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Suggested Citation:"Roster of the National Advisory Committee for Acute Exposure Guideline Levels for Hazardous Substances." National Research Council. 2004. Acute Exposure Guideline Levels for Selected Airborne Chemicals: Volume 4. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10902.
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Roster of the National Advisory Committee for Acute Exposure Guideline Levels for Hazardous Substances

Committee Members

George Rusch

Chair, NAC/AEGL Committee

Department of Toxicology and Risk Assessment

Honeywell, Inc.

Morristown, NJ

Ernest Falke

Chair, SOP Workgroup

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Washington, DC

George Alexeeff

Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment

California EPA

Oakland, CA

Jonathan Borak

Yale University

New Haven, CT

Steven Barbee

Arch Chemicals, Inc.

Norwalk, CT

Lynn Beasley

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Washington, DC

Robert Benson

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Region VIII

Denver, CO

William Bress

Vermont Department of Health

Burlington, VT

Suggested Citation:"Roster of the National Advisory Committee for Acute Exposure Guideline Levels for Hazardous Substances." National Research Council. 2004. Acute Exposure Guideline Levels for Selected Airborne Chemicals: Volume 4. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10902.
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George Cushmac

Office of Hazardous Materials Safety

U.S. Department of Transporation

Washington, DC

John P.Hinz

U.S. Air Force

Brooks Air Force Base, TX

Thomas C.Hornshaw

Office of Chemical Safety

Illinois Environmental Protection Agency

Springfield, IL

Loren Koller

Loren Koller & Associates

Corvallis, OR

John Morawetz

International Chemical Workers Union

Cincinnati, OH

Marinelle Payton

Department of Public Health

Jackson State University

Jackson, MS

Robert Snyder

Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute

Piscataway, NJ

Richard Thomas

International Center for Environmental Technology

McLean, VA

Larry Gephart

Exxon Mobil Biomedical Sciences

Annandale, NJ

James Holler

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry

Atlanta, GA

Nancy K.Kim

Division of Environmental Health Assessment

New York State Department of Health

Troy, NY

Glenn Leach

U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine

Aberdeen Proving Grounds, MD

Richard W.Niemeier

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health

Cincinnati, OH

George Rodgers

Department of Pediatrics

Division of Critical Care

University of Louisville

Louisville, KY

Thomas J.Sobotka

U.S. Food and Drug Administration

Laurel, MD

Suggested Citation:"Roster of the National Advisory Committee for Acute Exposure Guideline Levels for Hazardous Substances." National Research Council. 2004. Acute Exposure Guideline Levels for Selected Airborne Chemicals: Volume 4. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10902.
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory Staff

Cheryl Bast

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Oak Ridge, TN

Carol Wood

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Oak Ridge, TN

Sylvia Talmage

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Oak Ridge, TN

National Advisory Committee Staff

Paul S.Tobin

Designated Federal Officer, AEGL Program

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Washington, DC

Marquea King

Senior Scientist

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Washington, DC

Suggested Citation:"Roster of the National Advisory Committee for Acute Exposure Guideline Levels for Hazardous Substances." National Research Council. 2004. Acute Exposure Guideline Levels for Selected Airborne Chemicals: Volume 4. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10902.
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Suggested Citation:"Roster of the National Advisory Committee for Acute Exposure Guideline Levels for Hazardous Substances." National Research Council. 2004. Acute Exposure Guideline Levels for Selected Airborne Chemicals: Volume 4. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10902.
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Suggested Citation:"Roster of the National Advisory Committee for Acute Exposure Guideline Levels for Hazardous Substances." National Research Council. 2004. Acute Exposure Guideline Levels for Selected Airborne Chemicals: Volume 4. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/10902.
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The Bhopal Disaster of 1984 resulted in the death of around 2,000 residents living near chemical plants and irreversible injuries to more than 20,000 other residents. These numbers can be attributed to the community's lack of awareness concerning the chemicals' existence, dangers and effects, and/or how to react in case of emergency. The disaster emphasized the need for governments to identify hazardous substances and to aid local communities in developing plans for emergency exposures.

As a result, the United States government issued the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA) of 1986; requiring the identification of extremely hazardous substances (EHSs) by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). EPA was also tasked with assisting Local Emergency Planning Committees (LEPCs) in conducting health-hazard assessments to develop emergency-response plans for sites where EHSs are produced, stored, transported, or used. The EPA identified nearly 400 EHSs in terms of their immediate danger to life and health (IDLH) as their first step in assisting these LEPCs.

In 1991 the EPA went on to request that the National Research Council (NRC) Committee on Toxicology (COT) develop criteria and methods for developing emergency exposure levels for EHSs for the general population. The COT, who had published many reports on emergency exposure guidance levels at the time, designated the task to a subcommittee. The subcommittee focused on Guidelines for Developing Community Emergency Exposure Levels for Hazardous Substances. Four years later the National Advisory Committee for Acute Exposure Guideline Levels for Hazardous Substances (NAC) was created with a focus on identifying, reviewing, and interpreting relevant toxicologic and other scientific data and developing acute exposure guideline levels (AEGLs) for high-priority, acutely toxic chemicals.

In Acute Exposure Guideline Levels for Selected Airborne Chemicals:Volume 4, the NAC outlines acute exposure guideline levels for chlorine, hydrogen chloride, toluene 2,4, hydrogen fluoride, 2,6-diisocyanate, and uranium hexafluoride.

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