Document ID: EPA-HQ-OAR-2009-0234-19897
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Document Type: Supporting & Related Material
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Posted Date: 2011-12-21T05:00Z

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Studies Cited in Technical Analyses Supporting the Appropriate and Necessary Finding

December, 2011

(point of contact: Amy Lamson, U.S. EPA, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards, e-mail: lamson.amy@epa.gov)

EPA has placed in the docket a CD disk drive containing .pdf copies of the important studies and reports that EPA cited in the technical support documents (TSDs) supporting the Appropriate and Necessary (A&N) finding for the Mercury and Air Toxics Standard which are all available in the docket.  Full citations are appended to this cover note.  

This disk drive contains important studies and reports cited in:
   * "Methods to Develop Inhalation Cancer Risk Estimates for Chromium and Nickel Compounds" 
   * "Technical Support Document: Potential for Excess Local Deposition of Mercury in Areas near U.S. EGUs"
   * "Technical Support Document: National-Scale Assessment of Mercury Risk to Populations with High Consumption of Self-caught Freshwater Fish In Support of the Appropriate and Necessary Finding for Coal- and Oil-Fired Electric Generating Units"
   * "Air Quality Modeling Technical Support Document: EGU Mercury Analysis"  
   * "Memorandum: Ecosystem Effects for the Proposed Rule" (Docket ID: EPA-HQ-OAR-2009-0234-2989)
   * "Non-Hg Case Study Chronic Inhalation Risk Assessment for the Utility MACT "Appropriate and Necessary" Analysis" (Docket ID:  EPA-HQ-OAR-2009-0234-2939)
   * "Supplement to the Non-Hg Case Study Chronic Inhalation Risk Assessment In Support of the Appropriate and Necessary Finding for Coal- and Oil-Fired Electric Generating Units"
   * "Memorandum: Emissions Overview: Hazardous Air Pollutants in Support of the Final Mercury and Air Toxics Standard" 
   * "Technical Support Document (TSD) For the Proposed Toxics Rule:  Emissions Inventories" 
   * A&N portion Response to Comments (RTC) document

Many of the cited studies are under copyright.  Copyrighted material is not available in Regulations.gov since it may not be reproduced without consent of the copyright holder.  These studies can be viewed in the public reading room at the U.S.  EPA Docket Center. In addition, we did not include .pdf copies of any cited books, software, or data files on this disk drive.  

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Methods to Develop Inhalation Cancer Risk Estimates for Chromium and Nickel Compounds 
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), 2008. Toxicological Fact Sheet for chromium. Available online at www.atsdr.cdc.gov/tfacts7.pdf
California Department of Health Services (CDHS), 1991.  Health Risk Assessment for Nickel. Initial Statement for Rulemaking, Proposed Identification of Nickel as a Toxic Air Contaminant  -  Technical Support Document, part B.  Available online at  http://www.arb.ca.gov/toxics/id/summary/nickel_tech_b.pdf.
Dayan AD and Paine AJ.  Mechanisms of chromium toxicity, carcinogenicity and allergenicity: review of the literature from 1985 to 2000.  Hum and Experiment Toxicol 2001, 20:439-451.  
Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC), University of North Dakota, Final Report: Nickel Speciation Analyses of Residual Oil Fly Ashes Using X-Ray Techniques, 2010.  Electronic file available at: http://oaspub.epa.gov/eims/eimscomm.getfile/?p_download_id=503933..
European Commission, Scientific Committee on Health and Environmental Risks (SCHER), 2006.  Opinion on: Reports on Nickel, Human Health part. SCHER, 11th plenary meeting of 04 May 2006 [http://ec.europa.eu/health/ph_risk/committees/04_scher/docs/scher_o_034.pdf].CHER 2006
Galbreath KC, Zygarlicke CJ. 2004.  Formation and chemical speciation of arsenic-, chromium-, and nickel-bearing coal combustion PM2.5, Fuel Process Technol 85:701-726.
Gibb HJ, PS Lees, et al. (2000). Lung Cancer Among Workers in Chromium Chemical Production. American J Ind Med 38(2): 115-26.
Goodman JE, Prueitt RL, Thakali S, and Oller AR. The nickel iron bioavailability model of the carcinogenic potential of nickel-containing substances in the lung. Crit Rev Toxicol  2011, 41:142-174.
Grimsrud TK and Andersen A. Evidence of carcinogenicity in humans of water-soluble nickel salts. J Occup Med Toxicol 2010, 5:1-7.  Available online at http://www.ossup-med.com/content/5/1/7.
Heller JG, Thornhill PG, Conard BR: New views on the hypothesis of respiratory cancer risk from soluble nickel exposure; and reconsideration of this risk's historical sources in nickel refineries. J Occup Med Toxicol, 2009, 4:23.
Huggins FE, Najih M, Huffman GP. 1999.  Direct speciation of chromium in coal combustion by-products by X-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy, Fuel Process Technol 78:233-242.
International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) Working Group: Special Report.  Policy; A review of human carcinogens; Part C: metals, arsenic, dusts, and fibres.  Lancet Oncol, 2009, 10:453-454.
International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), 1990.  IARC monographs on the evaluation of carcinogenic risks to humans. Chromium, nickel and welding. Vol. 49. Lyons, France: International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization 49-256.
International Labour Organization/United Nations Environment Programme, World Health Organization (WHO), 1991. Nickel. In Environmental Health Criteria No 108 Geneva.
National Toxicology Program (NTP), 2011. Report on carcinogens. 12[th] ed. Research Triangle Park, NC: US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Public Health Service. Available online at http://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/ntp/roc/twelfth/roc12.pdf.
Oller A.  Respiratory carcinogenicity assessment of soluble nickel compounds. Environ Health Perspect, 2002, 110:841-844.
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), 2011.  Development Support Document for nickel and inorganic nickel compounds.  Available online at http://www.tceq.state.tx.us/assets/public/implementation/tox/dsd/final/june11/nickel_&_compounds.pdf
US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), 1994. Seventh annual report on carcinogens: Summary 1994. Research Triangle Park, NC: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), 262-269.
US EPA, 1984. Health assessment document for chromium. Research Triangle Park, NC: Environmental Assessment and Criteria Office, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. EPA600883014F.
US EPA, 1986.  Health Assessment Document for Nickel. EPA/600/8-83/012F.  National Center for Environmental Assessment, Office of Research and Development, Washington, DC.
US EPA, 1998.  Integrated Risk Information Service (IRIS) assessment for hexavalent chromium.  Available at:  http://www.epa.gov/ncea/iris/subst/0144.htm.
US EPA, 1998.  Study of Hazardous Air Pollutant Emissions from Electric Utility Steam Generating Units  -  Final Report to Congress.  U.S. EPA #453/R-98-004.  Available at http://www.epa.gov/ttn/caaa/t3rc.html.
US EPA, 2001. National-Scale Air Toxics Assessment for 1996 - Appendix-G: Health Effects Information Used in Cancer and Noncancer Risk Characterization for the NATA 1996 National-Scale Assessment, EPA-453/R-01-003.  Available online at http://www.epa.gov/ttn/atw/sab/appendix-g.pdf.

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Technical Support Document: Potential for Excess Local Deposition of Mercury in Areas near U.S. EGUs 
Caffrey, J.M., Landing, W.M., Nolek, S.D., Gosnell, K.J., Bagui, S.S., Bagui, S.C., 2010. "Atmospheric deposition of mercury and major ions to the Pensacola (Florida) watershed: spatial, seasonal, and inter-annual variability." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 10, 5425-5434.
Keeler, G.J., Landis, M.S., Norris, G.A., Christianson, E.M., Dvonch, J.T., 2006. "Sources of mercury wet deposition in Eastern Ohio, USA." Environmental Science & Technology 40, 5874-5881. 
White, E.M., Keeler, G.J., Landis, M.S., 2009. "Spatial Variability of Mercury Wet Deposition in Eastern Ohio: Summertime Meteorological Case Study Analysis of Local Source Influences." Environmental Science & Technology 43, 4946-4953.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA). 2011a. Air Quality Modeling Technical Support Document: EGU Mercury Analysis. EPA-454/R-11-008.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA). 2011b. National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants from Coal- and Oil-fired Electric Utility Steam Generating Units and Standards of Performance for Fossil-Fuel-Fired Electric Utility, Industrial-Commercial-Institutional, and Small Industrial-Commercial-Institutional Steam Generating Units. Federal Register.

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Technical Support Document: National-Scale Assessment of Mercury Risk to Populations with High Consumption of Self-caught Freshwater Fish In Support of the Appropriate and Necessary Finding for Coal- and Oil-Fired Electric Generating Units
Appel, K. W., A. B. Gilliland, et al. (2007). "Evaluation of the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model version 4.5: Sensitivities impacting model performance Part I - Ozone." Atmospheric Environment 41(40): 9603-9615.
Appel, K. W., P. V. Bhave, et al. (2008). "Evaluation of the community multiscale air quality (CMAQ) model version 4.5: Sensitivities impacting model performance; Part II - particulate matter." Atmospheric Environment 42(24): 6057-6066.
Axelrad, D. A.; Bellinger, D. C.; Ryan, L. M.; Woodruff, T. J. (2007). Dose-response relationship of prenatal mercury exposure and IQ: an integrative analysis of epidemiologic data. Environmental Health Perspectives. 2007, 115, 609 - 615.
Bloom, N.S. (1992). On the chemical form of mercury in edible fish and marine invertebrate tissue. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 49:1010-1017.
Bullock, O. R. and K. A. Brehme (2002). "Atmospheric mercury simulation using the CMAQ model: formulation description and analysis of wet deposition results." Atmospheric Environment 36(13): 2135-2146.
Bullock, O.R., Atkinson, D., Braverman, T., Civerolo, K., Dastoor, A., Davignon, D., Ku, J.Y., Lohman, K., Myers, T.C., Park, R.J., Seigneur, C., Selin, N.E., Sistla, G., Vijayaraghavan, K., (2008). The North American Mercury Model Intercomparison Study (NAMMIS): Study description and model-to-model comparisons. Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres 113.
Bullock, O.R., Atkinson, D., Braverman, T., Civerolo, K., Dastoor, A., Davignon, D., Ku, J.Y., Lohman, K., Myers, T.C., Park, R.J., Seigneur, C., Selin, N.E., Sistla, G., Vijayaraghavan, K., (2009). An analysis of simulated wet deposition of mercury from the North American Mercury Model Intercomparison Study. Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres 114.
Burger, J. (2002). Daily consumption of wild fish and game: Exposures of high end recreationalists, International Journal of Environmental Health Research, 12:4, p. 343-354, July, 2010.
Burger, J., Stephens, W. L., Boring, C. S., Kuklinski, M., Gibbons, J. W., Gochfeld M. (1999) Factors in Exposure Assessment: Ethnic and Socioeconomic Differences in Fishing and Soncumption of Fish Caught along the Savannah River. Risk Analysis, Vol. 19, No. 3, p. 427.
Byun, D., Schere, K.L., 2006. Review of the governing equations, computational algorithms, and other components of the models-3 Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) modeling system. Applied Mechanics Reviews 59, 51-77.
Dellinger, J. A., (2004) Exposure assessment and initial intervention regarding fish consumption of tribal members in the Upper Great Lakes Region in the United States. Dellinger , Environmental Research 95, p. 325-340
Dispasquale, M.M., J. Agee, C. McGowan, R.S. Oremland, M. Thomas, D. Krabbenhoft, and C.C. Gilmour. (2000) Methyl-Mercury Degradation Pathways: A Comparison Among Three Mercury-Impacted Ecosystems. Environ. Sci. Technol., 34, 4908-4916.
Farias L.A., Favaro, D.I., Santos J.O., Vasconcellos M.B., et al., (2010). Cooking Process Evaluation on Mercury Content in Fish,‖ Acta Amazonia, 40 (4), 741 - 748.
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Harris., R. C., John W. M. Rudd, Marc Amyot, Christopher L. Babiarz, Ken G. Beaty, Paul J. Blanchfield, R. A. Bodaly, Brian A. Branfireun, Cynthia C. Gilmour, Jennifer A. Graydon, Andrew Heyes, Holger Hintelmann, James P. Hurley, Carol A. Kelly, David P. Krabbenhoft, Steve E. Lindberg, Robert P. Mason, Michael J. Paterson, Cheryl L. Podemski, Art Robinson, Ken A. Sandilands, George R. Southworth, Vincent L. St. Louis, and Michael T. TateRudd, J. W. M., Amyot M., et al., (2007). Whole-Ecosystem study Shows Rapid Fish-Mercury Response to Changes in Mercury Deposition. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Early Edition, PNAS 2007 104 (42) pp. 16586-16591; (published ahead of print September 27, 2007).
Knights, D. C, Sunderland, E. M., Barber, M. C., Johnston J. M., and Ambrose, R. B., (2009). Application of Ecosystem-Scale Fate and Bioaccumulation Models to Predict Fish Mercury Response Times to Changes in Atmospheric Deposition. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, Vol 28, No. 4., pp. 881-893.
Lin, C.J., Pongprueks, P., Rusell Bulock, O., Lindberg, S.E., Pehkonen, S.O., Jang, C., Braverman, T., Ho, T.C., (2007). Scientific uncertainties in atmospheric mercury models II: Sensitivity analysis in the CONUS domain. Atmospheric Environment 41, 6544-6560.
Morgan, J.N., M.R. Berry, and R.L. Graves. (1997). "Effects of Commonly Used Cooking Practices on Total Mercury Concentration in Fish and Their Impact on Exposure Assessments." Journal of Exposure Analysis and Environmental Epidemiology 7(1):119-133.
Moya. J., Itkiin, C., Selevan, S.G., Rogers, J.W., Clickner, R. P., (2008). Estimates of fish consumption rates for consumers of bought and self-caught fish in Connecticut, Florida, Minnesota, and North Dacota. Science of the Total Environment (2008), doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.05.023.
Musaiger, A. O., R. D'Souza, (2008). The effects of different methods of cooking on proximate, mineral and heavy metal composition of fish and shrimps consumed in the Arabian Gulf. Archivos LatinoAmericanos De Nutricion, Organo Oficial de la Sociedad Latinoamericana de Nutricion., Vol 58, No 1, 2008. 
NMFS, (2003a). National Marine Fisheries Service, Fisheries Statistics Division, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Statistical Highlights: Fisheries of the United States.
Oken e., Radesky, J.S., Wright, R. O., Bellinger D. C., Amarasiriwardena C. UJ., Kleinman, K. P., Hu, H., Gillman, M.W., (2008). Maternal Fish Intake during Pregnancy, Blood Mercury Levels, and Child Cognition at Age 3 Years in a US Cohort. American Journal of Epmidemiology, Vol. 167, No. 10, p. 1171.
Pacyna, E.G., Pacyna, J.M., Sundseth, K., Munthe, J., Kindbom, K., Wilson, S., Steenhuisen, F., Maxson, P., 2009. Global emission of mercury to the atmosphere from anthropogenic sources in 2005 and projections to 2020. Atmospheric Environment 44, 2487-2499.
Pirrone N. and Keating T, editors.  "Hemispheric Transport of Air Pollution (2010), Part B: Mercury. Prepared by the Task Force on Hemispheric Transport of Air Pollution acting within the framework of the Convention on Long  - range Transboundary Air Pollution."  United Nations New York and Geneva, 2010. 
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Pongprueksa, P., Lin, C.J., Lindberg, S.E., Jang, C., Braverman, T., Bullock, O.R., Ho, T.C., Chu, H.W., (2008). Scientific uncertainties in atmospheric mercury models III: Boundary and initial conditions, model grid resolution, and Hg(II) reduction mechanism. Atmospheric Environment 42, 1828-1845.
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Air Quality Modeling Technical Support Document: EGU Mercury Analysis 

Appel, K.W., Bhave, P.V., Gilliland, A.B., Sarwar, G., Roselle, S.J., 2008. Evaluation of the community multiscale air quality (CMAQ) model version 4.5: Sensitivities impacting model performance; Part II - particulate matter. Atmospheric Environment 42, 6057-6066.
Appel, K.W., Gilliland, A.B., Sarwar, G., Gilliam, R.C., 2007. Evaluation of the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model version 4.5: Sensitivities impacting model performance Part I - Ozone. Atmospheric Environment 41, 9603-9615.
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Bullock, O.R., Atkinson, D., Braverman, T., Civerolo, K., Dastoor, A., Davignon, D., Ku, J.Y., Lohman, K., Myers, T.C., Park, R.J., Seigneur, C., Selin, N.E., Sistla, G., Vijayaraghavan, K., 2009. An analysis of simulated wet deposition of mercury from the North American Mercury Model Intercomparison Study. Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres 114.
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Slemr, F., Brunke, E.G., Ebinghaus, R., Kuss, J., 2011. Worldwide trend of atmospheric mercury since 1995. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 11, 4779-4787.
Streets, D.G., Zhang, Q., Wu, Y., 2009. Projections of Global Mercury Emissions in 2050. Environmental Science & Technology 43, 2983-2988.
Tesche, T.W., Morris, R., Tonnesen, G., McNally, D., Boylan, J., Brewer, P., 2006. CMAQ/CAMx annual 2002 performance evaluation over the eastern US. Atmospheric Environment 40, 4906-4919.
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Vijayaraghavan, K., Karamchandani, P., Seigneur, C., Balmori, R., Chen, S.-Y., 2008. Plume-in-grid modeling of atmospheric mercury. Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres 113.
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Memorandum: Ecosystem Effects for the Proposed Rule 
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Non-Hg Case Study Chronic Inhalation Risk Assessment for the Utility MACT "Appropriate and Necessary" Analysis, March 16, 2011. Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2009-0234-2939 

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 Supplement to the Non-Hg Case Study Chronic Inhalation Risk Assessment In Support of the Appropriate and Necessary Finding for Coal- and Oil-Fired Electric Generating Units

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Memorandum: Emissions Overview: Hazardous Air Pollutants in Support of the Final Mercury and Air Toxics Standard 
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Technical Support Document (TSD) For the Proposed Toxics Rule:  Emissions Inventories
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Additional Studies cited in A&N portion Response to Comments (RTC) document not cited above

Driscoll, C. T., Han, Y.-J., Chen, C. Y., Evers, D. C., Lambert, K. F., Holsen, T. M., et al. 2007. "Mercury Contamination in Forest and Freshwater Ecosystems in the Northeastern U.S." BioScience, 57(1).
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Hatcher, C.L., Filippelli, G.M., 2011. "Hg Cycling in an Urbanized Watershed: The Influence of Wind Distribution and Regional Subwatershed Geometry in Central Indiana, USA." Water Air and Soil Pollution 219, 251-261.
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