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Interagency Oxygenated Fuels Assessment Steering Committee

Robert T. Watson, Ph.D., Chair
Associate Director for Environment
Office of Science and Technology Policy and
White House Co-Chair
Committee on Environment and Natural Resources

Daniel L. Albritton, Ph.D.
Director
Aeronomy Laboratory

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/
Department of Commerce

Joseph F. Canny
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Transportation Policy
Department of Transportation

Shelley N. Fidler
Chief of Staff
Council on Environmental Quality

Lynn R. Goldman, M.D.
Assistant Administrator for Prevention, Pesticides,
and Toxic Substances
Environmental Protection Agency

Robert Hirsch, Ph.D.
Chief Hydrologist
U.S. Geological Survey

Department of Interior

Elgie Holstein
Special Assistant to the President for
Economic Policy

National Economic Council

Richard J. Jackson, M.D., M.P.H.
Director, National Center for Environmental Health
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Health and Human Services

John W. McClelland, Ph.D.
Associate Director
Office of Energy and New Uses

Department of Agriculture

Barry McNutt
Senior Policy Analyst
Office of Energy Efficiency and Alternative Fuels Policy

Department of Energy

Mary D. Nichols
Assistant Administrator for
Air and Radiation

Environmental Protection Agency

Kenneth Olden, Ph.D.
Director, National Institute of
Environmental Health Sciences
National Institutes of Health

Health and Human Services

Michael A. Toman
Senior Economist Council of Economic Advisors


Contributors

David L. Ashley, Ph.D.
National Center for Environmental Health Centers U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

J. Michael Davis, Ph.D.
National Center for Environmental Assessment
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Henry Falk, M.D.
National Center for Environmental Health
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Burhan Ghanayem, Ph.D.
National Toxicology Program
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

Jeffrey Gift, Ph.D.
National Center for Environmental Assessment
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Bryan Hardin, Ph.D.
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

G. Jean Harry, Ph.D.
National Toxicology Program
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

Richard W. Hartle, M.P.H., C.I.H.
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Alan Huber, Ph.D.
National Exposure Research Laboratory
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Richard J. Jackson, M.D., M.P.H. (Chair)
National Center for Environmental Health
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Jennifer Jinot, M.S.
National Center for Environmental Assessment
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

George W. Lucier, Ph.D. (Co-Chair)
National Toxicology Program
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

Ronald L. Melnick, Ph.D.
National Toxicology Program
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

Larry Needham, Ph.D.
National Center for Environmental Health
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Charles Ris, M.S.
National Center for Environmental Assessment
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Michael Shelby, Ph.D.
National Toxicology Program
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

Mary C. White, Sc.D., M.P.H. (Working Group Coordinator)
National Center for Environmental Health
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Errol Zeiger, Ph.D.
National Toxicology Program
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences


External Reviewers

The listed individuals reviewed earlier drafts of this report and provided comments to OSTP that the interagency work group considered in making final revisions. The views and opinions expressed in the report are not necessarily those of the external reviewers. Reviewers' names marked with an asterisk were asked to focus their comments on the calculation of cancer risk estimates.

David A. Dankovic,Ph.D.*
Toxicologist
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
Cincinnati, OH

Michal J. DiBartolomeis, Ph.D., D.A.B.T.

Toxicology Research International
Berkeley, CA

Susan Borghoff, Ph.D.
Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology
Research Triangle Park, NC

Mary Lou Fleissner, Dr. P.H.
Division of Environmental Epidemiology and Occupational Health
State of Connecticut Department of Public Health and Addiction Services
Hartford, CT

Bernard D. Goldstein, M.D.
Director
Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute
Piscataway, NJ

Gareth M. Green, M.D.
Professor of Environmental Health
Harvard School of Public Health
Boston, MA

Daniel Greenbaum
President
Health Effects Institute and Members of the HEI
Oxygenates Evaluation Committee
Cambridge, MA

Anthony J. Grey, Ph.D.
Chief, Toxicological Assessment Section
New York State Department of Health
Albany, NY

David G. Hoel, Ph.D.*
Chair, Department of Biometry and Epidemiology
Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, SC

Ralph L. Kodell, Ph.D.*
Chief, Biometry Branch, National Center for Toxicological Research
Food and Drug Administration
Jefferson, AR

Robin C. Leonard, Ph.D.
Manager, Epidemiology
ARCO Chemical Company
Newton Square, PA

Michael Lipsett, M.D., J.D.
UCSF School of Medicine
San Francisco, CA

Thomas Long
Senior Toxicologist
Illinois Department of Public Health
Springfield, IL

Ronald H. White, M.S.T.
Director of Environmental Health
American Lung Association
Washington, DC


Acknowledgments

The authors wish to thank the members of the EPA internal oxyfuels working group,a nd scientific staff at NIEHS and CDC for constructive comments on earlier drafts. We also wish to acknowledge the contributions of Dorothy Sussman (technical editor) and Lola Scott (secretary) in the production of the final report.


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