Report on Workshop to Consider DSL Industrial Sector and Functional Use Codes as Indicators of Potential Human Exposure

October 18, 2002

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Table of Contents

• Introduction
• The Domestic Substances List
• The DSL Use Codes
• Workshops to Consider DSL Use Codes
• Criteria for and Analysis of Industrial Sector Codes
• Criteria for and Analysis of Functional Use Codes
• The "Problem" of "Multiple-Use Functional Use Codes"
• Comments from Workshop Participants
• Conclusions and Recommendations
• References

List of Tables

• Table 1 - Criteria for assigning descriptors for "potential for exposure" for industrial sector codes
• Table 2 - Nine industrial sector codes for which agreement is high that potential exposure is "greatest"
• Table 3 - Rankings by contact scenarios for first nine industrial sector codes with "greatest" exposure potential
• Table 4 - Seven industrial sector codes for which there was near agreement that potential exposure is "greatest"
• Table 5 - Rankings by contact scenarios for seven industrial sector codes with "near" agreement
• Table 6 - Criteria for assigning descriptors for "potential for exposure" for DSL functional use codes
• Table 7 - Functional use codes for which there was the most agreement that potential exposure is "greatest"
• Table 8 - Functional use codes for which there was no clear agreement that potential exposure is "greatest"
• Table 9 - Twelve "multiple-use functional use codes" with significant differences among subcodes

List of Attachments

• Attachment 1 List of Workshop Participants
• Attachment 2 Pre-Workshop Background Information Provided to Participants
• Attachment 3 Workshop Agenda
• Attachment 4 DSL Industrial Sector Codes Ranked by Number of "Greatest" Descriptors Assigned
• Attachment 5 Rankings of DSL Industrial Sector Codes Under the Three Contact Scenarios
• Attachment 6 DSL Functional Use Codes Ranked by the Number of "Greatest" Descriptors Recorded
• Attachment 7 Analysis of "Multiple-Use Functional Use Codes" Worksheets
• Attachment 8 Written Comments Provided by Workshop Participants