Why doesn the assessment include Alaska and Hawaii?
This assessment builds off of a previous EPA effort, called the Cumulative Exposure Project (CEP), that looked at 1990 emissions and concentrations of air toxics. Because Alaska and Hawaii were not included in the CEP, the meteorological data from the numerous National Weather Service stations in Alaska and Hawaii would need to be processed to be able to enter the emissions from these states into the model. In subsequent assessments, EPA may be able to develop the databases needed to add Alaska and Hawaii.
