The following materials (written documents) were
made available to the committee in the closed
sessions:
1. Meeting Agenda and Attendees
2. Provisional Committee Roster and Biosketches
3. NRC Oversight Board: Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology (BEST)
4. Recent BEST Reports
5. NRC Study Policies and Procedures
6. Committee’s Statement of Task
7. The Study’s Prospectus
8. The Statement of Work from EPA
9. Preliminary Project Schedule
10. Ozone Mortality Studies
11. Studies on Monetized Benefits
12. Reference List
13. Fact Sheet for EPA Ozone Staff Paper
14. Relevant News Articles on Committee’s Study
15. Preferred NRC Style and Reference Format
The following materials also were made available to the committee:
1. Bates, D. 2005. Commentary: Ambient Ozone and Mortality. Epidemiology, July, 16(4):427-429
2. Bell, M., F. Dominici, and J. Samet. 2005. A Meta-Analysis of Time-Series Studies of Ozone and Mortality with Comparison to the National Morbidity, Mortality and Air Pollution Study. Epidemiology, July, 16(4):436-45.
3. Bell, M., A. McDermott, S. Zeger, J. Samet, and F. Dominici. 2004. Ozone and Short-term Mortality in 95 US Urban Communities, 1987-2000. Journal of the American Medical Association, 292(19); 2372-2378.
4. Bell, M. R. Peng, F. Dominici. 2006. The Exposure-Response Curve for Ozone and Risk of Mortality and the Adequacy of Current Ozone Regulations. Environ. Health Perspectives 14(4) 532-536.
5. Bickel, P. and R. Friedrich (eds.). 2005. ExternE: Externalities of Energy, Methodology 2005 Update. European Commission. 2005
6. EPA (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency). 2000. Guidelines for Preparing Economic Analyses. EPA/240/R-00/003. Office of the Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC. http://yosemite.epa.gov/ee/epa/eed.nsf/webpages/Guidelines.html/$file/Guidelines.pdf
7. EPA. 2006. Willingness to Pay for Environmental Health Risk Reductions When There are Varying Degrees of Life Expectancy: A White Paper. August 22
8. EPA. 2006. Report of the EPA Work Group on VSL Meta-Analyses. July 25
http://yosemite.epa.gov/ee/epa/eermfile.nsf/vwAN/EE-0494-01.pdf/$File/EE-0494-01.pdf
9. EPA (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency). 2006. Air Quality Criteria for Ozone and Related Photochemical Oxidants. EPA/600/R-05/004aF-cF. National Center for Environmental Assessment, Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle, NC.
http://www.epa.gov/ttn/naaqs/standards/ozone/s_o3_cr_cd.html
http://cfpub.epa.gov/ncea/cfm/recordisplay.cfm?deid=149923
10. EPA (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency). 2007. Review of the National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Ozone: Policy Assessment of Scientific and Technical Information OAQPS Staff Paper. EPA-452/R-07-003 January 2007. Chapter 5. Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards, Office of Air and Radiation, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle, NC. http://www.epa.gov/ttn/naaqs/standards/ozone/s_o3_cr_sp.html
http://www.epa.gov/ttn/naaqs/standards/ozone/data/2007_01_ozone_staff_paper.pdf
11. Goodman, S. 2005. Commentary: The Methodologic Ozone Effect. Epidemiology July, 16(4) 430-435.
12. Huang, Y., F. Dominici, and M. Bell. 2005. Bayesian hierarchical distributed lag models for summer ozone and cardio-respiratory mortality. Environmetrics 16:547-562.
13. Hubbell, B., A. Hallberg, D. McCubbin, and E. Post. 2005. Health-related Benefits of Attaining the 8-Hr Ozone Standard. Environmental Health Perspectives, 113(1): 73-82.
14. Ito, K., S. DeLeon, and M. Lippman. 2005. Associations Between Ozone and Daily Mortality: a Review and an Additional Analysis. Epidemiology, July, 16(4):446-57.
15. Kochi, I., B. Hubbell, and R. Kramer. 2005. An Empirical Bayes Approach to Combining and Comparing Estimates of the Value of a Statistical Life for Environmental Policy Analysis. Forthcoming in Resource and Environment Economics
16. Levy, J., S Chemerynski, and J. Sarnat. 2005. Ozone Exposure and Mortality Risk: An Empirical Bayes Meta-Regression Analysis. Epidemiology, July, 16(4):458-68.
17. Mrozek, J. and L. Taylor. 2001. What Determines The Value Of Life? A Meta-Analysis. August 29
18. Simon, N. 2006. Memorandum to Holly Stallworth. Charge Questions for SAB-EEAC September meeting. August 22nd
19. Viscusi, W. and J. Aldy. 2003. The Value of a Statistical Life: A Critical Review of Market Estimates Throughout the World. The Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 27:1; 5–76.
20. Emanuel E.J. and A.Wertheimer. 2006. Public health. Who should get influenza vaccine when not all can? Science. 2006 May 12;312(5775):854-5.
21. Mannix, B. 2006. Why not Maximize Life Expectancy? Presentation at EPA Risk Assessment Forum.
22. EPA. Letter from Rogene Henderson (Chair, CASAC) to Stephen Johnson (EPA) regarding the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee’s (CASAC) Peer Review of the Agency’s Air Quality Criteria for Ozone and Related Photochemical Oxidants (Second External Review Draft), Volumes I, II, and III, (EPA/600/R-05/004aB, bB, and cB, August 2005). February 10, 2006.
http://epa.gov/sab/pdf/casac_ozone_casac-06-003.pdf
23. EPA. Letter from Rogene Henderson (Chair, CASAC) to Stephen Johnson (EPA) regarding the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee’s (CASAC) Teleconference Meeting to Provide Additional Advice to the Agency Concerning Chapter 8 (Integrative Synthesis) of the Final Ozone Air Quality Criteria Document (AQCD). June 5, 2006.
http://www.epa.gov/sab/pdf/casac-06-007.pdf
24. EPA. Letter from Rogene Henderson (Chair, CASAC) to Stephen Johnson (EPA) regarding the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee’s (CASAC) Peer Review of the Agency’s 2nd Draft Ozone Staff Paper. October 24, 2006.
http://www.epa.gov/sab/pdf/casac-07-001.pdf
25. EPA. Letter from Rogene Henderson (Chair, CASAC) to Stephen Johnson (EPA) regarding the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee’s (CASAC) Review of the Agency’s Final Ozone Staff Paper. March 26, 2007.
http://www.epa.gov/sab/pdf/casac-07-002.pdf
26. E-mail from James Hammit to John Bailar regarding Valuing Ozone Risk. March 30, 2007.
27. Hammit, J. and N. Treich. 2007. Statistical vs. Identified Lives in Benefit-Cost Analysis. CES IFO Working Paper No. 1931. Category 8: Resources and Environment.
The following materials (written documents) were made available to the committee by speakers in public session:
28. Michelle Bell
Yale University
(1) Visual Aids of Presentation – "Recent Evidence on the Relationship between Ozone and Mortality" (electronic and printed copies)
29. Al McGartland
Office of Policy, Economics, and Innovation
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
(1) Visual Aids of Presentation – "Quantifying Potential Benefits Associated with Reduced Ozone Exposure: The Need for NAS Input" (electronic and printed copies)
30. Bryan Hubbel
Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
(1) Visual Aids of Presentation – "Ozone Mortality in EPA Benefits Analyses: Technical Overview for the NRC Committee on Estimating Mortality Risk Reduction Benefits from Decreasing Tropospheric Ozone Exposure." (electronic and printed copies)
31. James Hammitt
Harvard University
(1) Visual Aids of Presentation – "Valuing Mortality Risk Effects of Health & Life Expectancy." (electronic and printed copies)
The following materials were made available to the committee during the Open Microphone segment of the public session:
32. Anne E. Smith
CRA International – Prepared at the request of the Utility Air Regulatory Group
Visual Aids of Presentation – "A Evidence-Driven Approach for Integrated Uncertainty Analysis of Epidemiologically-Based Health Risks." (electronic copy)
33. Anne E. Smith
CRA International – Prepared at the request of the Utility Air Regulatory Group
Written Material – "Comments of the Second Drafts of EPA’s Particulate Matter "Staff Paper” and the "Particulate Matter Health Risk Assessment for Selected Urban Areas." (printed copies)
34. Deborah Sphrentz
American Lung Association (Consultant)
Written Material – "Presentation to the NRC Committee on Mortality Risk Reduction Benefits from Decreasing Tropospheric Ozone Exposure"