Contaminants of Emerging Concern
Nomination Resources

Provided below are some resources that may be useful when answering nomination questions.

Information about health effects of chemicals

• EPA Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS)
• EPA Ground Water and Drinking Water
• NIOSH Pocket Guide to Hazardous Chemicals
• Dietary Reference Intakes Tables and Applications
• Agency for Toxic Substances & Disease Registry (ATSDR)
• National Toxicology Program (NTP) 14th Report on Carcinogens (RoC)
• PubChem (Formerly Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB))
• European Commission: Endocrine Disruptors
• Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) Prop 65

Information sources for releases include:

• Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) Program
• Agricultural Chemical Use Program
• Minnesota Pesticide Use and Sales Data

Information sources for environmental occurrence include:

• MDA's Agricultural Chemical Monitoring and Assessment Programs
  Minnesota Department of Agriculture
• Minnesota Pollution Control Agency Environmental Data
• USGS National Water Quality Assessment Program (NAWQA)
• USGS National Reconnaissance of Emerging Contaminants (NREC)
• National Contaminant Occurrence Database
• Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Regulation monitoring