ICMA Risk Assessment Guidance Conference

[Center for Public Environmental Oversight <cpeo@cpeo.org>]

Risk Assessment Guidance for Superfund (RAGS) Stakeholder Forum

Westin Peachtree Plaza
 Atlanta, Georgia
March 2 - 4, 1998

ICMA and EPA will host a dialogue to discuss revisions to EPA's Risk
Assessment Guidance for Superfund (RAGS). RAGS revision was identified
as one of EPA's administrative reforms to the national Superfund program.
Risk ssessments are used to estimate the current or potential risks to
human health and the environment posed by contamination from Superfund
sites, and to help determine the level of cleanup.

We invite you to join other local government officials, federal and state
agency representatives, industry members, and citizens to provide your
input and suggestions for improvements in four key areas that have been
identified for revisions: (1) community involvement, (2) land use, (3)
background concentrations for risk assessment, and (4)
probabilistic/uncertainty analysis.

For registering online or more information go to
http://www.icma.org/news/index.htm