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Clean Air Act Overview

Clean Air Act Second Prospective Report Study Science Advisory Board Review, December 15-16, 2009

The following materials were submitted to the Health and Environmental Effects (HES) technical subcommittee of the section 812 Council pursuant to their December 15-16, 2009 review meeting in Washington, D.C.

For information regarding the December review, contact DFO Marc Rigas of the EPA Science Advisory Board Staff Office by phone at 202-343-9978 or by email at rigas.marc@epa.gov.

For technical information pertaining to the review materials or the overall section 812 study, contact Jim DeMocker of the EPA Office of Air and Radiation by phone at 202-564-1673 or by email at democker.jim@epa.gov.

During the meeting the subcommittee reviewed these materials available below:

  • Benefits Analyses to Support the Second Section 812 Benefit-Cost Analysis of the Clean Air Act, Partial Draft
  • Uncertainty Analyses to Support the Second Section 812 Benefit-Cost Analysis of the Clean Air Act, Partial Draft
  • Background Documents:
    • BenMAP User's Manual Appendices
    • IEc briefing on alternative presentation of PM Expert Elicitaiton Results
    • Technical Memorandum on estimating PM2.5 and ozone-related premature mortality based on risk estimates from the Jerrett et al. 2009 and Krewski et al. 2009 studies
    • Appendix A: Qualitative Uncertainty Analysis Tables From The First Prospective Analysis, Table A-4

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