The Valdez Air Health Study

This letter to the editor takes issue with a commentary indicating that personal exposure monitoring such as the total exposure assessment methodology (TEAM) have not received the acceptance by environmental policy decision makers that it should and that the recent Valdez Air Health Study (VAHS) is such an example. The letter points out that TEAM component of the VAHS was not rejected by the Valdez population and reviewers. Rather it is the VAHS conclusion regarding the contribution of the Alyeska Marine Terminal emissions to the total population exposure that remains controversial. 11 refs.