Risk managers at federal facilities often need a risk-based tool to rapidly assess the possible human health risks of large numbers of sites before completing a baseline risk assessment. Risk-based concentrations, based on Preliminary Remediation Goal (PRG) development methodology, can be used as screening guideline values. We have developed a set of guideline values (GVs) for the Mound Facility at Miamisburg, Ohio, that are risk based, decision-making tools. The GVs are used (with regulatory approval) to rapidly assess the possibility that sites may be considered for {open_quotes}no action{close_quotes} decisions. The GVs are neither PRGs nor final remedial action levels. Development …
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Risk managers at federal facilities often need a risk-based tool to rapidly assess the possible human health risks of large numbers of sites before completing a baseline risk assessment. Risk-based concentrations, based on Preliminary Remediation Goal (PRG) development methodology, can be used as screening guideline values. We have developed a set of guideline values (GVs) for the Mound Facility at Miamisburg, Ohio, that are risk based, decision-making tools. The GVs are used (with regulatory approval) to rapidly assess the possibility that sites may be considered for {open_quotes}no action{close_quotes} decisions. The GVs are neither PRGs nor final remedial action levels. Development of the GVs on a facilitywide basis incorporated known contaminants of potential concern, physical and chemical characteristics of contaminated media, current and potential future land uses, and exposure pathway assumptions. Because no one site was used in the development process, the GVs can be applied (after consideration of the land use and exposure potential) to any site on the facility. The facilitywide approach will streamline the PRG development process by minimizing the efforts to develop site-specific PRGs for each operable unit at a considerable saving of time and effort.
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Brothers, R. A.; Cox, D. M.; Guty, J. L.; Miller, D. B.; Motheramgari, K. & Stinnette, S. E.Risk based guideline values and the development of preliminary remediation goals,
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