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The following is the list of data, articles, studies, and reports used in our research regarding the Radford Army Ammunition Plant (RAAP). Click on the title of each entry for more information including citation, content summary, and where you can find the full text.

Virginia’s Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) hosts an RAAP website page with information about regulatory programs and reports.

RAAP’s website hosts an institutional repository of work plans, inspections, evaluations, risk assessments, corrective measures study reports, Solid Waste Management Unit monitoring, annual groundwater monitoring reports, biological surveys, and more. Find the online archive here.

WATER

Cairns, John, and Kenneth L. Dickson. “The effects of waste discharges from Radford Army Ammunition Plant on the biota of the New River, Virginia.” (1973).

U.S. Department Of Health And Human Services. “Health Consultation: Evaluation of Potential for Chemicals Released to Groundwater or Surface Water to Affect Drinking Water in the Nearby Community.” January 28, 2015.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. “National Primary Drinking Water Regulations.” 2009.

Perchlorates

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. “Public Health Statement, Perchlorates.” September 2008.

Kucharzyk, Katarzyna H., Ronald L. Crawford, Barbara Cosens, and Thomas F. Hess. “Development of drinking water standards for perchlorate in the United States.” Journal of Environmental Management 91, no. 2 (2009): 303-310.

Srinivasan, Asha, and Thiruvenkatachari Viraraghavan. “Perchlorate: health effects and technologies for its removal from water resources.” International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 6, no. 4 (2009): 1418-1442.

Solid Waste Management Units

Environmental Protection Agency. “Hazardous Waste Cleanup: Radford Army Ammunition Plant in Radford, Virginia.” Last updated January 2015.

Environmental Protection Agency. “Memorandum: Thermal Treatment Units, Scope of Subpart X.” 1988.

Environmental Protection Agency. “Requirements for Miscellaneous Hazardous Waste Units.” Last updated September 12, 2018.

Environmental Protection Agency. “Statement of Basis for RCRA Corrective Action Remedy.” May 2014.

Environmental Protection Agency. “Summary of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act.” Laws and Executive Orders. Last Updated August 15, 2018.

Environmental Protection Agency. “Technical Fact Sheet: Dinitrotoluene (DNT).” December 2017.

AIR

Aurell, J., W. Mitchell, V. Chirayath, J. Jonsson, D. Tabor, and B. Gullett. “Field determination of multipollutant, open area combustion source emission factors with a hexacopter unmanned aerial vehicle.” Atmospheric Environment 166 (2017): 433-440.

Department of Environmental Quality. “Characterization of Air Emissions from Open Burning at the Radford Army Ammunition Plant.” August 23, 2017.

Environmental Protection Agency. “Toxic Release Inventory.” 2017.

Sierra Club. “Top 25 Virginia Localities with the Highest Toxic Air Emissions: From the 2015 Toxic Release Inventory Virginia Chapter of the Sierra Club.” 2017.

Stone, L. L., and J. M. Skelly. “Growth of two forest tree species adjacent to a periodic source of air pollution.” Phytopathology;(United States) 64 (1974).

U.S. Congress. House. John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019: Study on Phasing Out Open Burn Pits; Airborne Hazards and Open Burn Pit Registry. HR 5515. 115th Cong., 2nd sess. Congressional Record 147, sec 355: 5515-96, sec. 1050: 5515-327.

SOIL

Draper Aden Associates. “Baseline Human Health Risk Assessment for Open Burning Ground Soil At the Radford Army Ammunition Plant.” October 2015.

Magrini, Kimberly D., Amit Basu, James R. Spotila, Harold W. Avery, Lawrence W. Bergman, Rachel Hammond, and Shivanthi Anandan. “DNA microarrays detect effects of soil contamination on Arabidopsis thaliana gene expression.” Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry: An International Journal 27, no. 12 (2008): 2476-2487.

Lead

American Academy of Pediatrics. “Detection of Lead Poisoning.” 2016.

Kosnett, Michael J., Richard P. Wedeen, Stephen J. Rothenberg, Karen L. Hipkins, Barbara L. Materna, Brian S. Schwartz, Howard Hu, and Alan Woolf. “Recommendations for medical management of adult lead exposure.” Environmental health perspectives 115, no. 3 (2006): 463-471.

Reyes, Jessica Wolpaw. “Lead exposure and behavior: effects on antisocial and risky behavior among children and adolescents.” Economic Inquiry 53, no. 3 (2015): 1580-1605.

Virginia Department of Health. “Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program: 2015 Surveillance Report.” 2015.

Virginia Department of Health Division of Environmental Epidemiology. Review of Childhood Blood Lead Levels: Floyd County, Giles County, Montgomery County, Pulaski County, and Radford, Virginia. Letter Health Consultation. Virginia, 2014.