Approach

Overview

The proposed study consists of the following six components:

(1) Ambient monitoring at a central supersite and a set of satellite sites in the Pittsburgh region

(2) An instrument development and evaluation study

(3) A comprehensive modeling component (currently funded by the STAR program of EPA),

(4) An epidemiological study (additional funding will be requested by other agencies)

(5) An indoor monitoring study (extension of currently funded DOE and EPA studies), and

(6) A data analysis and synthesis component.

The EPA Supersite Program funds will only be used to support activities of components (1), (2) and (6). DOE funds will also be leveraged to support the same components. The proposed approaches for each of these components are summarized in this section:

Approach Details