Reports and Resources

Reports, presentations, protocols and other information related to the investigation

OHA Public Health Assessment

• Final Highway 36 Public Health Assessment - released November 13, 2014
• See Historical Documents below for the draft Public Health Assessment issued for public comment

ATSDR Health Consultation

• Biological Monitoring for Exposure to Herbicides, Highway 36 Corridor
• Summary

Public Meetings

• OHA presentation from 4/10/12 public meeting and Agenda. See the public meeting on YouTube
• OHA presentation from 5/28/13 public meeting and Agenda.  See the public meeting on YouTube
• EPA update on the status of the air sampler development (5/28/13)
• Questions and Answers from 5/28/13 public meeting. Staff did not have time to answer these at the public meeting.
  

Resources

• Oregon Regulations on Pesticide Applications
• Comparative analysis of Pacific NW forest requirements for aerial application of pesticides
• Information about 2,4-D
  
• Information about atrazine
• Information about using biomonitoring equivalents (BE) as a screening tool for 2,4-D in urine

Laboratory Methods and Protocols

• EPA's Quality Assurance Project Plan (QAPP) for passive air samplers
• Fall 2011 urine and environmental sampling protocol 
• EPA's Quality Assurance Project Plan (QAPP) for the fall 2011 environmental samples
• Laboratory protocol used for analyzing 2,4-D
• Laboratory protocol used for analyzing atrazine
• PeaceHealth clinic's urine sample collection protocol
• ODA's Standard Operating Procedures

To obtain ODA’s laboratory methods and protocols used for the fall 2011 food and soil samples, contact their laboratory at 503-872-6644. To obtain DEQ’s laboratory protocols used for the fall 2011 water samples, contact DEQ’s Laboratory at 800-452-4011.

Historical Documents

• Draft Public Health Assessment issued for public comment and Summary
• Alsea II Study
• EPA halts most use of herbicide 2,4,5-T; Science 16 March 1979: Vol. 203 no. 4385 pp. 1090-1091  
• EPA Press Statement banning 2,4,5-T, 1979