the lead fraction was 2.16 g/cm3

. 

Because the renovated building was built in 1925, it was assumed to have 4.7 layers of paint at the time 

of the job. Door replacement was a surface preparation activity, so 15% of the paint layers were 

assumed to be removed. These values were used to estimate the total amount of paint on the wall, 

giving a final emission fraction of 0.069. 

Figure H-17. Layout of Door Replacement Experiment 35 

3 1

2

4

6 5

1 Sample number

Job

Rule plastic

Beyond-rule plastic

Lateral linear taper region

Approximate placement of vertical containment
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Table H-43. Dust Loading Measurements and Adjustments in Experiment 35

ID 

Dist. 

From 

Wall (ft)

Adj. Dist. 

(ft) 

Lead Loading 

(Dust Study) 1

Lead Loading

(adjusted) 

Dust Load 

per 

ft2

Adjustment Parameters 

1 1 NA 28,904 43,356 15.48 Loading adjusted to estimate 

loading within job area

2 3 NA 42,285 NA 15.10 None 

3 1 NA 145,898 NA 52.11 None 

4 5 NA 3,648 5,472 1.95 Loading adjusted to estimate 

loading within job area 

5 5.5 NA 29,256 NA 10.45 None 

6 5.5 NA 16,914 19,330 6.90 Loading adjusted to estimate 

loading within job area 

1

 Measurements that include bulk material are denoted in italics 

2

 Measurements included in regression denoted in bold type 

Table H-44. Regression Statistics in Experiment 35

Statistic Value 

Shape -0.32 

Intercept 3.45 

R

2

0.19 

Load at 0 ft (mg/ft2 plastic/ft2 disturbed) 31.57 

Table H-45. Estimated Total Dust Emitted, Total 

Paint on Wall, and Emission Fraction in Experiment 35 

Estimated Masses and Emission Fractions Value 

Mass of Dust Within Job Area (mg/ft2 disturbed) 361 

Mass of Dust Not Within Job Area (mg/ft2 disturbed) 722 

Total Mass of Dust on Plastic (mg/ft2 disturbed) 1,083 

Total Paint on Surface (mg/ft2 disturbed) 15,705 

Fraction Emitted 0.069 
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H.15.References for Appendix H 

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on airborned particulate matter in an Urban community. Journal of the Air and Waste 

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Capouch S., personal communication, 2012. Personal Communication by email between Heidi Hubbard 

of ICF International and Scott Capouch, Construction Project Manager with 10 years of 

experience, of US NIEHS. Title of email: Painting frequency. February 15, 2012. 

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sources of lead in ambient dust: demolition practices and exterior dust fall. Environmental 

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demolition as a source of lead in ambient dust on sidewalks, streets, and alleys. Environ Res 

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Lee M. and Domansky J. (1999). Development of pollutant release estimates due to abrasive blasting for 

lead paint removal from New York City department of transportation steel bridges, Pittsburg, 

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Mucha A; Stites N; Evens A; MacRoy P (2009). Lead dustfall from demolition of scattered site family 

housing: Developing a sampling methodology. Environmental Research 109(143-148). 

Stefani D; Wardman D; Lambert T (2005). The implosion of the Calgary General Hospital: Ambient air 

quality issues. Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association 55: 52-59. 

US EPA. (2007a). Draft final report on characterization of dust lead levels after renovation, repair, and 

painting activities. Prepared for EPA’s Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxcis (OPPT). Available 

online at: http://www.epa.gov/lead/pubs/duststudy01-23-07.pdf 

Weather Underground. (2011). History for Baltimore, MD. Available online at: 

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Appendix I. Interior Fraction Emitted 

I.1. Loading Data Conversions 

Because each experiment was performed using different total wall disturbance sizes, the fraction of 

paint emitted was calculated on a per square foot of disturbed wall basis. Thus, as in the exterior 

analysis, each Dust Study post-work lead loading was divided by the area disturbed in the experiment to 

get the loading in units of lead mass per square foot of floor and per square foot of wall disturbed: 

AreaDist

LeadLoad LeadLoad per wall unit =

where: 

LeadLoadper wall unit = the total lead loading on the floor per unit of wall area 

 disturbed (μg/ft2

/ft2) 

LeadLoad = the total lead loading on the floor (μg/ft2) 

AreaDist = the total wall area disturbed during renovation (ft2) 

In addition, because each experiment was performed on buildings with different compositions of lead 

within the paint, the fraction emitted was calculated based on the total amount of paint dust emitted 

rather than the total amount of lead emitted. This conversion assumes that each experiment within an 

activity should produce nearly uniform amounts of paint dust per square foot disturbed, even though 

the amount of lead will vary according to the lead content in the paint. To make this conversion, each 

lead loading was divided by the percentage of lead in the paint specified in the Dust Study to 

approximate loadings in units of mass of paint particles per square foot of floor and per square foot of 

wall disturbed (see equation below). 

frac g mg

LeadLoad

PaintDustLoad perwallunit

perwallunit 1000 /

1

μ

= ×

where: 

LeadLoadper wall unit = the total lead loading on the floor per unit of wall area 

 disturbed (mg/ft2

/ft2) 

PaintDustLoadper wall unit = the total paint dust loading on the floor per unit of wall 

 area disturbed (mg/ft2/ft2) 

frac = the fraction of paint which is lead by weight (unitless) 
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Note that this conversion assumes that all the emitted particles are paint particles and does not account 

for the fact that the total emitted dust might include wall substrate particles as well. Thus, the 

estimated paint dust emission rate will not represent the total dust emitted during the activity but is 

intended to account for all the lead emitted, assuming that there is lead in the paint but not within the 

substrate or other disturbed portions of the building. 

Next, the along-wall distribution of dust was estimated. Following inspection of the general trends in the 

Dust Study experiments, it was assumed that the loadings were relatively constant over the width of the 

job and then tapered linearly to zero at the edge of the room in the along-wall direction (see Figure I-1). 

(US EPA 2007a) Thus, if measurements were made at locations wider than the job width (for example, 

Sample X in Figure I-1), these measurements were adjusted using a linear relationship to approximate 

the loading within the job area (for example, Sample Xadj in Figure I-1). 

To make this linear conversion, the following equation was used: 

per wall unit PaintDustLoad per wall unit DistPlast DistMeasure

DistPlast PaintDustLoadAdj

−

=

where: 

PaintDustLoadAdjper wall unit = the total paint dust loading on the floor per unit of wall 

 area disturbed adjusted to the level within the job area 

(mg/ft2

/ft2) 

PaintDustLoadper wall unit = the total paint dust loading on the floor per unit of wall 

 area disturbed (mg/ft2/ft2) 

DistPlast = the distance between the edge of the job and the 

 edge of the room (ft) 

DistMeasure = the distance between the edge of the job and the 

 measurement (ft) 

All of these distances were calculated from the information in the Dust Study job maps provided by 

Battelle. Because the dust is measured over discrete areas 1 ft wide, the measurements are assumed to 

apply to the center of the measurement area. Thus, the loadings were assumed to taper to zero over a 

distance 1 ft wider than shown in the diagrams. This assumption causes the loadings to fall to zero in the 

just at the edge of the room. The alternative assumption (loadings going to zero at the center of the box 

just inside the wall) was not used, since non-zero measurements were available at those locations in the 

Dust Study. 
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Figure I-1. Schematic of Interior Dust Study Experiments 

I.2. Regression of Dust Study Data by Renovation Activity

To estimate the distribution of dust in the out-from-wall direction within the job area, a regression 

analysis was performed on the PaintDustLoadAdjper wall unit values (or the PaintDustLoadper wall unit values if 

no adjustment was necessary because the measurement was made within the job area) at each 

corresponding distance from the wall with Microsoft Excel® using the following equation for exponential 

decay: 

Shape Dist PaintDustR egress Load e×

= 0 ×

where: 

PaintDustRegress = paint dust loading (mg/ft2/ft2 disturbed) 

Load0 = loading just below the job at 0 ft (mg/ft2/ft2 disturbed) 

Shape = shape of exponential regression (/ft) 

Dist = distance from renovation activity (ft) 
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I.3. Total Amount of Dust Emitted 

Once these regression equations were determined, the total amount of dust on the floor was estimated 

by integrating the regression equation over the length of the rom to get the total mass (out-from-wall 

direction) and multiplying by the width of room (along-wall direction):

( ) e RoomWidth

Shape

Load

MassDust Shape LenRoom= × − ×

×

1

0

where: 

MassDustinside = paint dust mass on the floor inside the job area (mg/ft2 

 disturbed) 

Load0 = loading just below the job at 0 ft (mg/ft2 disturbed) 

Shape = shape of exponential regression (ft-1) 

LenRoom = length of room in the out-from-wall direction (ft) 

RoomWidth = the width of the room in the along-wall direction (ft)

For some experiments, the exact location of the job could not be determined based on experiment 

maps provided; these included small cutout jobs on the wall and ceiling and door planing jobs where the 

door was placed at an undisclosed location in the middle of the room on sawhorses. For these 

experiments, the regression could not be performed because the distance from the job wall for each 

sample was unknown. In these cases, the loadings per ft2 disturbed were averaged and multiplied by 

the area of the room to estimate the total amount of mass. As a check of the regression method, this 

“averaging” method and the regression method predictions of total dust were compared, and in general 

the predictions were within 25% of each other (average = 12%). 

I.4. Amount of Paint on the Wall 

To estimate the total amount of paint on the wall for each renovation experiment, first the paint density 

and number of layers of paint were estimated. The average paint density for each activity was estimated 

for the Dust Study jobs using the fraction of lead in paint according to the equation: 

PaintDens = frac × DensityPb + 1( − frac ) × Density Rest

where: 

PaintDens = the density of the paint (g paint/cm3 paint) 

frac = the fraction of paint which is lead by weight (unitless) 

DensityPb = the density of lead (g/cm3) 
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DensityRest = the density of the rest of the paint (other than lead) (g/cm3) 

The density of lead is 11.3 g/cm3, and the density of the rest of the paint is assumed to be equal to 1 

g/cm3 consistent with the solid portion of modern paint (assumed to be lead-free), as calculated from 

Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) sheets. 

The number of layers of paint on the wall at the time of the Dust Study job was estimated by assuming 

that painting had been done every seven years since the time the building was constructed. This value of 

seven years was selected based on information about typical renovation frequencies in child care 

centers (CCC data). For each of these previous painting jobs on the building, it was assumed that the 

surface was prepared for painting and then a layer of paint was applied. There is no way of knowing 

what method was used to remove paint and prepare the surface in these prior painting jobs. Thus, the 

representative value of 15% removal for surface preparation (Section D.1.3) was used in estimating the 

fraction of paint removed during each previous painting job. The Dust Study jobs were performed in 

2006. Thus, the number of layers of paint in 2006 for each Dust Study building construction date were 

estimated and are shown in Table H-1. (EPA 2007a) 

In some cases, the age of the renovated building was unknown. The Dust Study residences were built 

between 1900 and 1925, and a table provided within the Dust Study report indicates that nearby 

properties were built between 1900 and 1920. For this analysis, a representative building year of 1920 

was selected as a year within that range. 

For the actual paint removal jobs performed during the Dust Study, Battelle provided information about 

the degree of paint removal. Some jobs were surface preparation activities (removed only a fraction of 

the total paint on the wall), while others removed all the paint on the wall. Thus, the amount of paint 

removed during each Dust Study job was estimated by multiplying the number of layers of paint 

estimated to be on the building in 2006 by the estimated fraction of paint removed during the particular 

job (100% for removal jobs and 15% for surface preparation jobs). 

These values were then used to estimate the total amount of paint removed from the wall in the Dust 

Study job per square foot of wall: 

WallPaintRemove d = WallPaintCov × PaintDens ×UnitConv × LayersOfPai nt × FracRemove d

where: 

WallPaintRemoved = the total paint per square foot of wall removed during the 
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 Dust Study job (mg/ft2 wall) 

WallPaintCov = the amount of paint which covers a single square foot of 

 wall (gallons/ft2) 

UnitConv = a conversion factor to convert from gallons to cm3 and from 

 mg to g 

PaintDens = the density of the paint (g paint/cm3 paint) 

LayersOfPaint = the number of layers of paint 

FracRemoved = the fraction of the total layers of paint that were removed 

 during the Dust Study job 

I.5. Percentage of Paint Emitted By Activity 

Finally, the fraction of paint on the wall emitted per activity is estimated by dividing the amount emitted 

during the activity (Appendix I.3) by the total amount on the wall (Appendix I.4). 

WallPaint

MassDust FracEmitted =

where: 

FracEmitted = fraction of paint removed from wall that is emitted as 

 aerosol 

MassDust = total paint dust mass on the floor (mg/ft2 disturbed) 

WallPaint = the total paint per square foot of wall (mg/ft2 wall) 

Then, the fractions for the different experiments were combined with the fractions from any available 

exterior experiments, and the geometric mean across the different experiments was used to represent 

the overall activity emission fraction. The resulting emission fractions are shown in 
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Table I-1. Interior Analysis Fraction of Paint Emitted. 

Activity type 

Fraction of 

Paint That 

Remains as 

Lead Dust 

Window, Saw 0.2137 

Door Planing 0.1118 

Heat Gun Plaster 0.0572 

Dry Scrape 0.0380 

Window, No Saw 0.0155 

Heat Gun Wood 0.0119 

Door Planing, with HEPA 0.0112 

Cutouts 0.0056 

Kitchen Gut (Cabinet/Shelf Removal in 

the Approach) 0.0030 

The general approach above was applied to the experiments in the Dust Study to compute the emission 

fractions. The remainder of the Appendix details the assumptions, input data, regression results, and 

emission fraction calculations for each experiment. The figures in each Appendix represent the 

experiment maps provided by Battelle. 

I.6. Window Replacement 

I.6.1. Experiment 41 

The geometry of Experiment 41 is shown in Figure I-2, and the measured lead loadings and associated 

distances are shown in 
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Table I-2. Post-Work Loading Measurements and Adjustments in Experiment 41

. Samples 2 and 4 were adjusted using the taper assumption since they were outside the lateral extent 

of the job. The loadings were divided by the size of the job (10 ft2) and the fraction of lead in the paint 

(0.009) to estimate the dust loadings per ft2 disturbed in 
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Table I-2. Post-Work Loading Measurements and Adjustments in Experiment 41

. Then, the natural logs of all loadings were used with the distances to estimate the regression 

parameters in Table I-3. Here, intercept is the intercept of the linear regression in log space, and Load at 

0 ft is the assumed loading at 0 ft calculated as exp(intercept). 

The integral was performed over the regression equation out to a distance of 15 ft, (the length of the 

room), and the total mass of dust on the floor was estimated as shown in Table I-4. The estimated paint 

density using the lead fraction was 1.09 g/cm3. Although the vintage of the renovated building was 

unknown, nearby buildings were believed to have been built at the same time and were built in 1920. 

Therefore, the building was assumed to have been built in 1920 and to have 5.0 layers of paint at the 

time of the job. The experiment notes indicated that all paint was removed during the renovation, so all 

5.0 layers were assumed to be removed. These values were used to estimate the total amount of paint 

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Figure I-2. Layout of Window Replacement Experiment 41 

4

12 18

17

8

Stairs

7

3 16 11

15

2

6 10 14

9

1 5 13

Sample number for post-work sample

Sample number for post-cleaning sample

Sample number for post-verification sample

Sample number for additional sample, if needed

Wall of room

Job
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Table I-2. Post-Work Loading Measurements and Adjustments in Experiment 41

ID 

Dist. 

From 

Wall (ft) 

Lead Loading in 

μg/ft2

(Dust Study) 

Lead Loading in 

μg/ft2

(adjusted) 

Dust Load per 

ft2 Disturbed (mg/ft2

floor/ft2 wall) 

1 2 61,134 61,134 679.27 

2 5 1,852 2,777 30.86 

3 8 9,948 9,948 110.53 

4 15 1,387 3,698 41.09 

Table I-3. Regression Statistics in Experiment 41

Statistic Value 

Shape -0.15 

Intercept 5.74 

R

2

0.37 

Load at 0 ft (mg/ft2 floor/ft2 disturbed) 310.9 

Table I-4. Estimated Total Dust Emitted, Total 

Paint on Wall, and Emission Fraction in Experiment 41 

Estimated Masses and Emission Fractions Value 

Total Mass of Dust on Floor (mg/ft2 disturbed) 29,254 

Total Paint Removed From Surface (mg/ft2 disturbed) 54,343 

Fraction Emitted 0.538 

I.6.2. Experiment 42 

The geometry of Experiment 42 is shown in Figure I-3, and the measured lead loadings and associated 

distances are shown in Table I-5. Samples 1 and 4 were adjusted using the taper assumption since they 

were outside the lateral extent of the job. The loadings were divided by the size of the job (10 ft2

) and 

the fraction of lead in the paint (0.019) to estimate the dust loadings per ft2

 disturbed in Table I-5. Then, 

the natural logs of all loadings were used with the distances to estimate the regression parameters in 

Table I-6. Here, intercept is the intercept of the linear regression in log space, and Load at 0 ft is the 

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The integral was performed over the regression equation out to a distance of 15 ft, (the length of the 

room), and the total mass of dust on the floor was estimated as shown in Table I-7. The estimated paint 

density using the lead fraction was 1.2 g/cm3. Although the vintage of the renovated building was 

unknown, nearby buildings were believed to have been built at the same time and were built in 1920. 

Therefore, the building was assumed to have been built in 1920 and to have 5.0 layers of paint at the 

time of the job. The experiment notes indicated that all paint was removed during the renovation, so all 

5.0 layers were assumed to be removed. These values were used to estimate the total amount of paint 

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Figure I-3. Layout of Window Replacement Experiment 42 

Table I-5. Post-Work Loading Measurements and Adjustments in Experiment 42 

ID 

Dist. 

From 

Wall (ft) 

Lead Loading in 

μg/ft2

(Dust Study) 

Lead Loading in 

μg/ft2

(adjusted) 

Dust Load per 

ft2 Disturbed (mg/ft2

floor/ft2 wall) 

1 3 18,575 26,004 136.87 

2 4 19,100 19,100 100.53 

3 8 10,251 10,251 53.95 

4 12 252 1,767 9.30 

18

4 12

8 17

11 Stairs

16

3

7

15

14 6 2

10 1

9 13 5

Sample number for post-work sample

Sample number for post-cleaning sample

Sample number for post-verification sample

Sample number for additional sample, if needed

Wall of room

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Table I-6. Regression Statistics in Experiment 42

Statistic Value 

Shape -0.28 

Intercept 5.86 

R

2

0.95 

Load at 0 ft (mg/ft2 floor/ft2 disturbed) 349.50 

Table I-7. Estimated Total Dust Emitted, Total 

Paint on Wall, and Emission Fraction in Experiment 42 

Estimated Masses and Emission Fractions Value 

Total Mass of Dust on Floor (mg/ft2 disturbed) 19,387 

Total Paint Removed From Surface (mg/ft2 disturbed) 59,485 

Fraction Emitted 0.326 

I.6.3. Experiment 43 

The geometry of Experiment 43 is shown in Figure I-4, and the measured lead loadings and associated 

distances are shown in Table I-8. Samples 1, 3, and 4 were adjusted using the taper assumption since 

they were outside the lateral extent of the job. The loadings were divided by the size of the job (10 ft2

) 

and the fraction of lead in the paint (0.019) to estimate the dust loadings per ft2

 disturbed in Table I-8. 

Then, the natural logs of all loadings were used with the distances to estimate the regression 

parameters in Table I-9. Here, intercept is the intercept of the linear regression in log space, and Load at 

0 ft is the assumed loading at 0 ft calculated as exp(intercept). 

The integral was performed over the regression equation out to a distance of 15 ft, (the length of the 

room), and the total mass of dust on the floor was estimated as shown in Table I-10. The estimated 

paint density using the lead fraction was 1.2 g/cm3. Although the vintage of the renovated building was 

unknown, nearby buildings were believed to have been built at the same time and were built in 1920. 

Therefore, the building was assumed to have been built in 1920 and to have 5.0 layers of paint at the 

time of the job. The experiment notes indicated that all paint was removed during the renovation, so all 

5.0 layers were assumed to be removed. These values were used to estimate the total amount of paint 

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Figure I-4. Layout of Window Replacement Experiment 43 

Table I-8. Post-Work Loading Measurements and Adjustments in Experiment 43 

ID 

Dist. 

From 

Wall (ft) 

Lead Loading in 

μg/ft2

(Dust Study) 

Lead Loading in 

μg/ft2

(adjusted) 

Dust Load per 

ft2 Disturbed (mg/ft2

floor/ft2 wall) 

1 1 26,831 29,514 155.34 

2 2 18,223 18,223 95.91 

3 10 1,180 1,573 8.28 

4 14 571 1,141 6.01 

4 18

8

17

Stairs 12

3

7 11

16

15

14 10

6

13 2 9

1 5

Sample number for post-work sample

Sample number for post-cleaning sample

Sample number for post-verification sample

Sample number for additional sample, if needed

Wall of room

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Table I-9. Regression Statistics in Experiment 43

Statistic Value 

Shape -0.26 

Intercept 5.13 

R

2

0.96 

Load at 0 ft (mg/ft2 floor/ft2 disturbed) 169.15 

Table I-10. Estimated Total Dust Emitted, Total 

Paint on Wall, and Emission Fraction in Experiment 43 

Estimated Masses and Emission Fractions Value 

Total Mass of Dust on Floor (mg/ft2 disturbed) 10,215 

Total Paint Removed From Surface (mg/ft2 disturbed) 59,485 

Fraction Emitted 0.172 

I.6.4. Experiment 44 

The geometry of Experiment 44 is shown in Figure I-5, and the measured lead loadings and associated 

distances are shown in Table I-11. Samples 3 and 4 were adjusted using the taper assumption since they 

were outside the lateral extent of the job. The loadings were divided by the size of the job (10 ft2) and 

the fraction of lead in the paint (0.041) to estimate the dust loadings per ft2 disturbed in Table I-11. 

Then, the natural logs of all loadings were used with the distances to estimate the regression 

parameters in Table I-12. Here, intercept is the intercept of the linear regression in log space, and Load 

at 0 ft is the assumed loading at 0 ft calculated as exp(intercept). 

The integral was performed over the regression equation out to a distance of 15 ft, (the length of the 

room), and the total mass of dust on the floor was estimated as shown in Table I-13. The estimated 

paint density using the lead fraction was 1.42 g/cm3

 Although the vintage of the renovated building was 

unknown, nearby buildings were believed to have been built at the same time and were built in 1920. 

Therefore, the building was assumed to have been built in 1920 and to have 5.0 layers of paint at the 

time of the job. The experiment notes indicated that all paint was removed during the renovation, so all 

5.0 layers were assumed to be removed. These values were used to estimate the total amount of paint 

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Figure I-5. Layout of Window Replacement Experiment 44 

Table I-11. Post-Work Loading Measurements and Adjustments in Experiment 44 

ID 

Dist. 

From 

Wall (ft) 

Lead Loading in 

μg/ft2

(Dust Study) 

Lead Loading in 

μg/ft2

(adjusted) 

Dust Load per 

ft2 Disturbed (mg/ft2

floor/ft2 wall) 

1 3 28,492 28, 492 69.49 

2 3 12,960 12,960 31.61 

3 7 1,786 2,084 5.08 

4 11 1,084 2,528 6.17 

18

12 17

8 4

Stairs 11

16

3

7 15

5 1 2 14

6 13 9

10

Sample number for post-work sample

Sample number for post-cleaning sample

Sample number for post-verification sample

Sample number for additional sample, if needed

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Table I-12. Regression Statistics in Experiment 44

Statistic Value 

Shape -0.28 

Intercept 4.47 

R

2

0.72 

Load at 0 ft (mg/ft2 floor/ft2 disturbed) 87.42 

Table I-13. Estimated Total Dust Emitted, Total 

Paint on Wall, and Emission Fraction in Experiment 44 

Estimated Masses and Emission Fractions Value 

Total Mass of Dust on Floor (mg/ft2 disturbed) 4,905 

Total Paint Removed From Surface (mg/ft2 disturbed) 70,797 

Fraction Emitted 0.069 

I.6.5. Experiment 9 

The geometry of Experiment 9 is shown in Figure I-6, and the measured lead loadings and associated 

distances are shown in Table I-14. Samples 1, 2, and 3 were adjusted using the taper assumption since 

they were outside the lateral extent of the job. The loadings were divided by the size of the job (9 ft2) 

and the fraction of lead in the paint (0.073) to estimate the dust loadings per ft2 disturbed in Table I-14. 

Then, the natural logs of all loadings were used with the distances to estimate the regression 

parameters in Table I-15. Here, intercept is the intercept of the linear regression in log space, and Load 

at 0 ft is the assumed loading at 0 ft calculated as exp(intercept). 

The integral was performed over the regression equation out to a distance of 14 ft, (the length of the 

room), and the total mass of dust on the floor was estimated as shown in Table I-16. The estimated 

paint density using the lead fraction was 1.75 g/cm3

. Although the vintage of the renovated building was 

unknown, nearby buildings were believed to have been built at the same time and were built in 1920. 

Therefore, the building was assumed to have been built in 1920 and to have 5.0 layers of paint at the 

time of the job. The experiment notes indicated that all paint was removed during the renovation, so all 

5.0 layers were assumed to be removed. These values were used to estimate the total amount of paint 

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Figure I-6. Layout of Window Replacement Experiment 9 

Table I-14. Post-Work Loading Measurements and Adjustments in Experiment 9 

ID 

Dist. 

From 

Wall (ft) 

Lead Loading in 

μg/ft2

(Dust Study) 

Lead Loading in 

μg/ft2

(adjusted) 

Dust Load per 

ft2 Disturbed (mg/ft2

floor/ft2 wall) 

1 2 11,634 17,450 26.56 

2 3 403 1,610 2.45 

3 6 1,344 10,754 16.37 

4 12 561 561 0.85 

17

4

8

12 16

15 11

3

7 14

2 13 10

5 1

6 9

Sample number for post-work sample

Sample number for post-cleaning sample

Sample number for post-verification smaple

Sample number for additional sample, if needed

Wall of room

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Table I-15. Regression Statistics in Experiment 9

Statistic Value 

Shape -0.25 

Intercept 3.13 

R

2

0.48 

Load at 0 ft (mg/ft2 floor/ft2 disturbed) 22.82 

Table I-16. Estimated Total Dust Emitted, Total 

Paint on Wall, and Emission Fraction in Experiment 9 

Estimated Masses and Emission Fractions Value 

Total Mass of Dust on Floor (mg/ft2 disturbed) 1,160 

Total Paint Removed From Surface (mg/ft2 disturbed) 87,250 

Fraction Emitted 0.013 

I.6.6. Experiment 10 

The geometry of Experiment 10 is shown in Figure I-7, and the measured lead loadings and associated 

distances are shown in Table I-17. Samples 2 and 4 were adjusted using the taper assumption since they 

were outside the lateral extent of the job. The loadings were divided by the size of the job (9 ft2) and the 

fraction of lead in the paint (0.033) to estimate the dust loadings per ft2 disturbed in Table I-17. Then, 

the natural logs of all loadings were used with the distances to estimate the regression parameters in 

Table I-18. Here, intercept is the intercept of the linear regression in log space, and Load at 0 ft is the 

assumed loading at 0 ft calculated as exp(intercept). 

The integral was performed over the regression equation out to a distance of 14 ft, (the length of the 

room), and the total mass of dust on the floor was estimated as shown in Table I-19. The estimated 

paint density using the lead fraction was 1.34 g/cm3

. Although the vintage of the renovated building was 

unknown, nearby buildings were believed to have been built at the same time and were built in 1920. 

Therefore, the building was assumed to have been built in 1920 and to have 5.0 layers of paint at the 

time of the job. The experiment notes indicated that all paint was removed during the renovation, so all 

5.0 layers were assumed to be removed. These values were used to estimate the total amount of paint 

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Figure I-7. Layout of Window Replacement Experiment 10 

Table I-17. Post-Work Loading Measurements and Adjustments in Experiment 10 

ID 

Dist. 

From 

Wall (ft) 

Lead Loading in 

μg/ft2

(Dust Study) 

Lead Loading in 

μg/ft2

(adjusted) 

Dust Load per 

ft2 Disturbed (mg/ft2

floor/ft2 wall) 

1 3 15,817 15,817 53.25 

2 3 14,746 16,384 55.17 

3 6 15,031 15,031 50.61 

4 13 113 132 0.44 

4 17 12

8

16

15 11

3 14

7

1 2 10

9 5

13 6

Sample number for post-work sample

Sample number for post-cleaning sample

Sample number for post-verification smaple

Sample number for additional sample, if needed

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Table I-18. Regression Statistics in Experiment 10

Statistic Value 

Shape -0.49 

Intercept 5.81 

R

2

0.92 

Load at 0 ft (mg/ft2 floor/ft2 disturbed) 333.70 

Table I-19. Estimated Total Dust Emitted, Total 

Paint on Wall, and Emission Fraction in Experiment 10 

Estimated Masses and Emission Fractions Value 

Total Mass of Dust on Floor (mg/ft2 disturbed) 8,920 

Total Paint Removed From Surface (mg/ft2 disturbed) 66,683 

Fraction Emitted 0.134 

I.6.7. Experiment 11 

The geometry of Experiment 11 is shown in Figure I-8, and the measured lead loadings and associated 

distances are shown in Table I-20. No adjustments were made to the loading since all samples were 

within the width of the job. The loadings were divided by the size of the job (18 ft2) and the fraction of 

lead in the paint (0.101) to estimate the dust loadings per ft2 disturbed in Table I-20. Then, the natural 

logs of all loadings were used with the distances to estimate the regression parameters in Table I-21. 

Here, intercept is the intercept of the linear regression in log space, and Load at 0 ft is the assumed 

loading at 0 ft calculated as exp(intercept). 

The integral was performed over the regression equation out to a distance of 14 ft, (the length of the 

room), and the total mass of dust on the floor was estimated as shown in Table I-22. The estimated 

paint density using the lead fraction was 2.04 g/cm3

. Although the vintage of the renovated building was 

unknown, nearby buildings were believed to have been built at the same time and were built in 1920. 

Therefore, the building was assumed to have been built in 1920 and to have 5.0 layers of paint at the 

time of the job. The experiment notes indicated that all paint was removed during the renovation, so all 

5.0 layers were assumed to be removed. These values were used to estimate the total amount of paint 

on the wall, giving a final emission fraction of 0.006. 
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Figure I-8. Layout of Window Replacement Experiment 11 

Table I-20. Post-Work Loading Measurements and Adjustments in Experiment 11 

ID 

Dist. 

From 

Wall (ft) 

Lead Loading in 

μg/ft2

(Dust Study) 

Dust Load per 

ft2 Disturbed (mg/ft2

floor/ft2 wall) 

1 1 11,211 6.17 

2 2 16,203 8.91 

3 6 3,783 2.08 

4 11 2,204 1.21 

17

10

16 2

9

12 15

3 5

1

14

8 4 6

13

11

7

Sample number for post-work sample

Sample number for post-cleaning sample

Sample number for post-verification sample

Sample number for additional sample, if needed

Wall of room

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Table I-21. Regression Statistics in Experiment 11

Statistic Value 

Shape -0.19 

Intercept 2.20 

R

2

0.89 

Load at 0 ft (mg/ft2 floor/ft2 disturbed) 9.0 

Table I-22. Estimated Total Dust Emitted, Total 

Paint on Wall, and Emission Fraction in Experiment 11 

Estimated Masses and Emission Fractions Value 

Total Mass of Dust on Floor (mg/ft2 disturbed) 609.42 

Total Paint Removed From Surface (mg/ft2 disturbed) 101,646 

Fraction Emitted 0.006 

I.6.8. Experiment 12 

The geometry of Experiment 12 is shown in Figure I-9, and the measured lead loadings and associated 

distances are shown in Table I-23. No adjustments were made to the loading since all samples were 

within the width of the job. The loadings were divided by the size of the job (11 ft2) and the fraction of 

lead in the paint (0.072) to estimate the dust loadings per ft2

 disturbed in Table I-23. Then, the natural 

logs of all loadings were used with the distances to estimate the regression parameters in Table I-24. 

Here, intercept is the intercept of the linear regression in log space, and Load at 0 ft is the assumed 

loading at 0 ft calculated as exp(intercept). 

The integral was performed over the regression equation out to a distance of 12 ft, (the length of the 

room), and the total mass of dust on the floor was estimated as shown in Table I-25. The estimated 

paint density using the lead fraction was 1.74 g/cm3. Although the vintage of the renovated building was 

unknown, nearby buildings were believed to have been built at the same time and were built in 1920. 

Therefore, the building was assumed to have been built in 1920 and to have 5.0 layers of paint at the 

time of the job. The experiment notes indicated that all paint was removed during the renovation, so all 

5.0 layers were assumed to be removed. These values were used to estimate the total amount of paint 

on the wall, giving a final emission fraction of 0.005. 
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Figure I-9. Layout of Window Replacement Experiment 12 

Table I-23. Post-Work Loading Measurements and Adjustments in Experiment 12 

ID 

Dist. 

From 

Wall (ft) 

Lead Loading in 

μg/ft2

(Dust Study) 

Dust Load per 

ft2 Disturbed (mg/ft2

floor/ft2 wall) 

1 3 9,757 12.32 

2 2 1,559 1.97 

3 6 2,748 3.47 

4 9 585 0.74 

15

10 9

8

2 6

1 4 14

12

5 3

13

11 7

Sample number for post-work sample

Sample number for post-cleaning sample

Sample number for post-verification sample

Sample number for additional sample, if needed

Wall of room

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Table I-24. Regression Statistics in Experiment 12

Statistic Value 

Shape -0.23 

Intercept 2.20 

R

2

0.40 

Load at 0 ft (mg/ft2 floor/ft2 disturbed) 9.05 

Table I-25. Estimated Total Dust Emitted, Total 

Paint on Wall, and Emission Fraction in Experiment 12 

Estimated Masses and Emission Fractions Value 

Total Mass of Dust on Floor (mg/ft2 disturbed) 472.30 

Total Paint Removed From Surface (mg/ft2 disturbed) 86,736 

Fraction Emitted 0.005 

I.7. Cut Outs 

I.7.1. Experiment 22 

The geometry of Experiment 22 is shown in Figure I-10, but the exact location of the cutouts is 

unknown. Thus, no regression could be performed and the emission fraction is based on the average 

loadings. The loadings were divided by the size of the job (13 ft2) and the fraction of lead in the paint 

(0.036) to estimate the dust loadings per ft2 disturbed in Table I-26. Then, the loadings were averaged 

and multiplied by the area of the room (190 ft2) to get the total mass of dust on the floor, as shown in 

Table I-27. The estimated paint density using the lead fraction was 1.37 g/cm3. Although the vintage of 

the renovated building was unknown, nearby buildings were believed to have been built at the same 

time and were built in 1920. Therefore, the building was assumed to have been built in 1920 and to 

have 5.0 layers of paint at the time of the job. The experiment notes indicated that all paint was 

removed during the renovation, so all 5.0 layers were assumed to be removed. These values were used 

to estimate the total amount of paint on the wall, giving a final emission fraction of 0.011. 
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Figure I-10. Layout of Cut Outs Experiment 22 

Table I-26. Post-Work Loading Measurements and 

Adjustments in Experiment 22

ID 

Lead Loading in 

μg/ft2

(Dust Study) 

Dust Load per 

ft2 Disturbed (mg/ft2

floor/ft2 wall) 

1 84 0.18 

2 1,642 3.51 

3 1,454 3.11 

4 3,935 8.41 

4 2 17 6

8 16 3

15 7

11

5 12

14

10

9

1

13

Sample number for post-work sample

Sample number for post-cleaning sample

Sample number for post-verification sample

Sample number for additional sample, if needed

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Table I-27. Estimated Total Dust Emitted, Total 

Paint on Wall, and Emission Fraction in Experiment 22 

Estimated Masses and Emission Fractions Value 

Total Mass of Dust on Floor (mg/ft2 disturbed) 722 

Total Paint Removed From Surface (mg/ft2 disturbed) 68,226 

Fraction Emitted 0.011 

I.7.2. Experiment 23 

The geometry of Experiment 23 is shown in Figure I-11, but the exact location of the cutouts is 

unknown. Thus, no regression could be performed and the emission fraction is based on the average 

loadings. The loadings were divided by the size of the job (14 ft2

) and the fraction of lead in the paint 

(0.036) to estimate the dust loadings per ft2 disturbed in Table I-28. Then, the loadings were averaged 

and multiplied by the area of the room (190 ft2

) to get the total mass of dust on the floor, as shown in 

Table I-29. The estimated paint density using the lead fraction was 1.37 g/cm3. Although the vintage of 

the renovated building was unknown, nearby buildings were believed to have been built at the same 

time and were built in 1920. Therefore, the building was assumed to have been built in 1920 and to 

have 5.0 layers of paint at the time of the job. The experiment notes indicated that all paint was 

removed during the renovation, so all 5.0 layers were assumed to be removed. These values were used 

to estimate the total amount of paint on the wall, giving a final emission fraction of 0.015. 
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Figure I-11. Layout of Cut Outs Experiment 23 

Table I-28. Post-Work Loading Measurements and 

Adjustments in Experiment 23

ID 

Lead Loading in 

μg/ft2

(Dust Study) 

Dust Load per 

ft2 Disturbed (mg/ft2

floor/ft2 wall) 

1 4,174 8.28 

2 3,469 6.88 

3 313 0.62 

4 3,146 6.24 

17 7 8

4

16

15

1 11 10

14

9 12 5

2 3

13

6

Sample number for post-work sample

Sample number for post-cleaning sample

Sample number for post-verification sample

Sample number for additional sample, if needed

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Table I-29. Estimated Total Dust Emitted, Total 

Paint on Wall, and Emission Fraction in Experiment 23 

Estimated Masses and Emission Fractions Value 

Total Mass of Dust on Floor (mg/ft2 disturbed) 1046 

Total Paint Removed From Surface (mg/ft2 disturbed) 68,226 

Fraction Emitted 0.015 

I.7.3. Experiment 24 

The geometry of Experiment 24 is shown in Figure I-12, but the exact location of the cutouts is 

unknown. Thus, no regression could be performed and the emission fraction is based on the average 

loadings. The loadings were divided by the size of the job (40 ft2) and the fraction of lead in the paint 

(0.05) to estimate the dust loadings per ft2 disturbed in Table I-30. Then, the loadings were averaged 

and multiplied by the area of the room (190 ft2) to get the total mass of dust on the floor, as shown in 

Table I-31. The estimated paint density using the lead fraction was 1.52 g/cm3

. Although the vintage of 

the renovated building was unknown, nearby buildings were believed to have been built at the same 

time and were built in 1920. Therefore, the building was assumed to have been built in 1920 and to 

have 5.0 layers of paint at the time of the job. The experiment notes indicated that all paint was 

removed during the renovation, so all 5.0 layers were assumed to be removed. These values were used 

to estimate the total amount of paint on the wall, giving a final emission fraction of 0.0002.
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Figure I-12. Layout of Cut Outs Experiment 24 

Table I-30. Post-Work Loading Measurements and 

Adjustments in Experiment 24

ID 

Lead Loading in 

μg/ft2

(Dust Study) 

Dust Load per 

ft2 Disturbed (mg/ft2

floor/ft2 wall) 

1 92 0.05 

2 473 0.24 

3 48 0.02 

4 103 0.05 

17

10 3

16

9 1

15 8

14 2

4

5

12

13 7

6 11

Sample number for post-work sample

Sample number for post-cleaning sample

Sample number for post-verification sample

Sample number for additional sample, if needed

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Table I-31. Estimated Total Dust Emitted, Total 

Paint on Wall, and Emission Fraction in Experiment 24 

Estimated Masses and Emission Fractions Value 

Total Mass of Dust on Floor (mg/ft2 disturbed) 17 

Total Paint Removed From Surface (mg/ft2 disturbed) 75,424 

Fraction Emitted 0.0002 

I.7.4. Experiment 25 

The geometry of Experiment 25 is shown in Figure I-13, but the exact location of the cutouts is 

unknown. Thus, no regression could be performed and the emission fraction is based on the average 

loadings. The loadings were divided by the size of the job (14 ft2) and the fraction of lead in the paint 

(0.036) to estimate the dust loadings per ft2 disturbed in Table I-32. Then, the loadings were averaged 

and multiplied by the area of the room (190 ft2) to get the total mass of dust on the floor, as shown in 

Table I-33. The estimated paint density using the lead fraction was 1.37 g/cm3

. Although the vintage of 

the renovated building was unknown, nearby buildings were believed to have been built at the same 

time and were built in 1920. Therefore, the building was assumed to have been built in 1920 and to 

have 5.0 layers of paint at the time of the job. The experiment notes indicated that all paint was 

removed during the renovation, so all 5.0 layers were assumed to be removed. These values were used 

to estimate the total amount of paint on the wall, giving a final emission fraction of 0.0113.
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Figure I-13. Layout of Cut Outs Experiment 25 

Table I-32. Post-Work Loading Measurements and 

Adjustments in Experiment 25

ID 

Lead Loading in 

μg/ft2

(Dust Study) 

Dust Load per 

ft2 Disturbed (mg/ft2

floor/ft2 wall) 

1 127 0.25 

2 2,667 5.29 

3 887 1.76 

4 4,524 8.98 

17

8 12

16

1 4 15

9

2 11 10

14

3

7

5 13 6

Sample number for post-work sample

Sample number for post-cleaning sample

Sample number for post-verification sample

Sample number for additional sample, if needed

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Table I-33. Estimated Total Dust Emitted, Total 

Paint on Wall, and Emission Fraction in Experiment 25 

Estimated Masses and Emission Fractions Value 

Total Mass of Dust on Floor (mg/ft2 disturbed) 733 

Total Paint Removed From Surface (mg/ft2 disturbed) 68,226 

Fraction Emitted 0.011 

I.7.5. Experiment 45 

The geometry of Experiment 45 is shown in Figure I-14, and the measured lead loadings and associated 

distances are shown in Table I-34. Sample 2 was adjusted using the taper assumption since it was 

outside the lateral extent of the job. The loadings were divided by the size of the job (6 ft2) and the 

fraction of lead in the paint (0.018) to estimate the dust loadings per ft2 disturbed in Table I-34. Then, 

the natural logs of all loadings were used with the distances to estimate the regression parameters in 

Table I-35. Here, intercept is the intercept of the linear regression in log space, and Load at 0 ft is the 

assumed loading at 0 ft calculated as exp(intercept). 

The integral was performed over the regression equation out to a distance of 12 ft, (the length of the 

room), and the total mass of dust on the floor was estimated as shown in Table I-36. However, the R2 

was very low, so the average method was used instead of the integral method. The estimated paint 

density using the lead fraction was 1.19 g/cm3. The building was built in 1910, thus, it was assumed to 

have 5.3 layers of paint at the time of the job. The experiment notes indicated that all paint was 

removed during the renovation, so all 5.3 layers were assumed to be removed. These values were used 

to estimate the total amount of paint on the wall, giving a final emission fraction of 0.0264. 
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Figure I-14. Layout of Cut Outs Experiment 45 

Table I-34. Post-Work Loading Measurements and Adjustments in Experiment 45 

ID 

Dist. 

From 

Wall (ft) 

Lead Loading in 

μg/ft2

(Dust Study) 

Lead Loading in 

μg/ft2

(adjusted) 

Dust Load per 

ft2 Disturbed (mg/ft2

floor/ft2 wall) 

1 1 2,101 2,101 19.45 

2 3 110 137 1.27 

3 6 909 909 8.41 

4 12 621 621 5.75 

12 17

6

4 16 1

9

15 11

2

10 5

8 7 14

3

13

Sample number for post-work sample

Sample number for post-cleaning sample

Sample number for post-verification sample

Sample number for additional sample, if needed

Wall of room

Job

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Table I-35. Regression Statistics in Experiment 45

Statistic Value 

Shape -0.02 

Intercept 1.89 

R

2

0.01 

Load at 0 ft (mg/ft2 floor/ft2 disturbed) 6.64 

Table I-36. Estimated Total Dust Emitted, Total 

Paint on Wall, and Emission Fraction in Experiment 45 

Estimated Masses and Emission Fractions Value 

Total Mass of Dust on Floor (mg/ft2 disturbed) 1,558 

Total Paint Removed From Surface (mg/ft2 disturbed) 58,971 

Fraction Emitted 0.011 

I.7.6. Experiment 46 

The geometry of Experiment 46 is shown in Figure I-15, and the measured lead loadings and associated 

distances are shown in Table I-37. Sample 2 was adjusted using the taper assumption since it was 

outside the lateral extent of the job. The loadings were divided by the size of the job (7 ft2) and the 

fraction of lead in the paint (0.018) to estimate the dust loadings per ft2 disturbed in Table I-37. Then, 

the natural logs of all loadings were used with the distances to estimate the regression parameters in 

Table I-38. Here, intercept is the intercept of the linear regression in log space, and Load at 0 ft is the 

assumed loading at 0 ft calculated as exp(intercept). 

The integral was performed over the regression equation out to a distance of 12 ft, (the length of the 

room), and the total mass of dust on the floor was estimated as shown in Table I-39. The estimated 

paint density using the lead fraction was 1.19 g/cm3. The building was built in 1910, thus, it was 

assumed to have 5.3 layers of paint at the time of the job. The experiment notes indicated that all paint 

was removed during the renovation, so all 5.3 layers were assumed to be removed. These values were 

used to estimate the total amount of paint on the wall, giving a final emission fraction of 0.013. 
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Figure I-15. Layout of Cut Outs Experiment 46 

Table I-37. Post-Work Loading Measurements and Adjustments in Experiment 46 

ID 

Dist. 

From 

Wall (ft) 

Lead Loading in 

μg/ft2

(Dust Study) 

Lead Loading in 

μg/ft2

(adjusted) 

Dust Load per 

ft2 Disturbed (mg/ft2

floor/ft2 wall) 

1 3 1,586 1,586 12.59 

2 2 529 794 6.30 

3 6 216 216 1.71 

4 11 90 90 0.71 

17

9

16

5

4

15

3 1

10

7 14 6

8 2

12 11 13

Sample number for post-work sample

Sample number for post-cleaning sample

Sample number for post-verification sample

Sample number for additional sample, if needed

Wall of room

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Table I-38. Regression Statistics in Experiment 46

Statistic Value 

Shape -0.29 

Intercept 2.76 

R

2

0.85 

Load at 0 ft (mg/ft2 floor/ft2 disturbed) 15.75 

Table I-39. Estimated Total Dust Emitted, Total 

Paint on Wall, and Emission Fraction in Experiment 46 

Estimated Masses and Emission Fractions Value 

Total Mass of Dust on Floor (mg/ft2 disturbed) 781.02 

Total Paint Removed From Surface (mg/ft2 disturbed) 58,971 

Fraction Emitted 0.013 

I.7.7. Experiment 71 

The geometry of Experiment 71 is shown in Figure I-16, but the exact location of the cutouts is 

unknown. Thus, no regression could be performed and the emission fraction is based on the average 

loadings. The loadings were divided by the size of the job (6 ft2) and the fraction of lead in the paint 

(0.008) to estimate the dust loadings per ft2 disturbed in Table I-40. Then, the loadings were averaged 

and multiplied by the area of the room (115 ft2) to get the total mass of dust on the floor, as shown in 

Table I-41. The estimated paint density using the lead fraction was 1.08 g/cm3. The building was built in 

1900, thus it was assumed to have 6.2 layers of paint at the time of the job. The experiment notes 

indicated that all paint was removed during the renovation, so all 6.2 layers were assumed to be 

removed. These values were used to estimate the total amount of paint on the wall, giving a final 

emission fraction of 0.001.
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Figure I-16. Layout of Cut Outs Experiment 71 

Table I-40. Post-Work Loading Measurements and 

Adjustments in Experiment 71

ID 

Lead Loading in 

μg/ft2

(Dust Study) 

Dust Load per 

ft2 Disturbed (mg/ft2

floor/ft2 wall) 

1 59 1.23 

2 16 0.34 

3 7 0.15 

4 16 0.34 

Table I-41. Estimated Total Dust Emitted, Total 

Paint on Wall, and Emission Fraction in Experiment 71 

Estimated Masses and Emission Fractions Value 

Total Mass of Dust on Floor (mg/ft2 disturbed) 59 

Total Paint Removed From Surface (mg/ft2 disturbed) 63,279 

Fraction Emitted 0.001 

1

10 15

14

9

2 3 8

6 11 4

7

13

5 12

Sample number for post-work sample

Sample number for post-cleaning sample

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I.7.8. Experiment 72 

The geometry of Experiment 72 is shown in Figure I-17, but the exact location of the cutouts is 

unknown. Thus, no regression could be performed and the emission fraction is based on the average 

loadings. The loadings were divided by the size of the job (7 ft2

) and the fraction of lead in the paint 

(0.01) to estimate the dust loadings per ft2 disturbed in Table I-42. Then, the loadings were averaged 

and multiplied by the area of the room (115 ft2

) to get the total mass of dust on the floor, as shown in 

Table I-43. The estimated paint density using the lead fraction was 1.10 g/cm3. The building was built in 

1900, thus, it was assumed to have 6.2 layers of paint at the time of the job. The experiment notes 

indicated that all paint was removed during the renovation, so all 6.2 layers were assumed to be 

removed. These values were used to estimate the total amount of paint on the wall, giving a final 

emission fraction of 0.0208.

Figure I-17. Layout of Cut Outs Experiment 72 

12

1 15

5

14 7

2 3 4

10 11

9 8

6 13

Sample number for post-work sample

Sample number for post-cleaning sample

Sample number for post-verification smaple

Sample number for additional sample, if needed

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Table I-42. Post-Work Loading Measurements and 

Adjustments in Experiment 72

ID 

Lead Loading in 

μg/ft2

(Dust Study) 

Dust Load per 

ft2 Disturbed (mg/ft2

floor/ft2 wall) 

1 2,995 42.78 

2 55 0.79 

3 40 0.58 

4 174 2.48 

Table I-43. Estimated Total Dust Emitted, Total 

Paint on Wall, and Emission Fraction in Experiment 72 

Estimated Masses and Emission Fractions Value 

Total Mass of Dust on Floor (mg/ft2 disturbed) 1341 

Total Paint Removed From Surface (mg/ft2 disturbed) 64,488 

Fraction Emitted 0.021 

I.7.9. Experiment 52 

The geometry of Experiment 52 is shown in Figure I-18, but the exact location of the cutouts is 

unknown. Thus, no regression could be performed and the emission fraction is based on the average 

loadings. The loadings were divided by the size of the job (6 ft2) and the fraction of lead in the paint 

(0.095) to estimate the dust loadings per ft2

 disturbed in Table I-44. Then, the loadings were averaged 

and multiplied by the area of the room (120 ft2) to get the total mass of dust on the floor, as shown in 

Table I-45. The estimated paint density using the lead fraction was 1.98 g/cm3. The school was built in 

1967, thus, it was assumed to have 3.3 layers of paint at the time of the job. The experiment notes 

indicated that all paint was removed during the renovation, so all 3.3 layers were assumed to be 

removed. These values were used to estimate the total amount of paint on the wall, giving a final 

emission fraction of 0.003.
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Figure I-18. Layout of Cut Outs Experiment52 

Table I-44. Post-Work Loading Measurements and 

Adjustments in Experiment 52

ID 

Lead Loading in 

μg/ft2

(Dust Study) 

Dust Load per 

ft2 Disturbed (mg/ft2

floor/ft2 wall) 

1 1,101 1.93 

2 1,154 2.02 

3 453 0.79 

4 220 0.39 

Table I-45. Estimated Total Dust Emitted, Total 

Paint on Wall, and Emission Fraction in Experiment 52 

Estimated Masses and Emission Fractions Value 

Total Mass of Dust on Floor (mg/ft2 disturbed) 154 

Total Paint Removed From Surface (mg/ft2 disturbed) 61,859 

Fraction Emitted 0.003 

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I.7.10. Experiment 53 

The geometry of Experiment 53 is shown in Figure I-19, but the exact location of the cutouts is 

unknown. Thus, no regression could be performed and the emission fraction is based on the average 

loadings. The loadings were divided by the size of the job (6 ft2

) and the fraction of lead in the paint 

(0.074) to estimate the dust loadings per ft2

 disturbed in Table I-46. Then, the loadings were averaged 

and multiplied by the area of the room (120 ft2) to get the total mass of dust on the floor, as shown in 

Table I-47. The estimated paint density using the lead fraction was 1.77 g/cm3. The school was built in 

1967, thus, it was assumed to have 3.3 layers of paint at the time of the job. The experiment notes 

indicated that all paint was removed during the renovation, so all 3.3 layers were assumed to be 

removed. These values were used to estimate the total amount of paint on the wall, giving a final 

emission fraction of 0.005.

Figure I-19. Layout of Cut Outs Experiment 53 

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15 6 10

5 1 9

3 7

11

14

12 8

13

4

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Table I-46. Post-Work Loading Measurements and 

Adjustments in Experiment 53

ID 

Lead Loading in 

μg/ft2

(Dust Study) 

Dust Load per 

ft2 Disturbed (mg/ft2

floor/ft2 wall) 

1 880 1.98 

2 3,005 6.77 

3 234 0.53 

4 128 0.29 

Table I-47. Estimated Total Dust Emitted, Total 

Paint on Wall, and Emission Fraction in Experiment 53 

Estimated Masses and Emission Fractions Value 

Total Mass of Dust on Floor (mg/ft2 disturbed) 287 

Total Paint Removed From Surface (mg/ft2 disturbed) 55,082 

Fraction Emitted 0.005 

I.7.11. Experiment 54 

The geometry of Experiment 54 is shown in Figure I-20, but the exact location of the cutouts is 

unknown. Thus, no regression could be performed and the emission fraction is based on the average 

loadings. The loadings were divided by the size of the job (6 ft2) and the fraction of lead in the paint 

(0.074) to estimate the dust loadings per ft2

 disturbed in Table I-48. Then, the loadings were averaged 

and multiplied by the area of the room (120 ft2) to get the total mass of dust on the floor, as shown in 

Table I-49. The estimated paint density using the lead fraction was 1.77 g/cm3. The school was built in 

1967, thus, it was assumed to have 3.3 layers of paint at the time of the job. The experiment notes 

indicated that all paint was removed during the renovation, so all 3.3 layers were assumed to be 

removed. These values were used to estimate the total amount of paint on the wall, giving a final 

emission fraction of 0.006.
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Figure I-20. Layout of Cut Outs Experiment 54 

Table I-48. Post-Work Loading Measurements and 

Adjustments in Experiment 54

ID 

Lead Loading in 

μg/ft2

(Dust Study) 

Dust Load per 

ft2 Disturbed (mg/ft2

floor/ft2 wall) 

1 1,991 4.48 

2 1,381 3.11 

3 712 1.60 

4 841 1.90 

5

9 2 6 1

10

7 3

13 11

4 15

12 14

8

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Sample number for additional sample, if needed

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Table I-49. Estimated Total Dust Emitted, Total 

Paint on Wall, and Emission Fraction in Experiment 54 

Estimated Masses and Emission Fractions Value 

Total Mass of Dust on Floor (mg/ft2 disturbed) 333 

Total Paint Removed From Surface (mg/ft2 disturbed) 55,082 

Fraction Emitted 0.006 

I.7.12. Experiment 55 

The geometry of Experiment 55 is shown in Figure I-21, but the exact location of the cutouts is 

unknown. Thus, no regression could be performed and the emission fraction is based on the average 

loadings. The loadings were divided by the size of the job (6 ft2) and the fraction of lead in the paint 

(0.074) to estimate the dust loadings per ft2

 disturbed in Table I-50. Then, the loadings were averaged 

and multiplied by the area of the room (120 ft2) to get the total mass of dust on the floor, as shown in 

Table I-51. The estimated paint density using the lead fraction was 1.77 g/cm3. The school was built in 

1967, thus, it was assumed to have 3.3 layers of paint at the time of the job. The experiment notes 

indicated that all paint was removed during the renovation, so all 3.3 layers were assumed to be 

removed. These values were used to estimate the total amount of paint on the wall, giving a final 

emission fraction of 0.005.
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Figure I-21. Layout of Cut Outs Experiment 55 

Table I-50. Post-Work Loading Measurements and 

Adjustments in Experiment 55

ID 

Lead Loading in 

μg/ft2

(Dust Study) 

Dust Load per 

ft2 Disturbed (mg/ft2

floor/ft2 wall) 

1 1,793 4.04 

2 1,655 3.73 

3 271 0.61 

4 124 0.28 

2 1 14

6 5 15

9 10

13

3 7

11

12 8

4

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Table I-51. Estimated Total Dust Emitted, Total 

Paint on Wall, and Emission Fraction in Experiment 55 

Estimated Masses and Emission Fractions Value 

Total Mass of Dust on Floor (mg/ft2 disturbed) 260 

Total Paint Removed From Surface (mg/ft2 disturbed) 55,082 

Fraction Emitted 0.005 

I.8. Door Plane 

I.8.1. Experiment 77 

The geometry of Experiment 77 is shown in Figure I-22, but the exact location of the door is unknown. 

Thus, no regression could be performed and the emission fraction is based on the average loadings. The 

loadings were divided by the size of the job (26 ft2) and the fraction of lead in the paint (0.017) to 

estimate the dust loadings per ft2 disturbed in Table I-52. Then, the loadings were averaged and 

multiplied by the area of the room (180 ft2

) to get the total mass of dust on the floor, as shown in Table 

I-53. The estimated paint density using the lead fraction was 1.18 g/cm3. The building was built in 1910, 

thus, it was assumed to have 5.3 layers of paint at the time of the job. The experiment notes indicated 

that all paint was removed during the renovation, so all 5.3 layers were assumed to be removed. These 

values were used to estimate the total amount of paint on the wall, giving a final emission fraction of 

0.216.
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Figure I-22. Layout of Door Plane Experiment 77 

Table I-52. Post-Work Loading Measurements and 

Adjustments in Experiment 77

ID 

Lead Loading in 

μg/ft2

(Dust Study) 

Dust Load per 

ft2 Disturbed (mg/ft2

floor/ft2 wall) 

1 31,648 71.60 

2 36,137 81.76 

3 34,162 231.87 

4 21,771 73.88 

17 3

12

9

6 1

16 11

2 10

15 5

8

14

4 13 7

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Table I-53. Estimated Total Dust Emitted, Total 

Paint on Wall, and Emission Fraction in Experiment 77 

Estimated Masses and Emission Fractions Value 

Total Mass of Dust on Floor (mg/ft2 disturbed) 12,596 

Total Paint Removed From Surface (mg/ft2 disturbed) 58,457 

Fraction Emitted 0.216 

I.8.2. Experiment 78 

The geometry of Experiment 78 is shown in Figure I-23, but the exact location of the door during the 

experiment is unknown. Thus, no regression could be performed and the emission fraction is based on 

the average loadings. The loadings were divided by the size of the job (25 ft2

) and the fraction of lead in 

the paint (0.02) to estimate the dust loadings per ft2 disturbed in Table I-54. Then, the loadings were 

averaged and multiplied by the area of the room (180 ft2) to get the total mass of dust on the floor, as 

shown in Table I-55. The estimated paint density using the lead fraction was 1.21 g/cm3. The building 

was built in 1910, thus, it was assumed to have 5.3 layers of paint at the time of the job. The experiment 

notes indicated that all paint was removed during the renovation, so all 5.3 layers were assumed to be 

removed. These values were used to estimate the total amount of paint on the wall, giving a final 

emission fraction of 0.161.
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Figure I-23. Layout of Door Plane Experiment 78 

Table I-54. Post-Work Loading Measurements and 

Adjustments in Experiment 78

ID 

Lead Loading in 

μg/ft2

(Dust Study) 

Dust Load per 

ft2 Disturbed (mg/ft2

floor/ft2 wall) 

1 36,423 72.85 

2 38,237 114.71 

3 27,352 54.70 

4 4,999 15.00 

4 17 11 2 10

6

3 16

7

15

12

9 14

5

1

8 13

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Table I-55. Estimated Total Dust Emitted, Total 

Paint on Wall, and Emission Fraction in Experiment 78 

Estimated Masses and Emission Fractions Value 

Total Mass of Dust on Floor (mg/ft2 disturbed) 9,631 

Total Paint Removed From Surface (mg/ft2 disturbed) 59,999 

Fraction Emitted 0.161 

I.8.3. Experiment 79 

The geometry of Experiment 79 is shown in Figure I-24, but the exact location of the door during the 

experiment is unknown. Thus, no regression could be performed and the emission fraction is based on 

the average loadings. Sample 2 was adjusted using the taper assumption since it was outside the lateral 

extent of the job. The loadings were divided by the size of the job (32 ft2

) and the fraction of lead in the 

paint (0.021) to estimate the dust loadings per ft2 disturbed in Table I-56. Then, the loadings were 

averaged and multiplied by the area of the room (140 ft2) to get the total mass of dust on the floor, as 

shown in Table I-57. The estimated paint density using the lead fraction was 1.22 g/cm3

. Although the 

vintage of the renovated building was unknown, nearby buildings were believed to have been built at 

the same time and were built in 1920. Therefore, the building was assumed to have been built in 1920 

and to have 5.0 layers of paint at the time of the job. The experiment notes indicated that all paint was 

removed during the renovation, so all 5.0 layers were assumed to be removed. These values were used 

to estimate the total amount of paint on the wall, giving a final emission fraction of 0.120. 
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Figure I-24. Layout of Door Plane Experiment 79 

Table I-56. Post-Work Loading Measurements and 

Adjustments in Experiment 79

ID 

Lead Loading in 

μg/ft2

(Dust Study) 

Dust Load per 

ft2 Disturbed (mg/ft2

floor/ft2 wall) 

1 72,601 108.04 

2 31,651 70.65 

3 22,105 32.89 

4 13,484 20.07 

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2 7

9

15 12

6

3

5 14 4

1

10 8

13

11

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Table I-57. Estimated Total Dust Emitted, Total 

Paint on Wall, and Emission Fraction in Experiment 79 

Estimated Masses and Emission Fractions Value 

Total Mass of Dust on Floor (mg/ft2 disturbed) 7,283 

Total Paint Removed From Surface (mg/ft2 disturbed) 60,513 

Fraction Emitted 0.120 

I.8.4. Experiment 80 

The geometry of Experiment 80 is shown in Figure I-25, but the exact location of the door during the 

experiment is unknown. Thus, no regression could be performed and the emission fraction is based on 

the average loadings. No adjustments were made to the loading since all samples were within the width 

of the job. The loadings were divided by the size of the job (40 ft2) and the fraction of lead in the paint 

(0.059) to estimate the dust loadings per ft2 disturbed in Table I-58. Then, the loadings were averaged 

and multiplied by the area of the room (180 ft2) to get the total mass of dust on the floor, as shown in 

Table I-59. The estimated paint density using the lead fraction was 1.61 g/cm3

. Although the vintage of 

the renovated building was unknown, nearby buildings were believed to have been built at the same 

time and were built in 1920. Therefore, the building was assumed to have been built in 1920 and to 

have 5.0 layers of paint at the time of the job. The experiment notes indicated that all paint was 

removed during the renovation, so all 5.0 layers were assumed to be removed. These values were used 

to estimate the total amount of paint on the wall, giving a final emission fraction of 0.095.
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Figure I-25. Layout of Door Plane Experiment 80 

Table I-58. Post-Work Loading Measurements and 

Adjustments in Experiment 80

ID 

Lead Loading in 

μg/ft2

(Dust Study) 

Dust Load per 

ft2 Disturbed (mg/ft2

floor/ft2 wall) 

1 49,254 20.87 

2 166,383 70.50 

3 140,057 59.35 

4 41,628 17.64 

12 7

17

4

16

8 15

2 1

11 5

14

3 9 6

10

13

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Table I-59. Estimated Total Dust Emitted, Total 

Paint on Wall, and Emission Fraction in Experiment 80 

Estimated Masses and Emission Fractions Value 

Total Mass of Dust on Floor (mg/ft2 disturbed) 7,576 

Total Paint Removed From Surface (mg/ft2 disturbed) 80,051 

Fraction Emitted 0.095 

I.8.5. Experiment 47 

The geometry of Experiment 47 is shown in Figure I-26, but the exact location of the door during the 

experiment is unknown. Thus, no regression could be performed and the emission fraction is based on 

the average loadings. Sample 2 was adjusted using the taper assumption since it was outside the lateral 

extent of the job. The loadings were divided by the size of the job (40 ft2

) and the fraction of lead in the 

paint (0.039) to estimate the dust loadings per ft2 disturbed in Table I-60. Then, the loadings were 

averaged and multiplied by the area of the room (180 ft2) to get the total mass of dust on the floor, as 

shown in Table I-61. The estimated paint density using the lead fraction was 1.40 g/cm3. The building 

was built in 1910, thus, it was assumed to have 5.3 layers of paint at the time of the job. The 

experiment notes indicated that all paint was removed during the renovation, so all 5.3 layers were 

assumed to be removed. These values were used to estimate the total amount of paint on the wall, 

giving a final emission fraction of 0.109.
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Figure I-26. Layout of Door Plane Experiment 47 

Table I-60. Post-Work Loading Measurements and 

Adjustments in Experiment 47

ID 

Lead Loading in 

μg/ft2

(Dust Study) 

Dust Load per 

ft2 Disturbed (mg/ft2

floor/ft2 wall) 

1 209,798 134.49 

2 30,305 38.85 

3 11,958 7.67 

4 11,267 7.22 

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12

5

16

10 15

1 9

6 3

7 14 4

11 8

13

2

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Table I-61. Estimated Total Dust Emitted, Total 

Paint on Wall, and Emission Fraction in Experiment 47 

Estimated Masses and Emission Fractions Value 

Total Mass of Dust on Floor (mg/ft2 disturbed) 7,596 

Total Paint Removed From Surface (mg/ft2 disturbed) 69,768 

Fraction Emitted 0.109 

I.8.6. Experiment 48 

The geometry of Experiment 48 is shown in Figure I-27, but the exact location of the door during the 

experiment is unknown. Thus, no regression could be performed and the emission fraction is based on 

the average loadings. The loadings were divided by the size of the job (40 ft2) and the fraction of lead in 

the paint (0.078) to estimate the dust loadings per ft2 disturbed in Table I-62. Then, the loadings were 

averaged and multiplied by the area of the room (180 ft2

) to get the total mass of dust on the floor, as 

shown in Table I-63. The estimated paint density using the lead fraction was 1.81 g/cm3. The building 

was built in 1910, thus, it was assumed to have 5.3 layers of paint at the time of the job. The 

experiment notes indicated that all paint was removed during the renovation, so all 5.3 layers were 

assumed to be removed. These values were used to estimate the total amount of paint on the wall, 

giving a final emission fraction of 0.039. 
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Figure I-27. Layout of Door Plane Experiment 48 

Table I-62. Post-Work Loading Measurements and 

Adjustments in Experiment 48

ID 

Lead Loading in 

μg/ft2

(Dust Study) 

Dust Load per 

ft2 Disturbed (mg/ft2

floor/ft2 wall) 

1 81,228 26.03 

2 57,536 18.44 

3 68,305 21.89 

4 38,101 30.53 

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16 10

7 2 6

15 11 1

5

8 3 14

12 

13 9

4

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Sample number for additional sample, if needed

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Table I-63. Estimated Total Dust Emitted, Total 

Paint on Wall, and Emission Fraction in Experiment 48 

Estimated Masses and Emission Fractions Value 

Total Mass of Dust on Floor (mg/ft2 disturbed) 3,536 

Total Paint Removed From Surface (mg/ft2 disturbed) 89,821 

Fraction Emitted 0.039 

I.8.7. Experiment 73 

The geometry of Experiment 73 is shown in Figure I-28, but the exact location of the door during the 

experiment is unknown. Thus, no regression could be performed and the emission fraction is based on 

the average loadings. The loadings were divided by the size of the job (31 ft2) and the fraction of lead in 

the paint (0.012) to estimate the dust loadings per ft2

 disturbed in Table I-64. Then, the loadings were 

averaged and multiplied by the area of the room (115 ft2) to get the total mass of dust on the floor, as 

shown in Table I-65. The estimated paint density using the lead fraction was 1.12 g/cm3. The building 

was built in 1900, thus, it was assumed to have 6.2 layers of paint at the time of the job. The 

experiment notes indicated that all paint was removed during the renovation, so all 6.2 layers were 

assumed to be removed. These values were used to estimate the total amount of paint on the wall, 

giving a final emission fraction of 0.107.
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Figure I-28. Layout of Door Plane Experiment 73 

Table I-64. Post-Work Loading Measurements and 

Adjustments in Experiment 73

ID 

Lead Loading in 

μg/ft2

(Dust Study) 

Dust Load per 

ft2 Disturbed (mg/ft2

floor/ft2 wall) 

1 16,511 44.38 

2 29,248 78.62 

3 17,936 48.21 

4 27,380 73.60 

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2 3

9

10 6

14

4

1 11

13 8 12

5

7

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Table I-65. Estimated Total Dust Emitted, Total 

Paint on Wall, and Emission Fraction in Experiment 73 

Estimated Masses and Emission Fractions Value 

Total Mass of Dust on Floor (mg/ft2 disturbed) 7,039 

Total Paint Removed From Surface (mg/ft2 disturbed) 65,697 

Fraction Emitted 0.117 

I.8.8. Experiment 74 

The geometry of Experiment 74 is shown in Figure I-29, but the exact location of the door during the 

experiment is unknown. Thus, no regression could be performed and the emission fraction is based on 

the average loadings. The loadings were divided by the size of the job (26 ft2) and the fraction of lead in 

the paint (0.032) to estimate the dust loadings per ft2

 disturbed in Table I-66. Then, the loadings were 

averaged and multiplied by the area of the room (115 ft2

) to get the total mass of dust on the floor, as 

shown in Table I-67. The estimated paint density using the lead fraction was 1.33 g/cm3. The building 

was built in 1900, thus, it was assumed to have 6.2 layers of paint at the time of the job. The 

experiment notes indicated that all paint was removed during the renovation, so all 6.2 layers were 

assumed to be removed. These values were used to estimate the total amount of paint on the wall, 

giving a final emission fraction of 0.040.
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Figure I-29. Layout of Door Plane Experiment 74 

Table I-66. Post-Work Loading Measurements and 

Adjustments in Experiment 74

ID 

Lead Loading in 

μg/ft2

(Dust Study) 

Dust Load per 

ft2 Disturbed (mg/ft2

floor/ft2 wall) 

1 17,982 21.61 

2 26,293 31.60 

3 13,378 16.08 

4 33,363 40.10 

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10

2 11

8

5 3

9 14

1 4 12

6

13

7

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Table I-67. Estimated Total Dust Emitted, Total 

Paint on Wall, and Emission Fraction in Experiment 74 

Estimated Masses and Emission Fractions Value 

Total Mass of Dust on Floor (mg/ft2 disturbed) 3,145 

Total Paint Removed From Surface (mg/ft2 disturbed) 77,785 

Fraction Emitted 0.040 

I.9. Dry Scrape 

I.9.1. Experiment 5 

The geometry of Experiment 5 is shown in Figure I-30, and the measured lead loadings and associated 

distances are shown in Table I-68. No adjustments were made to the loadings since all samples were 

within the width of the job. The loadings were divided by the size of the job (90 ft2) and the fraction of 

lead in the paint (0.016) to estimate the dust loadings per ft2 disturbed in Table I-68. Then, the natural 

logs of all loadings were used with the distances to estimate the regression parameters in Table I-69. 

Here, intercept is the intercept of the linear regression in log space, and Load at 0 ft is the assumed 

loading at 0 ft calculated as exp(intercept). 

The integral was performed over the regression equation out to a distance of 13 ft, (the length of the 

room), and the total mass of dust on the floor was estimated as shown in Table I-70. The estimated 

paint density using the lead fraction was 1.17 g/cm3

. Although the vintage of the renovated building was 

unknown, nearby buildings were believed to have been built at the same time and were built in 1920. 

Therefore, the building was assumed to have been built in 1920 and to have 5.0 layers of paint at the 

time of the job. The experiment notes indicated that all paint was removed during the renovation, so all 

5.0 layers were assumed to be removed. These values were used to estimate the total amount of paint 

on the wall, giving a final emission fraction of 0.003. 
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Figure I-30. Layout of Dry Scrap Experiment 5 

Table I-68. Post-Work Loading Measurements and Adjustments in Experiment 5 

ID 

Dist. 

From 

Wall (ft) 

Lead Loading in 

μg/ft2

(Dust Study) 

Dust Load per 

ft2 Disturbed (mg/ft2

floor/ft2 wall) 

1 2 3,067 2.13 

2 4 1,289 0.90 

3 5 1,122 0.78 

4 12 1,289 0.90 

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4

12

16 8

11

15

7 3

6 2 14

1 9 10

13 5

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Sample number for post-cleaning sample

Sample number for post-verification sample

Sample number for additional sample, if needed

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Table I-69. Regression Statistics in Experiment 5

Statistic Value 

Shape -0.06 

Intercept 0.39 

R

2

0.27 

Load at 0 ft (mg/ft2 floor/ft2 disturbed) 1.48 

Table I-70. Estimated Total Dust Emitted, Total 

Paint on Wall, and Emission Fraction in Experiment 5 

Estimated Masses and Emission Fractions Value 

Total Mass of Dust on Floor (mg/ft2 disturbed) 178 

Total Paint Removed From Surface (mg/ft2 disturbed) 57,943 

Fraction Emitted 0.003 

I.9.2. Experiment 6 

The geometry of Experiment 6 is shown in Figure I-31, and, the measured lead loadings and associated 

distances are shown in Table I-71. No adjustments were made to the loadings since all samples were 

within the width of the job. The loadings were divided by the size of the job (90 ft2) and the fraction of 

lead in the paint (0.027) to estimate the dust loadings per ft2 disturbed in Table I-71. Then, the natural 

logs of all loadings were used with the distances to estimate the regression parameters in Table I-72. 

Here, intercept is the intercept of the linear regression in log space, and Load at 0 ft is the assumed 

loading at 0 ft calculated as exp(intercept). 

The integral was performed over the regression equation out to a distance of 13 ft, (the length of the 

room), and the total mass of dust on the floor was estimated as shown in Table I-73. The estimated 

paint density using the lead fraction was 1.28 g/cm3. Although the vintage of the renovated building was 

unknown, nearby buildings were believed to have been built at the same time and were built in 1920. 

Therefore, the building was assumed to have been built in 1920 and to have 5.0 layers of paint at the 

time of the job. The experiment notes indicated that not all paint was removed during the renovation, 

so it was assumed that only 15% of the paint (or .8 layers) were removed. These values were used to 

estimate the total amount of paint on the wall, giving a final emission fraction of 0.032. 
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Figure I-31. Layout of Dry Scrap Experiment 6 

Table I-71. Post-Work Loading Measurements and Adjustments in Experiment 6 

ID 

Dist. 

From 

Wall (ft) 

Lead Loading in 

μg/ft2

(Dust Study) 

Dust Load per 

ft2 Disturbed (mg/ft2

floor/ft2 wall) 

1 1 7,357 3.03 

2 1 4,158 1.71 

3 7 2,886 1.19 

4 9 5,358 2.20 

Table I-72. Regression Statistics in Experiment 6

Statistic Value 

Shape -0.03 

Intercept 0.81 

R

2

0.13 

Load at 0 ft (mg/ft2 floor/ft2 disturbed) 2.24 

17

12

2 6 16 3

9

5 8

10 15

7 4

14

11

1 13

Sample number for post-work sample

Sample number for post-cleaning sample

Sample number for post-verification sample

Sample number for additional sample, if needed

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Table I-73. Estimated Total Dust Emitted, Total 

Paint on Wall, and Emission Fraction in Experiment 6 

Estimated Masses and Emission Fractions Value 

Total Mass of Dust on Floor (mg/ft2 disturbed) 305 

Total Paint Removed From Surface (mg/ft2 disturbed) 9,540 

Fraction Emitted 0.032 

I.9.3. Experiment 7 

The geometry of Experiment 7 is shown in Figure I-32, and the measured lead loadings and associated 

distances are shown in Table I-74. No adjustments were made to the loadings since all samples were 

within the width of the job. The loadings were divided by the size of the job (70 ft2) and the fraction of 

lead in the paint (0.017) to estimate the dust loadings per ft2

 disturbed in Table I-74. Then, the natural 

logs of all loadings were used with the distances to estimate the regression parameters in Table I-75. 

Here, intercept is the intercept of the linear regression in log space, and Load at 0 ft is the assumed 

loading at 0 ft calculated as exp(intercept). 

The integral was performed over the regression equation out to a distance of 13 ft, (the length of the 

room), and the total mass of dust on the floor was estimated as shown in Table I-76. The estimated 

paint density using the lead fraction was 1.18 g/cm3. Although the vintage of the renovated building was 

unknown, nearby buildings were believed to have been built at the same time and were built in 1920. 

Therefore, the building was assumed to have been built in 1920 and to have 5.0 layers of paint at the 

time of the job. The experiment notes indicated that not all paint was removed during the renovation, 

so it was assumed that only 15% of the paint (or .8 layers) were removed. These values were used to 

estimate the total amount of paint on the wall, giving a final emission fraction of 0.062. 
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Figure I-32. Layout of Dry Scrap Experiment 7 

Table I-74. Post-Work Loading Measurements and Adjustments in Experiment 7 

ID 

Dist. 

From 

Wall (ft) 

Lead Loading in 

μg/ft2

(Dust Study) 

Dust Load per 

ft2 Disturbed (mg/ft2

floor/ft2 wall) 

1 2 15.427 12.96 

2 1 5,949 5.00 

3 7 3,146 2.64 

4 10 256 0.21 

Table I-75. Regression Statistics in Experiment 7

Statistic Value 

Shape -0.37 

Intercept 2.74 

R

2

0.79 

Load at 0 ft (mg/ft2 floor/ft2 disturbed) 15.50 

2 5

1 9 17 10

16 6

15

3 7

11

14

4

12

8

13

Sample number for post-work sample

Sample number for post-cleaning sample

Sample number for post-verification sample

Sample number for additional sample, if needed

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Table I-76. Estimated Total Dust Emitted, Total 

Paint on Wall, and Emission Fraction in Experiment 7 

Estimated Masses and Emission Fractions Value 

Total Mass of Dust on Floor (mg/ft2 disturbed) 543 

Total Paint Removed From Surface (mg/ft2 disturbed) 8,768 

Fraction Emitted 0.062 

I.9.4. Experiment 8 

The geometry of Experiment 8 is shown in Figure I-33, and the measured lead loadings and associated 

distances are shown in Table I-77. No adjustments were made to the loadings since all samples were 

within the width of the job. The loadings were divided by the size of the job (110 ft2) and the fraction of 

lead in the paint (0.017) to estimate the dust loadings per ft2 disturbed in Table I-77. Then, the natural 

logs of all loadings were used with the distances to estimate the regression parameters in Table I-78. 

Here, intercept is the intercept of the linear regression in log space, and Load at 0 ft is the assumed 

loading at 0 ft calculated as exp(intercept). 

The integral was performed over the regression equation out to a distance of 13 ft, (the length of the 

room), and the total mass of dust on the floor was estimated as shown in Table I-79. The estimated 

paint density using the lead fraction was 1.18 g/cm3. Although the vintage of the renovated building was 

unknown, nearby buildings were believed to have been built at the same time and were built in 1920. 

Therefore, the building was assumed to have been built in 1920 and to have 5.0 layers of paint at the 

time of the job. The experiment notes indicated that not all paint was removed during the renovation, 

so it was assumed that only 15% of the paint (or .8 layers) were removed. These values were used to 

estimate the total amount of paint on the wall, giving a final emission fraction of 0.059. 
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Figure I-33. Layout of Dry Scrap Experiment 8 

Table I-77. Post-Work Loading Measurements and Adjustments in Experiment 8 

ID 

Dist. 

From 

Wall (ft) 

Lead Loading in 

μg/ft2

(Dust Study) 

Dust Load per 

ft2 Disturbed (mg/ft2

floor/ft2 wall) 

1 2 5,710 3.05 

2 2 4,886 2.61 

3 4 48,440 25.90 

4 9 69 0.04 

Table I-78. Regression Statistics in Experiment 8

Statistic Value 

Shape -0.65 

Intercept 3.25 

R

2

0.60 

Load at 0 ft (mg/ft2 floor/ft2 disturbed) 25.86 

8 17 5

7

16 1

15 3

11

12 14 10 9

4 6

2

13

Sample number for post-work sample

Sample number for post-cleaning sample

Sample number for post-verification sample

Sample number for additional sample, if needed

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Table I-79. Estimated Total Dust Emitted, Total 

Paint on Wall, and Emission Fraction in Experiment 8 

Estimated Masses and Emission Fractions Value 

Total Mass of Dust on Floor (mg/ft2 disturbed) 521 

Total Paint Removed From Surface (mg/ft2 disturbed) 8,768 

Fraction Emitted 0.059 

I.9.5. Experiment 26 

The geometry of Experiment 26 is shown in Figure I-34, and the measured lead loadings and associated 

distances are shown in Table I-80. Sample 3 was adjusted using the taper assumption since it was 

outside the lateral extent of the job. The loadings were divided by the size of the job (60 ft2

) and the 

fraction of lead in the paint (0.021) to estimate the dust loadings per ft2 disturbed in Table I-80. Then, 

the natural logs of all loadings were used with the distances to estimate the regression parameters in 

Table I-81. Here, intercept is the intercept of the linear regression in log space, and Load at 0 ft is the 

assumed loading at 0 ft calculated as exp(intercept). 

The integral was performed over the regression equation out to a distance of 12 ft, (the length of the 

room), and the total mass of dust on the floor was estimated as shown in Table I-82. The estimated 

paint density using the lead fraction was 1.22 g/cm3. Although the vintage of the renovated building 

was unknown, nearby buildings were believed to have been built at the same time and were built in 

1920. Therefore, the building was assumed to have been built in 1920 and to have 5.0 layers of paint at 

the time of the job. The experiment notes indicated that not all paint was removed during the 

renovation, so it was assumed that only 15% of the paint (or .8 layers) were removed. These values were 

used to estimate the total amount of paint on the wall, giving a final emission fraction of 0.048. 
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Figure I-34. Layout of Dry Scrap Experiment 26 

Table I-80. Post-Work Loading Measurements and Adjustments in Experiment 26 

ID 

Dist. 

From 

Wall (ft) 

Lead Loading in 

μg/ft2

(Dust Study) 

Lead Loading in 

μg/ft2

(adjusted) 

Dust Load per 

ft2 Disturbed (mg/ft2

floor/ft2 wall) 

1 1 2,623 2,623 2.08 

2 2 4,668 4,668 3.71 

3 4 2,254 3,006 2.39 

4 13 2,033 2,033 1.61 

Table I-81. Regression Statistics in Experiment 26

Statistic Value 

Shape -0.04 

Intercept 1.06 

R

2

0.47 

Load at 0 ft (mg/ft2 floor/ft2 disturbed) 2.90 

8 4 17 12

16

15

7 3 11

5

14 2

6 1

10

Stairs

13 9

Sample number for post-work sample

Sample number for post-cleaning sample

Sample number for post-verification sample

Sample number for additional sample, if needed

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Table I-82. Estimated Total Dust Emitted, Total 

Paint on Wall, and Emission Fraction in Experiment 26 

Estimated Masses and Emission Fractions Value 

Total Mass of Dust on Floor (mg/ft2 disturbed) 434 

Total Paint Removed From Surface (mg/ft2 disturbed) 9,077 

Fraction Emitted 0.049 

I.9.6. Experiment 27 

The geometry of Experiment 27 is shown in Figure I-35, and the measured lead loadings and associated 

distances are shown in Table I-83. No adjustments were made to the loadings since all samples were 

within the width of the job. The loadings were divided by the size of the job (64 ft2) and the fraction of 

lead in the paint (0.025) to estimate the dust loadings per ft2

 disturbed in Table I-83. Then, the natural 

logs of all loadings were used with the distances to estimate the regression parameters in Table I-84. 

Here, intercept is the intercept of the linear regression in log space, and Load at 0 ft is the assumed 

loading at 0 ft calculated as exp(intercept). 

The integral was performed over the regression equation out to a distance of 16 ft, (the length of the 

room), and the total mass of dust on the floor was estimated as shown in Table I-85. The estimated 

paint density using the lead fraction was 1.26 g/cm3

. Although the vintage of the renovated building was 

unknown, nearby buildings were believed to have been built at the same time and were built in 1920. 

Therefore, the building was assumed to have been built in 1920 and to have 5.0 layers of paint at the 

time of the job. The experiment notes indicated that not all paint was removed during the renovation, 

so it was assumed that only 15% of the paint (or .8 layers) were removed. These values were used to 

estimate the total amount of paint on the wall, giving a final emission fraction of 0.021. 
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Figure I-35. Layout of Dry Scrap Experiment 27 

Table I-83. Post-Work Loading Measurements and Adjustments in Experiment 27 

ID 

Dist. 

From 

Wall (ft) 

Lead Loading in 

μg/ft2

(Dust Study) 

Dust Load per 

ft2 Disturbed (mg/ft2

floor/ft2 wall) 

1 1 14,503 9.06 

2 3 1,105 0.69 

3 5 1,389 0.87 

4 10 107 0.07 

Table I-84. Regression Statistics in Experiment 27

Statistic Value 

Shape -0.49 

Intercept 2.07 

R

2

0.88 

Load at 0 ft (mg/ft2 floor/ft2 disturbed) 7.90 

11 17

12

5

16 8

2 3 4

15

1 14

10 7

9 13 Stairs

6

Sample number for post-work sample

Sample number for post-cleaning sample

Sample number for post-verification sample

Sample number for additional sample, if needed

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Table I-85. Estimated Total Dust Emitted, Total 

Paint on Wall, and Emission Fraction in Experiment 27 

Estimated Masses and Emission Fractions Value 

Total Mass of Dust on Floor (mg/ft2 disturbed) 194 

Total Paint Removed From Surface (mg/ft2 disturbed) 9,385 

Fraction Emitted 0.02 

I.9.7. Experiment 28 

The geometry of Experiment 28 is shown in Figure I-36, and the measured lead loadings and associated 

distances are shown in Table I-86. No adjustments were made to the loadings since all samples were 

within the width of the job. The loadings were divided by the size of the job (65 ft2

) and the fraction of 

lead in the paint (0.025) to estimate the dust loadings per ft2 disturbed in Table I-86. Then, the natural 

logs of all loadings were used with the distances to estimate the regression parameters in Table I-87. 

Here, intercept is the intercept of the linear regression in log space, and Load at 0 ft is the assumed 

loading at 0 ft calculated as exp(intercept). 

The integral was performed over the regression equation out to a distance of 12 ft, (the length of the 

room), and the total mass of dust on the floor was estimated as shown in Table I-88. The estimated 

paint density using the lead fraction was 1.26 g/cm3. Although the vintage of the renovated building 

was unknown, nearby buildings were believed to have been built at the same time and were built in 

1920. Therefore, the building was assumed to have been built in 1920 and to have 5.0 layers of paint at 

the time of the job. The experiment notes indicated that not all paint was removed during the 

renovation, so it was assumed that only 15% of the paint (or .8 layers) were removed. These values were 

used to estimate the total amount of paint on the wall, giving a final emission fraction of 0.215. 
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Figure I-36. Layout of Dry Scrap Experiment 28 

Table I-86. Post-Work Loading Measurements and Adjustments in Experiment 28 

ID 

Dist. 

From 

Wall (ft) 

Lead Loading in 

μg/ft2

(Dust Study) 

Dust Load per 

ft2 Disturbed (mg/ft2

floor/ft2 wall) 

1 1 44,197 27.20 

2 2 43,302 26.65 

3 8 4,241 2.61 

4 12 458 0.28 

Table I-87. Regression Statistics in Experiment 28

Statistic Value 

Shape -0.42 

Intercept 3.97 

R

2

0.98 

Load at 0 ft (mg/ft2 floor/ft2 disturbed) 53.16 

1 10

2 17 5

9

6 16

15

11 3 7

14 8

4 Stairway

12

13

Sample number for post-work sample

Sample number for post-cleaning sample

Sample number for post-verification sample

Sample number for additional sample, if needed

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Table I-88. Estimated Total Dust Emitted, Total 

Paint on Wall, and Emission Fraction in Experiment 28 

Estimated Masses and Emission Fractions Value 

Total Mass of Dust on Floor (mg/ft2 disturbed) 2,021 

Total Paint Removed From Surface (mg/ft2 disturbed) 9,385 

Fraction Emitted 0.215 

I.9.8. Experiment 29 

The geometry of Experiment 29 is shown in Figure I-37, and the measured lead loadings and associated 

distances are shown in Table I-89. Sample 4 was adjusted using the taper assumption since it was 

outside the lateral extent of the job. The loadings were divided by the size of the job (72 ft2

) and the 

fraction of lead in the paint (0.026) to estimate the dust loadings per ft2

 disturbed in Table I-89. Then, 

the natural logs of all loadings were used with the distances to estimate the regression parameters in 

Table I-90. Here, intercept is the intercept of the linear regression in log space, and Load at 0 ft is the 

assumed loading at 0 ft calculated as exp(intercept). 

The integral was performed over the regression equation out to a distance of 16 ft, (the length of the 

room), and the total mass of dust on the floor was estimated as shown in Table I-91. The estimated 

paint density using the lead fraction was 1.27 g/cm3

. Although the vintage of the renovated building was 

unknown, nearby buildings were believed to have been built at the same time and were built in 1920. 

Therefore, the building was assumed to have been built in 1920 and to have 5.0 layers of paint at the 

time of the job. The experiment notes indicated that not all paint was removed during the renovation, 

so it was assumed that only 15% of the paint (or .8 layers) were removed. These values were used to 

estimate the total amount of paint on the wall, giving a final emission fraction of 0.028. 
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Figure I-37. Layout of Dry Scrap Experiment 29 

Table I-89. Post-Work Loading Measurements and Adjustments in Experiment 29 

ID 

Dist. 

From 

Wall (ft) 

Lead Loading in 

μg/ft2

(Dust Study) 

Lead Loading in 

μg/ft2

(adjusted) 

Dust Load per 

ft2 Disturbed (mg/ft2

floor/ft2 wall) 

1 4 3,989 3,989 2.13 

2 6 2,410 2,410 1.29 

3 11 1,575 1,575 0.84 

4 13 386 965 0.52 

Table I-90. Regression Statistics in Experiment 29

Statistic Value 

Shape -0.14 

Intercept 1.24 

R

2

0.95 

17 9

6

12 3 16 5

7 10

2 1

15 11

14

8

13

Stairway

4

Sample number for post-work sample

Sample number for post-cleaning sample

Sample number for post-verification sample

Sample number for additional sample, if needed

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Load at 0 ft (mg/ft2 floor/ft2 disturbed) 3.45 

Table I-91. Estimated Total Dust Emitted, Total 

Paint on Wall, and Emission Fraction in Experiment 29 

Estimated Masses and Emission Fractions Value 

Total Mass of Dust on Floor (mg/ft2 disturbed) 263 

Total Paint Removed From Surface (mg/ft2 disturbed) 9,463 

Fraction Emitted 0.028 

I.10. Kitchen Gut 

I.10.1. Experiment 49 

The geometry of Experiment 5 is shown in Figure I-30, but the exact location of the removed kitchen 

components is unknown. Thus, no regression could be performed and the emission fraction is based on 

the average loadings. The loadings were divided by the size of the job (55 ft2) and the fraction of lead in 

the paint (0.017) to estimate the dust loadings per ft2

 disturbed in Table I-92. Then, the loadings were 

averaged and multiplied by the area of the room (80 ft2

) to get the total mass of dust on the floor, as 

shown in Table I-93. The estimated paint density using the lead fraction was 1.18 g/cm3. Although the 

vintage of the renovated building was unknown, nearby buildings were believed to have been built at 

the same time and were built in 1920. Therefore, the building was assumed to have been built in 1920 

and to have 5.0 layers of paint at the time of the job. The experiment notes indicated that all paint was 

removed during the renovation, so all 5.0 layers were assumed to be removed. These values were used 

to estimate the total amount of paint on the wall, giving a final emission fraction of 0.008. 
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Figure I-38. Layout of Kitchen Gut Experiment 49 

Table I-92. Post-Work Loading Measurements and 

Adjustments in Experiment 49

ID 

Lead Loading in 

μg/ft2

(Dust Study) 

Dust Load per 

ft2 Disturbed (mg/ft2

floor/ft2 wall) 

1 4,010 4.29 

2 2,291 2.45 

3 14,229 15.22 

4 1,433 1.53 

Table I-93. Estimated Total Dust Emitted, Total 

Paint on Wall, and Emission Fraction in Experiment 49 

Estimated Masses and Emission Fractions Value 

Total Mass of Dust on Floor (mg/ft2 disturbed) 470 

Total Paint Removed From Surface (mg/ft2 disturbed) 58,457 

Fraction Emitted 0.008 

8

2

15 6 12

1

5 11

4 14

13 7 3

10

9

Sample number for post-work sample

Sample number for post-cleaning sample

Sample number for post-verification sample

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I.10.2. Experiment 50 

The geometry of Experiment 50 is shown in Figure I-39, but the exact location of the removed kitchen 

components is unknown. Thus, no regression could be performed and the emission fraction is based on 

the average loadings. The loadings were divided by the size of the job (40 ft2

) and the fraction of lead in 

the paint (0.023) to estimate the dust loadings per ft2

 disturbed in Table I-94. Then, the loadings were 

averaged and multiplied by the area of the room (80 ft2) to get the total mass of dust on the floor, as 

shown in Table I-95. The estimated paint density using the lead fraction was 1.24 g/cm3. Although the 

vintage of the renovated building was unknown, nearby buildings were believed to have been built at 

the same time and were built in 1920. Therefore, the building was assumed to have been built in 1920 

and to have 5.0 layers of paint at the time of the job. The experiment notes indicated that all paint was 

removed during the renovation, so all 5.0 layers were assumed to be removed. These values were used 

to estimate the total amount of paint on the wall, giving a final emission fraction of 0.006. 

Figure I-39. Layout of Kitchen Gut Experiment 50 

6 3

1

11 15 4

14 2 12 8

5

7

13 10

9

Sample number for post-work sample

Sample number for post-cleaning sample

Sample number for post-verification sample

Sample number for additional sample, if needed

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Table I-94. Post-Work Loading Measurements and 

Adjustments in Experiment 50

ID 

Lead Loading in 

μg/ft2

(Dust Study) 

Dust Load per 

ft2 Disturbed (mg/ft2

floor/ft2 wall) 

1 162 0.18 

2 1,414 1.54 

3 14,560 15.83 

4 481 0.52 

Table I-95. Estimated Total Dust Emitted, Total 

Paint on Wall, and Emission Fraction in Experiment 50 

Estimated Masses and Emission Fractions Value 

Total Mass of Dust on Floor (mg/ft2 disturbed) 361 

Total Paint Removed From Surface (mg/ft2 disturbed) 61,542 

Fraction Emitted 0.006 

I.10.3. Experiment 51 

The geometry of Experiment 51 is shown in Figure I-40, but the exact location of the removed kitchen 

components is unknown. Thus, no regression could be performed and the emission fraction is based on 

the average loadings. The loadings were divided by the size of the job (66 ft2) and the fraction of lead in 

the paint (0.035) to estimate the dust loadings per ft2 disturbed in Table I-96. Then, the loadings were 

averaged and multiplied by the area of the room (80 ft2) to get the total mass of dust on the floor, as 

shown in Table I-97. The estimated paint density using the lead fraction was 1.36 g/cm3. Although the 

vintage of the renovated building was unknown, nearby buildings were believed to have been built at 

the same time and were built in 1920. Therefore, the building was assumed to have been built in 1920 

and to have 5.0 layers of paint at the time of the job. The experiment notes indicated that all paint was 

removed during the renovation, so all 5.0 layers were assumed to be removed. These values were used 

to estimate the total amount of paint on the wall, giving a final emission fraction of 0.001.
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Figure I-40. Layout of Kitchen Gut Experiment 51 

Table I-96. Post-Work Loading Measurements and 

Adjustments in Experiment 51

ID 

Lead Loading in 

μg/ft2

(Dust Study) 

Dust Load per 

ft2 Disturbed (mg/ft2

floor/ft2 wall) 

1 1,896 0.82 

2 481 0.21 

3 3,139 1.36 

4 2,624 1.14 

Table I-97. Estimated Total Dust Emitted, Total 

Paint on Wall, and Emission Fraction in Experiment 51 

Estimated Masses and Emission Fractions Value 

Total Mass of Dust on Floor (mg/ft2 disturbed) 70 

Total Paint Removed From Surface (mg/ft2 disturbed) 67,712 

Fraction Emitted 0.001 

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15

11 9

2 8

14

12 6

3 13 7

10 4 1

Sample number for post-work sample

Sample number for post-cleaning sample

Sample number for post-verification sample

Sample number for additional sample, if needed

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I.10.4. Experiment 76 

The geometry of Experiment 76 is shown in Figure I-41, but the exact location of the removed kitchen 

components is unknown. Thus, no regression could be performed and the emission fraction is based on 

the average loadings. The loadings were divided by the size of the job (60 ft2

) and the fraction of lead in 

the paint (0.016) to estimate the dust loadings per ft2

 disturbed in Table I-98. Then, the loadings were 

averaged and multiplied by the area of the room (80 ft2) to get the total mass of dust on the floor, as 

shown in Table I-99. The estimated paint density using the lead fraction was 1.17 g/cm3. Although the 

vintage of the renovated building was unknown, nearby buildings were believed to have been built at 

the same time and were built in 1920. Therefore, the building was assumed to have been built in 1920 

and to have 5.0 layers of paint at the time of the job. The experiment notes indicated that all paint was 

removed during the renovation, so all 5.0 layers were assumed to be removed. These values were used 

to estimate the total amount of paint on the wall, giving a final emission fraction of 0.018. 

Figure I-41. Layout of Kitchen Gut Experiment 76 

5 1 8 9

10 2 11 15

3

14

6

4 12 7

13

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Table I-98. Post-Work Loading Measurements and 

Adjustments in Experiment 76

ID 

Lead Loading in 

μg/ft2

(Dust Study) 

Dust Load per 

ft2 Disturbed (mg/ft2

floor/ft2 wall) 

1 10.171 10.59 

2 137 0.14 

3 16,409 17.09 

4 20,074 20.91 

Table I-99. Estimated Total Dust Emitted, Total 

Paint on Wall, and Emission Fraction in Experiment 76 

Estimated Masses and Emission Fractions Value 

Total Mass of Dust on Floor (mg/ft2 disturbed) 975 

Total Paint Removed From Surface (mg/ft2 disturbed) 55,183 

Fraction Emitted 0.02 

I.10.5. Experiment 67 

The geometry of Experiment 67 is shown in Figure I-42, and the measured lead loadings and associated 

distances are shown in Table I-100. Sample 2 was adjusted using the taper assumption since it was 

outside the lateral extent of the job. The loadings were divided by the size of the job (40 ft2) and the 

fraction of lead in the paint (0.012) to estimate the dust loadings per ft2 disturbed in Table I-100. Then, 

the natural logs of all loadings were used with the distances to estimate the regression parameters in 
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Table I-101. Regression Statistics in Experiment 67

. Here, intercept is the intercept of the linear regression in log space, and Load at 0 ft is the assumed 

loading at 0 ft calculated as exp(intercept). 

The integral was performed over the regression equation out to a distance of13 ft, (the adjusted 

approximate length of the room), and the total mass of dust on the floor was estimated as shown in 

Table I-102. The estimated paint density using the lead fraction was 1.12 g/cm3

. Although the vintage of 

the renovated building was unknown, nearby buildings were believed to have been built at the same 

time and were built in 1920. Therefore, the building was assumed to have been built in 1920 and to 

have 5.0 layers of paint at the time of the job. The experiment notes indicated that all paint was 

removed during the renovation, so all 5.0 layers were assumed to be removed. These values were used 

to estimate the total amount of paint on the wall, giving a final emission fraction of 0.001. 

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12 8 3

16 1

4 15 5

7

11 14

13

2 6

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Figure I-42. Layout of Kitchen Gut Experiment 67 

Table I-100. Post-Work Loading Measurements and Adjustments in Experiment 67 

ID 

Dist. 

From 

Wall (ft) 

Lead Loading in 

μg/ft2

(Dust Study) 

Lead Loading in 

μg/ft2

(adjusted) 

Dust Load per 

ft2 Disturbed (mg/ft2

floor/ft2 wall) 

1 2 474 474 0.99 

2 2 162 405 0.84 

3 7 10 7 0.01 

4 10 10 7 0.01 
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Table I-101. Regression Statistics in Experiment 67

Statistic Value 

Shape -0.57 

Intercept 0.86 

R

2

0.90 

Load at 0 ft (mg/ft2 floor/ft2 disturbed) 2.36 

Table I-102. Estimated Total Dust Emitted, Total 

Paint on Wall, and Emission Fraction in Experiment 67 

Estimated Masses and Emission Fractions Value 

Total Mass of Dust on Floor (mg/ft2 disturbed) 62 

Total Paint Removed From Surface (mg/ft2 disturbed) 55,886 

Fraction Emitted 0.001 

I.10.6. Experiment 68 

The geometry of Experiment 68 is shown in Figure I-43, and the measured lead loadings and associated 

distances are shown in Table I-103. No adjustments were made to the loadings since all samples were 

within the width of the job. The loadings were divided by the size of the job (34 ft2) and the fraction of 

lead in the paint (0.025) to estimate the dust loadings per ft2

 disturbed in Table I-103. Then, the natural 

logs of all loadings were used with the distances to estimate the regression parameters in 
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Table I-104. Regression Statistics in Experiment 68

. Here, intercept is the intercept of the linear regression in log space, and Load at 0 ft is the assumed 

loading at 0 ft calculated as exp(intercept). 

The integral was performed over the regression equation out to a distance of 16 ft, (the length of the 

room), and the total mass of dust on the floor was estimated as shown in Table I-105. The estimated 

paint density using the lead fraction was 1.26 g/cm3

. Although the vintage of the renovated building was 

unknown, nearby buildings were believed to have been built at the same time and were built in 1920. 

Therefore, the building was assumed to have been built in 1920 and to have 5.0 layers of paint at the 

time of the job. The experiment notes indicated that all paint was removed during the renovation, so all 

5.0 layers were assumed to be removed. These values were used to estimate the total amount of paint 

on the wall, giving a final emission fraction of 0.003. 

17 12

11

16 4

9 15

3

5 6

10 7

14 8

2

1 13

Stairs

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Figure I-43. Layout of Kitchen Gut Experiment 68 

Table I-103. Post-Work Loading Measurements and Adjustments in Experiment 68 

ID 

Dist. 

From 

Wall (ft) 

Lead Loading in 

μg/ft2

(Dust Study) 

Dust Load per 

ft2 Disturbed (mg/ft2

floor/ft2 wall) 

1 1 3,133 3.69 

2 1 7,386 8.69 

3 4 222 0.26 

4 9 12 0.01 
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Table I-104. Regression Statistics in Experiment 68

Statistic Value 

Shape -0.75 

Intercept 2.29 

R

2

0.96 

Load at 0 ft (mg/ft2 floor/ft2 disturbed) 9.86 

Table I-105. Estimated Total Dust Emitted, Total 

Paint on Wall, and Emission Fraction in Experiment 68 

Estimated Masses and Emission Fractions Value 

Total Mass of Dust on Floor (mg/ft2 disturbed) 197 

Total Paint Removed From Surface (mg/ft2 disturbed) 62,570 

Fraction Emitted 0.003 

I.10.7. Experiment 69 

The geometry of Experiment 69 is shown in Figure I-44, and the measured lead loadings and associated 

distances are shown in Table I-106. Sample 3 was adjusted using the taper assumption since it was 

outside the lateral extent of the job. The loadings were divided by the size of the job (69 ft2) and the 

fraction of lead in the paint (0.052) to estimate the dust loadings per ft2

 disturbed in Table I-106. Then, 

the natural logs of all loadings were used with the distances to estimate the regression parameters in 

Table I-107. Here, intercept is the intercept of the linear regression in log space, and Load at 0 ft is the 

assumed loading at 0 ft calculated as exp(intercept). The R2 of the regression was very low, so the 

average approach was used instead. 

The total mass of dust on the floor was estimated as shown in Table I-108. The estimated paint density 

using the lead fraction was 1.54 g/cm3

. The building was built in 1910, thus, it was assumed to have 5.3 

layers of paint at the time of the job. The experiment notes indicated that all paint was removed during 

the renovation, so all 5.3 layers were assumed to be removed. These values were used to estimate the 

total amount of paint on the wall, giving a final emission fraction of 0.002. 
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Figure I-44. Layout of Kitchen Gut Experiment 69 

Table I-106. Post-Work Loading Measurements and Adjustments in Experiment 69 

ID 

Dist. 

From 

Wall (ft) 

Lead Loading in 

μg/ft2

(Dust Study) 

Lead Loading in 

μg/ft2

(adjusted) 

Dust Load per 

ft2 Disturbed (mg/ft2

floor/ft2 wall) 

1 3 3,265 3,265 0.91 

2 15 911 911 0.25 

3 7 196 391 0.11 

4 9 5,238 5,238 1.46 

17

5 1 9

7

11

16

3 15

4

8

14

6

12 10

13 2

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Sample number for additional sample, if needed

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Table I-107. Regression Statistics in Experiment 69

Statistic Value 

Shape -0.07 

Intercept -0.27 

R

2

0.08 

Load at 0 ft (mg/ft2 floor/ft2 disturbed) 0.76 

Table I-108. Estimated Total Dust Emitted, Total 

Paint on Wall, and Emission Fraction in Experiment 69 

Estimated Masses and Emission Fractions Value 

Total Mass of Dust on Floor (mg/ft2 disturbed) 121 

Total Paint Removed From Surface (mg/ft2 disturbed) 76,452 

Fraction Emitted 0.002 

I.10.8. Experiment 70 

The geometry of Experiment 70 is shown in Figure I-45, and the measured lead loadings and associated 

distances are shown in Table I-109. No adjustments were made to the loadings since all samples were 

within the width of the job. The loadings were divided by the size of the job (61 ft2) and the fraction of 

lead in the paint (0.008) to estimate the dust loadings per ft2

 disturbed in Table I-109. Then, the natural 

logs of all loadings were used with the distances to estimate the regression parameters in 
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Table I-110. Regression Statistics in Experiment 70

. Here, intercept is the intercept of the linear regression in log space, and Load at 0 ft is the assumed 

loading at 0 ft calculated as exp(intercept). The R2

 of the regression was very low, so the average 

approach was used instead. 

The total mass of dust on the floor was estimated as shown in Table I-111. The estimated paint density 

using the lead fraction was 1.08 g/cm3

. The building was built in 1900, thus, it was assumed to have 5.0 

layers of paint at the time of the job. The experiment notes indicated that all paint was removed during 

the renovation, so all 6.2 layers were assumed to be removed. These values were used to estimate the 

total amount of paint on the wall, giving a final emission fraction of 0.008. 
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Figure I-45. Layout of Kitchen Gut Experiment 70 

Table I-109. Post-Work Loading Measurements and Adjustments in Experiment 70 

ID 

Dist. 

From 

Wall (ft) 

Lead Loading in 

μg/ft2

(Dust Study) 

Lead Loading in 

μg/ft2

(adjusted) 

Dust Load per 

ft2 Disturbed (mg/ft2

floor/ft2 wall) 

1 1 2,940 2,940 6.02 

2 2 1,704 1,704 3.49 

3 6 18 18 0.04 

4 8 3,513 3,513 7.20 

6 3

15

10 4

1 5 11

14 8

7

2

9 13

12

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Sample number for additional sample, if needed

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Table I-110. Regression Statistics in Experiment 70

Statistic Value 

Shape -0.21 

Intercept 1.34 

R

2

0.08 

Load at 0 ft (mg/ft2 floor/ft2 disturbed) 3.83 

Table I-111. Estimated Total Dust Emitted, Total 

Paint on Wall, and Emission Fraction in Experiment 70 

Estimated Masses and Emission Fractions Value 

Total Mass of Dust on Floor (mg/ft2 disturbed) 482 

Total Paint Removed From Surface (mg/ft2 disturbed) 63,279 

Fraction Emitted 0.008 

I.11. Heat Gun 

I.11.1. Experiment 30 

The geometry of Experiment 30 is shown in Figure I-46, but the exact location of the heat gun activity is 

unknown. Thus, no regression could be performed and the emission fraction is based on the average 

loadingsThe loadings were divided by the size of the job (65 ft2) and the fraction of lead in the paint (0.1) 

to estimate the dust loadings per ft2 disturbed in Table I-112. Then, the loadings were averaged and 

multiplied by the area of the room (150 ft2

) to get the total mass of dust on the floor, as shown in Table 

I-113. The estimated paint density using the lead fraction was 2.03 g/cm3. The building was built in 1900, 

thus, it was assumed to have 6.2 layers of paint at the time of the job. The experiment notes indicated 

that all paint was removed during the renovation, so all 6.2 layers were assumed to be removed. These 

values were used to estimate the total amount of paint on the wall, giving a final emission fraction of 

0.010. 
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Figure I-46. Layout of Heat Gun Experiment 30 

Table I-112. Post-Work Loading Measurements 

and Adjustments in Experiment 30

ID 

Lead Loading in 

μg/ft2

(Dust Study) 

Dust Load per 

ft2 Disturbed (mg/ft2

floor/ft2 wall) 

1 30,100 4.63 

2 24,194 4.65 

3 53,599 21.99 

4 91,472 56.29 

11

16

2

6 1

15 10

7 12

9 14

8

5 3

4

13

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Sample number for post-verification sample

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Table I-113. Estimated Total Dust Emitted, Total 

Paint on Wall, and Emission Fraction in Experiment 30 

Estimated Masses and Emission Fractions Value 

Total Mass of Dust on Floor (mg/ft2 disturbed) 1,150 

Total Paint Removed From Surface (mg/ft2 disturbed) 118,886 

Fraction Emitted 0.010 

I.11.2. Experiment 31 

The geometry of Experiment 31 is shown in Figure I-47, but the exact location of the heat gun activity is 

unknown. Thus, no regression could be performed and the emission fraction is based on the average 

loadings. The loadings were divided by the size of the job (65 ft2) and the fraction of lead in the paint 

(0.051) to estimate the dust loadings per ft2

 disturbed in Table I-114. Then, the loadings were averaged 

and multiplied by the area of the room (150 ft2

) to get the total mass of dust on the floor, as shown in 

Table I-115. The estimated paint density using the lead fraction was 1.53 g/cm3. The building was built in 

1900, thus, it was assumed to have 6.2 layers of paint at the time of the job. The experiment notes 

indicated that all paint was removed during the renovation, so all 6.2 layers were assumed to be 

removed. These values were used to estimate the total amount of paint on the wall, giving a final 

emission fraction of 0.016. 
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Figure I-47. Layout of Heat Gun Experiment 31 

Table I-114. Post-Work Loading Measurements 

and Adjustments in Experiment 31

ID 

Lead Loading in 

μg/ft2

(Dust Study) 

Dust Load per 

ft2 Disturbed (mg/ft2

floor/ft2 wall) 

1 23,124 7.97 

2 26,394 15.92 

3 43,516 13.13 

4 32,040 77.32 

16

12

5 3

15 7

9

6 1

10 14

2

11 8

13

4

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Sample number for post-verification sample

Sample number for additional sample, if needed

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Table I-115. Estimated Total Dust Emitted, Total 

Paint on Wall, and Emission Fraction in Experiment 31 

Estimated Masses and Emission Fractions Value 

Total Mass of Dust on Floor (mg/ft2 disturbed) 1,415 

Total Paint Removed From Surface (mg/ft2 disturbed) 89,269 

Fraction Emitted 0.0168 

I.11.3. Experiment 32 

The geometry of Experiment 32 is shown in Figure I-48, but the exact location of the heat gun activity is 

unknown. Thus, no regression could be performed and the emission fraction is based on the average 

loadings. The loadings were divided by the size of the job (69 ft2) and the fraction of lead in the paint 

(0.085) to estimate the dust loadings per ft2

 disturbed in Table I-116. Then, the loadings were averaged 

and multiplied by the area of the room (150 ft2) to get the total mass of dust on the floor, as shown in 

Table I-117. The estimated paint density using the lead fraction was 1.88 g/cm3

. The building was built in 

1900, thus, it was assumed to have 6.2 layers of paint at the time of the job. The experiment notes 

indicated that all paint was removed during the renovation, so all 6.2 layers were assumed to be 

removed. These values were used to estimate the total amount of paint on the wall, giving a final 

emission fraction of 0.021. 
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Figure I-48. Layout of Heat Gun Experiment 32 

Table I-116. Post-Work Loading Measurements 

and Adjustments in Experiment 32

ID 

Lead Loading in 

μg/ft2

(Dust Study) 

Dust Load per 

ft2 Disturbed (mg/ft2

floor/ft2 wall) 

1 66,896 18.25 

2 114,711 19.56 

3 144,393 98.48 

4 36,275 12.37 

7

16

15

2

11

6 5

9 1 14 8

4

10 13

3 12

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Sample number for post-verification sample

Sample number for additional sample, if needed

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Table I-117. Estimated Total Dust Emitted, Total 

Paint on Wall, and Emission Fraction in Experiment 32 

Estimated Masses and Emission Fractions Value 

Total Mass of Dust on Floor (mg/ft2 disturbed) 2,316 

Total Paint Removed From Surface (mg/ft2 disturbed) 109,820 

Fraction Emitted 0.02 

I.11.4. Experiment 33 

The geometry of Experiment 33 is shown in Figure I-49, but the exact location of the heat gun activity is 

unknown. Thus, no regression could be performed and the emission fraction is based on the average 

loadings. The loadings were divided by the size of the job (60 ft2) and the fraction of lead in the paint 

(0.035) to estimate the dust loadings per ft2

 disturbed in Table I-118. Then, the loadings were averaged 

and multiplied by the area of the room (150 ft2) to get the total mass of dust on the floor, as shown in 

Table I-119. The estimated paint density using the lead fraction was 1.36 g/cm3. The building was built in 

1900, thus, it was assumed to have 6.2 layers of paint at the time of the job. The experiment notes 

indicated that all paint was removed during the renovation, so all 6.2 layers were assumed to be 

removed. These values were used to estimate the total amount of paint on the wall, giving a final 

emission fraction of 0.034. 
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Figure I-49. Layout of Heat Gun Experiment 33 

Table I-118. Post-Work Loading Measurements 

and Adjustments in Experiment 33

ID 

Lead Loading in 

μg/ft2

(Dust Study) 

Dust Load per 

ft2 Disturbed (mg/ft2

floor/ft2 wall) 

1 16,454 12.54 

2 41,859 19.93 

3 87,849 52.29 

4 5,774 6.87 

6 16 4

3

2

15 9

5 12

11

1 14 8

10

7

13

Sample number for post-work sample

Sample number for post-cleaning sample

Sample number for post-verification sample

Sample number for additional sample, if needed

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Table I-119. Estimated Total Dust Emitted, Total 

Paint on Wall, and Emission Fraction in Experiment 33 

Estimated Masses and Emission Fractions Value 

Total Mass of Dust on Floor (mg/ft2 disturbed) 2,713 

Total Paint Removed From Surface (mg/ft2 disturbed) 79,599 

Fraction Emitted 0.034 

I.11.5. Experiment 13 

The geometry of Experiment 13 is shown in Figure I-51, and the measured lead loadings and associated 

distances are shown in Table I-120. No adjustments were made to the loadings since all samples were 

within the width of the job. The loadings were divided by the size of the job (53 ft2) and the fraction of 

lead in the paint (0.081) to estimate the dust loadings per ft2

 disturbed in Table I-120. Then, the natural 

logs of all loadings were used with the distances to estimate the regression parameters in Table I-121. 

Here, intercept is the intercept of the linear regression in log space, and Load at 0 ft is the assumed 

loading at 0 ft calculated as exp(intercept). 

The integral was performed over the regression equation out to a distance of half the length and half 

the width for each of the four walls, since the job encompassed the whole room. The total mass of dust 

on the floor was estimated as shown in Table I-122. The estimated paint density using the lead fraction 

was 1.84 g/cm3

. Although the vintage of the renovated building was unknown, nearby buildings were 

believed to have been built at the same time and were built in 1920. Therefore, the building was 

assumed to have been built in 1920 and to have 5.0 layers of paint at the time of the job. The 

experiment notes indicated that all paint was removed during the renovation, so all 5.0 layers were 

assumed to be removed. These values were used to estimate the total amount of paint on the wall, 

giving a final emission fraction of 0.014. 
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Figure I-50. Layout of Heat Gun Experiment 13 

Table I-120. Post-Work Loading Measurements and Adjustments in Experiment 13 

ID 

Dist. 

From 

Wall (ft) 

Lead Loading in 

μg/ft2

(Dust Study) 

Dust Load per 

ft2 Disturbed (mg/ft2

floor/ft2 wall) 

1 2 40,378 9.41 

2 2 27,630 6.44 

3 5 25,391 5.91 

4 6 24,874 5.79 

Table I-121. Regression Statistics in Experiment 13

Statistic Value 

Shape -0.08 

Intercept 2.21 

R

2

0.52 

Load at 0 ft (mg/ft2 floor/ft2 disturbed) 9.07 

17

16

5 2 15

7 10

6 14

12 4 9

3 8 1

11 13

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Sample number for post-verification sample

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Table I-122. Estimated Total Dust Emitted, Total 

Paint on Wall, and Emission Fraction in Experiment 13 

Estimated Masses and Emission Fractions Value 

Total Mass of Dust on Floor (mg/ft2 disturbed) 1,292 

Total Paint Removed From Surface (mg/ft2 disturbed) 91,363 

Fraction Emitted 0.001 

I.11.6. Experiment 14 

The geometry of Experiment 14 is shown in Figure I-52, and the measured lead loadings and associated 

distances are shown in Table I-123. No adjustments were made to the loadings since all samples were 

within the width of the job. The loadings were divided by the size of the job (75 ft2) and the fraction of 

lead in the paint (0.02) to estimate the dust loadings per ft2 disturbed in Table I-123. Then, the natural 

logs of all loadings were used with the distances to estimate the regression parameters in Table I-124. 

Here, intercept is the intercept of the linear regression in log space, and Load at 0 ft is the assumed 

loading at 0 ft calculated as exp(intercept). 

The integral was performed over the regression equation out to a distance of half the length and half 

the width for each of the four walls, since the job encompassed the whole room. The total mass of dust 

on the floor was estimated as shown in Table I-125. The estimated paint density using the lead fraction 

was 1.21 g/cm3. Although the vintage of the renovated building was unknown, nearby buildings were 

believed to have been built at the same time and were built in 1920. Therefore, the building was 

assumed to have been built in 1920 and to have 5.0 layers of paint at the time of the job. The 

experiment notes indicated that all paint was removed during the renovation, so all 5.0 layers were 

assumed to be removed. These values were used to estimate the total amount of paint on the wall, 

giving a final emission fraction of 0.007. 
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Figure I-51. Layout of Heat Gun Experiment 14 

Table I-123. Post-Work Loading Measurements and Adjustments in Experiment 14 

ID 

Dist. 

From 

Wall (ft) 

Lead Loading in 

μg/ft2

(Dust Study) 

Dust Load per 

ft2 Disturbed (mg/ft2

floor/ft2 wall) 

1 5 427 0.28 

2 1 5,204 3.47 

3 2 6,223 4.15 

4 1 9,359 6.24 

8

7 16

4

3 15

14 1 12 6

9 10 5

2

11

13

Sample number for post-work sample

Sample number for post-cleaning sample

Sample number for post-verification sample

Sample number for additional sample, if needed

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Table I-124. Regression Statistics in Experiment 14

Statistic Value 

Shape -0.71 

Intercept 2.41 

R

2

0.93 

Load at 0 ft (mg/ft2 floor/ft2 disturbed) 11.16 

Table I-125. Estimated Total Dust Emitted, Total 

Paint on Wall, and Emission Fraction in Experiment 14 

Estimated Masses and Emission Fractions Value 

Total Mass of Dust on Floor (mg/ft2 disturbed) 426 

Total Paint Removed From Surface (mg/ft2 disturbed) 59,999 

Fraction Emitted 0.007 

I.11.7. Experiment 15 

The geometry of Experiment 15 is shown in Figure I-53, and the measured lead loadings and associated 

distances are shown in Table I-126. No adjustments were made to the loadings since all samples were 

within the width of the job. The loadings were divided by the size of the job (75 ft2) and the fraction of 

lead in the paint (0.102) to estimate the dust loadings per ft2

 disturbed in Table I-126. Then, the natural 

logs of all loadings were used with the distances to estimate the regression parameters in Table I-127. 

Here, intercept is the intercept of the linear regression in log space, and Load at 0 ft is the assumed 

loading at 0 ft calculated as exp(intercept). 

The integral was performed over the regression equation out to a distance of 14 ft, (the length of the 

room), and the total mass of dust on the floor was estimated as shown in Table I-128. The estimated 

paint density using the lead fraction was 2.05 g/cm3. Although the vintage of the renovated building was 

unknown, nearby buildings were believed to have been built at the same time and were built in 1920. 

Therefore, the building was assumed to have been built in 1920 and to have 5.0 layers of paint at the 

time of the job. The experiment notes indicated that all paint was removed during the renovation, so all 

5.0 layers were assumed to be removed. These values were used to estimate the total amount of paint 

on the wall, giving a final emission fraction of 0.007. 
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Figure I-52. Layout of Heat Gun Experiment 15 

Table I-126. Post-Work Loading Measurements and Adjustments in Experiment 15 

ID 

Dist. 

From 

Wall (ft) 

Lead Loading in 

μg/ft2

(Dust Study) 

Dust Load per 

ft2 Disturbed (mg/ft2

floor/ft2 wall) 

1 1 101,104 13.22 

2 1 34,976 4.57 

3 4 180,281 23.57 

4 6 6,096 0.80 

17 2 1

5 7

16

15

12 6

11 10

8 14

9 4

3

13

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Table I-127. Regression Statistics in Experiment 15

Statistic Value 

Shape -0.32 

Intercept 2.71 

R

2

0.27 

Load at 0 ft (mg/ft2 floor/ft2 disturbed) 15.07 

Table I-128. Estimated Total Dust Emitted, Total 

Paint on Wall, and Emission Fraction in Experiment 15 

Estimated Masses and Emission Fractions Value 

Total Mass of Dust on Floor (mg/ft2 disturbed) 679 

Total Paint Removed From Surface (mg/ft2 disturbed) 102,160 

Fraction Emitted 0.001 

I.11.8. Experiment 16 

The geometry of Experiment 16 is shown in Figure I-53, and the measured lead loadings and associated 

distances are shown in Table I-129. No adjustments were made to the loadings since all samples were 

within the width of the job. The loadings were divided by the size of the job (75 ft2) and the fraction of 

lead in the paint (0.04) to estimate the dust loadings per ft2 disturbed in Table I-129. Then, the natural 

logs of all loadings were used with the distances to estimate the regression parameters in Table I-130. 

Here, intercept is the intercept of the linear regression in log space, and Load at 0 ft is the assumed 

loading at 0 ft calculated as exp(intercept). 

The integral was performed over the regression equation out to a distance of 13 ft, (the length of the 

room), and the total mass of dust on the floor was estimated as shown in Table I-131. The estimated 

paint density using the lead fraction was 1.41 g/cm3

. Although the vintage of the renovated building was 

unknown, nearby buildings were believed to have been built at the same time and were built in 1920. 

Therefore, the building was assumed to have been built in 1920 and to have 5.0 layers of paint at the 

time of the job. The experiment notes do not specify the amount of paint removed during the 

renovation, so all 5.0 layers were assumed to be removed. These values were used to estimate the total 

amount of paint on the wall, giving a final emission fraction of 0.005. 
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Figure I-53. Layout of Heat Gun Experiment 16 

Table I-129. Post-Work Loading Measurements and Adjustments in Experiment 16 

ID 

Dist. 

From 

Wall (ft) 

Lead Loading in 

μg/ft2

(Dust Study) 

Dust Load per 

ft2 Disturbed (mg/ft2

floor/ft2 wall) 

1 2 3,802 1.27 

2 4 5,505 1.83 

3 2 4,393 1.46 

4 2 5,905 1.97 

Table I-130. Regression Statistics in Experiment 16

Statistic Value 

Shape 0.09 

Intercept 0.26 

R

2

0.19 

Load at 0 ft (mg/ft2 floor/ft2 disturbed) 1.29 

11 9 15

12 8

4 1

10 5

6 3

2 14

13

7

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Table I-131. Estimated Total Dust Emitted, Total 

Paint on Wall, and Emission Fraction in Experiment 16 

Estimated Masses and Emission Fractions Value 

Total Mass of Dust on Floor (mg/ft2 disturbed) 376 

Total Paint Removed From Surface (mg/ft2 disturbed) 70,282 

Fraction Emitted 0.001 

I.11.9. Experiment 60 

The geometry of Experiment 60 is shown in Figure I-54, and the measured lead loadings and associated 

distances are shown in Table I-132. Samples 2 and 4 were adjusted using the taper assumption since 

they were outside the lateral extent of the job. The loadings were divided by the size of the job (75 ft2) 

and the fraction of lead in the paint (0.029) to estimate the dust loadings per ft2

 disturbed in Table I-132. 

Then, the natural logs of all loadings were used with the distances to estimate the regression 

parameters in Table I-133. Here, intercept is the intercept of the linear regression in log space, and Load 

at 0 ft is the assumed loading at 0 ft calculated as exp(intercept). 

The integral was performed over the regression equation out to a distance of 10 ft, (the length of the 

room), and the total mass of dust on the floor was estimated as shown in Table I-134. The estimated 

paint density using the lead fraction was 1.30 g/cm3

. The school was built in 1967, thus, it was assumed 

to have 3.3 layers of paint at the time of the job. The experiment notes indicated that not all paint was 

removed during the renovation, so it was assumed that only 15% of the paint (or 0.5 layers) were 

removed. These values were used to estimate the total amount of paint on the wall, giving a final 

emission fraction of 0.027. 
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Figure I-54. Layout of Heat Gun Experiment 60 

Table I-132. Post-Work Loading Measurements and Adjustments in Experiment 60 

ID 

Dist. 

From 

Wall (ft) 

Lead Loading in 

μg/ft2

(Dust Study) 

Lead Loading in 

μg/ft2

(adjusted) 

Dust Load per 

ft2 Disturbed (mg/ft2

floor/ft2 wall) 

1 3 3,014 3,014 1.39 

2 2 2,611 3,481 1.60 

3 5 1,443 1,443 0.66 

4 9 193 1,546 0.71 

Table I-133. Regression Statistics in Experiment 60

Statistic Value 

Shape -0.12 

Intercept 0.58 

R

2

0.66 

Load at 0 ft (mg/ft2 floor/ft2 disturbed) 1.78 

4

6 16

10 15

2 9

7

8

14

3

5 13 12

1 11

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Table I-134. Estimated Total Dust Emitted, Total 

Paint on Wall, and Emission Fraction in Experiment 60 

Estimated Masses and Emission Fractions Value 

Total Mass of Dust on Floor (mg/ft2 disturbed) 166 

Total Paint Removed From Surface (mg/ft2 disturbed) 6,084 

Fraction Emitted 0.027 

I.11.10. Experiment 61 

The geometry of Experiment 61 is shown in Figure I-55, and the measured lead loadings and associated 

distances are shown in Table I-135. Sample 3 was adjusted using the taper assumption since it was 

outside the lateral extent of the job. The loadings were divided by the size of the job (75 ft2) and the 

fraction of lead in the paint (0.022) to estimate the dust loadings per ft2 disturbed in Table I-135. Then, 

the natural logs of all loadings were used with the distances to estimate the regression parameters in 

Table I-136. Here, intercept is the intercept of the linear regression in log space, and Load at 0 ft is the 

assumed loading at 0 ft calculated as exp(intercept). 

The integral was performed over the regression equation out to a distance of 10 ft, (the length of the 

room), and the total mass of dust on the floor was estimated as shown in Table I-137. The estimated 

paint density using the lead fraction was 1.23 g/cm3. The school was built in 1967, thus, it was assumed 

to have 3.3 layers of paint at the time of the job. The experiment notes indicated that not all paint was 

removed during the renovation, so it was assumed that only 15% of the paint (or 0.5 layers) were 

removed. These values were used to estimate the total amount of paint on the wall, giving a final 

emission fraction of 0.017. 
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Figure I-55. Layout of Heat Gun Experiment 61 

Table I-135. Post-Work Loading Measurements and Adjustments in Experiment 61 

ID 

Dist. 

From 

Wall (ft) 

Lead Loading in 

μg/ft2

(Dust Study) 

Lead Loading in 

μg/ft2

(adjusted) 

Dust Load per 

ft2 Disturbed (mg/ft2

floor/ft2 wall) 

1 2 3,624 3,624 2.20 

2 3 1,351 1.351 0.82 

3 4 95 191 0.12 

4 9 51 51 0.03 

16 4

10 1

2 15

5 11

7

9 14 12

8

3

13

6

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Table I-136. Regression Statistics in Experiment 61

Statistic Value 

Shape -0.56 

Intercept 1.26 

R

2

0.82 

Load at 0 ft (mg/ft2 floor/ft2 disturbed) 3.53 

Table I-137. Estimated Total Dust Emitted, Total 

Paint on Wall, and Emission Fraction in Experiment 61 

Estimated Masses and Emission Fractions Value 

Total Mass of Dust on Floor (mg/ft2 disturbed) 100 

Total Paint Removed From Surface (mg/ft2 disturbed) 5,745 

Fraction Emitted 0.017 

I.11.11. Experiment 62 

The geometry of Experiment 62 is shown in Figure I-56, and the measured lead loadings and associated 

distances are shown in Table I-138. Samples 1 and 3 were adjusted using the taper assumption since 

they were outside the lateral extent of the job. The loadings were divided by the size of the job (73 ft2) 

and the fraction of lead in the paint (0.022) to estimate the dust loadings per ft2

 disturbed in Table I-138. 

Then, the natural logs of all loadings were used with the distances to estimate the regression 

parameters in Table I-139. Here, intercept is the intercept of the linear regression in log space, and Load 

at 0 ft is the assumed loading at 0 ft calculated as exp(intercept). 

The integral was performed over the regression equation out to a distance of 10 ft, (the length of the 

room), and the total mass of dust on the floor was estimated as shown in Table I-140. The estimated 

paint density using the lead fraction was 1.23 g/cm3. The school was built in 1967, thus, it was assumed 

to have 3.3 layers of paint at the time of the job. The experiment notes indicated that not all paint was 

removed during the renovation, so it was assumed that only 15% of the paint (or 0.5 layers) were 

removed. These values were used to estimate the total amount of paint on the wall, giving a final 

emission fraction of 0.042. 
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Figure I-56. Layout of Heat Gun Experiment 62 

Table I-138. Post-Work Loading Measurements and Adjustments in Experiment 62 

ID 

Dist. 

From 

Wall (ft) 

Lead Loading in 

μg/ft2

(Dust Study) 

Lead Loading in 

μg/ft2

(adjusted) 

Dust Load per 

ft2 Disturbed (mg/ft2

floor/ft2 wall) 

1 2 5,001 8,001 4.98 

2 1 3,676 3,676 2.29 

3 5 478 764 0.48 

4 7 1,974 1,974 1.23 

15

10

6

1 3

15 11 7

5

8

14

2 13 4

9

12

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Table I-139. Regression Statistics in Experiment 62

Statistic Value 

Shape -0.24 

Intercept 1.36 

R

2

0.42 

Load at 0 ft (mg/ft2 floor/ft2 disturbed) 3.88 

Table I-140. Estimated Total Dust Emitted, Total 

Paint on Wall, and Emission Fraction in Experiment 62 

Estimated Masses and Emission Fractions Value 

Total Mass of Dust on Floor (mg/ft2 disturbed) 239 

Total Paint Removed From Surface (mg/ft2 disturbed) 5,745 

Fraction Emitted 0.042 

I.11.12. Experiment 63 

The geometry of Experiment 63 is shown in Figure I-57, and the measured lead loadings and associated 

distances are shown in Table I-141. Sample 1 was adjusted using the taper assumption since it was 

outside the lateral extent of the job. The loadings were divided by the size of the job (75 ft2) and the 

fraction of lead in the paint (0.026) to estimate the dust loadings per ft2 disturbed in Table I-141. Then, 

the natural logs of all loadings were used with the distances to estimate the regression parameters in 

Table I-142. Here, intercept is the intercept of the linear regression in log space, and Load at 0 ft is the 

assumed loading at 0 ft calculated as exp(intercept). 

The integral was performed over the regression equation out to a distance of 10 ft, (the length of the 

room), and the total mass of dust on the floor was estimated as shown in Table I-143. The estimated 

paint density using the lead fraction was 1.27 g/cm3. The school was built in 1967, thus, it was assumed 

to have 3.3 layers of paint at the time of the job. The experiment notes indicated that not all paint was 

removed during the renovation, so it was assumed that only 15% of the paint (or 0.5 layers) were 

removed. These values were used to estimate the total amount of paint on the wall, giving a final 

emission fraction of 0.040. 
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Figure I-57. Layout of Heat Gun Experiment 63 

Table I-141. Post-Work Loading Measurements and Adjustments in Experiment 63 

ID 

Dist. 

From 

Wall (ft) 

Lead Loading in 

μg/ft2

(Dust Study) 

Lead Loading in 

μg/ft2

(adjusted) 

Dust Load per 

ft2 Disturbed (mg/ft2

floor/ft2 wall) 

1 3 1,914 4,305 2.21 

2 1 10,384 10,384 5.33 

3 5 471 471 0.24 

4 10 65 65 0.03 

2

16 8

3

10 4

15 5

12

14 6

9

1

11 7

13

Vertical containment plastic

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Table I-142. Regression Statistics in Experiment 63

Statistic Value 

Shape -0.58 

Intercept 2.16 

R

2

0.96 

Load at 0 ft (mg/ft2 floor/ft2 disturbed) 8.64 

Table I-143. Estimated Total Dust Emitted, Total Paint on Wall, and 

Emission Fraction in Experiment 63 

Estimated Masses and Emission Fractions Value 

Total Mass of Dust on Floor (mg/ft2 disturbed) 238 

Total Paint Removed From Surface (mg/ft2 disturbed) 5,939 

Fraction Emitted 0.040 

I.12. Low Heat 

I.12.1. Experiment 56 

The geometry of Experiment 56 is shown in Figure I-58, and the measured lead loadings and associated 

distances are shown in Table I-144. Samples 3 and 4 were adjusted using the taper assumption since 

they were outside the lateral extent of the job. The loadings were divided by the size of the job (50 ft2) 

and the fraction of lead in the paint (0.022) to estimate the dust loadings per ft2 disturbed in Table I-144. 

Then, the natural logs of all loadings were used with the distances to estimate the regression 

parameters in Table I-145. Here, intercept is the intercept of the linear regression in log space, and Load 

at 0 ft is the assumed loading at 0 ft calculated as exp(intercept). 

The integral was performed over the regression equation out to a distance of 12 ft, (the length of the 

room), and the total mass of dust on the floor was estimated as shown in Table I-146. The estimated 

paint density using the lead fraction was 1.23 g/cm3

. The school was built in 1967, thus, it was assumed 

to have 3.3 layers of paint at the time of the job. The experiment notes indicated that not all paint was 

removed during the renovation, so it was assumed that only 15% of the paint (or 0.5 layers) were 

removed. These values were used to estimate the total amount of paint on the wall, giving a final 

emission fraction of 0.159. 
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Figure I-58. Layout of Low Heat Experiment 56 

Table I-144. Post-Work Loading Measurements and Adjustments in Experiment 56 

ID 

Dist. 

From 

Wall (ft) 

Lead Loading in 

μg/ft2

(Dust Study) 

Lead Loading in 

μg/ft2

(adjusted) 

Dust Load per 

ft2 Disturbed (mg/ft2

floor/ft2 wall) 

1 3 7,837 7,837 7.12 

2 1 16,046 16,046 14.59 

3 8 325 1,298 1.18 

4 12 295 590 0.54 

Table I-145. Regression Statistics in Experiment 56

Statistic Value 

Shape -0.31 

Intercept 2.89 

R

2

0.98 

Load at 0 ft (mg/ft2 floor/ft2 disturbed) 17.94 

14 2

13 6

5 1 9 10

15

17

7 11

3

12

16

8 4

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Table I-146. Estimated Total Dust Emitted, Total Paint on Wall, and 

Emission Fraction in Experiment 56 

Estimated Masses and Emission Fractions Value 

Total Mass of Dust on Floor (mg/ft2 disturbed) 912 

Total Paint Removed From Surface (mg/ft2 disturbed) 5,745 

Fraction Emitted 0.159 

I.12.2. Experiment 57 

The geometry of Experiment 57 is shown in Figure I-59, and the measured lead loadings and associated 

distances are shown in Table I-147. Samples 1 and 2 were adjusted using the taper assumption since 

they were outside the lateral extent of the job. The loadings were divided by the size of the job (50 ft2) 

and the fraction of lead in the paint (0.024) to estimate the dust loadings per ft2 disturbed in Table I-147. 

Then, the natural logs of all loadings were used with the distances to estimate the regression 

parameters in Table I-148. Here, intercept is the intercept of the linear regression in log space, and Load 

at 0 ft is the assumed loading at 0 ft calculated as exp(intercept). 

The integral was performed over the regression equation out to a distance of 12 ft, (the length of the 

room), and the total mass of dust on the floor was estimated as shown in Table I-149. The estimated 

paint density using the lead fraction was 1.25 g/cm3. The school was built in 1967, thus, it was assumed 

to have 3.3 layers of paint at the time of the job. The experiment notes indicated that not all paint was 

removed during the renovation, so it was assumed that only 15% of the paint (or 0.5 layers) were 

removed. These values were used to estimate the total amount of paint on the wall, giving a final 

emission fraction of 0.189. 
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Figure I-59. Layout of Low Heat Experiment 57 

Table I-147. Post-Work Loading Measurements and Adjustments in Experiment 57 

ID 

Dist. 

From 

Wall (ft) 

Lead Loading in 

μg/ft2

(Dust Study) 

Lead Loading in 

μg/ft2

(adjusted) 

Dust Load per 

ft2 Disturbed (mg/ft2

floor/ft2 wall) 

1 3 5,768 13,459 2.42 

2 3 2,374 8,310 1.94 

3 7 730 730 -0.50 

4 12 120 120 -2.30 

14

5

10 1 2

6 9

17

3 15

7 13 11

12 8

16

4

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Table I-148. Regression Statistics in Experiment 57

Statistic Value 

Shape -0.51 

Intercept 3.56 

R

2

0.97 

Load at 0 ft (mg/ft2 floor/ft2 disturbed) 35.03 

Table I-149. Estimated Total Dust Emitted, Total Paint on Wall, and 

Emission Fraction in Experiment 57 

Estimated Masses and Emission Fractions Value 

Total Mass of Dust on Floor (mg/ft2 disturbed) 1,103 

Total Paint Removed From Surface (mg/ft2 disturbed) 5,842 

Fraction Emitted 0.189 

I.12.3. Experiment 58 

The geometry of Experiment 58 is shown in Figure I-60, and the measured lead loadings and associated 

distances are shown in Table I-150. Samples 3 and 4 were adjusted using the taper assumption since 

they were outside the lateral extent of the job. The loadings were divided by the size of the job (50 ft2

) 

and the fraction of lead in the paint (0.028) to estimate the dust loadings per ft2 disturbed in Table I-150. 

Then, the natural logs of all loadings were used with the distances to estimate the regression 

parameters in Table I-151. Here, intercept is the intercept of the linear regression in log space, and Load 

at 0 ft is the assumed loading at 0 ft calculated as exp(intercept). 

The integral was performed over the regression equation out to a distance of 12 ft, (the length of the 

room), and the total mass of dust on the floor was estimated as shown in Table I-152. The estimated 

paint density using the lead fraction was 1.29 g/cm3

. The school was built in 1967, thus, it was assumed 

to have 3.3 layers of paint at the time of the job. The experiment notes indicated that not all paint was 

removed during the renovation, so it was assumed that only 15% of the paint (or 0.5 layers) were 

removed. These values were used to estimate the total amount of paint on the wall, giving a final 

emission fraction of 0.020. 
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Figure I-60. Layout of Low Heat Experiment 58 

Table I-150. Post-Work Loading Measurements and Adjustments in Experiment 58 

ID 

Dist. 

From 

Wall (ft) 

Lead Loading in 

μg/ft2

(Dust Study) 

Lead Loading in 

μg/ft2

(adjusted) 

Dust Load per 

ft2 Disturbed (mg/ft2

floor/ft2 wall) 

1 2 2,759 2,759 1.97 

2 1 4,145 4,145 2.96 

3 6 198 330 0.24 

4 10 65 162 0.12 

10

4 7

14 3 15 6

8

11 1

5 16

2

13

12

9

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Table I-151. Regression Statistics in Experiment 58

Statistic Value 

Shape -0.38 

Intercept 1.32 

R

2

0.95 

Load at 0 ft (mg/ft2 floor/ft2 disturbed) 3.76 

Table I-152. Estimated Total Dust Emitted, Total 

Paint on Wall, and Emission Fraction in Experiment 58 

Estimated Masses and Emission Fractions Value 

Total Mass of Dust on Floor (mg/ft2 disturbed) 119 

Total Paint Removed From Surface (mg/ft2 disturbed) 6,036 

Fraction Emitted 0.020 

I.12.4. Experiment 59 

The geometry of Experiment 13 is shown in Figure I-61, and the measured lead loadings and associated 

distances are shown in Table I-153. No adjustments were made to the loadings since all samples were 

within the width of the job. The loadings were divided by the size of the job (50 ft2) and the fraction of 

lead in the paint (0.13) to estimate the dust loadings per ft2

 disturbed in Table I-153. Then, the natural 

logs of all loadings were used with the distances to estimate the regression parameters in Table I-154. 

Here, intercept is the intercept of the linear regression in log space, and Load at 0 ft is the assumed 

loading at 0 ft calculated as exp(intercept). 

The integral was performed over the regression equation out to a distance of 10 ft, (the length of the 

room), and the total mass of dust on the floor was estimated as shown in Table I-155. The estimated 

paint density using the lead fraction was 2.34 g/cm3. The school was built in 1967, thus, it was assumed 

to have 3.3 layers of paint at the time of the job. The experiment notes indicated that not all paint was 

removed during the renovation, so it was assumed that only 15% of the paint (or 0.5 layers) were 

removed. These values were used to estimate the total amount of paint on the wall, giving a final 

emission fraction of 0.128. 
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Figure I-61. Layout of Heat Experiment 59 

18 12

3

10 17 11

4

16

2 9

7 15

14 8

5 1

6

13

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Table I-153. Post-Work Loading Measurements and Adjustments in Experiment 59 

ID 

Dist. 

From 

Wall (ft) 

Lead Loading in 

μg/ft2

(Dust Study) 

Dust Load per 

ft2 Disturbed (mg/ft2

floor/ft2 wall) 

1 2 65,994 10.15 

2 2 59,156 9.10 

3 6 11,403 1.75 

4 8 1,302 0.20 

Table I-154. Regression Statistics in Experiment 59

Statistic Value 

Shape -0.60 

Intercept 3.55 

R

2

0.95 

Load at 0 ft (mg/ft2 floor/ft2 disturbed) 34.93 

Table I-155. Estimated Total Dust Emitted, Total 

Paint on Wall, and Emission Fraction in Experiment 59 

Estimated Masses and Emission Fractions Value 

Total Mass of Dust on Floor (mg/ft2 disturbed) 1,402 

Total Paint Removed From Surface (mg/ft2 disturbed) 10,973 

Fraction Emitted 0.13 

I.13. References for Appendix I 

US EPA. (2007a). Draft final report on characterization of dust lead levels after renovation, repair, and 

painting activities. Prepared for EPA’s Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxcis (OPPT). Available 

online at: http://www.epa.gov/lead/pubs/duststudy01-23-07.pdf 
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Appendix J. Dust Model for Exterior Analysis 

In order to estimate the time-dependent indoor dust loading arising from exterior renovation activities, 

a mechanistic model was developed to incorporate the relevant source and removal terms for lead in a 

typical indoor environment. The mechanistic model is designed to capture the physical transfer of mass 

from one medium to another under the assumption of mass balance. Previous studies have also built 

mass balance models of indoor dust. Allott et al. (1994) constructed a mass balance model to estimate 

the residence time of contaminated soil particles in the indoor environment based on observations in 

four homes in England contaminated by the Chernobyl incident. Thatcher and Layton (1995) 

constructed an indoor mass balance model of a home in California to estimate deposition rates, 

resuspension rates, and infiltration factors. Recognizing the key role of tracked-in soil on indoor dust 

loadings, Johnson (2008) built the DIRT model simulating the spatial pattern of tracked-in soil for a given 

total soil mass flux into the home. And Layton and Beamer (2009) built a model simulating tracked-in 

soil and penetration of outdoor air and the subsequent physical processes governing indoor dust 

loadings. The model here is a general set of equations that follows the same mass balance methods as 

in these papers. 

The general form of the mass balance equation for a single compartment of interest is: 

Flux of Mass In Flux of Mass Out

dt

d Mass

= −

[ ]

where: 

d[Mass]/dt = change over time of the mass

Flux of Mass In = flux of mass into the compartment

Flux of Mass Out = flux of mass out of the compartment 

In the dust model, two “compartments” of interest are defined: the indoor air and the floor. Both of 

these compartments contain particulates associated with indoor dust, and by parameterizing the 

processes that govern the flux of mass to and from each compartment, the model can provide an 

inventory of dust in the air and on the floor through time. 

The relevant sources and sinks of lead to the indoor dust for this Approach include: 

 ambient air particles which penetrate the indoor environment and settle on the floor, 

 outdoor soil particles which are tracked into the home, and 
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 the routine cleaning that remove lead from the floor. 

Figure J-1 shows a schematic of the various lead and particulate mass flux terms used in the mechanistic 

model to account for all sources and sinks of lead. 

Figure J-1. Mechanistic Indoor Dust Model Schematic 

For the indoor air compartment, the fluxes for mass include penetration of air and particles from 

outdoors, ventilation of indoor air back to the outdoor environment, deposition of mass out of the air, 

and resuspension of accumulated mass on the floor back into the air1: 

Pb Pb Pb Pb

Pb Penetration Flux Ventilation Flux Deposition Flux Resuspension Flux

dt

dINAIR

= − − +

 

1 The presence of an HVAC system will tend to re-circulate indoor air, passing the air through a filter with each 

circulation. This system will tend to remove mass from the indoor environment (both in the air and on the floor) 

and act as a further sink. However, because the circulation rate and filtration efficiency of such systems has not 

been comprehensively described in the literature and because use of such systems changes across the seasons and 

different geographic regions, removal of mass during recirculation is not included in the mechanistic model.
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where: 

dINAIRPb/dt = change in time of the indoor air lead mass

Penetration Flux = penetration of lead-containing particles from outdoors 

Ventilation Flux = ventilation of indoor air back to the outdoor environment 

Deposition Flux = deposition of mass out of the air 

Resuspension Flux = resuspension of mass back to the air 

In general, each flux is parameterized as the mass of the "donor" compartment multiplied by the rate 

(expressed in reciprocal time) of the physical exchange process. In some cases, an efficiency factor is 

also included to account for the fractional efficiency of the removal process. For the Penetration Flux, 

b
	Q^. = P × b × b	 × c

where: 

Penetration FluxPb = penetration of air lead from outdoors (μg/h) 

AER = air exchange rate (h-1) 

P = penetration efficiency (unitless) 

PbAIR = concentration of lead in ambient air (μg/m3) 

V = volume of the building (m3) 

Because the air exchange rate (AER) specifies the number of times the indoor air is replaced by outdoor 

air in a given hour, it represents both the rate of penetration in and ventilation out. The ventilation flux 

out of the building is thus given by: 

c
		Q^. = P × GG^.

where: 

Ventilation FluxPb = ventilation of indoor lead in air back to the outdoor 

environment (μg/h) 

 AER = air exchange rate (h-1) 

INAIRPb = indoor mass of lead in air (μg) 

The deposition flux (Deposition Flux) is defined as the amount of mass in the air times a deposition rate: 
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		Q^. =  × GG^.

where: 

Deposition FluxPb = deposition of lead out of the air (μg/h) 

DepRate = deposition rate (h-1) 

INAIRPb = indoor mass of lead in air (μg) 

 

So, using the penetration, ventilation, deposition fluxes, and indoor source terms, the equation for the 

change in time of the indoor air lead mass is: 

Pb Pb

Pb AER P PbAIR V AER INAIR DepRate INAIR

dt

dINAIR

= × × × − × − × 

where: 

dINAIRPb/dt = change in time of the indoor air lead mass (μg/h) 

INAIPRPb = indoor mass of lead in air (μg) 

FLOORPb = mass of lead on the floor (μg) 

PbAIR = concentration of lead in ambient air (μg/m3) 

AER = air exchange rate (hour-1) 

P = penetration efficiency (unitless) 

V = volume of the building (m3

) 

DepRate = deposition rate (h-1) 

 

For the indoor floor dust compartment (FLOOR), the fluxes include deposition of lead from the air onto 

the floor, resuspension of lead from the floor into the air, tracking of lead from outdoor soil, and 

removal of lead due to routine cleaning: 

Pb Pb Pb Pb

Pb Deposition Flux TrackingFlux ResuspensionFlux Cleaning Flux

dt

dFLOOR

= + − −

where: 

dFLOOR/dt = change in time of the indoor floor mass 

Deposition Flux = deposition of mass out of the air onto the floor 

Tracking Flux = tracking of soil inside from outdoors 

Resuspension Flux = resuspension of mass back to the air 

Cleaning Flux = removal of lead due to routine cleaning 
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The deposition flux (Deposition Flux) and resuspension flux (ResuspensionFlux) retain the same form as 

in the INAIR equations. 

The tracking flux (TrackingFlux) is parameterized specifically according to the limited data available

about the process. Von Lindern (2003) measured the amount of particulate deposited on front mats in 

276 houses in two locations near the Bunker Hill Superfund Site. The lead levels reported in the paper 

are expected to be high-end and are not expected to represent general population exposures. However, 

the assumption is made that the rate of accumulation of dust (as opposed to the lead in the dust) on 

doormats is not strongly affected by the location and can be used to represent a national population of 

homes. In addition, Thatcher and Layton (1995) measured the difference between particulate 

accumulation in tracked and untracked areas in the home as well as the amount on the front mat. From 

these two data sources, it is possible to estimate a distribution of mat particulate accumulation rates as 

well as the fraction of material that remains on the mat compared to being tracked into the home. For 

this reason, the tracking is parameterized as: 

]	
+Q^. = b	
 × ]	
+ × (1 − e)

where: 

TrackingFluxPb = accumulation of tracked-in lead on the floor (μg/h)

PbSoilConcen = concentration of lead in the tracked-in soil (μg/g)

TrackingRate = rate at which particulate is deposited on front mats (g/h) 

MatFrac = fraction of total tracked material which is deposited on the 

front mat (as opposed to the remainder of the building) 

 (unitless) 

The cleaning flux (Cleaning Flux) is parameterized assuming a cleaning efficiency (CE) and cleaning 

frequency (CF) and multiplying these by the mass on the floor (FLOOR): 


	
+Q^. = P ×  × *gg^.

where: 

Cleaning FluxPb = removal of lead due to routine cleaning (μg/h) 

CE = cleaning efficiency (unitless) 

CF = cleaning frequency (cleanings/h)

FLOORPb = mass of lead on the floor (μg)

 
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Combining the floor fluxes then gives: 

Pb Pb

Pb DepRate INAIR PbSoilConcen TrackingRate MatFrac CE CF FLOOR

dt

dFLOOR

= × − × × 1( − ) − × ×

where: 

dFLOORPb/dt = change in time of the indoor floor lead mass (μg/h)

INAIPRPb = indoor mass of lead in air (μg) 

FLOORPb = mass of lead on the floor (μg) 

DepRate = deposition rate (h-1) 

PbSoilConcen = concentration of lead in the tracked-in soil (μg/g)

TrackingRate = rate at which particulate is deposited on front mats (g/h) 

MatFrac = fraction of total tracked material which is deposited on the 

 front mat (as opposed to the remainder of the building) 

 (unitless) 

CE = cleaning efficiency (unitless) 

CF = cleaning frequency (cleanings/h) 

The above equations can be converted to difference equations by assuming a discrete time step and the 

model can be integrated forward in time to describe the lead and particulate accumulation at any 

moment. 

J.1. References for Appendix J 

Allott et al 1994. A model of environmental behaviour of contaminated dust and its application to 

determining dust fluxes and residence times. Atmospheric Environment. (28) 4. 679-687. 

Johnson D. (2008). A first generation dynamic ingress, redistribution, and transport model of soil trackin: DIRT. Environ Geochemistry Health 30: 589-596. 

Layton D; Beamer P. (2009). Migration of contaminated soil and airborne particles to indoor dust. Envir. 

Science and Technol. 43: 8199-8205. 

Thatcher T; Layton D. (1995). Deposition, rsuspension, and penetration of particles within a residence. 

Atmospheric Environment. 29(13): 1487-1497. 

von Lindern I; Spalinger S; Bero B; Petrosyan V; von Braun, M. (2003). The influence of soil remediation 

on lead in house dust. Sci. Total Environ 303(1-2): 59-78. 
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Appendix K. Loading to Concentration Conversion 

The indoor dust model provides an estimate of the lead loading in terms of mass of lead per square foot 

of floor. However, the selected biokinetic blood lead model, Leggett, cannot accept lead loadings as 

inputs. Instead, it requires lead concentrations, or the amount of lead per mass of ingested dust. 

EPA previously analyzed the available evidence on the relationship between dust-lead loading statistics 

and dust-lead concentrations and developed an empirical approach that uses a regression relationship 

between dust-lead loading and dust-concentration measurements (US EPA, 2008c) A log-log model was 

fitted to data from HUD’s National Survey of Lead-Based Paint in Housing (“HUD Survey Data”), which 

are provided in Appendix C-1 of EPA’s risk assessment for TSCA Appendix 403 (US EPA, 1998). 

EPA further considered the loading to concentration relationship when evaluating possible hazard 

standards for residences and public and commercial buildings in 2011. A mechanistic model and an 

empirical approach were presented and described in Appendix E of both documents. Based on SAB 

feedback, the empirical model was used. 

Considering the previous use of and SAB preference for an empirical approach, EPA searched for 

additional data sources to supplement the HUD Survey Data. There were two goals of identifying 

additional data sources. The first was to determine if other data sources showed a similar relationship 

between lead dust loading and concentration, further validating use of this approach. The second was 

to increase the overall sample size and improve the overall fit of the regression. 

Three data sources were pooled together to develop a more robust loading to concentration 

relationship. The HUD Survey data measured floor dust loadings based on vacuum samples and used an 

empirical equation to estimate the associated wipe loadings. It is anticipated that the wipe samples

better capture the total lead present in the home; the vacuum samples are subject to vacuum collection

efficiencies. Thus, the estimated wipe lead loadings were paired with the Blue Nozzle lead 

concentrations at each home to develop the loading-to-concentration statistical relationship. Blue 

Nozzle sampling is an older sampling technique, which assumes that the concentration is roughly 

uniform across all particles and the particles collected by the Blue Nozzle device are representative of 

the true average concentration. Summary statistics from HUD survey data are provided below in Table 

K-1. In general, the spread in the data is large and covers loadings up to 375 μg/ft2

 and concentrations 

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Table K-1. Statistics from the HUD survey data. 

Statistic Loading 

(μg/ft2) 

Concentration 

(μg/g) 

Average 19.48 520 

Min 0.51 0.09 

Max 375.00 50,400 

50th percentile 6.35 190 

A study by Adgate et al in 1995 examined the relationship between dust loading, lead loading, and lead

concentration in house dust in 216 homes in Jersey City, New Jersey. The total sample size was 444 data 

points. The data points from the scatterplot in Figure 7A were digitized using the GetData®; because

some of the data points were located on top of each other, only 312 of the 444 data points were 

captured during the digitization. The R2

 in Adgate Figure 7A corresponding to the log/log relationship 

between lead loading and lead concentration was 0.65 Wipe samples were collected for lead loadings 

and were compared to dust concentrations collected by a vacuum cleaner from wall to wall carpet and 

area rugs greater than 48 square feet. The total amount of dust was adjusted for vacuum collection 

efficiency using an algorithm developed by Wang et al 1995. Summary statistics from the Adgate data 

are provided below in Table K-2. In general, the spread in the data is large and covers loadings up to 

9,626.97 ug/ft2 and concentrations up to 33,113.40 ug/g. (Adgate et al 1995) 

Table K-2. Statistics from the Adgate data.

Statistic Loading 

(μg/ft2) 

Concentration 

(μg/g) 

Average 96.34 1,004.65 

Min 0.38 18.64 

Max 9,626.97 33,113.40 

50th percentile 22.32 468.69 

The Canadian House Dust Study (CHDS) collected dust samples from 1,025 homes across 13 cities and 

was designed to estimate nationally representative urban house dust metal concentrations and metal 

loadings. Trained technicians followed a vacuum sampling protocol to collect a composite sample of 

active dust from all dry living areas of each house. Participants were instructed not to clean for at least 

one week prior to sample collection. Fine (<80 μm) and coarse (80–300 μm) particle size fractions were

collected and were combined to calculate loading values based on: measurements of the area sampled, 

dust mass, dust lead concentration, and time elapsed since cleaning (details in Rasmussen et al., 2013). 
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As area measurements were not available for three houses, the overall sample size for the loading 

calculation was 1,022. The distributions of metal loads obtained using the CHDS vacuum sampling 

protocol are consistent with population-based distributions obtained using wipe sampling methods from 

other studies. Summary statistics from the Canadian House are provided below in Table K-3. In general, 

the spread in the data is smaller and covers concentrations up to 7,800 ug/g (Rasmussen et al 2013). 

Table K-3. Statistics from the Canadian House 

Dust Study 

Statistic Loading 

(μg/ft2) 

Concentration 

(μg/g) 

Average 2.88 210 

Min 0.019 14.2 

Max 89.4 7,800 

50th percentile 0.77 100 

These three data sources were pooled together and an outlier analysis was conducted. Three outliers 

were detected and excluded from the pooled sample resulting in an overall sample size of 1,643. The 

summary statistics for the pooled data set are provided below in Table K-4. 

Table K-4. Statistics for the Pooled Data Set

Statistic 

Loading 

(μg/ft2) 

Concentration 

(μg/g) 

Average 22.86 370.10 

Min 0.019 2.01 

Max 9,626.9 14,935.96 

50th percentile 2.02 137 

From the raw data, each loading and concentration was transformed by taking the natural log, and the 

average of the natural log of the loadings across all data points was subtracted from each loading. The 

latter step re-centers the data and makes the estimated slope and intercept uncorrelated. A regression

was performed on these data using the add-on Regression function in Excel® to calculate a predictive 

distribution as detailed in Qian (2010). The regression was used to calculate the degrees of freedom,

slope, intercept, error variance, and estimated standard deviation of the slope and intercept using the 

following regression equation: 
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ln(Conc) = Intercept + Slope* (Adj ln(Load)) + ErrorVariance

where: Adj ln(Load)) = ln(Load) – Average(ln(Load)) 

The regression modeling treated the lead data as a simple random sample and did not take the survey 

weights and survey design in the HUD data into account. Each individual measurement is assumed to 

give equal information about the relationship between loading and concentration. The results of the 

regression modeling are presented below in Table K-5. 

Table K-5. Regression results for loading- concentration conversion.

Parameter Value 

Degrees of Freedom 1641 

Intercept 5.145 

Slope 0.421 

Error variance 0.544 

Estimated standard deviation (standard 

error) of intercept 

0.018 

 

Estimated standard deviation (standard 

error) of slope 

0.009 

 

R Square 0.55 

The error variance term represents the true variability around the regression line, which captures the

reality that a ln(Load) can be associated with a range of ln(Conc). Because the regression is calculated 

using 1643 concentration and loading data pairs, there is some uncertainty in the predicted intercept 

and slope, captured as the estimated standard deviation, or standard error, of the intercept and slope. 

However, both of these values were reduced when using the larger pooled data set when compared to 

using the HUD Survey data set alone. The standard error of the intercept was reduced from 0.04 to 

0.018, the standard error of the slope was reduced from 0.05 to 0.009, and the R Square was improved 

from 0.465 to 0.55. The overall uncertainty and variability within the predicted ln(Conc) is represented 

by the sum of the error variance (modeled as a chi-squared distribution) in the predicted intercept and 

the variance in the predicted slope (each represented by Normals). The Monte Carlo model samples 

from each distribution for each realization when converting from loading to concentration. 

To bound the range of concentrations that the Monte Carlo model can predict from a known loading, 90 

percent prediction intervals were calculated using a T-distribution with 1641 residual degrees of 

freedom (based on the full regression data set). 
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K.1. References for Appendix K 

Adgate et al 1995. Lead in House Dust. Relationships between Exposure Metrics. Environmental 

Research (70) 134-147. 

HUD (U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development). (2002). National Survey of Lead and 

Allergens in Housing: Final Report, Revision 6. Office of Lead Hazard Control. October 

31. Available at: http://www.hud.gov/offices/lead/techstudies/survey.cfm#natsurvey 

Rasmussen et al (2013). Canadian House Dust Study: Population-based concentrations, loads and 

loading rates of arsenic, cadmium, chromium, copper, nickel, lead, and zinc inside urban homes. 

Science of the Total Environment 443 (2013) 520–529

Qian S. (2010). Environmental and ecological statistics with R. Chapman and Hall, Section 9.2 

US EPA. (1998). Risk analysis to support standards for lead in paint, dust, and soil. Appendix G: Health 

effects associated with exposure to lead and internal lead doses in humans. (Report No. EPA 

747-R-97-006). Washington, DC: US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Pollution 

Prevention and Toxics. Available online at: http://www.epa.gov/lead/pubs/toc.pdf. 

US EPA. (2008a). Economic analysis for the TSCA lead renovation, repair, and painting program Final 

Rule for Target Housing and Child-Occupied Facilities. Washington, DC: US Environmental 

Protection Agency, Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics (OPPT). 

US EPA. (2010a). Proposed approach for developing lead dust hazard standards for residences. SAB 

Consultation Draft. Washington, DC: US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Pollution 

Prevention and Toxics (OPPT). Prepared for July 6-7, 2010 consultation 
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Appendix L. Estimates of Exposure Factors 

L.1. Age Groups and Ages Within Each Group 

For the analysis, a set of age groups were selected for which the different health effects would be 

estimated in aggregate. It was necessary to group together individuals of different ages in order to 

create a reasonable number of scenarios in the model. In order to ensure the age group was 

representative of the individual members, the groups were selected by examining the selected health 

effect papers to determine the population ages in the studies (Table L-1). In general, the age groups 

were selected to cover the populations in the different papers as best as possible. For low birth weight, 

additional consideration of the population distribution of maternal age at pregnancy in the United 

States was also considered. In addition, cohort distributions provided in the studies were considered to 

ensure that pertinent data were not excluded from the analysis. 

Table L-1. Age Ranges in the Health Effect Study Subjects. 

Health Effect and Study Age Range of Study Subjects 

IQ effects, Lanphear et al. 2005 0 to 10 years old 

Low Birth Weight, Zhu et al. 2010 15 to 49 years old 

Kidney effects, Navas-Acien et al. 2009 20 to 90 years old (NHANES population) 

Cardiovascular disease mortality, Menke et al.2006 20 to 90 years old (NHANES population) 

Based on these considerations, the following age groups were selected to closely match the ages noted 

in the study population: 

 Age 0-10: IQ effects 

 Age 18-49: Low birth weight, kidney, and cardiovascular disease mortality effects 

 Age 50-80: Kidney and cardiovascular disease mortality effects 

The Monte Carlo model requires a cumulative probability distribution for each age group; that 

distribution is sampled during each iteration to determine the age of the person within the group for the 

blood lead and health effect calculations. The American Community Survey data from 2010-2012 

(http://www.census.gov/acs/www/) were used to estimate these distributions. (ACS 2012) In each age 

group, the total population in that group was used to calculate the probability of occurrence of each age 
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in increments of years. Table L-2 and Table L-3 show the distributions for the children and adults, 

respectively. 

Table L-2. Probability Distribution for Children. 

Age Population Probability Cumulative 

Probability 

Age 0-10 

Under 1 

year 

3,728,928 0.08 0.08 

1 Year 3,920,811 0.09 0.17 

2 Years 4,070,061 0.09 0.26 

3 Years 4,128,393 0.09 0.35 

4 Years 4,177,518 0.09 0.45 

5 Years 4,174,548 0.09 0.54 

6 Years 4,062,915 0.09 0.63 

7 Years 4,114,308 0.09 0.72 

8 Years 4,016,352 0.09 0.81 

9 Years 4,111,269 0.09 0.91 

10 years 4,178,124 0.09 1.00 

 
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Table L-3. Probability Distributions for Adults 

Age Population Probability Cumulative 

Probability Age Population Probability Cumulative Probability 

Age 18-49 Age 50-80 

18 years 4,597,878 0.03 0.03 50 years 4,826,172 0.05 0.05 

19 years 4,374,663 0.03 0.07 51 years 4,464,354 0.05 0.10 

20 years 4,782,129 0.04 0.10 52 years 4,463,964 0.05 0.15 

21 years 4,694,160 0.03 0.14 53 years 4,377,144 0.05 0.20 

22 years 4,375,500 0.03 0.17 54 years 4,385,244 0.05 0.25 

23 years 4,171,068 0.03 0.20 55 years 4,360,065 0.05 0.29 

24 years 4,029,537 0.03 0.23 56 years 4,115,214 0.04 0.34 

25 years 4,379,898 0.03 0.26 57 years 4,024,680 0.04 0.38 

26 years 4,178,904 0.03 0.29 58 years 3,875,571 0.04 0.42 

27 years 4,217,025 0.03 0.32 59 years 3,729,201 0.04 0.46 

28 years 4,204,608 0.03 0.35 60 years 3,872,127 0.04 0.51 

29 years 4,147,719 0.03 0.38 61 years 3,541,116 0.04 0.55 

30 years 4,462,401 0.03 0.42 62 years 3,519,627 0.04 0.58 

31 years 4,111,062 0.03 0.45 63 years 3,495,222 0.04 0.62 

32 years 4,117,977 0.03 0.48 64 years 3,272,820 0.04 0.66 

33 years 3,916,908 0.03 0.51 65 years 3,017,097 0.03 0.69 

34 years 3,896,793 0.03 0.53 66 years 2,613,507 0.03 0.72 

35 years 4,093,446 0.03 0.56 67 years 2,604,534 0.03 0.75 

36 years 3,826,857 0.03 0.59 68 years 2,503,611 0.03 0.77 

37 years 3,887,709 0.03 0.62 69 years 2,354,469 0.03 0.80 

38 years 4,013,214 0.03 0.65 70 years 2,246,490 0.02 0.82 

39 years 4,039,923 0.03 0.68 71 years 1,995,159 0.02 0.85 

40 years 4,633,614 0.03 0.72 72 years 1,925,682 0.02 0.87 

41 years 4,197,336 0.03 0.75 73 years 1,838,373 0.02 0.89 

42 years 4,178,478 0.03 0.78 74 years 1,696,614 0.02 0.91 

43 years 4,072,578 0.03 0.81 75 years 1,667,943 0.02 0.92 

44 years 4,109,589 0.03 0.84 76 years 1,548,294 0.02 0.94 

45 years 4,323,045 0.03 0.87 77 years 1,453,188 0.02 0.96 

46 years 4,333,803 0.03 0.90 78 years 1,368,168 0.01 0.97 

47 years 4,454,691 0.03 0.93 79 years 1,317,393 0.01 0.99 

48 years 4,510,179 0.03 0.97 80 years 1,317,870 0.01 1.00 
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For the low birth weight health effect, the effects are restricted to pregnant women and their newborns 

rather than the general population. The distribution for the general population between ages 18-50 is 

fairly uniform while the distribution for pregnancy peaks in the 20’s and tapers significantly during the 

late 30’s and 40’s (Error! Reference source not found., 

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr62/nvsr62_09.pdf). 

Figure L-1 Table L-4. Probability Distribution for Pregnancy by Age 

Age Probability Cumulative 

Probability Age Probability Cumulative Probability

18 0.0221 0.0221 34 0.0525 0.8475

19 0.0346 0.0567 35 0.0245 0.8719

20 0.0475 0.1042 36 0.0245 0.8964

21 0.0475 0.1516 37 0.0245 0.9209

22 0.0475 0.1991 38 0.0245 0.9453

23 0.0475 0.2466 39 0.0245 0.9698
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24 0.0475 0.2941 40 0.0057 0.9754

25 0.0582 0.3523 41 0.0057 0.9811

26 0.0582 0.4105 42 0.0057 0.9868

27 0.0582 0.4687 43 0.0057 0.9925

28 0.0582 0.5269 44 0.0057 0.9981

29 0.0582 0.5851 45 0.0003 0.9985

30 0.0525 0.6376 46 0.0003 0.9988

31 0.0525 0.6900 47 0.0003 0.9991

32 0.0525 0.7425 48 0.0003 0.9994

33 0.0525 0.7950 49 0.0003 0.9997

34 0.0525 0.8475 50 0.0003 1.0000

However, the Leggett blood lead model does not predict significantly different blood lead values 

between age 20 and age 50. This is illustrated in Figure L-1 where the model was run with constant 

intakes at the current background level from birth to an age of 80. The model does not respond to 

intake significantly differently during the adult years. Owing to computational resource limitations, the 

low birth weight health effect distribution was simulated using the general population distribution (i.e., 

the same distribution used for the other adult health effects). However, because the blood leads do not 

vary significantly during this portion of adulthood, this assumption is not expected to dramatically affect 

the predicted distribution. 
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Figure L-1. Blood Lead Profile for an Individual with Constant Background Intake from Birth to Age 80 using 

Leggett model 

L.2. Time Spent 

The amount of time that children and adults spend in different types of Public and Commercial Buildings 

is highly variable and is a sensitive variable in estimating the exposure to lead from either an interior or 

exterior P&CB renovation activity. The Consolidated Human Activity Database (CHAD) contains the most 

robust human activity data available (CHAD). The CHAD database contains activity information from 

survey respondents who logged their whereabouts for one or multiple days. The database contains this 

information for individuals on different days and for people ranging from young children to adults. 

The most up-to-date CHAD database was obtained on March 6, 2014. The database contains 

information from different surveys, and all data were used in the analysis. As a first step, an initial 

quality control step was performed. The number of unique entries in the database was determined to 
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be 1,901,301. The number of unique entries in the database after removing entries where field QCMiss 

> 60 (either activity or location is unknown for more than 1 hr/day) and field qcsleep is missing (no sleep 

time entered) was 1,633,914. The corresponding unique number of activity days captured in the 

database is 42,090. 

Then, the location types in the CHAD database were mapped to the interior and exterior receptor 

building types. The mapping is shown in Table L-5 for interiors and 
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Table L-6 for exteriors. Other CHAD codes were not included in the analysis and generally covered 

individuals who were spending time traveling from one place to another or spending time outside. Then,

percentiles were estimated for each age group and for each analysis category. The percentiles were 

rounded to the nearest 15-minute (quarter hour) increment; if a percentile was 0.0 hours per day, then

it was rounded to 15 minutes to account for noise at the low percentiles. Finally, the data in hours per 

day were divided by 24 hours to give the average fraction of the day. Table L-7 and Table L-8 give the

resulting hours per day and fractions for each percentile. In the Monte Carlo model, the percentiles 

were used as the cumulative distribution function and the fraction of the day values were sampled for 

each iteration and for each age group. 

In estimating the percentiles, special consideration was given for “child occupied facilities” (COFs) which 

are defined as a “building, or a portion of a building, constructed prior to 1978, visited regularly by the 

same child, under 6 years of age, on at least two different days within any week, provided that each 

day’s visit lasts at least 3 hours, and the combined weekly visits last at least 6 hours, and the combined 

annual visits last at least 60 hours.” Daycare facilities and preschools are typically thought of as childoccupied facilities, but the definition above is not limited to only those types of buildings. Other types 

of public and commercial buildings qualify as child occupied facilities if all of the conditions in the 

definition are met. However, if any one of these conditions is not met, the building would not qualify as 

a child-occupied facility. 

For children 5 and under, only the schools building category had a 50th percentile time spent of greater 

than 3 hours per days. Other building types exceeded 3 hours per day, but only at the upper 

percentiles. For children 5 and under, the upper and lower percentiles of the original distribution for 

the interior analysis categories were altered so that estimates tended toward the 50th percentile value 

and do not account for visits longer than 3 hours per day. This is the same as removing longer time 

spent values above the previously defined COF threshold. 
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Table L-5. Mapping from Interior Analysis Codes to CHAD Codes 

Interior Building Type CHAD Codes Mapped to Interior Building Type 

1i: Office, Public assembly, Public 

safety, Religious Worship, 

Outpatient healthcare 

32100 : Office building / bank / post office 

33400 : At work : no specific location, moving among location 

2i: Warehouse, Industrial, 

Agricultural, Supermarket 

32200 : Industrial plant / factory / warehouse 

32900 : Public building / library / museum / theater 

32920 : Library / courtroom / museum / theater 

33700 : At Church 

32300 : Grocery store / convenience store 

3i: Food sales, mall, strip mall, 

Services, Non-mall retail 

32400 : Shopping mall / non-grocery store 

32500 : Bar / night club / bowling alley 

32510 : Bar / Night Club 

32520 : Bowling alley 

32600 : Repair shop 

32610 : Auto repair shop /gas station 

32620 : Other repair shop 

32700 : Indoor gym / sports or health club 

32910 : Auditorium, sport's arena / concert hall 

33100 : Laundromat 

33300 : Beauty parlor / barber shop / hair dresser's 

33600 : At Restaurant 

33900 : At Dry cleaners 

4i : Education 33500 : At School 

5i: Lodging, hospital 33200 : Hospital / health care facility / doctor's office 

33800 : At Hotel /Motel 
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Table L-6. Mapping from Exterior Analysis Codes to CHAD Codes 

Exterior 

Building Type 

CHAD Codes Mapped to Exterior Building Type 

1e: Agricultural 36200 : Farm 

2e: Industrial 32200 : Industrial plant / factory / warehouse 

3e: 

Commercial/ 

Public/ 

Government 

32100 : Office building / bank / post office 

33400 : At work : no specific location, moving 

among locat 

32900 : Public building / library / museum / 

theater 

32920 : Library / courtroom / museum / theater 

33700 : At Church 

32300 : Grocery store / convenience store 

32400 : Shopping mall / non-grocery store 

32500 : Bar / night club / bowling alley 

32510 : Bar / Night Club 

32520 : Bowling alley 

32600 : Repair shop 

32610 : Auto repair shop /gas station 

32620 : Other repair shop 

32700 : Indoor gym / sports or health club 

32910 : Auditorium, sport's arena / concert hall 

33100 : Laundromat 

33300 : Beauty parlor / barber shop / hair 

dresser's 

33600 : At Restaurant 

33900 : At Dry cleaners 

33200 : Hospital / health care facility / doctor's 

office 

33800 : At Hotel /Motel 

34200 : Laboratory 

4e: Schools 33500 : At School 

5e: Residences 

30000 : Residence, General 

30010 : Your Residence 

30020 : Other's Residence 

30100 : Residence, indoor 

30120 : Your residence, indoor 

30121 : Kitchen 

30122 : Living room / family room 

30123 : Dining room 

30124 : Bathroom 

30125 : Bedroom 

30126 : Study / Office 

30127 : Basement 

30128 : Utility room / Laundry room 

30129 : Other indoor 

30130 : Other's residence, indoor 

30131 : Other's Kitchen 

30132 : Other's living room / family room 

30133 : Other's Dining room 

30134 : Other's Bathroom 

30135 : Other's Bedroom 

30136 : Other's Study / Office 

30137 : Other's Basement 

30138 : Other's utility room / laundry room 

30139 : Other indoor 

30200 : Residence, Outdoor 

30210 : Your residence, Outdoor 

30211 : Your residence - Pool, spa 

30219 : Your residence - Other outdoor 

30220 : Other's residence, outdoor 

30221 : Other's residence - Pool, spa 

30229 : Other's residence - Other outdoor 

30300 : Garage 

30310 : Indoor garage 

30320 : Outdoor garage 

30330 : Your garage 

30331 : Your indoor garage 

30332 : Your outdoor garage 

30340 : Other's garage 

30341 : Other's indoor garage 

30342 : Other's outdoor garage 

30400 : Other, residence 

32810 : Childcare facility, house 
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Table L-7. Percentiles for Time Spent in Different Interior Building Types 

Interior Analysis, Hours per Day 

PnCB 

Category 

Under 5 years old, Percentiles 5-17 years old, Percentiles 

5th 10th 25th 50th 75th 90th 95th 99th 5th 10th 25th 50th 75th 90th 

1i 0.25 0.25 0.25 0.5 1.00 1.75 2.9 2.9 0.25 0.25 0.25 0.75 2.00 4.25 2i 0.25 0.25 0.5 1.25 2.5 2.9 2.9 2.9 0.25 0.25 1.00 2.00 3.00 4.5 3i 0.25 0.25 0.5 1.00 1.75 2.9 2.9 2.9 0.25 0.25 0.5 1.25 2.25 3.75 4i 0.25 1.00 2.75 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.9 2.9 1.00 3.00 5.00 6.5 7.25 8.00 5i 0.25 0.5 0.5 1.00 1.75 2.9 2.9 2.9 0.25 0.5 0.75 1.5 5.00 8.75 

PnCB 

Category 

18-49 years old, Percentiles 50 years old and above, Percenti

5th 10th 25th 50th 75th 90th 95th 99th 5th 10th 25th 50th 75th 90th 

1i 0.25 0.75 3.75 7.75 8.75 9.75 10.5 12.75 0.25 0.5 2.0 6.0 8.5 9.5 2i 0.25 0.25 0.5 1.25 3.25 8.25 9.25 11.75 0.25 0.25 0.5 1.25 2.5 4.5 3i 0.25 0.25 0.75 1.25 2.75 5.25 8 11.25 0.25 0.25 0.75 1.25 2.0 3.5 4i 0.25 0.25 0.75 3.0 6.75 8.25 9.25 11.75 0.25 0.25 1.0 2.25 6.75 8.5 5i 0.25 0.5 1.0 2.5 8.25 10.25 12.0 15.0 0.25 0.5 0.75 1.5 3.75 8.25 

Interior Analysis, Fraction of Week 

PnCB 

Category 

Under 5 years old, Percentiles 5-17 years old, Percentiles 

5th 10th 25th 50th 75th 90th 95th 99th 5th 10th 25th 50th 75th 90th 

1i 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.02 0.04 0.07 0.12 0.12 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.03 0.08 0.18 2i 0.01 0.01 0.02 0.05 0.10 0.12 0.12 0.12 0.01 0.01 0.04 0.08 0.13 0.19 3i 0.01 0.01 0.02 0.04 0.07 0.12 0.12 0.12 0.01 0.01 0.02 0.05 0.09 0.16 4i 0.01 0.04 0.11 0.12 0.12 0.12 0.12 0.12 0.08 0.13 0.21 0.27 0.30 0.33 5i 0.01 0.02 0.02 0.04 0.07 0.12 0.12 0.12 0.01 0.02 0.03 0.06 0.21 0.36 

PnCB 

Category 

18-49 years old, Percentiles 50 years old and above, Percenti

5th 10th 25th 50th 75th 90th 95th 99th 5th 10th 25th 50th 75th 90th 

1i 0.01 0.03 0.16 0.32 0.36 0.41 0.44 0.53 0.01 0.02 0.08 0.25 0.35 0.40 2i 0.01 0.01 0.02 0.05 0.14 0.34 0.39 0.49 0.01 0.01 0.02 0.05 0.10 0.19 3i 0.01 0.01 0.03 0.05 0.11 0.22 0.33 0.47 0.01 0.01 0.03 0.05 0.08 0.15 4i 0.01 0.01 0.03 0.13 0.28 0.34 0.39 0.49 0.01 0.01 0.04 0.09 0.28 0.35 5i 0.01 0.02 0.04 0.10 0.34 0.43 0.50 0.63 0.01 0.02 0.03 0.06 0.16 0.34 
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Table L-8. Percentiles for Time Spent in Different Exterior Building Types 

Exterior Analysis, Hours per Day 

PnCB 

Category 

Under 5 years old, Percentiles 5-17 years old, Percentiles 

5th 10th 25th 50th 75th 90th 95th 99th 5th 10th 25th 50th 75th 90th 

1e 0.10 0.20 0.60 1.20 2.00 2.40 2.90 2.90 0.50 0.50 1.00 1.75 3.25 4.25 2e 0.30 0.30 0.30 0.30 0.50 0.60 0.60 0.60 0.25 0.25 0.25 0.75 3.25 4.50 3e 0.30 0.40 0.80 1.40 2.50 3.80 4.70 7.90 0.25 0.25 1.00 2.00 3.25 5.25 4e 0.70 1.80 3.30 5.80 8.40 9.50 9.90 11.00 2.00 3.00 5.25 6.50 7.25 8.25 5e 13.90 15.60 19.00 21.50 23.40 24.00 24.00 24.00 12.50 13.75 15.75 19.00 22.00 23.75 

PnCB 

Category 

18-49 years old, Percentiles 50 years old and above, Percenti

5th 10th 25th 50th 75th 90th 95th 99th 5th 10th 25th 50th 75th 90th 

1e 0.25 0.25 1.00 3.00 8.75 11.75 13.00 16.00 0.25 0.50 0.75 2.50 4.75 8.25 2e 0.25 0.50 4.00 8.25 9.00 10.50 11.25 12.75 0.25 0.50 3.25 8.25 9.00 10.00 3e 0.25 0.75 1.75 4.50 8.75 10.25 11.25 14.50 0.50 0.75 1.50 3.25 7.50 9.50 4e 0.00 0.00 0.75 2.75 6.50 8.25 9.00 12.25 0.00 0.25 1.00 2.25 6.75 8.50 5e 9.75 11.25 13.25 16.25 20.75 23.00 24.00 24.00 11.00 12.50 14.75 19.50 22.50 24.00 

Exterior Analysis, Fraction of Week 

PnCB 

Category 

Under 5 years old, Percentiles 5-17 years old, Percentiles 

5th 10th 25th 50th 75th 90th 95th 99th 5th 10th 25th 50th 75th 90th 

1e 0.01 0.01 0.03 0.05 0.08 0.10 0.12 0.12 0.02 0.02 0.04 0.07 0.14 0.18 2e 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.02 0.03 0.03 0.03 0.01 0.01 0.01 0.03 0.14 0.19 3e 0.01 0.02 0.03 0.06 0.10 0.16 0.20 0.33 0.01 0.01 0.04 0.08 0.14 0.22 4e 0.03 0.08 0.14 0.24 0.35 0.40 0.41 0.46 0.08 0.13 0.22 0.27 0.30 0.34 5e 0.58 0.65 0.79 0.90 0.98 1.00 1.00 1.00 0.52 0.57 0.66 0.79 0.92 0.99 

PnCB 

Category 

18-49 years old, Percentiles 50 years old and above, Percenti

5th 10th 25th 50th 75th 90th 95th 99th 5th 10th 25th 50th 75th 90th 

1e 0.01 0.01 0.04 0.13 0.36 0.49 0.54 0.67 0.01 0.02 0.03 0.10 0.20 0.34 2e 0.01 0.02 0.17 0.34 0.38 0.44 0.47 0.53 0.01 0.02 0.14 0.34 0.38 0.42 3e 0.01 0.03 0.07 0.19 0.36 0.43 0.47 0.60 0.02 0.03 0.06 0.14 0.31 0.40 4e 0.01 0.01 0.03 0.11 0.27 0.34 0.38 0.51 0.01 0.01 0.04 0.09 0.28 0.35 5e 0.41 0.47 0.55 0.68 0.86 0.96 1.00 1.00 0.46 0.52 0.61 0.81 0.94 1.00 
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L.3. Length of Time Between Renovation and Blood Lead 

Measurement 

In the Approach, all renovation activities are assumed to occur in 2014 so that incremental health 

effects could be aggregated and attributed to renovation activities in a given year. The Approach 

samples the population age distribution discussed in Section L.1 to determine the individual’s age at the 

time of renovation. Based on that age, the individual’s birth year (relative to 2014) is calculated, and 

they are assigned the correct background intake profile to match that birth year. 

To be consistent with the methods in the health effect papers, blood lead and health effect status was

determined at a specific point in time post-renovation. Similar to the NHANES survey (on which some of 

the health effect studies are based), it is assumed in the Approach assumes that the health effect risk is 

based on this single point estimate of blood lead. 

 People tend to enter different public and commercial buildings numerous times each week, and they 

will encounter numerous pubic and commercial building renovations over the period of their lives. In 

this Approach, it is not feasible to try to model every renovation; the possible combinations of buildings 

and ages during the renovation are nearly infinite and cannot be incorporated into the model. Instead,

the Approach models the most recent renovation that occurred in a building with lead-containing paint.

Thus, the Approach assumes that a given person enters a given public and commercial building as part 

of their day-to-day activities. They may spend either a large or small amount of time in the building, and 

that will be accounted for separately in the “time spent” variable. That one given building will be 

renovated using different activities with varying frequency. To quantify the frequency, the Approach 

uses the 2011 RSMeans Facilities Maintenance & Repair Cost Data (Mossman and Plotner 2011). The 

RSMeans data book includes information on the frequency (in years) for a variety of systems, including

interior finishes, exterior closures, plumbing, HVAC, electrical systems, and window and door 

replacements. We decided to consider a range of years for each event type because the number of years 

can vary widely based on material and size. For example, the frequency of painting concrete block walls 

(exteriors) is every 25 years; however, finished wood shingles (exteriors) are painted every 5 years. 
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Table L-9. Frequency of Renovations in Commercial and Public Buildings, by Event Type

 presents the range of frequencies, by event type, for selected data from RSMeans. The total annual 

frequency of exposure from renovations in public and commercial buildings was calculated in two 

different ways. To calculate the numbers in the first total row we assumed that the probability of 

performing each renovation activity is independent of the probabilities of performing the other 

renovation activities. For example, we assume that the probability of replacing pipes is independent of 

the probability that walls are repainted. Thus, if the annual frequency of interior painting is 0.2 and the 

annual frequency of replacing pipes is 0.01, the probability of doing either of these jobs in a given year is 

the sum of the two annual frequencies, or 0.21. However, it may be more realistic to assume that the 

probabilities of performing different renovation activities are not independent. For example, if the wall 

must be disturbed to replace pipes it’s a good time to repaint the room at the same time. The second

total row in 
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Table L-9. Frequency of Renovations in Commercial and Public Buildings, by Event Type

 accounts for this by taking the most frequent interior activity and assuming that the less frequent 

interior activities will be performed at the same time as the most frequent activity. For example, if

interior painting is done every 4 years and HVAC systems are replaced every 20 years, we assume that 

the building owner will choose to coincide the HVAC replacement with one of the painting events, so 

the HVAC will be replaced at the same time as the interior painting (i.e., pipes are replaced at the same 

time as every 5th interior painting job). 

As shown in 
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Table L-9. Frequency of Renovations in Commercial and Public Buildings, by Event Type

 , the annual renovation frequency is estimated to be between 0.24 and 0.70. In other words, the 

average person will be exposed to renovations that may disturb lead-based paint between every 1.4 to 

4.2 years. 

However, the person in question is assumed to be present during the renovation and their blood lead is

measured at some later date. As a proxy for when a person’s blood is measured, it is assumed in the 

Approach that the person will have been in a building being renovated at least within the last 4.2 years. 

In reality, they enter numerous buildings that each may or may not have lead based paint and that may 

or may not have been recently renovated. However, the assumption that a renovation happened at 

least 4.2 years ago states that “the person enters at least one public and commercial building that 

contains lead-based paint, and that building was renovated sometime within the last 4.2 years’. 

To implement this assumption in the Approach, the renovation is always assumed to occur in 2014. 

Then, the concurrent blood lead is recorded at nine different time periods after the renovation: 1 

month, 5 months, 10 months, 15 months, 20 months, 25 months, 30 months, 40 months, and 50 

months, where 50 months is approximately 4.2 years. This sampling pattern is shown in Figure L-2 in the 

top panel. Capturing all the different time periods allows analysis of the health effects over the range of 

assumed time periods since the renovation. 
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Table L-9. Frequency of Renovations in Commercial and Public Buildings, by Event Type

Event 

Frequency 

(in Years) 

Annual 

Frequency 

Low High Low High

Interior Painting 5 4 0.2 0.25 

Exterior Painting 25 5 0.04 0.20 

Replace plumbing pipes and fixtures 75 10 0.01 0.10

Replace HVAC Systems 75 20 0.01 0.05 

Replace Electrical System and Fixtures 20 20 0.05 0.05 

Window and Door Replacement Events 60 20 0.02 0.05 

TOTAL 

(Assuming Renovation Types are Performed Separately) 3.0a

 1.4 b 0.33 a 0.70 b

TOTAL 

(Assuming Renovation Interior Activities are performed 

together and Exterior Activities are performed together. 

For example, HVAC and other interior activities are 

performed at the same time as interior repainting; 

window replacement and other exterior activities are 

performed at the same time as exterior repainting).

4.2 c 2.2 d 0.24 c 0.45 d

a. The 0.33 total annual frequency is calculated by summing the annual frequencies of the 

individual events above (0.2+0.04+0.01+0.01+0.05+0.02=0.33). The annual frequency is 

converted to a frequency in years by taking its reciprocal (1/0.33=3). 

b. The 0.70 total annual frequency is calculated by summing the annual frequencies of the 

individual events above (0.25+0.2+0.1+0.05+0.05+0.05=0.7). The annual frequency is 

converted to a frequency in years by taking its reciprocal (1/0.7=1.4). 

c. The 0.24 total annual frequency is calculated by summing the most frequent interior activity 

frequency (0.2) and the most frequent exterior activity frequency (0.04) annual frequencies 

of the individual events above (0.2+0.04=0.24). The annual frequency is converted to a 

frequency in years by taking its reciprocal (1/0.24=4.2). 

d. The 0.45 total annual frequency is calculated by summing the most frequent interior activity 

frequency (0.25) and the most frequent exterior activity frequency (0.2) annual frequencies 

of the individual events above (0.25+0.2=0.45). The annual frequency is converted to a 

frequency in years by taking its reciprocal (1/0.45=2.2). 
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Figure L-2. Diagram of Concurrent and Lifetime Average Blood Lead Metrics in the Approach 

As an additional blood lead metric, the lifetime average blood lead is also estimated for each iteration 

and age group. This lifetime average is defined as the average from birth until the post-renovation time 

when blood lead returns to the background value. This metric, rather than being a biologically-based 

metric, is an exposure-based one. Because the health effect studies and other literature do not provide 

information on a biologically relevant window of susceptibility for the health effects, the exposurebased lifetime average definition is used as a surrogate. This lifetime average is depicted in the lower 

panel of Figure L-2. 

L.4. Exposure Factors for Lead Renovation Intake Estimates 

The Leggett model requires intakes as inputs rather than media concentrations. To convert the 

renovation-related media concentrations to intakes for each age group, the following equations were 

used: 

gG
 = 	G
+ × (1 ' 	f  


G
G
  c
		  	

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where: 

OralIntake = oral intake of renovation-related dust (μg/day)

DustSoilIngestRate = ingestion rate of dust and soil per day (g/day)

FracSoil = fraction of dust and soil intake that is soil 

DustConcen = lead concentration in dust (μg/g)

InhalIntake = inhalation intake of renovation-related particulate 

 (μg/day)

VentilationRate = inhalation rate of air (m3/day)

AirConcen = lead concentration in air (μg/m3) 

Table L-10 shows the values used for the exposure factors in the Approach. It also shows the absorption 

fraction used in the Leggett model to determine how much of the oral intake enters the blood stream. 

Table L-10. Exposure Factors Used in Approach 

Parameter Source 0-1 1-2 2-3 3-4 4-5 5-6 6-7 7-10 18-80 

Soil and Dust 

Ingestion Rate 

(g/day) 

Exposure 

Factors 

Handbook 

(US EPA, 

2011) 

0.06 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.05 

Fraction of soil 

and dust 

ingestion that is 

soil 

Exposure 

Factors 

Handbook 

(US EPA, 

2011) 

0.45 

Ventilation Rate 

(m3/day) 

Exposure 

Factors 

Handbook 

(US EPA, 

2011) 

5.4 8 9.5 10.9 10.9 10.9 12.4 14.4 13.3 

Absorption 

Fraction in 

Leggett Model 

Leggett 

(1993) 0.45 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.15 

L.5. References for Appendix L: 

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(http://www.census.gov/acs/www/) 
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Lanphear BP, Hornung R, Khoury J, et al. (2005). Low-level environmental lead exposure and children’s 

intellectual function: an international pooled analysis. Environ Health Perspect, 113, 894–9. 

Leggett RW. (1993). An age-specific kinetic model of lead metabolism in humans. Environmental 

HealthPerspectives 101:598–616.

Menke et al (2006). Blood lead below 0.48 micromol/L (10 microg/dL) and mortality among US adults. 

Circulation. 114:1388–1394. 

Mossman M; Plotner S; Babbitt C; Baker T; Balboni B, Eds. (2011). RSMeans Facilities Construction Cost 

Data 

Navas-Acien et al (2009). Blood Cadmium and Lead and Chronic Kidney Disease in US Adults: A Joint 

Analysis. Am. J. Epidemiol. (2009) 170 (9): 1156-1164.

US EPA, 2011. Exposure Factors Handbook. Available at http://www.epa.gov/ncea/efh/pdfs/efhcomplete.pdf. 

Zhu et al (2010). Maternal Low-Level Lead Exposure and Fetal Growth. Environmental Health 

Perspectives. Volume 118. Number 10. 
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Appendix M. Updates to the Leggett Model 

The Leggett biokinetic model (Leggett, 1993) synthesized a wide variety of sometimes disparate sources

of information related to the biokinetics of lead in humans. The Leggett model was informed by: 

1. Lead tracer studies of injection, ingestion, and inhalation in healthy adult humans, 

2. Measurements of lead in environmentally exposed men, women, and children at autopsy, 

3. Lead mass-balance studies on adult humans, 

4. Bioassay and autopsy measurements on occupationally exposed subjects, 

5. Lead studies in laboratory animals ad different life stages 

6. Experimental, occupational, environmental, and medical data on the biokinetics of elements that 

serve as physiological analogues of lead, and 

7. Basic physiological information on the human body. 

As such, the Leggett model structure is a minimal system of body compartments and mass exchange 

terms needed to synthesize all these data sets. The modular form of the model allows investigators to 

modify specific parameter values to address special problems in lead toxicology or to incorporate new 

information related to lead biokinetics. The original Leggett model included: 

a. Input file: an ASCII input file containing information describing the lead exposure scenario and 

the age-dependent lead transfer rates for each compartments, and 

b. Model code: an executable FORTRAN program which reads the input file and performs the 

prescribed calculations, and writes the outputs to an ASCII file. 

This approach was designed to provide maximum flexibility and versatility rather than user-friendliness. 

The original Leggett model has, on several occasions, been translated onto other software platforms or

into other programming languages. These adaptations include porting the FORTRAN code to a C++ 

version by Michael Korsch (personal communication), a MatLab version (LeggettPlus) by the OEHHA 

(2013), and Excel scripts to support an exposure module by ICF and SRC (personal communication). In 

each case, these adaptations were undertaken to provide a more user friendly interface or to support 

iterative analyses. 

In addition, the original FORTRAN code has been changed to create four distinct versions of the model,

and these versions have been distributed to researchers in academia and government (e.g. EPA) upon 
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request. It is important to note that these four FORTRAN versoins did not alter the algorithms and 

equations of the model itself, but rather facilitate output of new variables: 

 Version 1: ICRPv001.FOR added line#53 in the input file and added a module to the FORTRAN code 

for chelation (R. Leggett, 1996) 

 Version 2: ICRPv002.FOR created output options to convert CRTCON and TRBCON (μg lead/g wet 

bone) to CORTCONBM and TRBCONBM (μg lead/g bone mineral) to better simulate XRF 

measurements of bone lead( J. Pounds, 1997) 

 Version 3: ICRPv003.FOR converted output time from DAYS to YEARS (J. Pounds, 1997) 

 Version 4: ICRPv004.FOR added output options for UPTAKEGI, UPTAKERI, UPTAKE and added 

additional output preceison to YEARS (J. Pounds and R. Leggett, 1997). 

With respect to bone (the storage site of lead in the body), the Leggett model includes a series of 

compartments that exchange lead mass with plasma. This compartmental structure includes more 

exchange compartments than other existing models, as shown in Figure M-1. The transfer rates help 

determine the relative storage of lead in the bone and the overall half-life of lead in the body. Thus, 

these parameter values are highly sensitive variables. 

The Approach requires accurate simulation of both children and adult blood lead values at typical 

background exposure levels and over short-term renovation related changes. Thus, as part of the 

development of this Approach, Version 4 (ICRPv004.FOR) of the original Leggett Lead Model (Leggett, 

1993) was updated to Version 5 (ICRPv005.FOR) by J. Pounds to resolve some limitations of the original

model and to incorporate new input data available in the literature. The tasks undertaken included: 

1. Scaling tissue lead concentrations for children and adolescents, 

2. Evaluating and updating bone lead transfer rates, and 

3. Evaluating and calibrating the model using human data sets for children and adults. 

These updates were undertaken so that the model remains backward-compatible with existing input 

files. That is, when possible, only the parameter values in the model input file (*.DAT) were modified. If 

necessary, FORTRAN code was updated, or both the code and the default input file were edited to 

incorporate the changes. In instances for which reliable data were not available and thus required 

judgment, the minimal numerical changes from the original Leggett model were employed. The changes 

are discussed in detail below, and the FORTRAN code with an example input file (*.DAT) are provided as

attachments. 
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The California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) also recently revisited the 

Leggett model (OEHHA, 2013), building the “Leggett Plus” model. Their changes were reviewed and 

considered during this effort. However, because their focus was on adult occupational exposure, 

additional changes were made to ensure model appropriateness for the hypothetical individuals 

(children and adults experiencing typical non-occupational background lead exposure with the addition 

of a short-term renovation-related increase in lead exposure) being considered in this present analysis. 

Figure M-1. The Skeletal and blood compartments of representative biokinetic models for lead metabolism 

in humans. a). Rabinowitz et al. 1983; b) Nie et al. 2005, c) Leggett, 1993. 

M.1. Scaling Model Parameters for Children 

The Leggett model is a mass-balance model, meaning it keeps track of the input, movement, and output 

of lead from the body. In order to estimate concentrations for each simulated body compartment (e.g., 

blood lead), the lead mass (μg) in each compartment is divided by the age-dependent volume (or 

weight) of the compartment. In the original Leggett model, some tissue volumes were limited to adult 
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values. Thus, although some tissue concentrations were calculated for all ages, some outputs were only

valid for adults. For the new version of the Leggett model that is presented here, the kidney mass 

(KIDWT), total skeletal mass (TSKELWT), fraction of skeletal mass that is trabecular bone (FRTRAB), 

trabecular bone mass (TTRABWT), cortical bone mass (TCORTWT), red blood cell volume (RBCVOL), and 

plasma volume (PLSVOL) were updated to allow lead concentrations to change from birth to adulthood. 

The RBC saturation values were also revisited as discussed below. The revisions for scaling consisted of 

1. Identifying age-dependent tissue volumes/weights at 14 different ages from birth to 75 years of 

age, and 

2. Editing the FORTRAN code to read these values and interpolate to ages that are not explicitly 

defined consistent with the interpolation approach used by the Leggett model (1993). 

M.1.1. Kidney mass, total skeletal mass, red blood cell volume, and plasma 

volume 

Not all tissues are scaled for children in the Leggett versions 1-4. Thus, model outputs for lead 

concentration in these tissues are only valid for adults. The age-dependent compartmental volumes for 

kidney, total skeleton, red blood cell, and plasma were estimated using values in ICRP Publication 89 

“Basic Anatomical and Physiological Data for Use in Radiological Protection Reference Values” (Valentin, 

2002). The kidney and skeletal values were used directly while the red blood cell and plasma volumes 

were estimated from age-dependent hematocrit and total blood values. In each case, the agedependent values for males were selected. This selection was done to provide consistency with 

parameter selection in original Leggett model (Leggett, 1993) which evolved from the ICRP model for 

radioisotopes of lead in the workplace. The implementation of gender-dependent computation and 

outputs is beyond the scope of the present effort. The implementation of gender-dependent 

computation and outputs is beyond the scope of the present effort. The most critical limitation of the

updated Leggett model with respect to gender is during and menopause; that is, the current version of 

the Leggett model (like all previous versions) does not consider gender dependent changes in bone 

mass, bone mineral metabolism, and skeletal mass during adolescence and menopause. The Leggett-93 

approach is justified by the poor availability of experimental studies on lead kinetics in females 

compared to males. The consequence of applying the Leggett models to simulate blood lead 

concentrations in females has not been evaluated. Such evaluation would require information 

describing gender-dependent lead intake and uptake in addition to age-dependent physiological data. 

The updated compartmental volume values were hard-coded into the FORTRAN code at specific ages, 

and linear interpolation was performed between the age bins to determine intermediate values 

consistent with Leggett model handling of age-dependent parameters. The updated parameter values 

are shown in Table M-1. 
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M.1.2. Fraction of Skeleton that is Trabecular Bone 

The age-dependent trabecular and cortical bone volumes were estimated using the total skeletal 

volumes and multiplying by an age-dependent fraction that accounts for the fraction of the skeleton 

that is trabecular bone. Infants are born with nearly all of their body consisting of trabecular bone while 

adult’s trabecular bone is approximately 20% of skeletal mass (Brinckmann et al., 2002). An extensive 

literature search was undertaken, but reliable, age-dependent changes between these two extremes 

with age could not be located. In the absence of such information, it was assumed that the body is half 

trabecular and half cortical bone at age 5 (Brinckmann et al. 2002) and the other values were 

interpolated to get the full distribution with age. The values are shown in Table M-1. 

Table M-1. Updated Age-Dependent Model Compartment Volumes 

Age 

(yr) 

Kidney 

Mass (g) 

Skeletal 

Mass (g) 

Fraction 

Skeleton 

that is 

Trabecular 

Total 

Blood 

Volume 

(dL)

Hematocrit 

Red 

Blood 

Cell 

Volume 

(dL)

Plasma 

Volume 

(dL)

0 25 370 0.95 2.7 0.575 1.55 1.15

0.27 36 642 0.90 3.1 0.37 1.15 1.95

1 70 1170 0.85 5 0.35 1.75 3.25

5 110 2430 0.50 14 0.38 5.32 8.68

10 180 4500 0.34 24 0.38 9.12 14.88

15 250 7950 0.23 45 0.4 18.00 27.00

18 310 10500 0.20 53 0.42 22.26 30.74

24 310 10500 0.20 53 0.45 23.85 29.15

30 310 10500 0.20 53 0.45 23.85 29.15

40 310 10500 0.20 53 0.45 23.85 29.15

45 310 10500 0.20 53 0.45 23.85 29.15

55 310 10500 0.20 53 0.45 23.85 29.15

65 310 10500 0.20 53 0.45 23.85 29.15

75 310 10500 0.20 53 0.45 23.85 29.15

M.1.3. RBC saturation 

The nonlinear accumulation of lead by erythrocytes at high blood lead levels is widely accepted (USEPA, 

2013). Moreover, non-linear binding saturation is conceptually logical as high affinity lead-binding sites 

on proteins and other molecules will become saturated at high lead levels. The original Leggett model 

set a threshold and a maximum saturation of 25 μg/dL whole blood and 350 μg/dL RBC respectively. The 

OEHHA implementation of the Leggett model (OEHHA, 2013) set the threshold to zero and the 

maximum limit of saturation to 270 μg /dL), since the mechanistic and empirical basis for a threshold is 
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not well defined. The difference between using threshold values of 0 versus 25 μg/dL and using 

saturation values of 270 and 350 μg /dL are shown in Figure M-2. Overall, blood lead levels using no 

threshold and a saturation value of 270 are lower than blood lead levels using the original Legget (1993) 

parameters. The difference, as determined in test runs as part of the current effort, is a decrease by 

approximately 33% at both 20 μg/dL and 30 μg/dL, with smaller differences at lower blood lead levels. 

For this effort, the parameters in the input file (input line 17) were changed to reflect threshold and 

maximum saturation of 0 and 270, respectively, and the nonlinearity in the model was turned on. It 

should be recognized that the issue of threshold and saturation is not necessarily settled but awaits 

better experimental data and insight to establish these parameters. 

Figure M-2. The Effect of Different Nonlinear Threshold and Saturation Value Assumptions. 

The “1” in the figure legend indicates that the nonlinearity in the model was turned on. 

M.1.4. Additional Parameter Changes 

Other parameters were changed during the course of model calibration to support age-dependent 

model outputs of lead concentrations and to improve simulation of blood lead in children. Both the 

deposition fraction from plasma to red blood cells and the transfer rate from red blood cells to plasma 

were adjusted to improve agreement between the modeled blood lead for children ages 1 to 7 years 

and the NHANES average blood leads for the same age range, as discussed in Section M.3. 

The selection of the adult values used by Leggett (1993) were obtained from a limited radiotracer study 

conducted in adults only, and thus no age-dependent transfer rates were available. Leggett (1993) 

concluded that “approximately” 24% of plasma lead entered the RBC and this variable was not modified 

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to provide more accurate simulation of blood lead levels in children. The adult transfer rates were also 

adjusted slightly to provide better agreement with the occupational calibration data set. The updated 

values are shown in Table M-2. No contemporary studies were identified to support an objective 

definition of these parameters. 

We also reviewed and updated the default maternal blood lead concentration to be more appropriate 

to contemporary blood lead data and to better simulate blood leads in children. The Leggett-93 model 

set the maternal blood lead at 10 μg lead/dL at time of birth (input file line #18). This variable in turn 

defines the starting blood and tissue lead concentrations at birth (input file line #19). This variable was 

updated following review of maternal blood leads from the 2011-2012 NHANES survey (CDC, 2012). The 

average blood lead was estimated across the female population age 18 to 50. An average value of 0.7 μg

lead/dL was calculated and thus 0.7 μg lead/dL was used as the new default maternal blood lead in the 

Leggett input file. 

Table M-2. Additional Parameters Updated in the Leggett Model 

Age 

Deposition 

Fraction to 

RBC 

Transfer Rate 

from RBC*** 

0 0.562* 0.20 

0.27 0.562* 0.20 

1 0.562* 0.20 

5 0.277 0.20 

10 0.277** 0.21 

15 0.139 0.22 

18 0.139 0.22 

24 0.139 0.22 

30 0.139 0.22 

40 0.139 0.22 

45 0.139 0.22 

55 0.139 0.22 

65 0.139 0.22 

75 0.139 0.22 

* Changed from 0.462 

** Changed from 0.139 

*** All changed from 0.24 

M.2. Bone Transfer Rates 

There are two major kinds of structural bone, trabecular and cortical. Cortical bone is much more dense 

and stronger than trabecular bone and comprises about 80% of the adult skeletal mass. Trabecular bone 

is more vascular, more flexible, less dense, and has a higher surface/mass ratio. The vascularity and 
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surface to mass ratio facilitate more rapid deposition and exchange of Ca2+ or Pb2+ and other boneseeking metals. Kinetic models for bone mineral metabolism, including lead, generally include 

compartments for both bone types with or without kinetic sub-compartments. The bone transfer rates 

for the Leggett (and other) models are derived from available data from human and animal studies with 

priority given to data derived from humans. This primary objective for reevaluation of the bone-lead 

transfer (in addition to scaling for children and adolescents) is to incorporate more information on the 

skeletal lead metabolism in the aged human. That is, the fractional skeletal transfer rates in the original 

Leggett model were not adjusted after age 25. This adjustment is important as age (with diet, gender, 

exercise, genetics, etc.) determines the rate of bone formation, resorption, bone turnover, and bone 

loss. 

Difficulty in defining bone-lead transfer rates. There is excellent potential to apply new data, not 

available to Leggett in 1993, to inform revision of the Leggett model bone-lead transfer rates. These new 

data include (a) more elaborate non-invasive measures of lead in cortical and trabecular bone by XRF, 

(b) development of blood and urinary biomarkers of bone formation and resorption, and (c) more widely 

applied studies of Dual Energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) measures of bone density and bone mass. 

Electronic searches using Medline, Quertle, and Google Scholar were conducted to identify useful 

papers. 

It must be recognized that biokinetic compartments and transfer integrate many chemical and biological

processes. For example, the transfer of lead from trabecular bone to plasma (RTRAB) is the sum of the 

chemical loss by displacement of lead from hydroxyapatite, bone matrix proteins, or bone cells by Ca2+

or H+. Pb2+ may also be lost from bone as the mineralized and proteinaceous bone matrix is degraded 

by osteoclasts. 

The last two decades have seen the identification, development, and clinical application of numerous 

biomarkers for anabolic and catabolic skeletal biology. The use of these biomarkers is limited as, for

example, a marker of bone resorption, does not distinguish between turnover of trabecular and cortical

bone. Moreover, bone resorption or turnover as defined by a biomarker may not be equivalent to loss 

of Pb as Pb2+ may be simply redistributed to another site in bone. 

Finally, it is not appropriate to directly compare, or utilize, bone-lead transfer rates from other biokinetic 

or PBPK models of lead as the number of transfer rates varies considerably. Twelve fractional transfer

rates and six compartments comprise the skeletal component of the Leggett model. In contrast, the 

Rabinowitz model includes a single compartment and two transfer rates for skeletal lead (Rabinowitz et

al. 1976). Other kinetic models lie between these two extremes (see Figure M-1). 
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Values and data sources for trabecular and cortical bone-lead transfer rates were evaluated. Bone 

formation and turnover rates from different sources were reviewed including: 

 Age-dependent bone formation and turnover rates as defined by tracer studies of Ca, Pb, Sr, or 

other bone-volume-seeking elements. 

 Age-dependent bone formation and turnover rates as defined by blood and urinary biomarkers 

were also reviewed. 

 Age-dependent bone-lead transfer rates described in the scientific literature since 1993 including 

values in PBPK models or other compartmental models. 

The use of blood or urinary concentrations of Osteocalcin, bone-specific alkaline phosphatase, 

procollagen I extension peptides, acid phosphatase, telopeptides of type I collagen, pyridinoline and 

deoxypyridinoline crosslinks are used as biomarkers of bone formation, resorption, and turnover. 

Unfortunately, the medical studies reviewed were focused on individuals at risk for skeletal disease(s) 

and did not encompass age-dependent studies of a general population suitable to inform modification 

of bone-lead transfer parameters. This literature however, has promise to inform age-dependent bonelead transfer parameters and should be re-evaluated in the future. 

Several biokinetic and PBPK lead models published since the Leggett 1993 publication included bonelead transfer rates. The values of a single representative parameter, transfer from trabecular bone to

plasma, are illustrated in Figure M-3. For this effort, the values used in the Coon et al. (2006) 

implementation of the Leggett model, originally from Rowland (1964), were selected. These values 

include bone lead transfer rates for trabecular and cortical bone to age 70 yr, including changes in bone 

mineral metabolism associated with senectitude, as shown in Table M-3. 

The published bone-lead parameters from more recent publications were not used to update the 

Leggett model in the current effort because (a) they did not include age-dependent parameters (e.g. Nie 

et al. 2005; OEHHA, 2013; O’Flaherty, 1998), (b) the model structure was incompatible with the Leggett 

model, so the transfer parameters could not be directly compared, and/or (c) the description of bone 

turnover and skeletal mass did not reflect well known changes in bone mineral metabolism associated 

with aging (all except O’Flaherty, 1998). 
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Figure M-3. Bone Transfer Rates Used in Different PBPK Models Since 1993. 

Table M-3. Bone Transfer Rates Used in the Model 

Age 

Cortical 

Bone 

Transfer 

Rates 

Trabecular 

Bone 

Transfer 

Rates 

0 0.0102 0.0102 

0.27 0.00822 0.00822 

1 0.00288 0.00288 

5 0.00154 0.00181 

10 0.00089 0.00132 

15 0.000512 0.000956 

18 0.000370 0.000781 

24 0.000082 0.000493 

30 0.000041 0.000247 

40 0.000041 0.000247 

45 0.000041 0.000274 

55 0.000041 0.000301 

65 0.000041 0.000329 

75 0.000041 0.000356 
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M.3. Evaluaton and Calibration of the Updated Model 

Two different exercises were conducted to compare the simulated blood lead values with literature data

and to calibrate the model to provide adequate agreement. These two separate exercises, one for 

children and one for adults, are described below. 

M.3.1. Comparison for Children 

The childhood portion of the updated Leggett model was compared to NHANES data from the 2007-

2008 survey (CDC, 2012). This particular survey was selected as the best match to the available intake

estimates.The NHANES values were the average values across each different age bin (0-<1, 1-<2, 2-<3, 3-

<4, 4-<5, 5-<6, and 6-<7), as shown in 
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Table M-4. Media intake rates were based on values in the Exposure Factors Handbook (EPA, 2011) 

while media concentrations were set to likely background values, as shown in 
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Table M-4. The concentrations and intake rates were used to calculate the daily lead intakes by 

inhalation and ingestion. Then, the Leggett model was run from birth to age 7 yr. The IEUBK model was 

also run to provide a comparison. The original Leggett model predicted blood lead values a factor of 2 to 

3 higher than those predicted by the IEUBK or reported by NHANES; however, after adjusting the RBC 

deposition fraction and performing the scaling of model parameters, the adjusted Leggett model agrees 

very closely to the NHANES data.Figure M-4Figure M-4 compares the blood lead concentrations from 

NHANES and model simulations using IEUBK, Leggett (version 4) and Leggett (version 5). The decrease in

blood lead between ages 0.5 to 1 year is because the intestinal absorption fraction gradually decreases 

from 45 to 30 percent by age 1 yr. The rapid increase in blood lead at age 1 yr is due to the substantial 

and abrupt 67% increase in lead intake (see 
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Table M-4). Version 5 of the Leggett model agrees well with the NHANES data. It should be noted, 

however, that this calibration only applies to chronic exposures; no data were available to perform 

analysis on shorter-term exposures such as those experienced during a renovation event.
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Table M-4. Background Media Concentrations and Intake Rates Used for the Childhood Model Callibration 

Parameter Source Age 

0-<1 

Age 

1-<2 

Age 

2-<3 

Age 

3-<4 

Age 

4-<5 

Age 

5-<6 

Age 

6-<7 

Soil and Dust 

Ingestion Rate (g/day) 

Exposure Factors 

Handbook (US EPA, 2011) 0.06 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 

Fraction of soil and 

dust ingestion that is 

soil 

Exposure Factors 

Handbook (US EPA, 2011) 0.45 

Background 

Residential Dust 

Concentration (μg/g) 

HUD (2002), averaged 

across vintages and 

converted to 

concentration 

75.7 

Background 

Residential Soil 

Concentration (μg/g) 

HUD (2002), averaged 

across vintages 44.6 

Dietary Lead Intake 

(μg/day) 

Exposure Factors 

Handbook (US EPA, 2011) 

and Total Diet Survey (US 

FDA, 2007) 

2.1 3.9 4.7 4.4 4.4 4.4 4.5 

Water Intake (L/day) Exposure Factors 

Handbook (US EPA, 2011) 0.32 0.27 0.32 0.33 0.33 0.33 0.41 

Water Lead 

Concentration (μg/L) 

Total Diet Survey (FDA, 

2007) 1.0 

Ventilation Rate 

(m3

/day) 

Exposure Factors 

Handbook (US EPA, 2011) 5.4 8 9.5 10.9 10.9 10.9 12.4 

Air Lead 

Concentration (μg/m3) 

EPA’s Air Quality Systems 

(AQS) database (USEPA, 

2010) 

0.02 

Total Inhalation Intake (μg/day) 0.108 0.16 0.19 0.218 0.218 0.218 0.248 

Total Gastrointestinal Intake (μg/day) 6.16 10.31 11.17 10.91 10.91 10.91 11.07 

NHANES 2007-2008 blood lead values (μg/dL) 1.4 1.7 1.3 1.2 1.0 1.1 0.8
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Figure M-4. Comparison of NHANES, IEUBK, Leggett (version 4) and Leggett (version 5) blood lead levels. 

M.3.2. Evaluation of Updated Leggett Model in Occupationally Exposed Adults 

In order to evaluate the performance of the Leggett model for adults, data were obtained from subjects

in three longitudinal bone lead studies performed in 1994 (n = 381), 1999 (n = 313), and 2008 (n = 497) 

(Nie et al., 2005; 2008 data not yet published). In these studies, there were 209 subjects who 

participated in all three studies, so these subjects were used for the evaluation. For each participant, 

tibia (cortical bone) and calcaneus (trabecular bone) lead was measured in vivo using 109Cd K X-ray 

fluorescence. Blood lead measurements and a cumulative blood lead index were also available. Finally, 

the study population was characterized by a discontinuity in lead exposure from July 1990 to May 1991 

during a plant strike. 

The dataset does not provide measures of lead exposure or intakes, so intake estimates were optimized 

iteratively using the Leggett model. An initial guess was made for each subject, and the intake was 

assumed to decrease in proportion to the blood lead decreases. The assumption is that an individual 

subject’s work place habits, diet, personal workplace activity (job), personal hygiene and physiology (e.g. 

diet, age, gender) that modulate lead exposure, lead intake, and lead uptake were consistent within a 

subject. The biokinetic parameters of the model were not further adjusted. Thus, only lead intake was 
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adjusted was adjusted until the mean square error (MSE) between the simulated and actual blood lead 

and a bone lead measurements was minimized as shown below. 

MSE = (((cortical94 - tibia94i) * 3 + (trabecular94 - calcaneus94i) * 2 + (pbb94 - pbb94i)) ^ 2 + 

((cortical99 - tibia99i) * 3 + (trabecular99 - calcaneus99i) * 2 + (pbb99 - pbb99i)) ^ 2 + 

((cortical08 - tibia08i) * 3 + (trabecular08 - calcaneus08i) * 2 + (pbb08 - pbb08i)) ^ 2)/3 

This error term gives more weight to cortical bone lead (as the most stable body store) and less to blood 

lead (as the most labile body compartment). This weighting is similar to that used by Coon et al. 2006. 

Figure M-5. Comparison of Mean Square Error between Simulated and Actual Blood and Bone Lead both 

Before and After the Intake Optimization. 

 shows examples of the mean square error before and after optimization. In general, the mean square 

error was decreased by a factor of 10 during the optimization. After the optimization was performed, 

the data were examined for each subject. In general, inspection indicated that cortical bone lead levels 

were biased low while blood lead levels were biased high. The bone and RBC transfer rates were 

adjusted in order to provide the best overall fit in the different subjects. 

Figure M-6 compares the blood lead, cortical bone lead, and trabecular bone lead estimates from 

Version 4 of the Leggett model, Version 5 of the Leggett model, and the actual data from one 

occupational worker. The model Version 5 was calibrated using the bone and blood lead data, and the 

cumulative blood lead index (CBLI) serves as an additional check of the model fit. For this individual, the 

model updates reduce the over prediction of blood lead and provide better fits to the data. 

 
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Figure M-5. Comparison of Mean Square Error between Simulated and Actual Blood and Bone Lead both 

Before and After the Intake Optimization. 
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Figure M-6. Comparison of Blood and Bone Lead Predicted Values to Measured Values in One 

Occupationally Exposed Adult. CBLI = Cumulative Blood Lead Index

M.4. Issues to consider at future date 

Additional activities can be undertaken in the future to further improve the model performance and 

reliability: 

 The modifications resulting in Version 5 of the model should be published in a peer-reviewed journal 

to facilitate communication and critical review of the model modifications and updates. 

 The age-dependent parameters newly included in the FORTRAN code should be moved to a revised 

input file. This revision will increase transparency for these parameters, and facilitate modification

and further testing. Such revision will, of course, essentially decouple the input files used over the

last twenty years from the current version of the Leggett model. 

 Opportunities should be developed to use stable isotope tracers in humans to better define key agedependent parameters of lead metabolism. Such an effort should be focused on gastrointestinal 

bioavailability and on skeletal processes. 
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 The clinical measures of bone mineral density and bone mass should continue to be monitored for 

data to inform the model’s age-dependent skeletal description. 

 The Health and Welfare has conducted a study measuring blood lead and bone lead (K-XRF) on nonoccupationally exposed population in Toronto. This study population includes children and the aged 

(David Chettle, personal communication). This is a valuable data set to calibrate and validate the 

updated Leggett model. 

 The Leggett model should be updated to consider gender. 

 The model could be incorporated in EPA agency-wide efforts to create an All Ages Lead Model 

(AALM). 

References for Appendix M 

Brinckmann P; W Frobin; Gunnar Leivseth. Musculoskeletal biomechanics. 2002. Published by Stuttgart, 

New York). Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, (2012). National Health and Nutrition 

Examination Survey 2010-2012.U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for 

Disease Control and Prevention. 

Coon, S, A Stark, E Peterson, A Gioi, G Kortsha, J Pounds, D. Cheattle, and J Gorrell. 2006. Whole-body 

lifetime occupational lead exposure and risk of Parkinson’s Disease. Environmental Health 

Perspectives Vol. 114, No. 12, Dec., 2006. 

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 2012. National Health and Nutrition Examination survey. 

Available at http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhanes.htm. 

HUD, 2002. National Survey of Lead and Allergens in Homes. 

http://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/atniehs/labs/lrb/enviro-cardio/studies/nslah/index.cfm 

Leggett RW. (1993). An age-specific kinetic model of lead metabolism in humans. Environmental Health 

Perspectives 101:598–616.

Nie, L, Chettle DR, Webber CE, Brito JA, O'Meara JM, McNeill FE. 2005. The study of age influence on 

human bone lead metabolism by using a simplified model and X-ray fluorescence data. J Environ 

Monit. 2005 Nov;7(11):1069-73. 
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OEHHA. 2013. Estimating Workplace Air and Worker Blood Lead Concentration Using an Updated 

Physiologically-based Pharmacokinetic (PBPK) Model. Available at 

http://oehha.ca.gov/air/risk_assess/PBPK2013.pdf. 

O’Flaherty, E. 1998. A physiologically based kinetic model for lead in children and adults. Environ Health 

Perspect. Dec 1998; 106(Suppl 6): 1495–1503. 

Rabinowitz, MB, G W Wetherill, and J D Kopple. 1976. Kinetic analysis of lead metabolism in healthy 

humans. J Clin Invest. Aug 1976; 58(2): 260–270. 

Rowland, RE. Resorption and bone physiology. pp. 335-351 in H. M. Frost, ed., Bone Biodynamics, 

Boston:Little, Brown, and Company; 1964. 

US EPA, 2010. EPA’s Air Quality Systems (AQS) database. Avaialble at 

http://www.epa.gov/ttn/airs/airsaqs/detaildata/downloadaqsdata.htm. 

US EPA, 2011. Exposure Factors Handbook. Available at http://www.epa.gov/ncea/efh/pdfs/efhcomplete.pdf. 

US EPA. (2013). Integrated Science Assessment for Lead. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 

Washington, DC, EPA/600/R-10/075F. 

US FDA, 2007. Total Diet Survey. Available at 

http://www.fda.gov/Food/FoodScienceResearch/TotalDietStudy/default.htm. 

Valentin, 2002. Basic Anatomical and Physiological Data for Use in Radiological Protection Reference 

Values. ICRP Publication 89. Ann. ICRP 32 (3-4). 
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Appendix M Attachment 1. Leggett Version 5 Code 

C UNITS: all times are in days, but ages are in years. 

C Pb is in micrograms. 

C INMODE is intake mode. 

C INMODE=0 is injection (direct input) into diffusible plasma, 

C 1 is inhalation, 2 is ingestion, 3 is any combination of 0, 1, and 2. 

C IACUTE=1 is acute intake & 2 is chronic intake. 

C The chronic intake rate may be varied with time in a stepwise fashion. 

C The chronic injection rate is the variable CHR, which is later converted to CRONIC. 

C The chronic inhalation rate is the variable BRETH, which is later converted 

C to BRTCRN. The chronic ingestion rate is eat, later converted to EATCRN. 

C ICPR.for received from Rich Leggett 9/93 

C ICRPv001 (chelat.for) add line#53 for chelation 10/96; rwl 

C ICRPv002 convert to crtconbm & trbconbm bone mineral density; jgp 

C ICRPv003 convert output time from DAYS to YEARS; 6/97; jgp 

C ICRPv004 add UPTAKEGI, UPTAKERI, UPTAKE; correct trbconbm conversion; 

C add decimal to YEARS; 11/97 jgp & rwl

C ICRPv005 add age-dependent scaling for 

RBCONC,RENCON,CRTCON,TRBCON,ASHCON,TORBC 

c April 2014, JGP 

C ICRPv005a adjust Pb distribution to cort-trab bone; fraction trab-cort bone 

 DIMENSION DELTA(10),ICYC(10),Q(50) 

 DIMENSION CHAGE(14),ENDPT(1000),CHR(1000),BRETH(1000),EAT(1000), 

 $ AGSCAL(14),ARCORT(14),ARTRAB(14),ATBONE(14),ATFRAC(14), 

 $ AF1(14),ARCS2B(14),ARTS2B(14),ARCSDF(14),ARTSDF(14), 

 $ ARBLAD(14),ARLVR2(14),ARKDN2(14),ARBRAN(14),ARRBC(14), 

 $ ARD2CS(14),ARD2TS(14),ARD2DC(14),ARD2DT(14),ATBRAN(14), 

 $ ATSOF0(14),ATSOF1(14),ATSOF2(14),AAMTBL(14),RDIFF(14), 

 $ FLONG(14),AKIDWT(14),ATSKELWT(14),ATTRABWT(14),ATCORTWT(14), 

 $ FRTTRAB(14),ARBCVOL(14),APLSVOL(14),ABLDHCT(14),ATORBC(14) 

 REAL INTACT,LAMOUT 

 OPEN(30,FILE='POUNDS.DAT') 

 OPEN(50,FILE='TEMP.DAT') 

 READ(30,*) EXPAGE 

 READ(30,*) NDELT,DELT0,NCYCLE,ENDDAY 

 READ(30,*) (DELTA(I),I=1,NDELT) 

 READ(30,*) (ICYC(I),I=1,NDELT) 

 READ(30,*) ISKIP 

 READ(30,*) I1,I2,I3,I4,I5 

 READ(30,*) INMODE,IACUTE,LINPUT 

C READ # CHRONIC INTAKE STEPS UP TO 50 AND CONSECUTIVE 

C ENDPOINTS IN DAYS, STARTING WITH DAYS=0.0. 
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 READ(30,*) NCHRON 

 IF (IACUTE .EQ. 2) READ(30,*) (ENDPT(I),I=1,NCHRON) 

 IF (IACUTE .EQ. 2) READ(30,*) (CHR(I),I=1,NCHRON) 

 IF (IACUTE .EQ. 2) READ(30,*) (BRETH(I),I=1,NCHRON) 

 IF (IACUTE .EQ. 2) READ(30,*) (EAT(I),I=1,NCHRON) 

 IF (IACUTE .NE. 2) READ(30,*) DUMMY 

 IF (IACUTE .NE. 2) READ(30,*) DUMMY 

 IF (IACUTE .NE. 2) READ(30,*) DUMMY 

 IF (IACUTE .NE. 2) READ(30,*) DUMMY 

 READ(30,*) NUMAGE,XMXAGE 

 READ(30,*) (CHAGE(I),I=1,NUMAGE) 

 READ(30,*) (AF1(I),I=1,NUMAGE) 

 READ(30,*) RDECAY 

 READ(30,*) IRBC,RBCNL,SATRAT,POWER 

 READ(30,*) IFETAL,BLDMOT,BRATIO 

 READ(30,*) SOFIN,RBCIN,BONIN,RENIN,HEPIN,BRANIN 

 READ(30,*) R1,R2,R3,R4,CILIAR 

 READ(30,*) BR1,BR2,BR3,BR4 

 READ(30,*) RSTMC,RSIC,RULI,RLLI 

 READ(30,*) (AGSCAL(I),I=1,NUMAGE) 

 READ(30,*) (ARCORT(I),I=1,NUMAGE) 

 READ(30,*) (ARTRAB(I),I=1,NUMAGE) 

 READ(30,*) (ARCS2B(I),I=1,NUMAGE) 

 READ(30,*) (ARTS2B(I),I=1,NUMAGE) 

 READ(30,*) (ARCSDF(I),I=1,NUMAGE) 

 READ(30,*) (ARTSDF(I),I=1,NUMAGE) 

 READ(30,*) (RDIFF(I),I=1,NUMAGE) 

 READ(30,*) (FLONG(I),I=1,NUMAGE) 

 READ(30,*) RLVR1,RKDN1 

 READ(30,*) (ARBLAD(I),I=1,NUMAGE) 

 READ(30,*) (ARLVR2(I),I=1,NUMAGE) 

 READ(30,*) (ARKDN2(I),I=1,NUMAGE) 

 READ(30,*) RSOF0,RSOF1,RSOF2 

 READ(30,*) (ARBRAN(I),I=1,NUMAGE) 

 READ(30,*) TOURIN,TOFECE,TOSWET,S2HAIR 

 READ(30,*) (ATBONE(I),I=1,NUMAGE) 

 READ(30,*) (ATFRAC(I),I=1,NUMAGE) 

 READ(30,*) TOLVR1,H1TOH2,H1TOSI,H1TOBL 

 READ(30,*) TOKDN1,TOKDN2 

 READ(30,*) (ATSOF0(I),I=1,NUMAGE) 

 READ(30,*) (ATSOF1(I),I=1,NUMAGE) 

 READ(30,*) (ATSOF2(I),I=1,NUMAGE) 

 READ(30,*) (ATBRAN(I),I=1,NUMAGE) 

 DO 6 I=1,NUMAGE 
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 ARD2CS(I)=(1.-FLONG(I))*RDIFF(I) 

 ARD2TS(I)=(1.-FLONG(I))*RDIFF(I) 

 ARD2DC(I)=FLONG(I)*RDIFF(I) 

 ARD2DT(I)=FLONG(I)*RDIFF(I) 

 6 CONTINUE 

 READ(30,*) TORBC 

 READ(30,*) TOEVF,SIZEVF 

 READ(30,*) RPLAS,TOPROT,RPROT 

 READ(30,*) (ARRBC(I),I=1,NUMAGE) 

 READ(30,*) XRBCVOL,XPLSVOL 

C ADJRBC=RBCVOL/(RBCVOL+PLSVOL) moved to below

 READ(30,*) (AAMTBL(I),I=1,NUMAGE) 

 READ(30,*) ICHEL,CHLEFF,CHEL1,CHEL2 

 IF (IACUTE .EQ. 1 .AND. LINPUT .EQ. 1) WRITE(*,11) 

 IF (IACUTE .EQ. 2 .AND. LINPUT .EQ. 1) WRITE(*,12) 

C Age-Dependent Kidney Mass from ICRP v89, p148 

C WHERE AGES 0,0.27,1,5,10,15,18,24,30,40,45,55,65 and 75 yr 

 AKIDWT (1) = 25. 

 AKIDWT (2) = 36. 

 AKIDWT (3) = 70. 

 AKIDWT (4) = 110. 

 AKIDWT (5) = 180. 

 AKIDWT (6) = 250. 

 AKIDWT (7) = 310. 

 AKIDWT (8) = 310. 

 AKIDWT (9) = 310. 

 AKIDWT (10) = 310. 

 AKIDWT (11) = 310. 

 AKIDWT (12) = 310. 

 AKIDWT (13) = 310. 

 AKIDWT (14) = 310. 

C AGE-DEPENDENT TOTAL SKELETAL MASS (g) from ICRP v89, page 170 

C WHERE AGES ARE 0,0.27,1,5,10,15,18,24,30,40,45,55,65 and 75 YEARS 

 ATSKELWT (1) = 370. 

 ATSKELWT (2) = 642. 

 ATSKELWT (3) = 1170. 

 ATSKELWT (4) = 2430. 

 ATSKELWT (5) = 4500. 

 ATSKELWT (6) = 7950. 

 ATSKELWT (7) = 10500. 

 ATSKELWT (8) = 10500. 

 ATSKELWT (9) = 10500. 
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 ATSKELWT (10) = 10500. 

 ATSKELWT (11) = 10500. 

 ATSKELWT (12) = 10500. 

 ATSKELWT (13) = 10500. 

 ATSKELWT (14) = 10500. 

C AGE-DEPENDENT Fraction of total skeletal mass comprised of trabecular bone 

C WHERE AGES ARE 0,0.27,1,5,10,15,18,24,30,40,45,55,65 and 75 YEARS 

C (changed from 99,96,87,) 

 FRTTRAB (1) = .95 

 FRTTRAB (2) = .90 

 FRTTRAB (3) = .85 

 FRTTRAB (4) = .50 

 FRTTRAB (5) = .34 

 FRTTRAB (6) = .23 

 FRTTRAB (7) = .20 

 FRTTRAB (8) = .20 

 FRTTRAB (9) = .20 

 FRTTRAB (10) = .20 

 FRTTRAB (11) = .20 

 FRTTRAB (12) = .20 

 FRTTRAB (13) = .20 

 FRTTRAB (14) = .20 

C CALCULATE AGE-DEPENDENT MASS OF TRABECULAR AND SKELETAL BONE AT 14 

AGES 

 ATTRABWT=ATSKELWT*FRTTRAB 

 ATCORTWT=ATSKELWT*(1-FRTTRAB) 

C Age-dependent ARBCVOL and APLSVOL calculated from age-dependent hematocrit and total 

blood (7) .48->.42 

 ABLDHCT (1) = .575 

 ABLDHCT (2) = .37 

 ABLDHCT (3) = .35 

 ABLDHCT (4) = .38 

 ABLDHCT (5) = .38 

 ABLDHCT (6) = .40 

 ABLDHCT (7) = .42 

 ABLDHCT (8) = .45 

 ABLDHCT (9) = .45 

 ABLDHCT (10) = .45 

 ABLDHCT (11) = .45 

 ABLDHCT (12) = .45 

 ABLDHCT (13) = .45 
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 ABLDHCT (14) = .45 

 ARBCVOL=AAMTBL*ABLDHCT 

 APLSVOL=AAMTBL*(1-ABLDHCT) 

C ADJRBC=RBCVOL/(RBCVOL+PLSVOL) Calculation replaced by BLDHCT 

C Age-dependent depostion fraction to RBC 

 ATORBC (1) = 0.20 

 ATORBC (2) = 0.20 

 ATORBC (3) = 0.20 

 ATORBC (4) = 0.20 

 ATORBC (5) = 0.21 

 ATORBC (6) = 0.22 

 ATORBC (7) = 0.22 

 ATORBC (8) = 0.22 

 ATORBC (9) = 0.22 

 ATORBC (10) = 0.22 

 ATORBC (11) = 0.22 

 ATORBC (12) = 0.22 

 ATORBC (13) = 0.22 

 ATORBC (14) = 0.22 

 11 FORMAT(' Enter acute input.') 

 12 FORMAT(' Enter chronic input to blood.') 

 IF (IACUTE .EQ. 1 .AND. LINPUT .EQ. 1) READ(*,*)ACPLAS 

 IF (IACUTE .EQ. 2 .AND. LINPUT .EQ. 1) READ(*,*)CHR(1) 

 IF (IACUTE .EQ. 1 .AND. LINPUT .NE. 1) AACUTE=1.0 

 IF (IACUTE .EQ. 1 .AND. LINPUT .EQ. 1) AACUTE=ACPLAS 

C 

 IF (IFETAL .NE. 1 .OR. EXPAGE .GT. 0.01 .OR. 

 $ IACUTE .NE. 2) GO TO 15 

 YSOF2=SOFIN*(BLDMOT*BRATIO*3./RBCIN) 

 YRBC=RBCIN*(BLDMOT*BRATIO*3./RBCIN) 

 YCVOL=0.8*BONIN*(BLDMOT*BRATIO*3./RBCIN) 

 YTVOL=0.2*BONIN*(BLDMOT*BRATIO*3./RBCIN) 

 YKDN2=RENIN*(BLDMOT*BRATIO*3./RBCIN) 

 YLVR2=HEPIN*(BLDMOT*BRATIO*3./RBCIN) 

 YBRAN=BRANIN*(BLDMOT*BRATIO*3./RBCIN) 

 15 CONTINUE 

 HOWOLD=EXPAGE 

 DAYS=0.0 

 BTEMP=0.0 

C BEGIN CALCULATIONS. 

 DO 1000 N=1,NCYCLE 
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C CHRONIC INTAKE SWITCH IS IACUTE. 

 BRTCRN=0.0 

 IF (IACUTE .NE. 2) GO TO 38 

 DO 35 I=2,NCHRON+1 

 IF (DAYS .GT. ENDPT(I-1)-1.0E-09) GO TO 35 

 CRONIC=CHR(I-1) 

 BRTCRN=BRETH(I-1) 

 EATCRN=EAT(I-1) 

 GO TO 38 

 35 CONTINUE 

 38 CONTINUE 

 IF (DELT0 .GT. 0.0) THEN 

 DELT = DELT0 

 ELSE 

 DO 52 ISTEP = 1, NDELT 

 IF (N .LE. ICYC(ISTEP)) THEN 

 DELT = DELTA(ISTEP) 

 GO TO 53 

 END IF 

 52 CONTINUE 

 53 CONTINUE 

 END IF 

 HOWOLD=HOWOLD+DELT/365. 

 DAYS=DAYS+DELT 

 TMINS=1440.*DAYS 

 XMINS=1440.*DAYS 

 HOURS=24.*DAYS 

 YEARS=DAYS/365. 

 IF (DAYS .GT. 1.0) TMINS=DAYS 

C IN THE FOLLOWING THE AGE-DEPENDENT VARIABLES ARE INTERPOLATED 

C TO GET VALUES FOR AGE HOWOLD. 

C SKIP THE FOLLOWING STEPS FOR PERSONS OLDER THAN XMXAGE YEARS. 

 IF (HOWOLD .GE. XMXAGE) GO TO 500 

C 

 DO 200 JAGE=1,NUMAGE 

 IF (HOWOLD .GE. CHAGE(JAGE)) GO TO 200 

 K=JAGE-1 

 GO TO 300 

 200 CONTINUE 

C 

 300 CONTINUE 

C 

 L=K+1 

 U=HOWOLD-CHAGE(K) 
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 V=CHAGE(L)-HOWOLD 

 W=V/(U+V) 

 Z=U/(U+V) 

C 

 GO TO 600 

C 

C FOR THE CASE IN WHICH HOWOLD IS AT LEAST XMXAGE YEARS: 

 500 K=NUMAGE 

 L=NUMAGE 

 W=1.0 

 Z=0.0 

C 

 600 CONTINUE 

C 

C DETERMINE BY INTERPOLATION THE RATES AND FRACTIONS AT AGE HOWOLD. 

C 

 F1=W*AF1(K)+Z*AF1(L) 

 AMTBLD=W*AAMTBL(K)+Z*AAMTBL(L) 

 RCORT=W*ARCORT(K)+Z*ARCORT(L) 

 RTRAB=W*ARTRAB(K)+Z*ARTRAB(L) 

 TFRAC=W*ATFRAC(K)+Z*ATFRAC(L) 

 TBONE=W*ATBONE(K)+Z*ATBONE(L) 

 TOSOF0=W*ATSOF0(K)+Z*ATSOF0(L) 

 TOSOF1=W*ATSOF1(K)+Z*ATSOF1(L) 

 TOSOF2=W*ATSOF2(K)+Z*ATSOF2(L) 

 TOBRAN=W*ATBRAN(K)+Z*ATBRAN(L) 

 RCS2B=W*ARCS2B(K)+Z*ARCS2B(L) 

 RTS2B=W*ARTS2B(K)+Z*ARTS2B(L) 

 RCS2DF=W*ARCSDF(K)+Z*ARCSDF(L) 

 RTS2DF=W*ARTSDF(K)+Z*ARTSDF(L) 

 RDF2CS=W*ARD2CS(K)+Z*ARD2CS(L) 

 RDF2TS=W*ARD2TS(K)+Z*ARD2TS(L) 

 RDF2DC=W*ARD2DC(K)+Z*ARD2DC(L) 

 RDF2DT=W*ARD2DT(K)+Z*ARD2DT(L) 

 RLVR2=W*ARLVR2(K)+Z*ARLVR2(L) 

 RKDN2=W*ARKDN2(K)+Z*ARKDN2(L) 

 RBLAD=W*ARBLAD(K)+Z*ARBLAD(L) 

 RBRAN=W*ARBRAN(K)+Z*ARBRAN(L) 

 RRBC=W*ARRBC(K)+Z*ARRBC(L) 

 GSCALE=W*AGSCAL(K)+Z*AGSCAL(L) 

 KIDWT=W*AKIDWT(K)+Z*AKIDWT(L) 

 TSKELWT=W*ATSKELWT(K)+Z*ATSKELWT(L) 

 TRABWT=W*ATTRABWT(K)+Z*ATTRABWT(L) 

 CORTWT=W*ATCORTWT(K)+Z*ATCORTWT(L) 
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 RBCVOL=W*ARBCVOL(K)+Z*ARBCVOL(L) 

 PLSVOL=W*APLSVOL(K)+Z*APLSVOL(L) 

 BLDHCT=w*ABLDHCT(K)+Z*ABLDHCT(L) 

 TORBC= w*ATORBC(K)+Z*ATORBC(L) 

C ADJRBC=W*AADJRBC(K)+Z*AADJRBC(L) 

C 

 TEVF=TOEVF 

 AGESCL=(1.0-TEVF-TBONE)/(1.0-TEVF-ATBONE(NUMAGE)) 

 TURIN=AGESCL*TOURIN 

 TFECE=AGESCL*TOFECE 

 TSWET=AGESCL*TOSWET 

 TSOF0=AGESCL*TOSOF0 

 TSOF1=AGESCL*TOSOF1 

 TSOF2=AGESCL*TOSOF2 

 TBRAN=AGESCL*TOBRAN 

 TLVR1=AGESCL*TOLVR1 

 TKDN1=AGESCL*TOKDN1 

 TKDN2=AGESCL*TOKDN2 

 TRBC=AGESCL*TORBC 

 TPROT=AGESCL*TOPROT 

C 

 DECRBC=YRBC/RBCVOL 

 DECPLS=YPLAS/PLSVOL 

 BLDVOL=RBCVOL+PLSVOL 

 DECLTR=YBLUD/BLDVOL 

 TOORBC=TRBC 

 IF (IRBC .NE. 1 .OR. RBCONC .LE. RBCNL) GO TO 610 

 TOORBC=TRBC*(1.-((RBCONC-RBCNL)/(SATRAT-RBCNL)))**POWER 

 IF (TOORBC .LT. 0.0) TOORBC=0.0 

 610 CONTINUE 

 TSUM=TOORBC+TEVF+TPROT+TBONE+TURIN+TFECE+TSWET+TLVR1 

 $ +TKDN1+TKDN2+TSOF0+TSOF1+TSOF2+TBRAN 

 CF=(1.-TOORBC)/(1.-TRBC) 

 RPLS=TSUM*RPLAS 

 REVF=TEVF*RPLS/SIZEVF 

 IF (ICHEL. EQ. 1 .AND. DAYS .GE. CHEL1 .AND. DAYS .LE. CHEL2) 

 $ THEN 

 TEVF=(1.-CHLEFF)*TEVF 

 TFECE=(1.-CHLEFF)*TFECE 

 TSWET=(1.-CHLEFF)*TSWET 

 TSOF0=(1.-CHLEFF)*TSOF0 

 TSOF1=(1.-CHLEFF)*TSOF1 
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 TSOF2=(1.-CHLEFF)*TSOF2 

 TBRAN=(1.-CHLEFF)*TBRAN 

 TLVR1=(1.-CHLEFF)*TLVR1 

 TKDN1=(1.-CHLEFF)*TKDN1 

 TKDN2=(1.-CHLEFF)*TKDN2 

 TPROT=(1.-CHLEFF)*TPROT 

 TBONE=(1.-CHLEFF)*TBONE 

 TOORBC=(1.-CHLEFF)*TOORBC 

 TURIN=1.0-TOORBC-TEVF-TPROT-TBONE-TFECE-TSWET-TLVR1 

 $ -TKDN1-TKDN2-TSOF0-TSOF1-TSOF2-TBRAN 

 END IF 

C 

 IF (INMODE .EQ. 0 .OR. INMODE .EQ. 2) GO TO 55 

C____________________________________________ 

C LUNG 1 COMPARTMENT 

 Y0=YR1 

 IF (IACUTE .EQ. 1 .AND. N .EQ. 1) Y0=R1*AACUTE 

 P=0.0 

 IF (IACUTE .EQ. 2) P=R1*BRTCRN 

 LAMOUT=RDECAY+BR1 

 YR1=ACTVTY(Y0,P,LAMOUT,DELT) 

 YR1W=INTACT(Y0,P,LAMOUT,DELT) 

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C LUNG 2 COMPARTMENT 

 Y0=YR2 

 IF (IACUTE .EQ. 1 .AND. N .EQ. 1) Y0=R2*AACUTE 

 P=0.0 

 IF (IACUTE .EQ. 2) P=R2*BRTCRN 

 LAMOUT=RDECAY+BR2 

 YR2=ACTVTY(Y0,P,LAMOUT,DELT) 

 YR2W=INTACT(Y0,P,LAMOUT,DELT) 

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C LUNG 3 COMPARTMENT 

 Y0=YR3 

 IF (IACUTE .EQ. 1 .AND. N .EQ. 1) Y0=R3*AACUTE 

 P=0.0 

 IF (IACUTE .EQ. 2) P=R3*BRTCRN 

 LAMOUT=RDECAY+BR3 

 YR3=ACTVTY(Y0,P,LAMOUT,DELT) 

 YR3W=INTACT(Y0,P,LAMOUT,DELT) 

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C LUNG 4 COMPARTMENT 

 Y0=YR4 

 IF (IACUTE .EQ. 1 .AND. N .EQ. 1) Y0=R4*AACUTE 
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 P=0.0 

 IF (IACUTE .EQ. 2) P=R4*BRTCRN 

 LAMOUT=RDECAY+BR4 

 YR4=ACTVTY(Y0,P,LAMOUT,DELT) 

 YR4W=INTACT(Y0,P,LAMOUT,DELT) 

 YLUNG=YR1+YR2+YR3+YR4 

 55 CONTINUE 

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 IF (INMODE .EQ. 0) GO TO 65 

C STOMACH CONTENTS (STMC) COMPARTMENT 

 Y0=YSTMC 

 IF (INMODE .EQ. 2 .AND. IACUTE .EQ. 1 .AND. N .EQ. 1) 

 $ Y0=AACUTE 

 P=0.0 

 IF (INMODE .GT. 1 .AND. IACUTE .EQ. 2) P=EATCRN 

 IF (INMODE .EQ. 1 .OR. INMODE .EQ. 3) P=EATCRN+ 

 $ CILIAR*(BR1*YR1W+BR2*YR2W+BR3*YR3W+BR4*YR4W)/DELT 

 LAMOUT=RDECAY+GSCALE*RSTMC 

 YSTMC=ACTVTY(Y0,P,LAMOUT,DELT) 

 YSTMCW=INTACT(Y0,P,LAMOUT,DELT) 

 65 CONTINUE 

 IF (INMODE .EQ. 0 .AND. N .EQ. 1) GO TO 66 

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C SMALL INTESTINE CONTENTS (SIC) COMPARTMENT 

 Y0=YSIC 

 P=(GSCALE*RSTMC*YSTMCW+H1TOSI*RLVR1*YLVR1W+TFECE*CF*BTEMP)/DELT 

 LAMOUT=RDECAY+GSCALE*RSIC 

 YSIC=ACTVTY(Y0,P,LAMOUT,DELT) 

 YSICW=INTACT(Y0,P,LAMOUT,DELT) 

 66 CONTINUE 

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C PLASMA (PLS); THIS IS DIFFUSIBLE PLASMA PB; 

C DOES NOT INCLUDE RELATIVELY SLOWLY EXCHANGEABLE PLASMAC PROTEIN-BOUND PB, WHEN THE LATTER COMPARTMENT IS USED. 

 Y0=YPLS 

 IF (INMODE .EQ. 0 .AND. N .EQ. 1 .AND. IACUTE .EQ. 1) 

 $ Y0=AACUTE 

 P1=(RPROT*YPROTW+RRBC*YRBCW+REVF*YEVFW+RSOF0*YSOF0W 

 $ +(1.0-S2HAIR)*RSOF1*YSOF1W+RSOF2*YSOF2W 

 $ +H1TOBL*RLVR1*YLVR1W+RLVR2*YLVR2W 

 $ +RKDN2*YKDN2W+RCS2B*YCSURW+RTS2B*YTSURW 

 $ +RCORT*YCVOLW+RTRAB*YTVOLW+RBRAN*YBRANW 

 $ +F1*GSCALE*RSIC*YSICW)/DELT 

 IF (IACUTE .EQ. 2) P1=P1+CRONIC 
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 IF (INMODE .EQ. 1 .OR. INMODE .EQ. 3) P1=P1+ 

 $ (1.0-CILIAR)*(BR1*YR1W+BR2*YR2W+BR3*YR3W+BR4*YR4W)/DELT 

 LAMOUT=RPLS+RDECAY 

 UPTAKEGI=(F1*GSCALE*RSIC*YSICW)/DELT 

 UPTAKERI=(1.0-CILIAR)*(BR1*YR1W+BR2*YR2W+BR3*YR3W+BR4*YR4W)/DELT 

 UPTAKE=UPTAKEGI+UPTAKERI 

C ACTIVITY AND INTEGRATED ACTIVITY 

 YPLS=ACTVTY(Y0,P1,LAMOUT,DELT) 

 YPLSW=INTACT(Y0,P1,LAMOUT,DELT) 

 BTEMP=RPLS*YPLSW 

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C PLASMA-PROTEIN BOUND PB (PROT) 

 Y0=YPROT 

 P=TPROT*CF*BTEMP/DELT 

 LAMOUT=RPROT+RDECAY 

 YPROT=ACTVTY(Y0,P,LAMOUT,DELT) 

 YPROTW=INTACT(Y0,P,LAMOUT,DELT) 

 YPLAS=YPLS+YPROT 

 YPLASW=YPLSW+YPROTW 

C______________________________________ 

C 

C RED BLOOD CELLS (RBC) 

 Y0=YRBC 

C NOTE THAT CF HAS BEEN REMOVED FROM FOLLOWING: 

 P=TOORBC*BTEMP/DELT 

 LAMOUT=RRBC+RDECAY 

 YRBC=ACTVTY(Y0,P,LAMOUT,DELT) 

 YRBCW=INTACT(Y0,P,LAMOUT,DELT) 

 YBLUD=YPLAS+YRBC 

 SUMRBC=SUMRBC+YRBCW 

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C EVF 

 Y0=YEVF 

 P=TEVF*CF*BTEMP/DELT 

 LAMOUT=REVF+RDECAY 

 YEVF=ACTVTY(Y0,P,LAMOUT,DELT) 

 YEVFW=INTACT(Y0,P,LAMOUT,DELT) 

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C FAST TURNOVER SOFT-TISSUE COMPARTMENT (SOF0) 

 Y0=YSOF0 

 P=TSOF0*CF*BTEMP/DELT 

 LAMOUT=RSOF0+RDECAY 

 YSOF0=ACTVTY(Y0,P,LAMOUT,DELT) 

 YSOF0W=INTACT(Y0,P,LAMOUT,DELT) 
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C INTERMEDIATE TURNOVER SOFT-TISSUE COMPARTMENT (SOF1) 

 Y0=YSOF1 

 P=TSOF1*CF*BTEMP/DELT 

 LAMOUT=RSOF1+RDECAY 

 YSOF1=ACTVTY(Y0,P,LAMOUT,DELT) 

 YSOF1W=INTACT(Y0,P,LAMOUT,DELT) 

C _____________________________________ 

C SLOW TURNOVER SOFT-TISSUE COMPARTMENT (SOF2) 

 Y0=YSOF2 

 P=TSOF2*CF*BTEMP/DELT 

 LAMOUT=RSOF2+RDECAY 

 YSOF2=ACTVTY(Y0,P,LAMOUT,DELT) 

 YSOF2W=INTACT(Y0,P,LAMOUT,DELT) 

C _____________________________________ 

C BRAIN (BRAN) 

 Y0=YBRAN 

 P=TBRAN*CF*BTEMP/DELT 

 LAMOUT=RBRAN+RDECAY 

 YBRAN=ACTVTY(Y0,P,LAMOUT,DELT) 

 YBRANW=INTACT(Y0,P,LAMOUT,DELT) 

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C CORTICAL SURFACE (CSUR) 

 Y0=YCSUR 

 P=(TBONE*(1.0-TFRAC)*CF*BTEMP+RDF2CS*YCDIFW)/DELT 

 LAMOUT=RCS2B+RCS2DF+RDECAY 

 YCSUR=ACTVTY(Y0,P,LAMOUT,DELT) 

 YCSURW=INTACT(Y0,P,LAMOUT,DELT) 

C______________________________________ 

C EXCHANGEABLE CORTICAL VOLUME (CDIF) 

 Y0=YCDIF 

 P=RCS2DF*YCSURW/DELT 

 LAMOUT=RDF2CS+RDF2DC+RDECAY 

 YCDIF=ACTVTY(Y0,P,LAMOUT,DELT) 

 YCDIFW=INTACT(Y0,P,LAMOUT,DELT) 

 620 CONTINUE 

C--------------------------------------------------

C NONEXCHANGEABLE CORTICAL VOLUME (CVOL) 

 Y0=YCVOL 

 P=RDF2DC*YCDIFW/DELT 

 LAMOUT=RCORT+RDECAY 

 YCVOL=ACTVTY(Y0,P,LAMOUT,DELT) 

 YCVOLW=INTACT(Y0,P,LAMOUT,DELT) 

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C TRABECULAR SURFACE (TSUR) 

 Y0=YTSUR 

 P=(TBONE*TFRAC*CF*BTEMP+RDF2TS*YTDIFW)/DELT 

 LAMOUT=RTS2B+RTS2DF+RDECAY 

 YTSUR=ACTVTY(Y0,P,LAMOUT,DELT) 

 YTSURW=INTACT(Y0,P,LAMOUT,DELT) 

C--------------------------------------------------

C EXCHANGEABLE TRABECULAR VOLUME (CDIF) 

 Y0=YTDIF 

 P=RTS2DF*YTSURW/DELT 

 LAMOUT=RDF2TS+RDF2DT+RDECAY 

 YTDIF=ACTVTY(Y0,P,LAMOUT,DELT) 

 YTDIFW=INTACT(Y0,P,LAMOUT,DELT) 

 630 CONTINUE 

C--------------------------------------------------

C NONEXCHANGEABLE TRABECULAR VOLUME (TVOL) 

 Y0=YTVOL 

 P=RDF2DT*YTDIFW/DELT 

 LAMOUT=RTRAB+RDECAY 

 YTVOL=ACTVTY(Y0,P,LAMOUT,DELT) 

 YTVOLW=INTACT(Y0,P,LAMOUT,DELT) 

C------------------------------------------- 

C LIVER 1 (LVR1) 

 Y0=YLVR1 

 P=TLVR1*CF*BTEMP/DELT 

 LAMOUT=RLVR1+RDECAY 

 YLVR1=ACTVTY(Y0,P,LAMOUT,DELT) 

 YLVR1W=INTACT(Y0,P,LAMOUT,DELT) 

C-------------------------------------------- 

C LIVER 2 (LVR2) 

 Y0=YLVR2 

 P=H1TOH2*RLVR1*YLVR1W/DELT 

 LAMOUT=RLVR2+RDECAY 

 YLVR2=ACTVTY(Y0,P,LAMOUT,DELT) 

 YLVR2W=INTACT(Y0,P,LAMOUT,DELT) 

 YLIVR=YLVR1+YLVR2 

C--------------------------------------------------

C KIDNEYS 1 

 Y0=YKDN1 

 P=TKDN1*CF*BTEMP/DELT 

 LAMOUT=RKDN1+RDECAY 

 YKDN1=ACTVTY(Y0,P,LAMOUT,DELT) 

 YKDN1W=INTACT(Y0,P,LAMOUT,DELT) 

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C KIDNEYS 2 

 Y0=YKDN2 

 P=TKDN2*CF*BTEMP/DELT 

 LAMOUT=RKDN2+RDECAY 

 YKDN2=ACTVTY(Y0,P,LAMOUT,DELT) 

 YKDN2W=INTACT(Y0,P,LAMOUT,DELT) 

C 

 YKDNE=YKDN1+YKDN2 

C--------------------------------------------------

C BLADDER 

 Y0=YBLAD 

 P=(TURIN*CF*BTEMP+RKDN1*YKDN1W)/DELT 

 LAMOUT=RBLAD+RDECAY 

 YBLAD=ACTVTY(Y0,P,LAMOUT,DELT) 

 YBLADW=INTACT(Y0,P,LAMOUT,DELT) 

C------------------------------------------------- 

C UPPER LARGE INTESTINE CONTENTS 

 Y0=YULIC 

 P=(1.0-F1)*GSCALE*RSIC*YSICW/DELT 

 LAMOUT=GSCALE*RULI+RDECAY 

 YULIC=ACTVTY(Y0,P,LAMOUT,DELT) 

 YULICW=INTACT(Y0,P,LAMOUT,DELT) 

C------------------------------------------------- 

C LOWER LARGE INTESTINE CONTENTS 

 Y0=YLLIC 

 P=GSCALE*RULI*YULICW/DELT 

 LAMOUT=GSCALE*RLLI+RDECAY 

 YLLIC=ACTVTY(Y0,P,LAMOUT,DELT) 

 YLLICW=INTACT(Y0,P,LAMOUT,DELT) 

C--------------------------------------------------

C URINE 

 U0=YURIN 

 Y0=YURIN 

 P=RBLAD*YBLADW/DELT 

 YURIN=Y0+P*DELT 

 UTEMP=P*DELT 

 URIN=YURIN-U0 

C--------------------------------------------------

C FECES 

 Y0=YFECE 

 P=GSCALE*RLLI*YLLICW/DELT 

 YFECE=Y0+P*DELT 

 FTEMP=P*DELT 

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C SWEAT 

 Y0=YSWET 

 P=TSWET*CF*BTEMP/DELT 

 YSWET=Y0+P*DELT 

C--------------------------------------------------

C HAIR, NAILS, DESQUAMATED SKIN 

 Y0=YHAIR 

 P=S2HAIR*RSOF1*YSOF1W/DELT 

 YHAIR=Y0+P*DELT 

C--------------------------------------------------

C 

 SIGMA=YPLAS+YRBC+YEVF+YSOF0+YSOF1+YSOF2+YBRAN

 $ +YCVOL+YTVOL+YCSUR+YTSUR+YCDIF+YTDIF+YKDNE+YBLAD+YLIVR 

 $ +YR1+YR2+YR3+YR4+YSTMC+YSIC+YULIC+YLLIC 

 $ +YURIN+YFECE+YSWET+YHAIR 

 TBODY1=YPLAS+YRBC+YEVF+YSOF0+YSOF1+YSOF2+YBRAN 

 $ +YCVOL+YTVOL+YCSUR+YTSUR+YCDIF+YTDIF+YKDNE+YLIVR 

 TBODY2=TBODY1+YR1+YR2+YR3+YR4+YBLAD 

 $ +YSTMC+YSIC+YULIC+YLLIC 

 TOTEXC=YURIN+YFECE+YSWET+YHAIR 

 YSKEL=YCVOL+YTVOL+YCSUR+YTSUR+YCDIF+YTDIF 

 YTRAB=YTSUR+YTDIF+YTVOL 

 YCORT=YCSUR+YCDIF+YCVOL 

 YSOFT=YSOF0+YSOF1+YSOF2 

 IF (TBODY1 .NE. 0.0) BONFRC=YSKEL/TBODY1 

 IF (TBODY1 .NE. 0.0) BRNFRC=YBRAN/TBODY1 

 IF (TBODY1 .NE. 0.0) HEPFRC=YLIVR/TBODY1 

 IF (TBODY1 .NE. 0.0) BLDFRC=YBLUD/TBODY1 

 IF (TBODY1 .NE. 0.0) RENFRC=YKDNE/TBODY1 

 IF (TBODY1 .NE. 0.0) OTHFRC=YSOFT/TBODY1 

 IF (YBLUD .NE. 0.0) PLSRBC=YPLAS/YBLUD 

 IF (AMTBLD .NE. 0.0) BLCONC=YBLUD/AMTBLD 

C IF (RBCVOL .NE. 0.0) RBCONC=YRBC/(ADJRBC*AMTBLD) replaced by next line 

 IF (RBCVOL .NE. 0.0) RBCONC=YRBC/(BLDHCT*AMTBLD) 

 RENCON=YKDNE/KIDWT 

 CRTCON=YCORT/CORTWT 

 TRBCON=YTRAB/TRABWT 

 ASHCON=YSKEL/TSKELWT 

 CRTCONBM=CRTCON*1.8 

 TRBCONBM=TRBCON*3.*1.8 

 IF (N .GT. 1) CLEAR=(URIN/DELT)/YPLAS 

 IF (N .GT. 1) BCLEAR=100.*(URIN/DELT)/YBLUD 
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 IF (YBLUD .NE. 0.0) PCENT=100.*YPLAS/YBLUD 

 Q(1)=YPLAS 

 Q(2)=YRBC 

 Q(3)=YBLUD 

 Q(4)=YSKEL 

 Q(5)=YCORT 

 Q(6)=YTRAB 

 Q(7)=YLIVR 

 Q(8)=YKDNE 

 Q(9)=YSOFT 

 Q(10)=YBRAN 

 Q(11)=YURIN 

 Q(12)=YFECE 

 Q(13)=TBODY2 

 Q(14)=TOTEXC 

 Q(15)=BONFRC 

 Q(16)=BRNFRC 

 Q(17)=HEPFRC 

 Q(18)=BLDFRC 

 Q(19)=RENFRC 

 Q(20)=OTHFRC 

 Q(21)=BLCONC 

 Q(22)=RBCONC 

 Q(23)=RENCON 

 Q(24)=CRTCON 

 Q(25)=TRBCON 

 Q(26)=ASHCON 

 Q(27)=CLEAR 

 Q(28)=BCLEAR 

 Q(29)=PCENT 

 Q(30)=YLUNG 

 Q(31)=Q(28)*Q(3)/100. 

 Q(32)=CRTCONBM 

 Q(33)=TRBCONBM 

 Q(34)=UPTAKEGI 

 Q(35)=UPTAKERI 

 Q(36)=UPTAKE 

 IF (MOD(N,ISKIP) .NE. 0) GO TO 1000 

C WRITE(*,991)YEARS,SIGMA,Q(I1),Q(I2),Q(I3),Q(I4),Q(I5) 

 WRITE(50,991)YEARS,SIGMA,Q(I1),Q(I2),Q(I3),Q(I4),Q(I5) 

 IF (DAYS .GT. ENDDAY) GO TO 1001 

 991 format(' ', 1p7e10.3) 

 1000 CONTINUE 

 1001 CONTINUE 
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 END 

C 

 REAL FUNCTION INTACT(Y,P,X,D) 

 DX=D*X 

 IF (DX .GT. 50.0) GO TO 10 

 INTACT=((1.0-DEXP(-DBLE(X*D)))/X)*(Y-(P/X))+P*D/X 

 GO TO 20 

 10 INTACT=(1.0/X)*(Y-P/X)+P*D/X 

 20 CONTINUE 

 RETURN 

 END 

C 

 FUNCTION ACTVTY(Y,P,X,D) 

 DX=D*X 

 IF (DX .GT. 50.0) GO TO 10 

 ACTVTY=(Y-(P/X))*DEXP(-DBLE(X*D))+P/X 

 GO TO 20 

 10 ACTVTY=P/X 

 20 CONTINUE 

 RETURN 

 

Appendix M Attachment 2: Sample Input File for Model Version 5 

Based on the model updates and the updated maternal blood lead value, an input file template was 

generated for the analysis and is reproduced below. All the parameter values in italics vary according to 

the specific iteration and and when the renovation begins; the other values remain constant across all

the different renovation and background intake simulations. These inputs include the age-dependent 

absorption rates, transfer rates, and deposition rates used in the model. They are listed in a series of 14 

numbers on each input line of the file, where the 14 numbers correspond to the ages 0.27, 1, 5, 10, 15, 

18, 24, 30, 40, 45, 55 65, and 75 years old. 
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Table M-5. Input File Template for Analysis 

0. LINE # 1 Template for PnCB exposure analysis simulations 0.05,0,10000000,25550 # 2 # DIFF STEP LENGTHS; USE FIXED STEP LENGTH? MAXIMUM # STEPS; 

0.01 # 3 DELTi; CALCULATIONS FIRST BASED ON STEP LENGTHS DELT1, THEN D1000,1900,2800,6700,1000000 # 4 ICYCi; USE TIME STEP DELT1 UP TO STEP ICYC1, DELT2 UP TO ICYC2, E1 # 5 WRITE TO SCREEN ONLY ON THESE STEPS (E.G., EVERY 100TH TIME S21,24,25,22,23 # 6 FIVE SELECTED OUTPUTS 3,2,0 # 7 MODE OF INTAKE; SWITCH FOR ACUTE/CHRONIC; SWITCH FOR MAN

7 # 8 NCHRON, # TIME STEPS IN CHRONIC INTAKE FUNCTION (UP TO 50) 365,730,1095,1460,1825,2190,10950,18250,25550 # 9 ENDPT, ENDPOINTS OF THE CHRONIC INTAKE TIME STEPS 7*0.0 # 10 UP TO 1000 CHRONIC INTAKE RATES DIRECTLY TO BLD ON STEPS, 0.108,0.16,0.19,0.218,0.218,0.218,0.248 # 11 UP TO 1000 CHRONIC LUNG DEPOSITION RATES (PER DAY) 

6.16,10.31,11.17,10.91,10.91,10.91,11.07 # 12 UP TO 1000 CHRONIC INGESTION INTAKE RATES (PER DAY) 

14,75. # 13 NUMBER OF AGES AT WHICH PARAM VALUES ARE SPECIFIED & MA

0.,0.274,1.,5.,10.,15.,18.,24.,30.,40.,45.,55.,65.,75. # 14 AGES (Y) AT WHICH PARAMETER VALUES ARE GIVEN EXPLICITLY 2*0.45,4*0.3,8*0.15, # 15 GASTROINTESTINAL ABSORPTION FRACTION (F1) 0.0 # 16 RADIOLOGICAL DECAY RATE OF PB PER DAY 1,0.0,270.,1.5, # 17 1 FOR NONLINEAR MODEL; 3 NONLINEAR PARAMETER VALUES 1,0.7,0.85 # 18 1 FOR FETAL EXPOSURE; MOTHER'S BLOOD CONC; FETUS:MOTHER 0.50,0.07,0.32,0.01,0.055,0.045, # 19 FRACS OF BODY PB AT BIRTH IN SOFT TISS, RBC, BONE, KIDNEY, LIVE0.25,0.35,0.30,0.10,0.04, # 20 FRACS OF DEPOSITED AMT ASSIGNED TO 4 LUNG COMPS; FRAC MO

16.6,5.54,1.66,0.347, # 21 BR1,BR2,BR3,BR424.,6.,1.85,1.0, # 22 ADULT TRANSFER RATES FROM STOMACH AND INTESTINAL SEGME4*1.66667,1.33333,9*1.0 # 23 SCALES RATE OF MOVEMENT THRU GI TRACT AT 10 AGES 0.0102,0.00822,0.00288,0.00154,0.00089,0.000512,0.000370,0.000082,6*0.000041 # 24 CORT BONE from Rowland

0.0102,0.00822,0.00288,0.00181,0.00132,0.000956,0.000781,0.000493,2*0.000247,0.000274,0.000301,0.000329,0.0003

5*0.40,9*0.35 # 26 FRAC TRANSFER CORT SURF TO BLOOD 5*0.60,9*0.55 # 27 FRAC TRANSFER TRABECULAR SURFACE TO BLOOD 
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0.5000,3. # 48 DEPOSITION FRACTION IN EVF; SIZE OF EVF RELATIVE TO PLASMA 2000.,0.0004,0.139, # 49 TRANSFER RATE FROM PLASMA; DEP FRAC & RATE OF LOSS FOR PLA

3*0.562,2*0.277,9*0.139 # 50 TRANSFER RATE FROM RRBC 22.,30. # 51 AMOUNT OF RBC AND PLASMA (DL) IN REFERENCE ADULT MALE (su2.7,3.1,5.0,14.0,24.0,45.0,8*53.0 # 52 AMOUNT OF BLOOD (DL) AT 14 AGES 0,0.4,1243.,1250. # 53 ICHEL, CHLEFF, CHEL1, CHEL2 
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Appendix N. Background Media Concentrations and Intakes 

N.1. Dust 

Background lead-dust loading estimates were found separately for public and commercial buildings (as a

whole) and for residences. This section provides an overview of the data used to define the lognormal 

distributions used for each. 

N.1.1. Public and Commercial Buildings 

Little information is available about the levels of lead in dust in public and commercial buildings. A

literature search was conducted but few sources were found. The data source found was the First 

National Health Survey of Child Care Centers (hereafter the CCC Report; Westat, 2003). The survey 

provides information on the geometric mean and geometric standard deviation from 336 samples of 

lead floor loading. Because of the relatively low number of samples in each vintage bin when the data 

were separated into the different bins, an overall distribution across all bins was used. The geometric 

mean and geometric standard deviation were taken from Table 5-5 from the Westat report, giving 

values of 0.8 μg/ft2 and 2.25, respectively. 

Table N-1. Public/Commerical Background Lead Dust Loadings 

Vintage 

Geometric 

Mean 

(μg/ft2) 

Geometric 

Standard 

Deviation 

All 0.8 2.25 

N.1.2. Residences 

For residences, the background dust loading values were estimated using. The American Healthy Homes 

Survey (AHHS) (HUD, 2011). AHHS is a follow-up to the National Survey of Lead and Allergens in Housing 

(NSLAH) conducted from 1997 through 2000 and monitored lead dust levels in homes. These data were 

favored over other sources (e.g., NHANES) because the raw survey data with vintage data were available

so that different background dust distributions could be developed for each Approach housing vintage. 

The raw survey data were obtained from HUD, and samples taken within a single home were averaged 

to provide one estimate per residence. If vintage information was not available for a given home, it was 

assigned to the home using random sampling from the overall distribution in the dataset. Then, the 

geometric mean and geometric standard deviation across the dataset was estimated in the SAS software 
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package, utilizing the sample weights in the data so that the estimates were nationally representative. 

The final distributions by vintage are shown in Table N-2. 

Table N-2. Residential Background Lead Dust Loadings by Vintage. 

Vintage 

Geometric 

Mean 

(μg/ft2) 

Geometric 

Standard 

Deviation 

Pre 1930 3.97 4.76 

1930-1949 1.94 7.76 

1950-1959 1.14 2.65 

1960-1979 0.79 4.25 

Post 1979 0.49 3.38 

N.2. Soil 

Similar to dust, background soil lead concentration estimates were found separately for public and 

commercial buildings (as a whole) and for residences. This section provides an overview of the data used 

to define the lognormal distributions used for each. 

N.2.1. Public and Commercial Buildings 

As with dust, limited information was available about soil lead concentrations around public and 

commercial buildings. This section provides a summary of data used for each building type. A summary 

of the input values is provided in Table N-3. 

Table N-3. Public/Commerical Background Lead Soil Concentrations 

Building Type Point Estimate 

(μg/g) 

Geometric 

Mean (μg/g) 

Geometric 

Standard 

Deviation 

Industrial 197.3 N/A N/A 

Commercial 49.97 N/A N/A 

Agricultural N/A 17.1 1.75 

Schools N/A 28.0 3.00 

Government/Commercial Buildings and Industrial Buildings 

For government/commercial and industrial soils, a meta-analysis study of soil samples from 1970 to 

2012 in different land use areas was used (Datko-Williams, 2013). The data were limited to 

measurements within the last 15 years based temporal trends in the Datko-Williiams analysis, which 
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indicated an approximately 25-75% decrease in soil lead levels every 10-20 years. The studies were 

further limited to those in the “commercial” and “industrial” land use categories. The resulting 9 studies 

were from Florida, NY, Ohio, and Maryland. For each, the average was estimated and then the weighted 

average across studies using the number of samples in the study was estimated. These averages 

resulted in soil concentration estimates of 50 μg/g for government/commercial buildings and 197 μg/g 

for industrial buildings. Owing to the aggregated presentation of data in the meta-analysis study, the

results were not further parsed into distributions, and a single point estimate was used for background 

soil. 

Agricultural Buildings 

For agricultural soils, the USGS background soil survey 

(http://www.epa.gov/superfund/lead/background.htm#background) provides estimates from 2004-

2007, and, while not a structured survey like NSLAH or NHANES, is relatively nationally representative. 

Lead statistics based on 1,556 soil samples collected from the top 5 cm of soil that was 

“planted/cultivated” were calculated, resulting in a geometric mean of 17.1 μg/g and a geometric 

standard deviation of 1.75. 

Schools 

For schools, the same data source used for public and commercial building background dust (the CCC 

Survey) was used for soil as well. Values presented in Table 6-5 of that survey indicated a geometric 

mean of 28 μg/g and a geometric standard deviation of 3. 

N.2.2. Residences 

Background soil values were estimated using the National Survey of Lead and Allergens in Housing 

(NSLAH) survey data (HUD, 2002). The NSLAH survey examined allergen and contaminant levels in 831 

housing units and was designed to be nationally representative. The data were binned into the different 

Approach building vintages, and survey weights were incorporated to estimate the geometric mean and 

geometric standard deviation, as shown in 
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Table N-4. Residential Background Lead Soil Concentrations by Vintage. 

Vintage 

Geometric 

Mean 

(μg/ft2) 

Geometric 

Standard 

Deviation 

Pre 1930 367.4 3.53 

1930-1949 144.1 3.69 

1950-1959 79.6 3.77 

1960-1979 24.2 3.29 

Post 1979 15.8 2.32 

 

N.3. Air 

The background lead concentration data for ambient and indoor air used in this approach are based on a

review of the 2009 annual average total suspended particulate (TSP) monitoring data for lead contained

in EPA’s Air Quality Systems (AQS) database (USEPA, 2010b,c). 

The range of concentrations reported in this database was large, with a 10th percentile concentration of 

0.01 μg/m3 and a 90th percentile concentration of 0.18 μg/m3. Based on these data, the geometric mean 

(0.02 μg/m3) and geometric standard deviation (5.52) were selected to represent the range of 

background ambient air concentrations. Note, however, that this value may overestimate the ambient 

air concentration because lead monitors are often located in areas with nearby lead emission sources. 

N.4. Intake, Blood Lead, and Bone Lead 

The Approach estimates health effects for both children and adults. Because of historical changes in 

blood lead after changes in the lead content of gasoline and paint, population blood lead levels have 

been declining over the last few decades. Thus, the approach must take into account the blood lead 

history of the individual and simulate different 2014 background intakes, blood leads, and bone leads for 

different ages of adults. 

To make these estimates, the NHANES survey estimates were compiled, starting with NHANES II and 

continuing through the latest measurements in 2012 (CDC, 2012). The population-average estimates of 

blood lead for each age and for each survey were estimated and compiled, as shown in Table N-5. 
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Table N-5. Average Blood Lead Levels Estimated from NHANES II through NHANES 2011-2012. 

Age 1976-

1980 

1988-

1991 

1991-

1994 

1999-

2000 

2001-

2002 

2003-

2004 

2005-

2006 

2007-

2008 

2009-

2010 

2011-

2012 

0 16.8 

1 17.3 5.3 4.3 3.5 2.7 2.6 2.0 2.4 1.7 1.4 

2 16.9 5.2 4.0 2.8 2.5 2.5 2.1 1.9 1.5 1.7 

3 16.9 4.4 3.5 3.1 2.1 2.3 1.6 2.1 1.3 1.3 

4 15.8 4.6 3.5 2.5 1.8 2.0 1.7 1.6 1.4 1.2 

5 15.8 4.1 2.9 2.3 1.9 1.7 1.6 1.5 1.4 1.0 

6 14.5 3.5 3.4 2.1 1.7 1.7 1.6 1.5 1.2 1.1 

7 14.8 3.5 2.7 1.8 1.7 1.7 1.3 1.1 1.0 0.8 

8 12.8 3.4 2.4 2.1 1.5 1.5 1.2 1.2 1.0 0.9 

9 13.1 3.0 2.3 1.5 1.5 1.4 1.1 1.1 0.9 0.8 

10 13.4 2.8 2.3 1.8 1.4 1.4 1.1 1.1 0.9 0.7 

11 12.5 2.8 2.2 1.6 1.5 1.2 1.1 1.0 0.8 0.7 

12 11.7 2.8 2.6 1.8 1.3 1.3 1.1 1.1 0.8 0.7 

13 11.6 2.7 1.9 1.5 1.3 1.1 1.0 1.1 0.8 0.7 

14 11.2 2.3 2.2 1.2 1.1 1.1 1.0 0.9 0.8 0.6 

15 11.8 2.4 1.8 1.3 1.0 1.0 0.9 0.9 0.7 0.6 

16 11.7 2.1 1.7 1.2 1.0 1.1 0.9 0.8 0.7 0.6 

17 12.9 2.2 1.5 1.1 1.0 1.3 0.9 0.8 0.8 0.7 

18 13.1 2.9 1.8 1.4 1.1 1.1 1.1 0.8 1.0 0.7 

19 12.7 2.2 2.1 1.4 1.3 1.2 0.9 1.1 0.9 0.7 

20 12.8 3.3 2.0 1.5 1.1 1.1 1.1 1.1 0.9 0.8 

21 13.4 2.9 2.4 1.5 1.6 1.6 1.2 1.1 1.0 1.1 

22 13.2 2.7 1.9 1.3 1.4 1.3 1.1 1.0 1.1 0.8 

23 13.6 3.3 1.8 1.5 1.2 1.4 1.1 1.0 1.0 0.8 

24 13.6 3.0 2.3 2.0 1.3 1.2 1.0 1.3 1.1 0.8 

25 13.7 2.9 2.8 1.5 1.5 1.3 1.1 1.0 0.9 1.1 

26 14.9 2.9 2.1 1.6 1.6 1.4 1.2 1.3 1.1 1.2 

27 13.0 3.2 2.6 1.7 1.3 1.2 1.2 1.4 1.2 1.1 

28 12.9 3.5 2.2 1.8 1.6 1.4 1.2 1.2 1.3 0.9 

29 12.9 3.2 2.0 1.8 1.3 1.5 1.1 1.1 1.1 1.0 

30 13.4 3.4 2.7 1.8 1.3 1.5 1.4 1.4 1.7 0.8 

31 14.0 3.0 3.0 1.8 1.4 1.7 1.1 1.4 1.1 0.8 

32 14.6 3.6 2.6 1.4 1.9 1.9 1.3 1.5 1.1 0.8 
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Age 1976-

1980 

1988-

1991 

1991-

1994 

1999-

2000 

2001-

2002 

2003-

2004 

2005-

2006 

2007-

2008 

2009-

2010 

2011-

2012 

33 13.8 3.8 2.4 1.9 1.5 1.4 1.8 1.3 1.1 1.2 

34 14.6 3.3 2.7 2.9 1.6 1.5 1.3 1.4 1.2 1.0 

35 14.5 5.1 3.5 1.4 1.4 1.5 1.4 1.3 1.4 1.0 

36 14.8 4.5 2.7 2.0 1.7 1.7 1.4 1.4 1.1 1.1 

37 15.0 4.0 2.7 2.2 1.8 1.5 1.3 1.4 1.3 1.0 

38 14.2 4.0 3.0 2.1 2.6 1.6 1.4 1.2 1.2 1.8 

39 15.7 3.7 2.4 1.7 1.9 2.0 1.4 1.7 1.1 1.1 

40 13.6 3.5 2.8 2.0 2.2 1.5 1.5 1.2 1.3 1.5 

41 16.1 3.8 2.9 2.2 1.6 1.6 1.6 1.3 1.3 1.0 

42 14.8 3.6 3.3 1.8 1.7 1.7 1.4 1.4 1.3 1.3 

43 14.1 3.6 2.9 2.1 2.3 2.0 1.4 1.6 1.3 1.1 

44 13.8 3.4 2.7 2.1 2.4 1.9 1.6 1.6 1.2 1.4 

45 15.8 3.6 3.1 2.0 2.1 2.1 1.7 1.4 1.6 1.3 

46 14.1 3.6 3.3 2.3 2.1 1.8 1.5 1.7 1.7 1.6 

47 14.6 4.5 3.6 2.6 2.2 1.7 1.9 1.6 1.6 1.7 

48 14.9 5.1 3.5 2.4 2.0 2.0 2.1 2.0 1.7 1.5 

49 15.6 4.6 3.4 2.1 2.3 2.0 2.1 1.7 1.7 1.4 

50 16.1 4.4 3.0 2.6 2.3 2.1 1.6 1.7 2.1 1.5 

51 14.9 4.5 3.5 2.5 2.1 1.9 1.9 1.8 1.7 2.0 

52 15.9 5.8 3.2 2.3 2.2 2.1 2.0 2.0 1.6 2.4 

53 14.9 4.7 4.1 2.4 2.2 2.1 2.1 2.4 1.7 1.7 

54 15.6 5.9 3.3 2.5 2.1 2.5 2.1 2.3 2.1 1.6 

55 14.4 4.4 3.7 2.7 2.3 2.1 2.1 2.3 1.9 1.5 

56 15.1 5.6 3.8 2.2 2.2 2.0 2.3 2.1 1.8 1.6 

57 14.4 5.4 3.5 3.2 2.1 1.9 2.3 2.2 2.4 1.7 

58 16.0 4.2 3.7 2.8 2.2 2.2 2.0 1.9 2.1 1.7 

59 15.3 4.4 3.1 2.4 2.3 1.9 2.3 2.1 1.6 2.2 

60 14.4 6.1 4.0 2.7 2.5 2.2 2.0 2.0 1.9 2.0 

61 14.7 4.3 3.3 5.2 2.2 2.3 2.6 2.0 1.8 1.6 

62 14.3 4.3 3.9 2.4 2.5 2.3 2.3 1.8 1.8 1.5 

63 13.9 4.9 3.6 2.5 2.1 2.6 2.2 2.2 1.9 1.8 

64 14.6 4.2 4.5 2.6 2.2 2.2 2.4 2.0 1.7 1.8 

65 15.3 4.7 3.8 2.7 2.3 2.3 2.7 1.9 1.9 1.5 

66 14.7 5.0 3.9 3.0 2.3 2.2 2.2 1.9 1.9 2.0 
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Age 1976-

1980 

1988-

1991 

1991-

1994 

1999-

2000 

2001-

2002 

2003-

2004 

2005-

2006 

2007-

2008 

2009-

2010 

2011-

2012 

67 14.1 4.7 4.1 2.8 2.4 2.1 2.4 1.9 1.8 2.0 

68 14.7 5.0 4.1 2.5 2.2 2.2 1.9 2.0 1.9 3.2 

69 14.4 4.8 4.4 3.1 2.1 2.4 2.5 1.8 1.8 1.9 

70 15.5 4.1 3.6 3.0 2.8 2.3 2.2 2.2 2.3 1.6 

71 13.4 4.3 4.6 2.4 2.6 2.8 2.3 2.1 1.9 1.6 

72 14.0 4.3 4.5 3.0 3.7 2.2 2.7 2.4 2.0 2.0 

73 12.4 5.7 3.6 2.5 2.5 2.9 2.2 2.0 1.8 2.0 

74 13.9 4.6 4.3 2.7 2.8 2.4 2.2 2.3 1.9 1.7 

75 13.1 5.3 4.5 2.7 2.4 2.1 2.4 2.5 2.0 1.9 

76 4.5 4.0 2.5 2.7 2.3 2.7 2.4 1.7 1.8 

77 4.7 3.0 2.6 2.2 2.2 2.2 2.1 2.0 1.8 

78 4.8 4.2 3.8 2.6 3.1 2.1 2.8 2.1 1.7 

79 5.8 5.2 3.1 2.5 2.3 2.8 2.5 2.2 1.9 

80 4.7 3.8 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.9 2.4 2.2 2.1 

81 4.8 4.3 2.8 2.6 2.2 2.7 

82 4.6 4.6 3.1 2.4 3.1 2.7 

83 5.4 3.9 2.5 2.4 2.7 2.5 

84 4.8 4.5 2.8 2.5 2.6 2.8 

85 4.0 4.0 3.2 3.0 3.1 2.8 

86 5.3 4.9 

87 5.0 4.4 

88 5.0 4.7 

89 5.5 4.5 

90 5.0 3.6 

The different age groups were then grouped by taking the following into account: 

 Childhood blood leads tend to be higher than adults, so age ranges cannot be so broad that they 

span children and adults, 

 Legislation that limited lead in gasoline lead to a rapid decline in blood lead during the 1980’s and 

1990’s, and 

 Blood lead levels have continued to decline through the 2000’s through today, although at a slower 

rate. 
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Because biokinetics vary with age and media concentrations have varied with calendar year, birth year is 

used to track different individuals and their intake values. Their biokinetics will then vary in the Leggett 

model with their age, but intake changes related to changes in media concentrations will happen in fixed 

calendar years. 

Based on these observations, six different age ranges were defined based on birth year. Then, the 

average NHANES predictions for each survey and for each defined age range were estimated. The values 

are shown in Table N-6. Next, intake rates were assumed to be constant but then allowed to change at 

pre-defined years based on inspection of the rate of change of blood leads. The years selected include: 

1984, 1993, 2000, and 2005. An initial guess at lead intake was arbitrarily set to 100 μg/day for the first 

of these intake year ranges. Then, the initial guess was scaled during the subsequent years using the 

ratio of the blood lead in the first year range and the year range in question. For example, for the oldest 

individuals assumed to be born between 1930 and 1954, their intake from birth to 1984 was set to 100 

mg/day. Then, their intake from 1984 to 1993 was scaled using the ratio of NHANES blood leads in 1992 

(the closes survey year to 1993) and the NHANES measurements in closest to 1984 (1978). Looking at 

Table N-6, this ratio is 3.3/14.3 = 0.23. Multiplying by the original guess of 100 μg/day gives an intake 

guess from 1984 to 1993 of 23 μg/day. This scaling assumes that the intake will scale approximately 

linearly with blood lead; although this assumption is not strictly true, blood lead tends to trend linearly 

with intake over narrow regions of intake levels, and this assumption allows the initial guesses to 

incorporate information known about blood lead trends. 

Next, the Leggett model was used to back-calculate the intake levels for each age using the initial 

guesses in Table N-6. The blood leads resulting from running the initial guesses were compared to the 

NHANES values by calculating the mean squared error (MSE) between the predicted (Leggett) and actual 

(NHANES) values. Lead intakes were optimized based on a gradient-descent method by iteratively 

adjusting the initial lead intakes by a factor until the MSE was minimized. The intakes corresponding to 

the minimized MSE were selected as the representative intakes for the selected birth year. This process 

was repeated for each birth year within each age range. 
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Table N-6. Age Ranges, Years When Intakes Change, Initial Intake Guesses, and Blood Lead Levels Used in Intake Optim

Birth Year: 1930-1954 Birth Year: 1955-1966 Birth Year: 

Year 

Intake 

Changes 

Initial Intake 

Estimate 

(μg/day) 

Blood 

Lead 

Year 

NHANES 

Blood Lead 

(μg/dL) 

Year 

Intake 

Changes 

Initial Intake 

Estimate (μg/day) 

Blood 

Lead 

Year 

NHANES 

Blood Lead 

(μg/dL) 

Year 

Intake 

Changes 

Initial Intake 

Estimate (μg/day) 

1984 100 1978 14.3 1984 100 1978 12.5 1984 100 1993 23 1989 4.4 1993 21 1989 3.3 1993 14 2000 19 1992 3.3 2000 16 1992 2.6 2000 12 2005 16 2000 2.7 2005 14 2000 2.1 2005 9 2014 13 2002 2.3 2014 13 2002 2.1 2014 9 

 2004 2.2 2004 1.8  2006 2.3 2006 1.7  2008 2.1 2008 1.7  2010 1.9 2010 1.7  2012 1.9 2012 1.7 

Birth Year: 1977-1986 Birth Year: 1987-1996 Birth Year: 

Year 

Intake 

Changes 

Initial Intake 

Estimate 

(μg/day) 

Blood 

Lead 

Year 

NHANES 

Blood Lead 

(μg/dL)) 

Year 

Intake 

Changes 

Initial Intake 

Estimate (μg/day) 

Blood 

Lead 

Year 

NHANES 

Blood Lead 

(μg/dL) 

Year 

Intake 

Changes 

Initial Intake 

Estimate (μg/day) 

1984 100 1993 68 1989 3.5 1993 100 1989 5.2 2000 38 1992 2.4 2000 39 1992 3.6 2000 100 2005 33 2000 1.3 2005 28 2000 1.9 2005 52 2014 28 2002 1.2 2014 22 2002 1.4 2014 31 

 2004 1.3 2004 1.2  2006 1.1 2006 1.0  2008 1.2 2008 1.0  2010 1.2 2010 0.9  2012 1.0 2012 0.8 
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Figure N-1 shows an overview of the consolidated average NHANES data used for each age range, the 

individual NHANES estimates for each age within the age range, and the fit data. Overall, the 

optimization routine provided good fits between the predicted and actual blood lead estimates. 

The optimized intakes were used to estimate the background bone lead and blood lead values in the 

year 2014 and then projected forward with constant intake 5 additional years. The renovation was then 

assumed to occur in 2014 and the blood lead with renovation was simulated and compared to the 

background-only blood lead. A summary of select intake, blood lead, and bone lead estimates is 

provided in Table N-7. The full table was not included owing to the length of the table. 

This approach assumes that intake is constant from the year of birth until 1984, which means that 

intakes for both children and adults are similar. 

 
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Line = Data Used for Optimization; Red = Actual NHANES Data; Black = Fit Model Data 

Figure N-1. NHANES Data and Fit Background Blood Lead Estimates 
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Table N-7. Estimated Intake Rates for Select Birth Years 

Birth Year: 1930-1954 Birth Year: 1955-1966 Birth Year: 1967-1976 

Year 

Intake 

Changes 

Intake 

for BY 

1930 

(μg/day) 

Intake 

for BY 

1942 

(μg/day) 

Year 

Intake 

Changes 

Intake 

for BY 

1955 

(μg/day) 

Intake 

for BY 

1960 

(μg/day) 

Year 

Intake 

Changes 

Intake 

for BY 

1967 

(μg/day) 

Intake 

for BY 

1972 

(μg/day) 

1984 44.48666 45.82987 1984 39.46613 35.15088 1984 61.88535 46.47278 

1993 10.36069 10.67351 1993 8.242491 7.341253 1993 8.619557 6.472853 

2000 8.40406 8.657807 2000 6.501917 5.790994 2000 7.267323 5.457393 

2005 7.114232 7.329035 2005 5.332247 4.749217 2005 5.857615 4.398774 

2014 5.891762 6.069654 2014 5.323517 4.741441 2014 5.330255 4.002753 

Birth Year: 1977-1986 Birth Year: 1987-1996 Birth Year: Post 1996 

Year 

Intake 

Changes 

Intake 

for BY 

1977 

(μg/day) 

Intake 

for BY 

1982 

(μg/day) 

Year 

Intake 

Changes 

Intake 

for BY 

1987 

(μg/day) 

Intake 

for BY 

1990 

(μg/day) 

Year 

Intake 

Changes 

Intake 

for BY 

1996 

(μg/day) 

Intake 

for BY 

2000 

(μg/day) 

1984 13.22644 12.2373 

1993 9.055472 8.378259 1993 9.139481 

2000 5.085096 4.704807 2000 3.519678 2.752592 2000 12.22738 

2005 4.323468 4.000137 2005 2.526356 1.975756 2005 6.312934 4.290547 

2014 3.73722 3.457732 2014 2.027376 1.585525 2014 3.796646 2.580367 
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N.5. References for Appendix N 

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 2012. National Health and Nutrition Examination survey. 

Available at http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhanes.htm. 

Datko-Williams, L et al 2014. Analysis of U.S. soil lead (Pb) studies from 1970 to 2012. Science of the 

Total Environment. 854-63 (468-469). 

HUD 2011. American Healthy Homes Survey. 

HUD, 2002. National Survey of Lead and Allergens in Homes. 

http://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/atniehs/labs/lrb/enviro-cardio/studies/nslah/index.cfm 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA). 2010c. Air Quality System (AQS) Database. Available 

online at: http://www.epa.gov/ttn/airs/airsaqs/aqsweb/aqswebwarning.htm. 

USGS 2011. Background soil survey. Available online at 

http://www.epa.gov/superfund/lead/background.htm#background 

Westat. 2003. First National Environmental Health Survey of Child Care Centers. Final Report, Rockville, 

MD, www.hud.gov/offices/lead/techstudies/survey.cfm. 
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Appendix O. Population Biokinetic Variability 

In the Approach, numerous variables are sampled in order to capture the expected range in the U.S. 

population. However, the biokinetic parameters in the Leggett model (e.g., transfer rates from blood to 

bone and total mass of bone) are not sampled. Data are not available in the literature to accurately 

develop distributions of these parameters for the U.S. population. 

Instead, biokinetic variability is included after the blood lead is estimated from the Leggett model. This 

modeled blood lead is treated as a central tendency estimate (geometric mean), and a population-level 

geometric standard deviation (GSD) is assigned. Then, the lognormal distribution defined by the 

geometric mean Leggett blood lead prediction and GSD is sampled twenty five times to estimate the 

variability in the blood lead arising from biokinetic variability. 

To determine the appropriate GSD to use, several factors were considered. The NHANES survey 

represents the most nationally-representative survey of blood lead across all age groups (CDC, 2012). 

Table O-1 shows the GSD estimated for each NHANES survey since the year 2000. The GSD values are 

consistent across the different surveys in spite of an overall decrease in blood lead over this period. For 

the Approach, a value of 1.9 was selected. The NHANES GSD represents variability associated with both 

the biokinetic differences in individuals as well as their differences in environmental media 

concentrations and intakes. For that reason, the lower of the two GSDs represented in NHANES was 

selected to represent the biokinetic variability. 

Table O-1. NHANES Survey Population-level Blood Lead Geometric Standard Deviations 

NHANES Survey Year Population GSD 

1999-2000 1.9

2001-2002 2.0

2003-2004 1.9

2005-2006 1.9

2007-2008 1.9

2009-2010 1.9

2011-2012 2.0

The selected GSD is larger than the recommended agency default in the IEUBK model (1.6). The IEUBK 

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homogeneous. (US EPA 2010) NHANES is expected to give the best national-level estimate of the 

population-level GSD, so these values were preferred over the IEUBK default value. 

O.1. References for Appendix O 

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 2012. National Health and Nutrition Examination survey. 

Available at http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhanes.htm. 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA). 2010. Integrated Exposure Uptake Biokinetic Model 

for Lead in Children, IEUBKwin version 1.1, build 264. 

http://www.epa.gov/superfund/health/contaminants/lead/products.htm#ieubk. 
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Appendix P. Concentration-Response Curves Supporting 

Information 

P.1. IQ (Lanphear et al. (2005) Pooled Analysis) 

Lanphear et al. (2005) reported the results of seven studies that measured full-scale IQ in school age 

children (mean age at IQ testing was 6.9 years) in four U.S. cities (Boston, Cincinnati, Cleveland, and 

Rochester), as well as in Australia, Mexico, and Yugoslavia. All children were assessed using ageappropriate versions of the Wechsler scales. Four measures of lead exposure were examined: 

concurrent blood lead (PbB closest in time to the IQ test), maximum blood lead level (highest PbB 

measured at any time prior to the IQ test), average lifetime blood lead (time-weighted mean PbB 

incorporating the results of all blood lead measurements from 6 months to the concurrent sample), and 

early childhood blood average (mean PbB across all samples taken between ages 6 to 24 months). A 

pooled analysis of the relationship between cord blood lead levels and IQ also was conducted in the subsample for which cord blood samples were available.

Lanphear et al. explored regression models that adjusted forthe effect of blood lead for site, as well as 

10 common potential confounders. These included HOME Inventory scores, birth weight, maternal 

education and IQ, and prenatal substance abuse. Statistical testing was employed to assess the linearity 

or nonlinearity of the relationship between blood lead levels and FSIQ. Regression diagnostics also were 

performed to ascertain whether lead coefficients were affected by co-linearity or influential 

observations. The fits of all four measures of postnatal blood lead levels were compared based on R2

values. The blood lead measure with the largest R2

(adjusted for the same covariates) was nominated a 

priori as the preferred blood lead index relating lead exposure to IQ in subsequent inspections of the 

relationships. The primary analysis used a fixed-effects model, although a mixed model treating sites as 

random effects was also examined. 

The median lifetime average blood Pb concentration in the seven cohorts that were studied was 

12.4 μg/dL (5th to 95th percentile, 4.1 to 34.8 μg/dL), with about 18 percent of the children having peak 

blood Pb levels below 10 μg/dL. The 5th to 95th percentile concurrent blood Pb levels ranged from 2.4

to 30 μg/dL. The mean IQ of all children was 93.2 [Standard Deviation (SD) 19.2] but this varied greatly 

between studies. All four measures of postnatal exposure were highly correlated. However, the 

concurrent blood Pb level exhibited the strongest association with IQ, as estimated by R2

. Nevertheless, 

the results of the regression analyses for all blood Pb measures were very similar. The best-fitting 

model included the log of concurrent blood Pb, study site, maternal IQ, HOME Inventory scores, birth 
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weight, and maternal education. No significant interactions were observed between PbB and study site 

or other covariates. 

Various models, including a linear model, a cubic spline function, a log-linear model, and a piecewise

linear model, were investigated in Lanphear et al. (2005). The shape of the concentration-response 

relationship was determined to be non-linear; the log-linear model was found to best fit to the data, 

based on R2 values. Using the log-linear models, the authors estimated a decrement of 1.9 points (95 

percent CI: 1.2, 2.6) in FSIQ for a doubling of concurrent blood lead. Thus, the IQ point decrements

associated with an increase in blood lead from below 1 to 10 μg/dL compared to 10 to 20 μg/dL were 

6.2 points (95 percent CI: 3.8, 8.6) versus 1.9 points (95 percent CI: 1.2, 2.6). The individual effect 

estimates for the seven studies used in the pooled analysis also generally indicate steeper slopes in 

studies with lower blood lead levels compared to those with higher blood lead. 

Table P-1. Log-Linear Regression Coefficients Estimated by Lanphear et al. (2005) and Recalculated by 

Crump et al. (2013) 

Blood Lead Metric Lanphear et al. (2005) Crump et al. (2013) Estimates 

Derived Using Corrected Data 

Early Life -2.04 (-3.27, -0.81) -2.21 (-3.38, -1.03)

Peak -2.85 (-4.1, -1.6) -2.86 (-4.10, -1.61)

Lifetime -3.04 (-4.33, -1.75) -3.19 (-4.45, -1.94)

Concurrent -2.70 (-3.74, -1.66) -2.65 (-3.69, -1.61)1

Lanphear et al. also estimated piecewise linear models relating the concurrent blood lead to IQ changes 

above and below “cutpoints” of 7.5 and 10 ug/dL. They found that the coefficients for IQ change below

and above 7.5 ug/dL (-2.95 and -0.16, respectively) were both significantly negative and significantly 

different from one another (p = 0.015.) The coefficients for concurrent PbB below and above 10 ug/dL 

PbB were also reported to both be significantly negative (-0.80 and -0.13) but not significantly different 

from one another (p = 0.103.) 

P.2. IQ (Crump et al. (2013) Reanalysis of Lanphear et al. Data) 

Crump et al. (2013) subsequently obtained the raw data set supporting the Lanphear et al. pooled 

analysis, attempted to replicate the results of the original study, and sought to identify problems with 

the data and statistical methods that were used to analyze them, and to “evaluate the robustness of 

their conclusions.” 

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 They developed a revised site-specific scheme for linking specific blood lead sampling rounds to 

specific IQ measurements. 

 Derived time-weighted average blood lead metrics to substitute for the unweighted metrics used by 

Lanphear et al., and added PbB measurements at 24 months into the calculation of the averages. 

 Corrected the equation used in the log transformation of blood lead data from the Boston cohort. 

 Substituted the McCarthy Scales of Children’s Abilities General Cognitive Index measured at 57 

months for the Wexler full-scale IQ at 120 months that had been used as the “concurrent” IQ 

measure for blood lead measured in the Boston cohort at 57 months (see Section 7.3.1.) For all 

other groups, Wexler full-scale IQ measurements were selected. 

 Identified IQ measurement in 10 children from the Mexican Cohort where the closest “concurrent” 

measurement was at age 78 months rather than 72 months. 

Crump et al. then attempted to replicate the earlier regression estimates derived by Lanphear et al., 

using the original data and the data that had been “corrected” based on the adjustments noted above. 

When estimating the log-linear models, they obtained the same results as seen in the earlier analysis. 

When models were fit to the “corrected” data (adjusted as described above), they obtained slightly 

different coefficient values from those derived Lanphear et al. (Table P-1), but the differences in 

coefficients were not significant, and the basic results of the analysis (negative and highly significant loglinear coefficients in the range from -2.2 to -3.2 for all blood lead metrics) were unchanged. 

Crump et al. also estimated piecewise regressions for concurrent PbB values above and below the 7.5 

and 10 ug/dL cutoff values. For these models, they obtained different results from the earlier analysis. 

Their slope coefficient for PbB < 7.5 ug/dL (2.54 IQ points/dL) was slightly smaller than that estimated by 

Lanphear et al. (-2.94), but both estimates were significantly less than zero. The estimated slope 

coefficient above 7.5 ug/dl (-0.15 ug/dL) was very close to that estimated by Lanphear (-0.16), and 

confidence intervals indicated that both values were significantly negative. 

Crump et al. found that the piecewise linear regression coefficient for subjects with concurrent blood

lead levels below 10 μg/dL were not significant, in contrast to the results reported by Lanphear et al., 

and that the difference between slope coefficients for subjects above and below this cutoff was likewise 

not significant. Using the “corrected” data, they estimated a blood lead-IQ slope of -1.06 (C.I. = 2.25, 

0.118) below 10 μg/dL, compared to Lanphear et al.’s original -0.88 (C.I. = -2.13, 0.38.) While the value 

from the revised analysis becomes more negative, the confidence interval still includes zero; Crump et

al. calculated a marginally significant p-value of 0.078. 
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Crump et al. also experimented with different cutpoints (i.e., the blood lead at which the slope of the IQblood lead relationship changes) and blood lead metrics in an attempt to identify the lowest blood lead 

concentrations at which slope coefficients retained significance. They found a generally consistent 

pattern of most slope coefficients remaining negative down to the lowest cutoff point analyzed (2 

μg/dL.) However, the coefficients for blood lead cutoffs less than 5-7 μg/dL lost statistical significance, 

consistent with the decreasing numbers of subjects involved. 

Crump et al. indicated “Although we found some small errors and questionable decisions by Lanphear et 

al. that, taken alone, could cause doubt in their conclusions, our reanalysis tended to support their 

conclusions. We concluded that there was statistical evidence that the exposure-response is non-linear

over the full range of BPb evaluated in these studies, which implies that, for a given increase in blood 

lead, the associated IQ decrement is greater at lower BPb levels.” They noted, however, after fitting 

piecewise models to the various blood lead metrics, that the IQ loss could be “adequately modeled” at 

PbB levels less than 10 ug/dL. In addition, they concluded that the evidence support the existence of

exposure-response relationship for IQ loss at peak PbB values as low as 7 ug/dL, and for concurrent PbB 

at 5 ug/dL. As noted above, however, these latter conclusions were based on linear regressions 

incorporating only small proportions of the data, and thus had less power to detect significant 

relationships. 

As noted in Section 6.3, after reviewing the Crump et al. (2013) reanalysis of the Lanphear et al. (2005) 

study, EPA is retaining the basic log-linear regression approach to the prediction of IQ loss after 

renovation, while using the revised regression coefficients calculated by Crump et al. 

P.3. IQ (Budtz-Jørgensen et al. (2013) Estimation of BMDs and 

BMDLs) 

Budtz-Jørgensen et al. (2013) estimated blood lead-IQ relationships from the Lanphear et al. (2005) data 

using a set of linear mixed models of the general form: 

IQi j = αj − f (di,j) + γ

1

x

1

i,j + . . . + γ

p

x

p

i j+ εi j

This approach allows for the intercept of the model (αj) to vary across the studies, whereas the effects of 

covariates (γ

1

- γ

p

) are assumed to be constant across the studies. The expression f (di,j) captures the 

form of the blood lead-IQ dependence; both linear and log-linear transformations were used. It is not

clear to what extent the form of the models used in this analysis differed from those used in the 

Lanphear 2005 study; the covariates were the same and there was no discussion of whether the 

problems with the data identified by Crump et al. were addressed. 
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An important difference from the previous analysis was that likelihood methods (rather than linear 

regression) were used to optimize the models. This allowed relative goodness of fits and model 

parsimony to be compared using differences in AIC (Akaike Information Criteria.) Another important 

difference was that Budtz-Jørgensen et al. applied the results of their models to derive BMD and BMDL 

estimates for a change of 1.0 IQ points for each blood lead metric. They also employed the “hybrid 

method” to estimate BMD and BMDL values for changes of 1, 2.5, and 5 percent changes in IQ assuming 

a background incidence of 5 percent. Finally, they compared the fits of linear and log-linear models 

(using AIC values), as well as estimating the same piecewise linear models (cutoffs at 10 and 7.5 μg/dL) 

fitted in the original analysis. 

For concurrent blood lead, the log-linear model again provided a superior fit to both the linear and 

breakpoint models (lower AIC value.) For the other blood lead metrics, the log-linear model provided 

superior fits to the linear models and comparable or slightly inferior fits to data in the low-exposure 

range (below the cutoffs.) The BMD values for a 1.0 point change in IQ score derived from the log-linear 

models for different blood lead metrics fell into a relatively narrow range (0.355-0.558 μg/dL), and the 

BMDLs ranged from 0.260 to 0.343 μg/dL. The lowest values were estimated from concurrent blood 

lead and the highest for early childhood blood lead concentrations. BMDs/ BMDLs for piecewise linear 

models with breakpoints at 7.5 μg/dL ranged from 0.712/0.434 μg/dL for peak blood lead to 

1.647/0.980 μg/dL for concurrent lead. BMDs/ BMDLs for models with breakpoints at 10 μg/dL are 

somewhat higher ranging from 1.034/0.689 (concurrent) to 3.769/1.610 (early childhood.) 

EPA has decided not to employ the Budtz-Jørgensen et al. results in estimating IQ loss associated with

renovation, for several reasons. First, use of the continuous regression models from the 

Lanphear/Crump et al. analysis does not require that selection of a cutoff value for reduced IQ and will 

produce a continuous distribution of IQ loss as a function of exposure. In contrast, the Budtz-Jørgensen 

BMDs and BMDLs are calculated for specified values of IQ loss (1 point, 1 percent, etc.), so the output of 

a risk assessment using these values would be an estimate of what proportion of the exposed 

population exceeds the selected cutoff values. EPA believes that the regression approach will provide

more useful information about the distribution of outcomes (predicted IQ changes) than would be 

obtainable using the BMDs/BMDLs from the Budtz-Jørgensen et al. study without considerable 

adaptation. In addition, the Lanphear et al. (2005) and Crump et al. (2013) analyses directly provide

well-documented regression coefficients that have been subject to extensive quality assurance and peer

review, while the equations and model fits from the Budtz-Jørgensen et al. study have not been made 

publically available and would require independent review by EPA scientists for use in regulatory 

analysis. Finally, many of the BMDL values estimated by Budtz-Jørgensen et al. are less than 1 ug/dL,
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and EPA is reluctant to predict risks in this range because there are so few observation below 1 ug/dL in 

the Lanphear et al. data set. 

P.4. Estimation of Birthweight Reductions from Zhu et al. (2010) 

Model 

As discussed in Section 6.4, Zhu et al. (2010) tested a number of fractional polynomial models relating

observed variations in birthweight to maternal blood lead concentrations and multiple covariates, 

including gestational age, maternal age, race, Hispanic ethnicity, education, smoking, alcohol drinking, 

drug abuse, in wedlock, participation in special financial assistant program, parity, infant sex, and timing 

of the blood lead test relative to birth. They found that a model incorporating a square root 

transformation of maternal blood lead provided the best fit to the data. While they did not provide the 

coefficients and standard errors for their model, the article includes estimates of the mean and 95% 

upper and lower confidence limits on the predicted body weight reductions at blood lead 

concentrations up to 10 ug/dL (Table P-2). 

Table P-2. Predicted Birthweight Reductions Based on Fractional Polynomial Model from Zhu et al. (2010) 

PbB BWR 

(gms) 95% UCL 95% LCL Mean-LCL UCL-Mean 

Effective 

Std. 

Dev.1

0 -- -- -- -- -- -- 

1 -27.4 -17.1 -37.8 10.4 10.3 5.28 

2 -38.8 -24.1 -53.4 14.6 14.7 7.47 

3 -47.5 -29.6 -65.4 17.9 17.9 9.13 

4 -54.8 -34.2 -75.5 20.7 20.6 10.54 

5 -61.3 -38.2 -84.4 23.1 23.1 11.79 

6 -67.2 -41.8 -92.5 25.3 25.4 12.93 

7 -72.5 -45.2 -99.9 27.4 27.3 13.95 

8 -77.6 -48.3 -106.8 29.2 29.3 14.92 

9 -82.3 -51.2 -113.3 31.0 31.1 15.84 

10 -86.7 -54.0 -119.4 32.7 32.7 16.68 

1. Estimated as (UCL-LCL)/3.92, assuming normal distribution 

As shown in Figure P-1, the projected change in birthweight is linearly related to the square root PbB

(this is inherent in the specified form of the model.) The slope of the relationship, as discussed in

Section 7.4.1, is -27.4 grams per one unit change in the square root of maternal blood lead; this value is 

used in the estimation of mean change in body weight in Equation 7.1, repeated below. 
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∆L = 	 ∆i(b) ∗ 27.4 + (0, ∆i(b) ∗ 5.28) (7.1) 

Variation in the predicted change around the mean was modeled as a normal distribution, based again 

on the inherent form of the Zhu et al. model, with an effective “standard deviation” modeled from the 

upper and lower confidence limits in Table P-2. It can be seen from the table that, at each PbB 

concentration, the confidence limits are symmetrical around the mean; assuming a normal distribution, 

and that the confidence limits are 1.96 standard deviations above and below the mean allows the 

estimation of the effective standard deviations as (UCL-LCL)/3.92, shown in the last column of Table P-2. 

As was the case for the mean birthweight reduction, the effective standard deviation also varies linearly 

with the square root of maternal PbB. As shown in Figure P-2, the slope of this relationship is 5.28 gm 

birthweight for each change of one unit in the square root of maternal PbB, this result provides the 

multiplicative coefficient used in the second term of Equation 7.1. 

Figure P-1. Dependence of Predicted Mean Birth Weight Reduction on the Square Root of Maternal Blood 

Lead 

y = -27.431x + 0.0221

R2 = 1

-90.0

-80.0

-70.0

-60.0

-50.0

-40.0

-30.0

-20.0

1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5 3.0 3.5

Predicted Mean Birth Weight Loss, gm

Square Root(Maternal Blood Lead, ug/dL)
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Figure P-2. Dependence of Variation in Prediction Birthweight Reduction on the Square Root of Maternal

Blood Lead 

Coefficients from the Zhu et al. model were estimated in models that included the large number of 

covariates listed above. Thus, the estimated changes in birthweight obtained using these coefficients

reflect the observed characteristics of the study population, which may not precisely match the 

distribution of these characteristics of the pregnant population in the U.S. as a whole. By fixing the age 

distribution of the Monte Carlo model to be similar to that among the Zhu et al. study participates, that 

source of variation can at least be accounted for. The uncertainty associated with differences in 

distributions of the other covariates between the study population and the general U.S. population 

cannot be estimated directly. 

P.5. Reduced Glomerular Filtration Rate (GFR) Based on Navas-Acien 

et al. (2009) Study 

P.5.1. Estimation of Regression Coefficient and Standard Error 

As discussed in Section 6.5, Navas-Acien et al. (2009) conducted an analysis of the relationship between 

risk of “category 3-5 kidney disease” (GFR < 60 ml/minute/1.73 M2) in a sample of almost 15,000 adult 

subjects from the 1999-2006 NHANES. In logistic regression models that included adjustments for a 

wide range of covariates (and for simultaneous exposures to cadmium), they found statistically 

significant elevations in the adjusted odds ratios (ORs) for low GFR in the upper quartile of the study 

population compared to the referent group, accompanied by a statistically significant positive trend in 

y = 5.2762x - 0.0001

R2 = 1

0.0

2.0

4.0

6.0

8.0

10.0

12.0

14.0

16.0

18.0

1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5 3.0 3.5

ffective Standard Deviation of BW 

Reduction

Square Root(Maternal Blood Lead, ug/dL)
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OR across the quartiles. Using a model containing log-transformed blood lead as a continuous variable

they estimated the odds ratios associated with an increase in PbB from 1.1 to 2.4 ug/dL (the 25th – 75th

percentiles of the observed ranges, as shown in Table P-3. As discussed in Section 6.5, the models used 

to estimate the odds ratios also included urinary cadmium as a covariate, so the estimated association

with lead exposure takes into account the effects on kidney function of simultaneous exposure to 

cadmium, which is also a known kidney toxin. 

Table P-3. Navas-Acien et al. (2009) Regression Results, Estimated Coefficient Values, and Standard Errors 

Gender-Specific Regression Results 

Group PbB 

Range OR LCL UCL 

M 1.1-2.4 1.13 0.96 1.33 

F 1.1-2.4 1.44 1.22 1.69 

M+F 1.1-2.4 1.31 1.16 1.47 

 

Because only the ORs were presented, it was necessary to back-calculate the β values and standard 

errors based on the ORs and changes in PbB, as illustrated in Table P-4.2 Given the exponential form of 

the logistic regression, the β values for men and women can be estimated as ln(OR)/ΔlnPbB, where 

ΔlnPbB is ln(2.4/1.1), the 75th/25th percentile blood lead values from the study. 

Table P-4. Navas-Acien et al. (2009) Estimated β Values 

Group ΔlnPbB ln(RR) β 

M 0.780 0.122 0.157 

F 0.780 0.365 0.467 

M+F 0.780 0.270 0.346 

The standard errors were estimated for each of the coefficients based on the upper and lower 

confidence limits provided in the article as shown in 

 

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Table P-5. Using a normal approximation (after confirming that the confidence limits were logsymmetrical), the standard errors were calculated as Standard Error = ln (UCL/LCL) / 3.92. (The 95 

percent upper and lower confidence limits are assumed to be 1.96 times larger or smaller than the 

estimated β values.) The standard errors were used to represent the variability in the β estimate as 

described below. 
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Table P-5. Estimation of Standard Errors Associated with the β Coefficients 

Group LCL UCL ln(UCL/LCL) Std. Err. 

Men 0.96 1.33 0.3260 0.083 

Women 1.22 1.69 0.3259 0.083 

Men+Women 1.16 1.47 0.2368 0.060 

P.5.2. Estimation Low GFR Risk 

As explained in Section 7.5, the absolute risk for a given individual in the Monte Carlo simulation was 

estimated to be: 

 *n = *no ∗ (pqr)∗sV5^.a, 

with ΔlnPbB being the natural log of the ratio of the renovation and background blood lead estimates. 

As for birthweight, statistical uncertainty in the β variable was represented by adding an “ε” term, which 

takes the value of a normal distribution with a mean zero and standard deviation equal to the estimated 

standard errors from Table P-3. At each Monte Carlo iteration, an independent random sample is drawn 

from this distribution and added to the β estimate. As shown in the above equation, the risk of low GFR 

associated with renovation is calculated relative to background relative risks, which represent the 

average prevalences in different age groups and genders in the U.S. population. Background prevalence

rates in the U.S. 2012 population provided by the Veterans Affairs Administration were obtained from 

the CDC (http://nccd.cdc.gov/CKD/detail.aspx?QNum=Q391) and are provided in Table P-6. 

Table P-6. Prevalence of Chronic Kidney Disease (GFR <60 ml/minute/1.73 M2) in Adults, 2012 (percent) 

Age Female Male 

20-29 years 0.29 0.24 

30-39 years 0.68 0.58 

40-49 years 1.97 1.67 

50-59 years 5.07 3.98 

60-69 years 13.05 9.27 

70+ years 25.6 21.06 

 
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P.6. Menke et al. (2006) Regression: Background Cardiovascular 

Mortality Risks 

The risk of cardiovascular disease mortality will be estimated, as discussed in Section 6.6 and in US EPA 

2014c as: 

ce/,F = ceo,/,F ∗ (pqr)∗∆V5^.a

The exponential term on the right-hand side of the equation calculates the hazard ratio for a simulated 

subject of a given age and gender, while CVDM0,a,g represents that age- and gender-specific background 

risk of CVD mortality in the U.S. population. Values for CVDM0,a,g have been obtained from CDC-curated 

data (Centers for Disease Control 2010), as shown in Table P-7. 

Table P-7. Background Cardiovascular Mortality Risks for the U.S. Population (CDC 2010) 

Age (years) Gender Annual CVD 

Mortality 

50-59 

M 2.20E-03 

F 9.40E-04 

60-69 

M 4.60E-03 

F 2.30E-03 

70-80 

M 1.20E-02 

F 7.60E-03 

P.7. References for Appendix P 

Budtz-Jørgensen E, Bellinger D, Lanphear B, Grandjean P. (2013). An international pooled analysis for 

obtaining a benchmark dose for environmental lead exposure in children. Risk Anal. 

2013;33:450–61. 

Crump et al (2013). A statistical reevaluation of the data used in the Lanphear et al. (2005) pooledanalysis that related low levels of blood lead to intellectual deficits in children. Critical Review 

Toxicology. October:43 (9): 785-99. 

Lanphear BP, Hornung R, Khoury J, et al. (2005). Low-level environmental lead exposure and children’s 

intellectual function: an international pooled analysis. Environ Health Perspect, 113, 894–9. 
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Menke et al (2006). Blood lead below 0.48 micromol/L (10 microg/dL) and mortality among US adults. 

Circulation. 114:1388–1394. 

Navas-Acien et al (2009). Blood Cadmium and Lead and Chronic Kidney Disease in US Adults: A Joint 

Analysis. Am. J. Epidemiol. (2009) 170 (9): 1156-1164.

Zhu et al (2010). Maternal Low-Level Lead Exposure and Fetal Growth. Environmental Health 

Perspectives. Volume 118. Number 10.
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Appendix Q. Approach to estimate universe of P&CBs 

National data on the universe of P&CBs and their spatial relationships both to each other and to 

residential buildings is limited. Due to this limitation, methods were developed to estimate the universe 

of P&CBs in the United States. These estimates were developed using the 2011 Maryland Department of 

Planning (MDP) MDProperty View dataset (MDP 2011). This appendix presents estimates for the number 

of P&CBs, as well as supplemental information about building types, and distances between P&CBs and 

all other building types. 

The analysis used four general different building type categories: (1) agricultural, (2) commercial, (3) 

government, and (4) industrial. Agricultural, commercial, and industrial buildings generally included all 

buildings with the corresponding zoning designations on parcels that were not government owned. 

Government buildings generally included all buildings on government owned parcels that were zoned 

commercial or industrial. 

Results are disaggregated according to the distance between a P&CB and other building categories, 

including residences. The distance categories considered in this analysis correspond to distances 

modeled and described in Section 3 of the Approach document. The universe of P&CBs and proximity 

analysis presents estimates of the number of residences located near P&CBs, and estimates of the 

number of non-residential buildings located near P&CBs. 

There are no publically available sources of information on the national number of buildings for 

properties that are zoned industrial or agricultural. However, the U.S. Department of Energy’s 2003 

Commercial Building Energy Consumption Survey (CBECS) includes national estimates for the number of 

commercial buildings (DOE 2008). In addition, historical and current data on the national amount of 

commercial floor space are available from the U.S. Department of Energy, so these data are used to 

validate the corresponding estimates derived from the MDProperty View data. 

The MDP (2011) data are particularly useful because they include geographical information (latitude and 

longitude coordinates) for each property. Therefore, these data can be used to estimate three critical 

elements of the analysis related to the proximity of P&CBs to residences and other P&CBs: 

 
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(1) the number of buildings with at least one residence within a given distance from PnCBs, 

(2) the number of residences near PnCBs, and 

3) the number of other PnCBs near PnCBs. 

The MDP data have geographic and property information collected by the State Department of 

Assessments and Taxation (SDAT) for 2.2 million parcels in the state of Maryland, including parcel 

ownership and address information, and basic details about the parcel and structures associated with it. 

While the database does not contain information on the number of buildings on a parcel, it tracks other 

information that may indicate whether buildings may be present on the parcel. 

The approach grouped the parcels into categories and then visually inspected a random sample of 

parcels. This visual inspection was used to estimate the average number of parcels with buildings and

the average number of P&CBs per parcel. The number of P&CBs in Maryland was then calculated as the 

sum of the product of the number of parcels with buildings and the average number of P&CBs per parcel 

across the different parcel categories. National estimates are then extrapolated from the Maryland 

estimates based on the ratios of the total number of employer establishments in the United States to 

the total number in Maryland for the industries comprising the four building categories included in the 

analysis. 

The number of buildings per parcel is not included in the MDProperty View dataset. Therefore, a 

random sample of parcels was drawn for each parcel type and the satellite images of the sampled 

parcels were visually examined using ArcGIS to identify the number of buildings on the parcel. The visual 

examination was complicated by the fact that parcel boundaries were not clearly delineated (parcels 

were denoted by centroids - single points representing the parcel’s geometric center) and some parcels

were obscured by tree cover or fuzzy satellite imagery. Best judgment was used to determine the 

parcel’s boundaries, (e.g., physical landmarks, comparison of the parcel’s acreage data to area measured 

by ArcGIS measurement tool, etc.), and the number of buildings on the parcel (cross-referencing with 

Google Maps). The methods used to estimate the average number of P&CBs per parcel varied for the 

different types of parcels. Another limitation of the analysis is the assumption that the Maryland data 

are representative of the number of buildings per parcel nationally. 

For commercial, government, and industrial parcels, the average number of buildings per parcel was 

estimated by examining a sample of randomly selected parcels with buildings in each building category. 

Agricultural parcels were grouped into 1 of 13 size categories. Approximately 10 parcels were randomly 

selected for each size-residence category, with the exception of some of the smallest and largest size-
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residence categories which had fewer than 10 parcels. The averages from the agricultural sample were 

then weighted by the proportion of parcels with buildings in each size-residence category. 

The first building on an agricultural parcel with a residence is assumed to be the residence and all other 

buildings on that parcel are assumed to be agricultural buildings – only the agricultural buildings are 

included in the analysis since residential buildings are already regulated under the residential provisions 

of the LRRP program. For parcels with mixed commercial and residential use, it is assumed that all 

buildings are P&CBs. Buildings that were mixed-use were also identified. For example, a two story 

building with retail space on the first floor and apartments on the second floor. 

The number of P&CBs in Maryland is estimated as the product of the total number of parcels with at 

least one building and the average number of buildings per parcel. National estimates are then 

extrapolated from the estimates for Maryland using the ratio of national employer establishments in the 

affected sectors to employer establishments in Maryland. Note that while other indicators could be 

used to extrapolate from Maryland to the U.S. (e.g., population, output, all employer and non-employer

establishments), an important advantage of using employer establishments is that these data are 

available at the Zip Code level. 

This allows for estimating the number of buildings by Zip Code, where the number of buildings can be 

combined with estimates for the proximity of the buildings to housing units. Note that the ratio of 

Maryland to U.S. commercial establishments was used to extrapolate from Maryland government P&CBs 

to the national number of P&CBs. This ratio is used because nearly all government parcels are zoned as

commercial. It is also worth noting that the Maryland to United States ratio for both commercial 

establishments and population are both 1.87% (U.S. Census Bureau 2011a). 

As indicated in Table O-1, there are an estimated 15.7 million P&CBs in the United States. Agricultural 

buildings account for approximately 50.3 percent (7.9 million) of the total, commercial buildings account 

for 28.4 percent (4.4 million), government buildings account for 6.0 percent (0.9 million), and industrial 

buildings account for 15.3 percent (2.4 million). 

The steps used to combine the MDP data with Census data to develop national estimates of the proximity

between P&CBs and residences are summarized as follows: 

 
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1. Use decennial Census data to group ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) into ZIP Code Groups, so 

we can match those areas outside of Maryland with areas in Maryland that are likely to be 

similar in terms of the proximity between P&CBs and residences. 

2. Use the MDP data to estimate the proximity of P&CBs to residences and other P&CBs within 

each Maryland ZIP Code Group. 

3. Use Census County Business Patterns data compiled by ZIP Code on employer establishments to 

assign a weight to each Maryland ZIP Code Group, so that 

4. Extrapolate from the Maryland data to national estimates for the parameters listed above. 

5. Estimate the national parameters for proximity between P&CBs, residences, and other P&CBs as 

the weighted average of these parameters for the Maryland ZIP Code Groups. 
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Table O-1: Estimated Universe of P&CBs in Maryland and the United States 

Building 

Category1

Ind. For 

Dwellin

gs2,3

Structure 

Square 

Footage 

Reported

Class 

Code4

Maryland National 

Total 

Parcels 

with 

P&CBs

P&CBs 

Per 

Parcel

5

Total 

Number 

of P&CBs

Number 

of 

Establish.5

Number 

of

Establish.6

Ratio of 

MD to 

U.S.6

Estimated 

Number of 

P&CBs 

Agricultural Yes - - 17,086 3.3 56,384 192 21,679 0.886% 6,363,883 

No - - 5,830 2.3 13,409 1,513,431

Subtotal 22,916 3.0 69,793 7,877,314

Commercial Yes - - 3,003 1.3 3,904 131,721 7,041,758 1.871% 208,658

No Yes - 43,701 56,811 3,036,398

- No - 17,174 22,326 1,193,266

Subtotal 63,878 83,041 4,438,322

Government - Yes - 2,888 1.4 4,043

- - 

216,088

No Yes - 6,782 9,495 507,483

-

- 

Park/Rec 1,408 1,971 105,345

- Public 

Works

1,525 2,135 114,110 

Subtotal 12,603 17,644 943,026

Industrial - Yes - 11,962 1.6 19,139 3,506 353,143 0.993% 1,927,392

- No - 2,937 4,699 473,212

Subtotal 14,899 23,838 2,400,604

Total 114,296 194,316 15,659,266
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Notes: 1. The “Agricultural” land use category used in the Maryland database includes some parcels that would 

be considered residential under the LRRP program. To account for 

this, the agricultural parcel counts have been adjusted by 66.5 percent to account for the difference between the 

total area of farmland in Maryland according to the Census of 

Agriculture (2,051,756 acres) and the total area of the parcels classified as agricultural in the Maryland dataset 

(3,084,052 acres). 

2. Agricultural and commercial parcels were broken out by whether they contain residential structures because 

these structures are already covered under the LRRP program under the residential rule. There were only three 

industrial parcels with records indicating there were residential structures and all of them appear to be 

categorized incorrectly. Thus, industrial parcel counts are not broken out by the presence of residential 

dwellings. 

3. A parcel is assumed to have a residence if it has a nonzero value in the total number of dwellings field. 

4. Class codes provide detail on the parcel’s ownership type (public, state, private, etc.) and use (hospital, park, 

school). Parcels without housing and/or building data were grouped by class code and examined separately. 

Government parcels in the (1) Parks and Recreation and (2) Public Works class codes were identified as

potentially different from other parcel types with respect to the likelihood of having a building on the parcel. 

5. Estimated from a sample of parcels that were visually inspected to obtain information not contained in the 

original MDP dataset. See Appendix 1 for a description of how these 

parameters were estimated and the estimated confidence intervals. 

6. “Agricultural” establishments include those from NAICS 11; “Commercial” establishments include those from 

NAICS 23, 42, 44 ,48, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 61, 62, 71, 72, and 81; “Industrial” establishments include those from 

NAICS “21, 22, and 31. 

Sources: MDP 2011, USDA 2009, U.S. Census Bureau 2011a, b

Q.1. References for Appendix Q 

Maryland Department of Planning and Maryland State Department of Assessments and Taxation (MDP). 

2011. MdProperty View 2011 Edition. Maryland Department of Planning is the owner of the

MDProperty View Product, parcel x,y reference points, property maps and land use/land cover 

data. Maryland State Department of Assessments and Taxation owns the parcel dataset records 

in the MdProperty View Product. 

U.S. Census Bureau. 2011a. 2010 Census of Poulation and Housing Summary Files for All States (Machine

Readable Files). 

U.S. Department of Energy (U.S. DOE). 2008. 2003 Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey: 

Public Use Microdata Files.