Release Date: Tuesday, October 22, 2019
(ATLANTA) - The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), a federal public health agency, has released its report, Exposure Investigation (EI) – Blood Lead and Urine Arsenic Levels in Anaconda, Montana.
Release Date: Wednesday, September 05, 2018
ATLANTA, GA – The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) will provide free testing for lead in blood and arsenic in urine for all residents in the Anaconda, Montana area as part of its Exposure Investigation (EI). Based on past smelting activities, the Anaconda smelter contaminated soils in the area with heavy metals. In 1983, the site was placed on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Superfund National Priority List (NPL).
Release Date: Tuesday, July 10, 2018
(ATLANTA) - The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), a federal public health agency, in coordination with the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services (DPHHS), and the Anaconda-Deer Lodge County Public Health Department (ADLC) invite residents to a public meeting to learn about upcoming activities.
Release Date: Wednesday, May 02, 2018
(ATLANTA) - The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), a federal public health agency, in coordination with the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services (DPHHS), the Anaconda-Deer Lodge County Public Health Department and the National Institute of Occupational Health (NIOSH) invites residents and workers to a meeting to share concerns about their health in relation to the Anaconda Copper Smelter Superfund Site.
Release Date: Friday, January 22, 2010
Frequent contact with waste tailings on the Iron Mountain Mine and Mill (IMM) site, the Flat Creek floodplain, and the town of Superior could harm people's health, reports a federal health assessment. Levels of arsenic and lead are of public health concern if residents, particularly children, repeatedly contact areas affected by waste tailings in and around Superior, MT.
Release Date: Wednesday, July 01, 2009
Frequent contact with waste tailings on the Iron Mountain Mine and Mill (IMM) site, the Flat Creek floodplain, and the town of Superior could harm people’s health, says a federal health assessment. Levels of arsenic and lead are of public health concern if residents, particularly children, repeatedly contact areas affected by waste tailings in and around Superior, MT.
Release Date: Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Employees, their families and people living close to 28 exfoliation sites may have been exposed to amphibole asbestos from vermiculite mined Libby, Montana between the 1920s and the early 1990s., a report from the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) has concluded.
Release Date: Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Federal Agencies to Launch $8 Million Effort to Study Libby, Montana Asbestos Exposure
Release Date: Wednesday, October 31, 2007
The federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) released the final report today regarding the safety and effectiveness of cleanup actions at the Anaconda Company smelter site in Anaconda, MT.
Release Date: Friday, June 01, 2007
The federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR).
(ATSDR) released a report today regarding the safety and effectiveness of the cleanup actions at the Anaconda smelter site. For the report, called a public health consultation, ATSDR evaluated the studies and decisions made to establish the cleanup level for arsenic in residential soil, responded to community questions about the decisions made, and determined the public health impact of using the cleanup level in the community.
Release Date: Thursday, September 22, 2005
Workers that processed vermiculite from a mine in Libby, Montana at nine former plants located throughout the United States were exposed to asbestos and are at increased risk for developing asbestos related health problems, the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) reports in public health consultations released today. The plants that processed Libby vermiculite are located in Dallas, TX; Ellwood City, PA; Honolulu, HI; Marysville, OH; New Orleans, LA; Newark, CA; New Castle, PA; Portland, OR; and Wilder, KY.
Release Date: Tuesday, October 21, 2003
The public comment period for the public health assessment for the Carpenter-Snow Creek Mining District site in Neihart, Mont., has been extended to Nov. 7. ATSDR has classified the site as a public health hazard.
Release Date: Wednesday, August 27, 2003
Court awards ATSDR and other federal agencies reimbursement of costs incurred in providing public health and clean-up assistance related to asbestos contamination in Libby, Montana.
Release Date: Tuesday, August 12, 2003
Public health assessments are available for the Carpenter-Snow Creek and Barker-Hughesville Mining Sites in Montana. Both sites are classified as public health hazards. The documents will be available for public review and comment at local repositories through Oct. 1.
Release Date: Thursday, July 17, 2003
ATSDR issued a public health assessment for the Lockwood Solvents site in Billings, Mont. that finds certain adverse health effects might have been experienced by residents exposed to contaminated groundwater.
Release Date: Wednesday, May 28, 2003
In its final public health assessment of the Libby Asbestos National Priorities List site in Libby, Mont., ATSDR concludes residents were exposed to hazardous levels of asbestos.
Release Date: Monday, December 30, 2002
ATSDR's draft public health assessment for the Libby Asbestos site in Libby, Mont., concludes that people were exposed to hazardous levels of asbestos in the past and that people currently living near contaminated areas might be exposed to hazardous levels of asbestos.
Release Date: Monday, December 30, 2002
Draft public health assessment for Libby Asbestos NPL site concludes people were exposed to hazardous levels of asbestos in the past.
Release Date: Thursday, August 15, 2002
The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry has updated its mortality review for the Libby Asbestos site in Libby, Mont., with an analysis of additional death certificates and an assessment of the impact of possible occupational exposures at the Libby vermiculite mine and milling facility.
ATSDR, a public health agency of the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, prepared the mortality review in cooperation with the Montana Dept. of Public Health and Human Services to develop accurate information about deaths potentially associated with asbestos exposure in Libby.
Release Date: Sunday, June 02, 2002
Federal health researchers will hold two meetings in Neihart on June 19 to provide information about their agency's research into possible health hazards associated with some 67 abandoned mines in the Monarch-Neihart area. The two sites were added to the National Priorities (Super Fund) List in September 2001. They comprise what ATSDR collectively refers to as the Barker-Hughesville and Carpenter Snow Creek Sites.
Release Date: Wednesday, March 06, 2002
The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), a public health agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, will hold two public availability sessions for residents living near the Lockwood Solvents Groundwater Plume site in Billings, Montana.
Release Date: Wednesday, February 20, 2002
The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), a public health agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, today announced the release of the public comment version of its public health assessment for the Lockwood Solvents Groundwater Plume site in Billings, Montana.
Release Date: Wednesday, February 20, 2002
The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), a public health agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, will hold two public availability sessions for residents living near the Lockwood Solvents Groundwater Plume site in Billings, Montana.
Release Date: Thursday, August 23, 2001
The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), a public health agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, today releases major findings of its 2000 asbestos medical testing program in Libby, Montana.
Release Date: Monday, August 20, 2001
The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), a public health agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, released results of the first round of the asbestos medical testing program in Libby, Montana, at a Community Advisory Group (CAG) meeting on Thursday, August 23, 2001, at the City Hall (Ponderosa Room) in Libby, Montana.
Release Date: Friday, February 02, 2001
The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), a public health agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, announced today the availability of the public comment version of its health assessment for the Basin Mining Area site in Basin, Montana.
Release Date: Wednesday, January 10, 2001
ATSDR will conduct a public availability session in Billings, Montana, to discuss to discuss planned agency activities related to the Lockwood Solvents site.
Release Date: Thursday, December 14, 2000
ATSDR announced today its release of a mortality review for Libby, Montana, area. The mortality review was conducted to generate an accurate picture of deaths potentially associated with asbestos exposure in Libby.
Release Date: Thursday, December 14, 2000
The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), a public health agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, will hold a public availability session in Alberton, Montana, on Wednesday, December 8, 1999.
Release Date: Friday, December 08, 2000
The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), a public health agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, announced today that its mortality review for Libby, Montana, will be released on Thursday, December 14, 7:00 p.m. at the December meeting of the Citizens Advisory Group, City Hall Complex (Ponderosa Room) 752 East Spruce Street, Libby. ATSDR representatives will be on hand at the meeting to discuss the report and to answer questions.
Release Date: Friday, October 06, 2000
ATSDR announced today that two health consultations for the Deer Lodge, Montana, area (part of the Milltown Reservoir Sediments Superfund site) will be available for public review and comment beginning October 4, 2000.
Release Date: Tuesday, May 16, 2000
The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry will hold two public availability sessions in the Alberton, Montana, area on May 22nd and 23rd. The meetings will be to discuss the summary report of the findings from the Alberton Medical Intervention and Health Evaluation. Dr. Cynthia Lewis-Younger will present her findings and answer questions.
Release Date: Monday, May 15, 2000
The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), a public health agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, will conduct public availability sessions in the Alberton, Montana, area on May 22 and 23.
Release Date: Tuesday, August 17, 1999
The U.S. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry - or A-T-S-D-R - and the Association of Occupational and Environmental Clinics will be offering free medical evaluations to people who were exposed to hazardous chemicals during the Alberton train derailment in 1996.
Release Date: Thursday, August 05, 1999
The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), a public health agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and the Association of Occupational and Environmental Clinics (AOEC) today announced a medical evaluation program for residents of Alberton, Montana
Release Date: Tuesday, June 15, 1999
The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), a public health agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and the Alberton Community Advisory Group for Health Concerns will hold a meeting on Monday, June 21, 1999, to discuss changes and revisions to the draft Alberton Public Health Needs Assessment.
Release Date: Friday, May 14, 1999
The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), a public health agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, announced today that it has released two documents dealing with on-going health concerns related to the 1996 Montana Rail Link train derailment near Alberton, Montana.