(VCCEP) Tier 1 Pilot Submission for BENZENE - Tera
(VCCEP) Tier 1 Pilot Submission for BENZENE - Tera
(VCCEP) Tier 1 Pilot Submission for BENZENE - Tera
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Table 7.5: County-Wide 24-hour Ambient Air Benzene Concentrations<br />
Benzene <strong>VCCEP</strong> <strong>Submission</strong><br />
March 2006<br />
URBAN 1996 NATA 2003 AirData*<br />
Facility County<br />
1. U.S. Sugar Corp. –<br />
Bryant Mill<br />
2. Holcim (U.S.) Inc.<br />
Dundee Plant<br />
3. ExxonMobil Baytown<br />
Chemical Plant*<br />
4. Equistar Chemicals,<br />
LP*<br />
5. Chalmette Refining<br />
LLC<br />
Palm Beach<br />
County, FL<br />
Monroe County,<br />
MI<br />
Harris County,<br />
TX<br />
Harris County,<br />
TX<br />
St. Bernard<br />
Parish, LA<br />
Mean<br />
(µg/m 3 )<br />
104<br />
95 th<br />
Percentile<br />
(µg/m 3 )<br />
N*<br />
Mean<br />
(µg/m 3 )<br />
95 th<br />
Percentile<br />
(µg/m 3 )<br />
1.1 1.6 -- -- --<br />
1.0 1.3 -- -- --<br />
2.3 3.3<br />
2.3 3.3<br />
49<br />
26<br />
45<br />
6,956<br />
1.8<br />
8.4<br />
2.8<br />
3.1<br />
3.3<br />
16.7<br />
6.1<br />
8.8<br />
1.8 3.8 -- -- --<br />
RURAL 1996 NATA 2003 AirData<br />
Facility County<br />
1. Georgia-Pacific Big<br />
Island Mill<br />
2. Holcim (US) Inc.<br />
Clarksville Plant<br />
3. U.S. Sugar Corp.<br />
Clewiston Mill<br />
4. Wheeling-Pittsburgh<br />
Steel Corp.<br />
Follansbee Plant<br />
5. Valero Three Rivers<br />
Refinery<br />
Bed<strong>for</strong>d<br />
County, VA<br />
Pike County,<br />
MO<br />
Hendry County,<br />
FL<br />
Brooke County,<br />
WV<br />
Live Oak<br />
County, TX<br />
Mean<br />
(µg/m 3 )<br />
95 th<br />
Percentile<br />
(µg/m 3 )<br />
N<br />
Mean<br />
(µg/m 3 )<br />
95 th<br />
Percentile<br />
(µg/m 3 )<br />
0.82 10.3 -- -- --<br />
0.58 0.69 -- -- --<br />
0.61 0.68 -- -- --<br />
1.2 2.5 -- -- --<br />
0.61 0.65 -- -- --<br />
* There are available data from two adejacent monitoring stations <strong>for</strong> both Baytown, TX and Channelview,<br />
TX.<br />
Table 7.5 shows that <strong>for</strong> Harris County, the predicted concentrations from NATA are in general<br />
agreement with the measured concentrations obtained from the AIRS database. Data from<br />
these monitors indicate 24-hour mean ambient benzene concentrations ranging from 1.7-4.4<br />
µg/m 3 . Thus, although these averages exceed the predicted national urban benzene mean of<br />
1.57 µg/m 3 (See Table 7.1), they are the same order of magnitude, with the ratio of the Harris<br />
County concentrations to the national urban mean ranging from 1.1 to 2.8.<br />
Comparing the nationwide urban benzene concentrations from NATA to that of measured<br />
ambient air concentrations in urban areas where significant industrial releases of benzene to the<br />
atmosphere occur (i.e., Harris County, TX), shows that outdoor air exposures in industrial<br />
release areas may be 1 to 3 fold higher than the national mean <strong>for</strong> urban settings. Thus,<br />
although they may not necessarily directly correlate to personal exposures, ambient air benzene<br />
exposures to children in these areas may be higher than national exposures.