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HRA26 -- 12 77 9 f March 21,2003 To: Mary F. Dominiak U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EPA East, Mail Code 7405M 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20460 From: Katie Smythe, on behoaflthfe Telomer Research Program Subject: Journal Articles for Submission to AR-226 =2 % on z 35 22 =2 B555 hd 8 On behoaflthfe Telomer Research Program (TRP), the followingjournal articles are submitted to the US EPA for inclusion in Administrative Record 226: 1) The First Environmental Survey of PFOS and Related Compounds in Japan -- Sachi Taniyasu, Kurunthachalam Kannan, Yuich Horii and Nobuyoshi Yamashita. Organohalogen Compounds, Vol. 59 (2002), 311-314. 2) Levels of PFOA and Other Related Compounds in the Blood of Japanese People -- Shigeki Masunaga, Kurunthachalam Kannan, Rikuo Do, Junko Nakanishi and John P. Giesy. Organohalogen Compounds, Vol. 59 (2002), 319-322. These studies were not sponsored by the TRP. The papers are being provided to EPA by the TRP for inclusion in AR-226. Noneof the attached files contain information claimed as Confidential Business Information (CBI) under TSCA. Nothing in this transmission is TSCA CBI 1