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Risk Assessment for Air Pollution
Control Permits
Joel Leon, Bureau of Technical Services
April 9, 2014
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Presented by –
ACE academyNew Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
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Who Has To Do Risk Assessment?
Anyone applying to the NJDEP Division of Air Quality
for a new pre-construction permit, or a modification (including
Operating Permits), who lists any of the chemicals
that are on the risk screening worksheets.
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Risk Assessment Steps*
Hazard identificationDose-response assessmentExposure assessmentRisk characterization
*As recommended by the National Research Council, 1983
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NJDEP DAQ Risk Assessment Procedures:
Tiered Approaches to the Process
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Comprehensive Risk Assessment
Focus on inhalation pathwayProtocol approval neededShould be submitted with modeling documentTechnical Manual 1003: Guidance on Risk
Assessment for Air Contaminant Emissions
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Technical Manual 1003: Guidance on Risk Assessment for Air Contaminant Emissions
Revised 12/2009Adobe pdf version available at
www.nj.gov/dep/aqpp/techman.html
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Refined Risk Assessment:Special Cases
Mercury Emitters
If emissions are over 20 lb/year,
applicant must evaluate the health risk from ingestion of fish from a local freshwater body.
Fish ingestion model available from BTS.
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Refined Risk Assessment:Special Cases
Hazardous Waste CombustorsUSEPA requires multi-pathway risk
assessment, based on “Human Health Risk Assessment Protocol for Hazardous Waste
Combustion Facilities”
available at www.epa.gov/epawaste/hazard/tsd/td/combustion.htm
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NJDEPDivision of Air Quality
Risk Screening
A short-cut for determining potential risk for the thousands of Air Pollution Control Permits processed every year.
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Risk Screening Worksheet - 2 Different Evaluations
(in one Excel spreadsheet)
LONG-TERM RISK
Emissions in tons/year Annual average
ambient air concentration
Incremental cancer risk AND noncancer hazard quotient
SHORT-TERM RISK
Emissions in pounds/hour
1-, 8-, or 24-hour average ambient air concentration
Short-term hazard quotient
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Determining Air Concentrations Without Doing Dispersion Modeling
To determine air concentrations, you need:
Stack height (feet) Distance to property line (feet)Type into proper cells in worksheet, and “air impact
values” will pop up in subsequent cells (no need for look-up tables)
Emission rates (chemical-specific) in tons/year & pounds/hour
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Determining Cancer Risk
For each chemical:
Air concentration x unit risk factor
= incremental cancer risk
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Determining Noncancer Risk (Long-Term and Short-Term)
For each chemical:
Air concentration / reference concentration
= hazard quotient
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Risk Screening Guidelines for Air Toxics
Cancer Risk
Total cancer risk less than or equal to 1 x 10-
6 (one in a million) is considered negligible.
Total cancer risk greater than 1 x 10-6 is referred for further evaluation.
Noncancer Risk
Total hazard index less than or equal to 1 is considered negligible.
Total hazard index greater than 1 is referred for further evaluation.
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2nd-Level Risk Screening
Done by NJDEP/BTSApplicant must submit detailed plot plan
and other information (see “Risk Screening Policy and Second-Level Risk Screening” at www.nj.gov/dep/aqpp/risk.html)
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Electronic copies of the risk screening spreadsheet (in Excel)
and other related materials (in Adobe pdf format)
are available on-line on the NJDEP Air Quality Permitting Program website:
www.state.nj.us/dep/aqpp/risk.html
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Note “Air impact value” cells (I21 & I22)
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Type in stack height (I19) & distance to property line (I20)
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Type in emission rates in columns E and K
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Check resulting cancer risk & hazard indices
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NEGLIGIBLE UNACCEPTABLE
Less th
an
One OneGrea
ter th
an
One
NJDEP Division of Air Quality
NONCANCER RISK GUIDELINES FOR ALL SOURCES
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NEGLIGIBLE UNACCEPTABLE
One in
ten m
illion
One in
one milli
onOne in
one hundred
thousand One in
ten th
ousand
One in
one thousan
d
NJDEP Division of Air Quality
CANCER RISK GUIDELINES*
*For new and modified sources
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NEGLIGIBLE UNACCEPTABLE
One in
one
million
One in
one
hundred
thousand
One in
ten th
ousand
One in
one thousan
d
NJDEP Division of Air Quality
FACILITY-WIDE CANCER RISK GUIDELINES
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NJ DEP Division of Air Quality
Bureau of Technical ServicesAir Quality Evaluation Section
609-633-1110
Joel Leon609-633-1113