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  Consumer Federation America

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  Southern Ca Gas

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  Oak Ridge Natl Lab

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  Sierra Club

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  Health Effects Inst

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  Consumer Federation America

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September 25, 1986 MEMORANDUM TO MESSRS. RUPP AND JACOBS Re: Consumer Federation of America Conference; "Indoor Air Quality: Priorities and Programs," September 18-19, 1986 I attended the Second Annual Conference on Indoor Air Quality convened by the Consumer Federation of America with support from the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, D.C. on September 18-19, 1986. (An agenda is attached as Appendix A.) The stated purpose of the conference was to stimulate dialogue among affected groups including federal regulators, state and local regulators, congressional staff, researchers, advocacy groups and associations on such topics as the CIAQ research plan, an indoor air quality information clearinghouse, and practical approaches to diagnosing and mitigating indoor air quality problems. A list of registrants and invited delegates is attached as Appendix B. The highlights of the conference included: 1. David Mudarri, EPA Office of Air and Radiation ("OAR"), announced that OAR is now "officially" involved with indoor air pollution and has been authorized to develop a small staff. Initially, Jim Repace and Betsy Agle, formerly with the National Clean Air Coalition, will be working on IAQ. OAR will initiate a program to manage the policy development process for EPA on indoor air. Two possible approaches to the IAQ problem have been identified: 1) a product/ pollutant approach; and 2) a buildings approach. As its first T10738-1929

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-2- step in providing data analysis, OAR will "scope out" the problem. The scoping study will organize and synthesize existing information. VERSAR and GEOMET are the outside contractors who will help EPA with the study. EPA will develop a problem characterization analysis following the completion of the scoping effort. Mudarri stated that this scoping study is not: 1) a pre-regulatory effort; 2) limited to residences; and 3) cancer oriented. (An August 18, 1986, OAR IAQ Progress Report is attached as Appendix C and a September 12, 1986, memo on and schedule for this scoping effort is attached as Appendix D.) 2. Mike Rodemeyer, House Committee on Science and Technology staffer, announced that Congressman Scheuer will be introducing legislation banning smoking on airlines. In a follow-up telephone conversation, Graham Newson of Congressman Scheuer's staff told me that the bill will be introduced early next week. They are now getting co-sponsors for the bill. 3. Jim Woods discussed a Building Research Board study commissioned by the Federal Construction Council. The Building Research federal problems Board has looked into what agencies can do to limit IAQ in federal buildings. The 4. BRB report is due by early 1987. Jan Stolwijk announced that the World Health Organization is due to announce in February 1987 its set of air quality criteria for 23 chemicals. Guidelines concerning ranges of acceptability will be established. Stolwijk pushed for more guidelines of this type.

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- 3 - DISCUSSION: SEPTEMBER 18-19, 1986 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1986 Openina Remarks Congressman Edward P. Boland, Chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies, who was scheduled to be the opening speaker was replaced by Don Ryan, professional staff member of the House Appropriations Committee. The highlights of Ryan's remarks were that: 1) we ought to be able to identify and rank pollutants; 2) we need information in order to reduce exposure; 3) he doesn't foresee regulatory action; and 4) the CIAQ response to Congressman Boland needs a clearer statement of objectives. Delegate Roundtable: Update on IAQ Research David Swankin, legal advisor to the Consumer Federa- tion of America on indoor air quality issues and conference moderator, asked each delegate, in five minutes or less, to express his/her thoughts on IAQ research needs, concerns and priorities. A summary of the delegates' comments follows: Delegate Comments Mary Ellen Fise - IAQ is CFA's number Consumer Federation of one priority. America CFA is very concerned about funding and will continue to monitor congressional and agency activity in this area. T10738-1931

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- 4 - CFA is updating its publication on formaldehyde. Richard Liroff - Every two years the Conservation Foundation Conservation Foundation publishes a "State of the Environment Report." The next report due to be published in late 1986/early 1987 will include a chapter on air toxics, in particular human exposure to toxics indoors. Michael Ruby - IAQ is not a high Sierra Club priority for national environmental membership organizations. Earon Davis - Concerned about the Ecological Illness victims of indoor air Law Report pollution. From the victims point of view, no progress has been made. Need more research on the effect of chemicals on the immune system. Workers are unable to get compensation because exposure causes non- specific symptoms. The Canadian government is making progress in this area. The Ontario Ministry of Health has identified the nonspeci- fic symptoms as "environ- mental hypersensitivity syndrome." Louis Keezing - AARP is beginning to get AARP involved in IAQ research. AARP is doing some in- home monitoring. T10738-1932

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- 5 - Ted Miller - Miller's main concern is Urban Institute indoor air pollution in low-income high rises for the elderly, a high risk group. Miller feels HUD is hiding from the IAQ problem. HUD should assume a leadership role. Mark Silbergeld - Consumers Union will be Consumers Union publishing a new book on radon in the Spring of 1987. Laura Oatman - Minnesota Department of Minnesota Department Health has received 5400 of Health telephone calls on IAg in the last 2~ years. The top five issues in the minds of the public are ETS, formaldehyde, asbestos, radon and supplemental heating sources. Forty-five percent of the consumer inquiries deal with ETS. - Minnesota is currently revising its regulations concerning smoking in the workplace. Michael Neiggeman - In 1983, Southern Southern California California Gas Co. Gas Company initiated a characteri- zation study of 600 Southern California homes to identify the sources and presence of NO . The draft study re3ort has been sent to an advisory group for review and should be published in November. The second phase of the study will include 100 homes. NO emissions from floor2and wall furnaces will be monitored. T10738-1933

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- 6 - Jim Woods Honeywell Need to define acceptable exposure in terms of controllability. There is no cure for IAP in buildings. Knowledge of building systems is needed. Need qualified building maintenance people. Jan Stolwijk - Solicited CFA support Yale University School for the Risk Communication of Medicine Institute established by the National Science Foundation There is inadequate knowledge about safe levels of exposure and about health effects. Ken Sexton - Health Effects Institute Health Effects Institute which is currently funded by EPA and the automotive industry is interested in pursuing additional industry funding. HEI wants an additional $1-3 million in industry funding which might then be matched by EPA. Jim Frazier - Need to build on the National Academy of Science data base re air quality on airlines Need commonality of information in order to build a data base. Individuals at the University of Arizona are working on a national questionnaire for buildings. Sal Dinardi - Great need to educate University of Massachusetts state and local School of Public Health regulatory people on IAP T10738-1934

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- 7 - Dinardi did not discuss ETS Eril Lebret - The content of indoor Harvard School of Public particles is a new ele- Health ment of the Harvard Six Cities Study. This may be a way to find tracers for indoor pollutants. There is a need for further study of the exposure of children (1-6) to ETS. Brian Leaderer - Contaminants should be Yale University identified from a health and comfort point of view and should be prior- itized - Supports University of Arizona's (Mike Lebowitz) effort to identify common questions Hal Levin - Studying the effects of Center for Environmental' building design and user Design activity on IAQ. Cur- rently studying state office buildings in California which were designed in the 1970's during the energy crisis. Richard Sextro - LBL is about to start a Lawrence Berkeley Labs study on the characteri- zation of chemicals absorbed on particles Ruth Love - A draft Environmental Bonneville Power Impact Statement on IAQ Administration in energy efficient homes will be issued in early 1987. Need to quantify low level health effects beyond the level of victim anecdotes T10738-1935

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- 8 - Panel: Interagency Committee on Indoor Air Quality Each of the CIAQ co-chairs presented his thoughts on IAQ. Don Ehreth, Acting Assistant Administrator for Research and Development - EPA, made the following points: 1. He agreed with earlier comments that the CIAQ response to Boland didn't go far enough. A clearer statement of objectives is needed. 2. ETS is the most potent mutagen found indoors. 3. Exposure data is very important. Data about the relative risks of indoors vs. outdoors exposure are needed. 4. It is important for EPA to continue to recognize total exposure. Much of what is done for the outdoors is transferable to the indoors. 5. There are now better means of particu- late measurement. Elia Sterling questioned Ehreth about these "better means of measurement." Ehreth responsed that the new instrumenta- tion is less noisy. Dr. Thiessen, Office of Building and Health - DOE, presented a detailed review of DOE's radon research program. Frank Hearl, NIOSH, stated a need for: 1) standardized objective measurements; 2) definition of disease; and 3) simplified means of measurement. Dr. Gupta, CPSC, gave a very disjointed presentation of CPSC activities. T10738-1936

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- 9 - FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1986 Panel: Establishment of an IAQ Clearinghouse The first half of Friday's session concentrated on the establishment of an IAQ clearinghouse. The need for a national clearinghouse of information on indoor air quality research and mitigation strategies was one of the recommenda- tions that came out of CFA's 1985 Conference on Indoor Air Quality. Mary Ellen Fise presented CFA's proposal for a clearinghouse. (See Appendix E.) Such a clearinghouse would provide for consistency of information. No advocacy would be involved in the dissemination of information. CFA's proposal calls for the following delivery mechanisms: 1) newsletter; 2) reference service to provide up-to-date information on all aspects of indoor air; and 3) a toll-free national hotline. Robert Ross, Chemical Effects Information - Oak Ridge National Laboratory, made the pitch that Oak Ridge Labs should be the one to establish the clearinghouse because Oak Ridge has years of experience with indoor air pollution, has an established framework for the clearinghouse, and has the benefit of its research lab. Laura Oatman, Minnesota Dep't. of Health, was the first to respond to the clearinghouse proposals. Oatman agreed that there is a tremendous need for accurate, technical information. She disagreed with CFA on the question of which T10738-1937

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group is most in need of the clearinghouse. Oatman sees state and local governments as the primary recipients of information whereas CFA sees consumers as primary recipients. Oatman thinks the consumer would first go to the state for information rather than a clearinghouse. Information should be disseminated to those organizations that can most effectively use the data. Michael Neiggemann, Southern California Gas Company, questioned whether a single clearinghouse could serve so many diverse groups. He also questioned whether a national lab, Oak Ridge, could be objective when it is already creating and compiling data. There was quite a bit of discussion of the clearing- house following the four presentations. On Thursday, there was an almost unanimous call for a clearinghouse. Support waned a bit on Friday when the delegates and attendees began discussing the mechanics of establishing a clearinghouse. Most of those who spoke out agreed that the $250,000 budget proposed by Fise was very unrealistic. Someone commented that $250,000 would be needed just for a hotline. Fise backed off from this budget proposal saying she realized it was low, but that it was just a rough estimate. Some people questioned whether there is a need for a hotline when there are already existing hotlines, e.g. VDT, radon, asbestos, pesticides, serving some of the same components that the national hotline proposes to serve. It might be more useful to prepare a fact T10738-1938