AWARD
A -- Current and Historical Human Exposure Assessment of Drinking Water and Air Pollution Sources in the PV Cluster Area in NE PA
- Notice Date
- 9/29/2010
- Notice Type
- Award Notice
- NAICS
- 541620
— Environmental Consulting Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Procurement and Grants Office (Atlanta), 2920 Brandywine Road, Room 3000, Atlanta, Georgia, 30341-4146
- ZIP Code
- 30341-4146
- Solicitation Number
- 2010-N-12087
- Archive Date
- 10/14/2010
- Point of Contact
- Thaddeus E Rollins, Phone: 770-488-2427, Vallerie M Redd, Phone: 770-488-2845
- E-Mail Address
-
tnr6@cdc.gov, gfj3@cdc.gov
(tnr6@cdc.gov, gfj3@cdc.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Award Number
- 200-2010-34140
- Award Date
- 9/29/2010
- Awardee
- Equity Environmental Engineering, LLC, 4 Gold Mine RD Ste 3, Flanders, New Jersey 07836-9110, United States
- Award Amount
- $557,435.00
- Description
- The search for the cause of an identified cancer cluster is often fruitless due to the existence of multiple exposure sources, lack of historical exposure data, and a mobile population. When the cancer in question has no known cause, the challenge is even greater, as in the polycythemia vera (PV) cluster recently identified in northeastern Pennsylvania (1). The cluster area is roughly 200 square miles, bounded by Hazleton in the north and Tamaqua in the south, and has a long record of mining, industrial, and hazardous waste releases to the environment, both historical and ongoing. Many of the releases are associated either directly or indirectly with the mining of anthracite coal. Although anthracite coal is no longer actively mined in the area, previous surface and underground mining activities (from the 1880s through the 1960s) have left large residuals of coal refuse (culm). The coal refuse has been used to fuel fluidized bed combustion (FBC) cogeneration power plants, six of which have been in operation in the cluster area region since the early 1990s. Over the years, abandoned underground and surface mines have been used as a convenient way to dispose of a variety of industrial contaminants (e.g. McAdoo & Associates Site) and, more recently, ash from the FBC plants. Local residents and physicians in the cluster area are especially concerned about the elevated number of PV cases because of the nearby Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Superfund sites (McAdoo Associates, Eastern Diversified Metals, and Tonolli Corp), and a waste-coal power plant (NEPCO). The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) is currently funding projects that will evaluate the surface water outflow from the McAdoo Site, and test soil, water, and indoor air at current and past residences of PV patients for environmental contaminants and radiation. Potential pathways of environmental exposure could include air inhalation, drinking water consumption, food ingestion, skin contact or a combination of exposure routes. Studying each of these pathways may be necessary to identify any empirical evidence that would suggest a correlation between the pathway and the incidence of PV in the tri-county area. The focus of the proposed work is on potential sources, pathways and exposures associated air and drinking water. ATSDR is currently compiling a data warehouse of all available environmental data from the cluster area (the PAPV Data Warehouse), which will be made available to the contractor. ATSDR will also assist the contractor in obtaining additional documents or data that are deemed relevant to this work from local, state and federal agencies. This exposure assessment analysis is an integral part of a comprehensive ATSDR public health response investigating the occurrence, trends, and associated risk factors of PV and other MyeloProliferative Diseases (MPDs), not only in the cluster area in Pennsylvania, but also on a national level. The data collected by ATSDR as a result of this work will allow us to better respond to cancer clusters with suspected environmental origins. In addition, our understanding of the etiology of MPDs and other hematological cancers will be greatly enhanced leading to improved diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of these illnesses.
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