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Report
for Public Comment and Response to Peer Review Comments
External
Peer Review of the NJDEP Chromium Workgroup Report
In March
2004, Commissioner Bradley Campbell charged scientists from the Division
of Science, Research and Technology (DSRT) with reviewing the current
clean-up criteria for chromium. This was done in response to concerns
voiced by the Hudson County community where most of the chrome ore processing
residue waste sites are located.
In response
DSRT convened a working group and called upon the technical expertise
from scientists from the Site Remediation Program and the Office of Quality
Assurance to examine the science of the issues. The main workgroup formed
four subgroups to address: 1) analytical chemistry; 2) environmental chemistry;
3) risk assessment; and, 4) air and dust transport. The workgroup prepared
a report for Commissioner Campbell outlining recommendations concerning
the cleanup criteria used at sites with chromium ore residue. From January
10 through March 1, 2005, the report underwent an external peer review
by recognized national experts in the various disciplines.
There
were two components of the external peer review. The first consisted of
inviting experts to attend a day-long meeting in Piscataway to discuss
their review of the report. The second consisted of inviting additional
experts in the fields (with an emphasis on those fields not well represented
during the first phase) to read the report and supply written comments.
Dr. Mark Robson of the New Jersey School of Public Health coordinated
both phases of the peer review.
The report
was made available for public review during the peer review, although
the Department did not solicit nor accept any public comments. The report
has been revised, based on the peer review, and this revised draft is
now available to the public. Interested parties have 30 calendar days
to submit comments to the Department. All comments must be received via
email or post by June 3, 2005. This is a firm deadline. No faxes will
be accepted.
Posted
comments should be addressed to:
Eileen Murphy, Director
NJDEP-Division of Science, Research and Technology
P.O. Box 409
401 East State Street, 1st Floor
Trenton, New Jersey 08625
Peer Reviews who attended the January 10, 2005 discussion meeting:
Dr. Paul
Brandt-Rauf, Department Chair, Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia
School of Public Health
Dr. Gary
Ginsberg, Risk Assessor and Toxicologist, Division of Environmental Epidemiology
and Occupational Health, The Connecticut Department of Public Health and
adjunct Professor at Yale University and University of Connecticut Health
Care Center
Dr. Gregory
Turk, Group Leader, Spectrochemical Methods, Analytical Chemistry Division,
National Institute for Standards and Technology
Readers:
Dr. Jonathan Chorover, Associate Professor of Environmental Chemistry,
Soil, Water, & Environmental Science, University of Arizona
Dr. Herbert
Gibb, Epidemiologist and Risk Assessor, Sciences International, Inc
(recently retired from Office of Research)
Dr. C.P.
Huang, Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Delaware
Dr. Robert
W. Puls, Laboratory Director, National Risk Management Research Laboratory,
Office of Research and Development
(Dr. Puls gave the report to his staffer, Dr. Chunming Sua soil scientist)
Dr. Ken
Stollenwerk, Hydrologist, US Geological Survey, Denver Federal Center
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