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KEY WORDS TO KNOW:
ATSDR
= Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
BCDC
= Bay Coastal Development Commission
BGS
= Below Ground Surface
CAL-EPA
= California Environmental Protection Agency (State)
CDPH
= California Department of Public Health
CESP
= Citizens for East Shore Parks
DTSC
= (CA) Department of Toxic Substances Control
EPA
= Environmental Protection Agency (aka US-EPA; Federal)
OEHHA
= Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment
PCB
s = Polychlorinated Biphenyls
PEEIR
=
Pacific Estuarine Ecosystem Indicator Research Consortium
RSA
= Richmond Shoreline Alliance
RSSA CAG
= Richmond Southeast Shoreline Area Community Advisory Group
SFEI
= San Francisco Estuary Institute
SMP
= Soil Management Plan
SPRAWLDEF
=
Sustainability, Parks, Recycling, and Wildlife Legal Defense Fund
VOC
s = Volatile Organic Compounds
CA Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC)
DTSC Envirostor Homepage for the AstraZeneca Site
Approved 2019 AstraZeneca Feasibility Study/Remedial Action Plan (FS/RAP)
(this document is huge, so DTSC split it into 3 “volumes”)
2012 TCE Human Health Risk Evaluation (but it only considers daytime workers, not full-time residents, despite the latter being exposed up to 24-7 whereas the former assumes an exposure of just 8 hours, 5 days a week)
US Environmental Protection Agency (US-EPA)
US-EPA "List of Lists" - Chemicals Subject to Community Planning and Community Right to Know, Aug 2020
AstraZeneca UPL # from US-EPA Superfund site evaluation
Biomarkers of Exposure, Effect, and Reproductive Impairment (study found fish in marsh adjacent to AstraZeneca site were greatly impacted)
CA Department of Human Health (CDPH)
AstraZeneca UPL # from US-EPA Superfund site evaluation
2009 ATDSR Public Health Assessment for Zeneca/Campus Bay (the only PHA for the AstraZeneca site but it reflects older, less health-protective, toxic compound standards)
UC Davis Peer-Reviewed Studies
Endocrine Disorders and other impacts of toxics on fish in marsh adjacent to AstraZeneca site
San Francisco Estuary Institute (SFEI)
2012 PCB Spatial Patterns in San Francisco Forage Fish
Technical experts for the Richmond Southeast Shoreline Area Community Advisory Group (RSSA CAG)
2008 RSSA CAG Technical team regarding increased gamma reading
AstraZeneca Technical experts
2000 AstraZeneca Phase II Investigation Report (during Levine Frike demolition of old Stauffer Chemical manufacturing buildings and initial soil mixing to dilute toxics)
Other Governmental or Educational Sources:
ATSDR 2009 Glossary of Terms
California Hazardous Waste List
List of Extremely Hazardous Wastes, by Stanford University Environmental Health & Safety
2017 Hazardous Materials Glossary
2011 Published Scientific Paper on Heavy Metals in Contaminated Soils, which includes discussion of how hazardous metals impact bioremediation of co-mingled hazardous waste