Figures and Tables

Volume 2

Figures    
Figure 1.1 Elements of risk assessment and risk management. 3
Figure 2.1 The Commission’s Framework for Environmental Health Risk Management. 7
Figure 3.1 Reducing risk by orders of magnitude is not equivalent to linear reductions. 43
Figure 4.1 EPA’s framework for ecological risk assessment, modified to include stakeholders and factors
     in addition to risk. (Additions in italics.)		 79
Figure 4.2 Frequency distribution of a population’s exposures to a contaminant released to air from a
     hazardous waste site, estimated using measurements of the contaminant concentration
     in the air at the site and Monte Carlo techniques.		 86
Figure 7.1 Scheme for determining and managing residual risk after MACT. 110
     
Tables    
Table 4.1 Framework for regulatory decision-making. 64
Table 4.2 Rodent tumor mechanisms that may not be relevant to human cancer risk if they are the only
     responses observed and those responses are due to the mechanisms listed.		 65
Table 4.3 Recognized human carcinogens (Rall 1988). 66
Table 7.1 Air pollutant standards promulgated. 108
Table 7.2 174 Categories of sources of air pollutants needing maximum available control technology standards
     under the Clean Air Act and regulation promulgation schedule by industry group.		 113
Table 7.3 189 Hazardous air pollutants as listed in section 112 of the Clean Air Act. 116