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Airport Health
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A HUMAN HEALTH RISK ASSESSMENT OF THE JOHN WAYNE AND PROPOSED ORANGE COUNTY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORTS
Paper presented at the Air & Waste Management Association's national meeting in Salt Lake City on June 21st, 2000 by author David Lindberg. The research was conducted by CH2M Hill, a subcontractor to P&D Aviation that did the air quality portion of the El Toro EIR. P&D Aviation is the county's prime contractor on the El Toro project.
The data was incorporated into the El Toro EIR but without the graphics presented here.
Particular attention should be paid to Figure 5, page 15 "Excess Incremental Lifetime Cancer Risk" The risks exceed new EPA standards.
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