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Key resources for ERA -  At a glance

General

• ANZECC 1992 Section 6.1
• Framework for Ecological Risk Assessment Environment Canada 1994 Section 6 & Fig 6.1
• NEPM, 1999 Schedule B (5)
• Ecological RA Guidance for Superfund, 1997. Section 1.2

Level 1

• ANZECC 1992 Section 6.1
• NEPM, 1999 Schedule B (5)
• ANZECC 1999 (draft)
• ANZECC 1992 Water Quality Guidelines
• ADEC, 1998
• TNRCC, 1996
• Oregon Dept of Environmental Quality, 1998
• Petroleum Hydrocarbon Guidelines 1999: Section 2, Section 4; Appendix 4I
• Timber Treatment Site Guidelines 1997: Section 5.6
• Contaminated Gasworks Sites Guidelines 1997: Section 4, Appendix 4B

Tools and software

• EXAMS
• USEPA Ecotox Thresholds software (screening level only)

Level 2

• Petroleum Hydrocarbon Guidelines 1999: Section 6
• Contaminated Gasworks Sites Guidelines 1997: Section 4.4, Appendix 4B
• Timber Treatment Site Guidelines 1997: Table 5.17; Table 6.3
• Environment Canada 1994 Section 8 (summary only)

Databases

• ORNL Ecotoxicological Screening Benchmarks 1998
• USEPA ECOTOX database (AQUIRE, TERRATOX and PHYTOTOX)
• Hazardous substances database (HSDB)
• California Wildlife Exposure Factor and Toxicity Database (Cal/Ecotox)

Summary of Toxicological Databases 

Useful sources of threshold values:

• NZ toxicity data and description of tests

Level 3

• NEPM, Schedule B (5): Section 6.4
• ASTM, 1990 a,b