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.Asphalt Page 3 of 5 <br /> 4. CHOOSE THE SAFEST SOLUTIONS Clean Air Campaign <br /> Halts Asphalt Pollution & <br /> Communities faced with an asphalt plant proposal Improves Air Policies <br /> should push for setbacks from residences and community <br /> buildings, site specific health-based air pollution modeling `Nothing could have prepared us for <br /> and monitoring, enclosures for loading zones, and the horrors of that plant, we cannot be <br /> preferably a zero emissions asphalt plant,with total outside when it operates, we are <br /> containment of air pollutants. prisoners." <br /> Jerry Stan, Macon County, NC <br /> Investigate Pollution in Your Area. Blue Ridge Environmental Defense <br /> To find out more about asphalt plant pollution in <br /> your area, go to wwecard.org League (BREDL)has been leading <br /> w,scor <br /> a Clean Air Campaign to reduce <br /> toxic pollution from asphalt plants in <br /> Join the Clean Air Campaign. North Carolina. In partnership with <br /> Support the campaign on asphalt plant pollution. many community groups, BREDL <br /> To find out more, contact the Blue Ridge defeated numerous asphalt plant <br /> Environmental Defense League at proposals, spearheaded a trend of <br /> www.bredLorg. countywide moratoriums on asphalt <br /> plant construction and operation, <br /> BE SAFE. and mounted plant permit <br /> Take precautionary action to prevent asphalt plant challenges. The campaigns <br /> pollution. Sign on to the BE SAFE Platform on the included radio ads, posted yard <br /> next page. Be counted when we deliver this signs, newspaper display ads, and <br /> national Platform to the White House in 2005. stories in local newspapers. <br /> Endorse the BE SAFE Platform today at <br /> www.besafenet.com. BREDL and the Clean Air <br /> Campaign have succeeded in <br /> Your Vote Counts. reducing asphalt pollution and <br /> The next election will set the country's course on improving air quality policies. North <br /> asphalt plant regulations. For information on Carolina and Tennessee signed an <br /> environmental voting records, contact agreement to protect air quality in <br /> www.sierraclubo_rg and www.lcvorg. To the Great Smoky Mountain National <br /> register to vote, contact www.earthday,...et Park and other wilderness areas. <br /> North Carolina has improved <br /> methods to analyze fugitive toxic air <br /> emissions and expanded the Toxic <br /> Air Pollutant program to include all <br /> operating and proposed asphalt <br /> plants. <br /> References: US EPA Office of Air Quality Planning&Standards,AP-42,Fifth Edition,Volume I,Chapter 11:Mineral Products <br /> Industry,[EPA]http://www.epa.gov/ttn/chief/ap42/chll/final/clls0l.pdf.Final Rule to Reduce Toxic Air Emissions From <br /> Asphalt Processing&Asphalt Roofing Manufacturing Facilities,Environmental Protection Agency,June 2000[EPA]. Hazardous <br /> Substance Fact Sheet,Asphalt Fumes.New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services,January 2001[NJDHSS]. Agency for <br /> Toxic Substances and Disease Registry(ATSDR). 1995.Toxicological Profile for Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons(PAHs). <br /> Atlanta,GA:U.S.Department of Health and Human Services,Public Health Service[DHHS].Blue Ridge Environmental Defense <br /> League Asphalt Health Survey,[BREDL].Dr.R.Nadkarni developed mass balance equation to estimate total fugitive emissions and <br /> his comments to Virginia Dept.of Environmental Quality are at www.bredl.org/pdf/DEQ072503.pdf. [Dr.R.Nadkarni]. <br /> Primary Contributor: Lou Zeller,Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League. <br /> http://www.besafenet.com/Asphalt.htm 1/11/2006 <br />