Title Investigative strategies for lead-source attribution at Superfund sites associated with mining activities / Committee on Sources of Lead Contamination at or near Superfund Sites, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Division on Earth and Life Studies.

Publication Info.	Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, 2017.
	©2017

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Description	1 online resource (xi, 100 pages) : color illustrations.
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Series	A consensus study report of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine
	Consensus study report.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references.
Contents	Summary -- Introduction -- Sources of lead contamination -- Environmental dispersal of lead -- Investigative strategies for lead-source attribution -- Implications for southeast Missouri and research needs -- Appendixes.
Summary	"The Superfund program of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was created in the 1980s to address human-health and environmental risks posed by abandoned or uncontrolled hazardous-waste sites. Identification of Superfund sites and their remediation is an expensive multistep process. As part of this process, EPA attempts to identify parties that are responsible for the contamination and thus financially responsible for remediation. Identification of potentially responsible parties is complicated because Superfund sites can have a long history of use and involve contaminants that can have many sources. Such is often the case for mining sites that involve metal contamination; metals occur naturally in the environment, they can be contaminants in the wastes generated at or released from the sites, and they can be used in consumer products, which can degrade and release the metals back to the environment. This report examines the extent to which various sources contribute to environmental lead contamination at Superfund sites that are near lead-mining areas and focuses on sources that contribute to lead contamination at sites near the Southeast Missouri Lead Mining District. It recommends potential improvements in approaches used for assessing sources of lead contamination at or near Superfund sites"--Publisher's description
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Subject	Superfund Program (U.S.)
	Superfund Program (U.S.)
	Lead mines and mining -- Environmental aspects -- United States.
	Lead mines and mining -- Environmental aspects.
	United States.
	Lead mines and mining.
	Lead abatement -- United States.
	Lead abatement.
	Hazardous waste site remediation -- United States.
	Hazardous waste site remediation.
	Hazardous waste sites -- United States.
	Hazardous waste sites.
	Mines and mineral resources -- Environmental aspects -- United States.
	Mines and mineral resources -- Environmental aspects.
	Mines and mineral resources.
	Liability for hazardous substances pollution damages -- United States.
	Liability for hazardous substances pollution damages.
Other Form:	Print version: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Investigative Strategies for Lead-Source Attribution at Superfund Sites Associated with Mining Activities. Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, ©2017 9780309465564
ISBN	0309465575
	9780309465571 (electronic book)
	9780309465564
	0309465567

Title Investigative strategies for lead-source attribution at Superfund sites associated with mining activities / Committee on Sources of Lead Contamination at or near Superfund Sites, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Division on Earth and Life Studies.

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