Document ID: EPA-HQ-OAR-2008-0253-0040
Agency: epa
Document Type: Supporting & Related Material
Title: 
Posted Date: 2008-07-01T04:00Z

Kathy Kaufman/RTP/USEPA/US 

04/28/2008 10:28 AM

	

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Tricia Crabtree/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA

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Subject

next batch for Pb RIA docket

Kathy Kaufman

EPA/OAQPS Mail Code C539-03

Research Triangle Park, NC 27711

Phone 919 541 0102

Fax  919 541 5489

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"King, Heidi R." <Heidi_R._King@omb.eop.gov> 

01/16/2008 11:57 AM

	

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Lydia Wegman/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA

Subject

for your review: did I get the Pb NAAQS links correct for interagency
distribution?

Hi Kathy, 

 

Good job this morning, it was a lively group with a diverse level of
familiarity!

 

Below is what I propose to share with interagency Pb NAAQS review group.
 Please let me know if I my phrasing is inaccurate or if I'm not
pointing to most recent or best drafts.  Thank you; 

 

best,

 

heidi

202 395 4551

 

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As promised, here are the links to documents supporting your
participation in the interagency review of Pb NAAQS.

 

I.  A CASAC letter following ANPRM publication is forthcoming; The most
recent CASAC letter is a review of the Staff Paper second draft; .

 

http://yosemite.epa.gov/sab/sabproduct.nsf/2DCD6EF49CDD37B285257364005F9
3E4/$File/casac-07-007.pdf

 

II.  Criteria Document, Staff Paper and ANPRM for the Pb NAAQS is
available at the following link.  Note that the Risk Assessment is
located in the "Technical Documents" section:

 

http://www.epa.gov/ttn/naaqs/standards/pb/s_pb_index.html

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"King, Heidi R." <Heidi_R._King@omb.eop.gov> 

01/16/2008 01:39 PM

	

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"Laur, Michele N." <Michele_N._Laur@omb.eop.gov>,
<Daniel.Cohen@hq.doe.gov>, <David.R.Hill@hq.doe.gov>, "Fraas, Arthur G."
<Arthur_G._Fraas@omb.eop.gov>, "Farrell, Amy L."
<Amy_L._Farrell@ceq.eop.gov>, <Indur_Goklany@ios.doi.gov>,
<Burleson.Smith@usda.gov>, "Baer, Mitchell" <Mitchell.Baer@hq.doe.gov>,
"Holman, Keith W." <Keith.Holman@sba.gov>, "Mestey, Felix CIV
\(NAVFACHQ\)" <felix.mestey@navy.mil>, "Newton, Drek  CIV NFESC"
<drek.newton@navy.mil>, "Daniels, Jarad" <Jarad.Daniels@hq.doe.gov>,
"Skidmore, Charlotte T." <Charlotte_T._Skidmore@omb.eop.gov>,
<GC-71energyregs@hq.doe.gov>, "Serebrov, Job"
<Job.Serebrov@OGC.USDA.GOV>, <Stefan.Osborne@mail.doc.gov>,
<Cruz.Ubay@HQ.DOE.GOV>, <carmen.difiglio@hq.doe.gov>, "Grahame, Thomas"
<Thomas.Grahame@HQ.DOE.GOV>, <Cecilia.Ho@dot.gov>,
<Camille.Mittelholtz@dot.gov>, <chris.rasmussen@mail.doc.gov>, "Beck,
Nancy" <Nancy_Beck@omb.eop.gov>, <moar.ian@dol.gov>,
<matthew.grove@hhs.gov>

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Kathy Kaufman/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA

Subject

I. Links to Pb NAAQS documents  II. tent. mtg schedule

Good afternoon,

 

Two follow up items from this morning's meeting on the Pb NAAQS
Regulatory Impact Analysis discussion:

 

I.  Documents supporting review

 

As promised, here are the links to documents supporting your
participation in the interagency review of Pb NAAQS.

 

a.  A CASAC letter following ANPRM publication is forthcoming; The most
recent CASAC letter is a review of the Staff Paper second draft; .

 

http://yosemite.epa.gov/sab/sabproduct.nsf/2DCD6EF49CDD37B285257364005F9
3E4/$File/casac-07-007.pdf

 

b.  Criteria Document, Staff Paper and ANPRM for the Pb NAAQS is
available at the following link.  Note that the Risk Assessment is
located in the "Technical Documents" section:

 

http://www.epa.gov/ttn/naaqs/standards/pb/s_pb_index.html

 

II.  Interagency Meeting Schedule

 

The meeting schedule for this regulatory review group is shaping up
roughly as follows (invitations will be sent out shortly):

 

Tue 1/22, 1:30 -3pm:   

Pb Exposure Information.  What is known (and not known) about human
exposure and pathways.  This background supports understanding both the
RIA and the Risk Assessment

 

Tent. Thu 1/24 time tbd:  

Pb Environmental Sources and Monitoring:  What is known (and not known)
about sources of lead in the environment, and how we monitor ambient Pb

 

Tent. Mon, 1/28 time tbd:

RIA Follow up:  Costs and Benefits methodology, applicability of the
Energy Exec Order

 

Date and time Tbd:

Risk Analysis Framework:  Following review of exposure and sources
information on 1/22 and 1/24, this conversation will review the
analytical structure in the Risk Analysis, briefly introduced in our
interagency meeting on 12/20/07.

 

 

Questions welcome, as always,

 

 Heidi 

 

Heidi R. King

OMB/OIRA

 (202) 395-4551

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"King, Heidi R." <Heidi_R._King@omb.eop.gov> 

01/16/2008 03:23 PM

	

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Lydia Wegman/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA

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Erika Sasser/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA, Tricia Crabtree/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA, Kathy
Kaufman/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA

Subject

RE: Near Roadway information for Tom Grahame

Thank you; I'll share with the broader group, as I believe this is also

of interest to Dept of Transportation.

Thanks Lydia,

heidi 

-----Original Message-----

From: Wegman.Lydia@epamail.epa.gov [mailto:Wegman.Lydia@epamail.epa.gov]

Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 3:22 PM

To: King, Heidi R.

Cc: sasser.erika@epa.gov; Crabtree.Tricia@epamail.epa.gov;

kaufman.kathy@epa.gov

Subject: Fw: Near Roadway information for Tom Grahame

Below is a note that provides a guide for Tom Grahame to information

that answers one of the questions he asked during our meeting today.

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             Erika                                                      

             Sasser/RTP/USEPA                                           

             /US                                                     To 

                                      Lydia Wegman/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA     

             01/16/2008 12:57                                        cc 

             PM                       Kathy Kaufman/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA,   

                                      Deirdre Murphy/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA   

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                                      Near Roadway information for Tom  

                                      Grahame                           

                                                                        

                                                                        

                                                                        

                                                                        

                                                                        

                                                                        

Tom Grahame asked whether we had information regarding lead

concentrations near roadways (such as gradient studies).  Deirdre

identified 2 sections of the Criteria document and 1 appendix to the

Lead Risk Assessment that deal with lead in outdoor soil and dust near

roadways.  These are:

Criteria Document

   Chapter 2, section 2.3.3 "Resuspension of Lead Containing Dust and

   Soil"

   Chapter 3, section 3.2  "Exposure:  Soil and Dust"

Risk Assessment

   Appendix F:  "Lead in Outdoor Soil and Dust near Roadways"-- this

   appendix includes a table listing key studies and summarizing their

   design/findings in terms of lead concentrations

Perhaps we could send this to Heidi to forward on to Tom, along with the

links to CD, Staff Paper, and Risk Assessment?

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"King, Heidi R." <Heidi_R._King@omb.eop.gov> 

01/18/2008 04:26 PM

	

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Kathy Kaufman/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA

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Subject

FW: FYI We have CDC reviewers

Kathy, I should have copied you.  My apologies -

 

heidi

From: King, Heidi R. 

Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 4:26 PM

To: 'Wegman.Lydia@epamail.epa.gov'

Subject: FYI We have CDC reviewers

Hi Lydia,

 

CDC/HHS has identified the following folks as appropriate CDC
participants in the interagency review of the Pb NAAQS:

 

Tom Sinks

possibly Mary Jean Brown also

 

Best,

 

heidi

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"King, Heidi R." <Heidi_R._King@omb.eop.gov> 

01/23/2008 12:51 PM

	

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Lydia Wegman/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA

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Allen Basala/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA, "Skidmore, Charlotte T."
<Charlotte_T._Skidmore@omb.eop.gov>, Deirdre Murphy/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA,
Karen Martin/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA, Kathy Kaufman/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA, Ron
Evans/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA, Zachary Pekar/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA

Subject

RE: Request concerning meetings and your questions from earlier this
morning

Lydia,

I understand that you'd like to divide the issues by work-product (RIA

and RA report) teams, but I am trying to help interagency folks get up

to speed on the underlying basic information which supports the work by

each of these teams.  We get different information from various offices

of EPA, and we are trying to sort out the apparent contradictions that

emerge when we fail to acknowledge the common base of science from which

we are all working.

I understand this is confusing, that is why I suggested we work with ORD

to develop a more thorough review of the background/science on human

exposure and environmental sources of lead.

Both are inputs to RIA and to Risk assessment, but in the absense of

sufficient background information we aren't able to progress quickly.

I suggesst we engage ORD; Thanks!

heidi

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From: Wegman.Lydia@epamail.epa.gov [mailto:Wegman.Lydia@epamail.epa.gov]

Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 12:47 PM

To: King, Heidi R.

Cc: Basala.Allen@epamail.epa.gov; Skidmore, Charlotte T.;

Murphy.Deirdre@epamail.epa.gov; martin.karen@epa.gov;

Kaufman.Kathy@epamail.epa.gov; Evans.Ron@epamail.epa.gov;

Pekar.Zachary@epamail.epa.gov

Subject: Request concerning meetings and your questions from earlier

this morning

Heidi,

I'm afraid that I'm confused about the issues we're discussing at each

of these meetings.  As you know, we have separate teams with knowledge

of the underlying research discussed in the Criteria Document,  the way

in which the risk assessment was conducted, and the development of the

RIA.   From my standpoint, I would very much prefer to order our

discussions based on which of these sets of issues you and the

interagency team want to discuss so that I can avoid wasting people's

time.   Consequently, the list of issues that you sent in your first

e-mail this morning is difficult for me to deal with as it mingles

research, risk assessment and RIA source questions.   If the subjects

that Kathy described in her e-mail are ones that work for our meeting

tomorrow, then we're set on that one, as those subjects are all RIA

issues.   It would be very helpful if you could take the list of issues

you sent this morning and separate them out in terms of what specific

questions interagency folks have about the evidence discussed in the CD,

what specific questions they have about the risk assessment, including

the way in which it was conducted, and any remaining RIA-related

questions.  Folks here are working very hard and I simply can't ask them

to sit in meetings if there are not specific questions related to their

specific knowledge and work.   Thanks very much for your consideration

on this point.

                                                                        

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                                      RE: With whom do I work on        

                                      Thursday's interagency mtg,       

                                      Sources of Pb and monitoring?     

                                                                        

                                                                        

                                                                        

                                                                        

                                                                        

                                                                        

Kathy,

That's fine; sounds good.  I had sent an email last week identifying the

categories of questions that have been coming up (both in RIA and in

Risk Assessment meetings) and hadn't heard back on who was leading and

how the agenda would be broken out; I also just learned from Margarite

that a meeting had been set up at 4pm but I was unaware and had

separately set up the 10am time.

I appreciate your quick response!

heidi

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From: Kaufman.Kathy@epamail.epa.gov

[mailto:Kaufman.Kathy@epamail.epa.gov]

Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 9:52 AM

To: King, Heidi R.

Cc: Skidmore, Charlotte T.; Murphy.Deirdre@epamail.epa.gov;

martin.karen@epa.gov; Wegman.Lydia@epamail.epa.gov;

Evans.Ron@epamail.epa.gov; Basala.Allen@epamail.epa.gov

Subject: Re: With whom do I work on Thursday's interagency mtg, Sources

of Pb and monitoring?

Heidi, we've been preparing for Thursday's meeting by preparing briefing

material covering the questions that came up last week on monitoring and

inventory.  We have not been preparing to answer questions about the

risk assessment, including contributions to exposure from other media.

That's really Deirdre and Zach's bailiwick.

My understanding was that this is followup for the RIA team, which

includes expertise on monitoring (PM10 vs. TSP) and inventory (sources

of air emissions).  So many questions came up on monitoring and

inventory -- I thought we had set up this meeting to address those

specifically.  Please let me know.  We're not going to be prepared

tomorrow to answer many of the questions below, which were not the

questions we understood this meeting to be about.

 On these questions that come out of RIA discussions, I'm the point

person.  I'm not the point person for the risk assessment, though.

If we are going forward with addressing montoring and inventory

questions stemming from the RIA, then I will make sure you get the

slides (and the call-in number).  The 10-12 time tomorrow works fine for

my team.

Thanks!  Please let me know if our current course needs to change.

Kathy Kaufman

EPA/OAQPS Mail Code C539-03

Research Triangle Park, NC 27711

Phone 919 541 0102

Fax  919 541 5489

             "King, Heidi R."

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                                      Lydia Wegman/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA,

             01/23/2008 09:38         Deirdre Murphy/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA,

             AM                       Kathy Kaufman/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA,

                                      Karen Martin/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA,

                                      Ron Evans/RTP/USEPA/US@EPA,

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                                                                Subject

                                      With whom do I work on Thursday's

                                      interagency mtg, Sources of Pb

                                      and monitoring?

Good morning Lydia and team,

We have a time set for 10-12am (tentatively) on Thursday, 1/24 to

continue the interagency Pb NAAQS; Could someone please

- confirm that this works for EPA (I don't recall whether we had set a

time)

- coordinate the EPA team invitation

- provide a call-in number to OMB for distribution to interagency group

- provide slides in advance of the meeting

Thanks very much; I realize we are all busy, indeed it is not a simple

task to coordate nearly 30 interagency reviewers on several major rules

at the same time and EPA support in organizing these meetings is very

much appreciated.  In the past couple of months we've not all been as

efficient as we could be - I have not been notified of scheduled

meetings, or have received email notifications that do not match the

meetings on EPA calendars. Please do let me know what I can do to

improve our interagency coordination process more efficient.

Suggestion:  Could we identify a point person at EPA to act as my

counterpart in facilitating these meetings?

Topics for Thursday:

Review Environmental Sources

Please clarify sources of ambient lead:  What does research tell us

about the relative contribution of stationary sources, aircraft, crustal

sources, paint, etc in ambient lead?  What data sources are available,

have been used by EPA to support the risk assessment and the RIA?

Please clarify past air vs current air:  What research is available

exploring the contribution of past emissions vs recent emissions in

ambient air?  Why does the risk assessment choose to distinguish between

them, if we are unable to differentiate the relative contribution to

current ambient air levels?

Background sources/ background levels:  What research and data is

available to distinguish between lead from paint, food (can solder,

processing) and water vs ambient air contribution?  What research has

EPA relied upon to support risk assessment, RIA?

Discuss uncertainty about how lead in soils in re-entrained:  What

research provides evidence of re-entrainment, the magnitude of the

problem, and the relative contribution to ambient lead?

How does the risk assessment treat Pb historical deposits near roadways

vs Current emissions/deposits and relative contribution to Pb exposure

risk

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"King, Heidi R." <Heidi_R._King@omb.eop.gov> 

01/24/2008 09:52 AM

	

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RE: Slides for 10 am meeting today

Got it, it opens, and I sent it out - we're good! 

-----Original Message-----

From: Kaufman.Kathy@epamail.epa.gov

[mailto:Kaufman.Kathy@epamail.epa.gov] 

Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 9:49 AM

To: King, Heidi R.

Subject: Slides for 10 am meeting today

Heidi -- I apologize for the short timeframe -- we've been making some

corrections this morning.

(See attached file: Pb Emissions Inventory and Monitoring 01-24-08 --

rev.ppt)

Kathy Kaufman

EPA/OAQPS Mail Code C539-03

Research Triangle Park, NC 27711

Phone 919 541 0102

Fax  919 541 5489