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Memorandum on Cumulative Risk Assessment Guidance - Phase I Planning and Scoping

This guidance directs each EPA office to take into account cumulative risk issues in scoping and planning major risk assessments and to consider a broader scope that integrates multiple sources, effects, pathways, stressors and populations for cumulative risk analyses in all cases for which relevant data are available.
 
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