Extracted Data From: Risk-Screening Environmental Indicators (RSEI)

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"EPA’s Risk-Screening Environmental Indicators (RSEI) is a screening-level model and prioritization tool that helps policy makers, researchers, and communities explore data on toxic chemicals being managed by industrial and federal facilities. RSEI can be used to help establish priorities for further investigation and to look at changes in potential chronic human health impacts over time.
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RSEI incorporates information from EPA’s Toxics Release Inventory (TRI), which tracks certain toxic chemical environmental releases and other waste management activities at federal facilities and larger industrial facilities across the United States. Find out more about the TRI Program.
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By analyzing TRI data on the amount of toxic chemicals released or transferred off site for further waste management, together with risk-related factors such as the chemical’s fate and transport through the environment, each chemical’s relative toxicity, and the number of people potentially exposed, RSEI calculates different metrics and numerical results that are designed to be compared and analyzed from a relative perspective.
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RSEI is a screening-level model, and uses worst-case assumptions about toxicity and potential exposure where data are lacking, and simplifying assumptions to reduce the complexity of the calculations involved. A more refined or site-specific assessment should be conducted before any conclusions about potential health impacts can be determined. RSEI does not produce a risk assessment, nor can RSEI results be used to determine whether a facility is in compliance with federal or state regulations." [https://www.epa.gov/rsei/learn-about-rsei]