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Keywords Participating Organizations Report Details Summary The document reports the results of the development and testing of a system for rapidly ranking environmental substances/agents. One potential use for the system is in selecting the most important candidates for Scientific and Technical Assessment Reports (STARs). Of several possible approaches to ranking environmental agents, a system depending on expert opinion but assisted by an objective subsystem was selected for development. The system defines procedures for collecting, processing, and evaluating data on production and use; environmental transport, transformation, and rate; and human health and welfare and ecological effects. A test of the objective subsystem confirmed the utility of the system. Of ten candidate substances/agents, the three highest ranked were cyanides, carbon disulfide, and beryllium. A test of the objective subsystem on ten substances/agents can be found here.
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