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Acero, J.L., Haderlein, S.B., Schmidt, T.C., Suter, M.J.-F., and Gunten, U.V., 2001 , MTBE oxidation by conventional ozonation and the combination ozone/hydrogen peroxide--Efficiency of the processes and bromate formation: Environmental Science & Technology, v. 35, no. 21, p. 4252-4259.

American Petroleum Institute, 1994 , Odor threshold studies performed with gasoline and gasoline combined with MTBE, ETBE and TAME: Washington D.C., Health and Environmental Sciences, API Publication No. 4592, 74 p.

Angle, C.R., 1991 , If the tap water smells foul, think MTBE: Journal of the American Medical Association, v. 266, no. 21, p. 2965-2966.

Bartlett, Kristina, 1999 , When good compounds go bad: Geotimes, v. 45, no. 1, p. 10-11.

Beckenbach, E.H., and Happel, A.M., 1998 , Methyl tertiary butyl ether plume evolution at California LUFT sites, in The Southwest Focused Ground Water Conference-- Discussing the Issue of MTBE and Perchlorate in Ground Water, Anaheim, Calif., June 3-4, 1998, [Proceedings]: Anaheim, Calif., National Ground Water Association, p. 15.

Brown, Anthony, Farrow, J.R.C., Rodriguez, R.A., and Johnson, B.J., 1998 , Methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) contamination of the city of Santa Monica drinking water supply - an update, in The Southwest Focused Ground Water Conference--Discussing the Issue of MTBE and Perchlorate in Ground Water, Anaheim, Calif., June 3-4, 1998, Proceedings: Anaheim, Calif., National Ground Water Association, p. 16-25.

Brown, Anthony, Farrow, J.R.C., Rodriquez, R.A., Jonhson, B.J., and Bellomo, A.J., 1997 , Methyl tertiary butyl ether (MtBE) contamination of the city of Santa Monica drinking water supply, in Stanley, Anita, ed., Petroleum Hydrocarbons and Organic Chemicals in Ground Water--Prevention, Detection, and Remediation Conference, Houston, Tex., Nov. 12-14, [Proceedings]: Houston, Tex., National Ground Water Association, and American Petroleum Institute, p. 35-59.

Bruce, B.W., 1995 , Denver's urban ground-water quality--Nutrients, pesticides, and volatile organic compounds: U.S. Geologcial Survey Fact Sheet FS-106-95, 2 p.

Buxton, H.T., Landmeyer, J.E., Baehr, A.L., Church, C.D., and Tratnyek, P.G., 1997 , Interdisciplinary investigation of subsurface contaminant transport and fate at point-source releases of gasoline containing MTBE, in Stanley, Anita, ed., Petroleum Hydrocarbon Conference--Prevention, Detection, and Restoration, Houston, Tex., Nov. 12-14, 1997, [Proceedings]: Houston, Tex., National Ground Water Association and American Petroleum Institute, p. 2-18.

California Environmental Protection Agency, 1997 , MTBE (methyl tertiary butyl ether): California Environmental Protection Agency, 23 p.

Clark, J.J., Rodriquez, R.A., Brown, A., and Jonhson, B.J., 1998 , Public health implications of MTBE and perchlorate in water--Risk management decisions for water purveyors, in The Southwest Focused Ground Water Conference--Discussing the Issue of MTBE and Perchlorate in Ground Water, Anaheim, Calif., June 3-4, 1998, [Proceedings]: Anaheim, Calif., National Ground Water Association, p. 67-70.

Clark, J.J.J., 2002 , tert-butyl alchohol--Chemical properties, production and use, fate and transport, toxicology, and detection in groundwater and regulatory standards, in Diaz, A.F., and Drogos, D.L., eds., Oxygenates in Gasoline--Environmental Aspects, Washington, D.C. American Chemical Society, ACS Symposium Series 799, p. 92-106.

Crowley, J.S., and Tulloch, Chris, 1998 , Santa Clara Valley Water District's leaking UST oversight program "MTBE issues in Santa Clara County ground water supplies", in The Southwest Focused Ground Water Conference--Discussing the Issue of MTBE and Perchlorate in Ground Water, Anaheim, Calif., June 3-4, 1998, [Proceedings]: Anaheim, Calif., National Ground Water Association, p. 26-35.

Dale, M.S., Koch, Bart, Losee, R.F., Crofts, E.W., and Davis, M.K., 2000 , MTBE in Southern California water--Motorized recreation watercraft were the predominant mode of contamination in reservoirs: Journal American Water Works Association, v. 92, no. 8, p. 42-51.

Dale, M.S., Moylan, M.S., Koch, Bart, and Davis, M.K., 1997 , MTBE--Taste-and-odor threshold determinations using the flavor profile method: La Verne, Calif., Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, 12 p.

Davidson, J.M., 1995 a, Fate and transport of MTBE--The latest data, in Stanley, Anita, ed., Petroleum Hydrocarbons and Organic Chemicals in Ground Water--Prevention, Detection, and Remediation Conference, Houston, Tex., 1995, [Proceedings]: Houston, Tex., National Ground Water Association and American Petroleum Institute, p. 285-301.

Davidson, J.M., 1995 b, Groundwater health issues of MTBE--Sources, MTBE in precipitation, MTBE in ground water, fate & transport, MTBE in drinking water: Reformulated Gasoline Workshop, October 12, 1995, [Proceedings], 18 p.

Delzer, G.C., and Ivahnenko, Tamara, 2002 , Occurrence and temporal variability of methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) and other volatile organic compounds in select sources of drinking water--Results of the focused survey: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report, WRIR 02-4084, 65 p.

Fenelon, J.M., and Moore, R.C., 1996 , Occurrence of volatile organic compounds in ground water in the White River Basin, Indiana, 1994-95: U.S.Geological Survey Fact Sheet, FS-138-96, 4 p.

Fischer, W., 2003 , An evaluation of tertiary-butyl alcohol for the development of a drinking water action level in Delaware: Ground Water Monitoring & Remediation, v. 23, no. 2, p. 56-63.

Gilbert, C.E., and Calabrese, E.J., 1992 , Developing a standard for methyl tertiary butyl ether in drinking water, in Gilbert, C.E. and Calabrese, E.J., eds., Regulating drinking water quality: Ann Arbor, Mich., Lewis Publishers, Inc., p. 231-252.

Gomez-Taylor, M.M., Abernathy, C.O., and Du, J.T., 1997 , Drinking water health advisory for methyl tertiary-butyl ether, in American Chemical Society Division of Environmental Chemistry preprints of papers, 213th, San Francisco, Calif.: ACS, v. 37, no. 1, p. 370-372.

Grady, S.J., 2002 , A National Survey of Methyl tert-butyl ether and other volatile organic compounds in drinking-water sources--Results of the random survey: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report, WRIR 02-4079, 85 p.

Grady, S.J., 1999 , Assessment of MTBE in drinking water in 10 Eastern States [abs.], in EOS Transactions, 1999 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, Calif., Dec. 13-17, 1999: Washington, D.C., American Geophysical Union, v. 80, no. 46, Nov. 16, 1999 Supplement, p. F420-F421.

Grady, S.J., and Casey, G.D., 1999 , A plan for assessing the occurrence and distribution of methyl tert-butyl ether and other volatile organic compounds in drinking water and ambient ground water in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report, OFR 99-207, 36 p.

Graves, K.L, and MacLeod, N.S., 1998 , A basin protection strategy for sites with MTBE impacts, in The Southwest Focused Ground Water Conference--Discussing the Issue of MTBE and Perchlorate in Ground Water, Anaheim, Calif., June 3-4, 1998, [Proceedings]: Anaheim, Calif., National Ground Water Association, p. 71-75.

Graves, K.L., and MacLeod, N.S., 1998 , A basin protection strategy for sites with MTBE impacts, in Stanley, Anita, ed., Petroleum Hydrocarbons and Organic Chemicals in Ground Water--Prevention, Detection, and Remediation Conference, Houston, Tex., Nov. 11-13, 1998 [Proceedings]: Houston, Tex., National Ground Water Association and American Petroleum Institute, p. 12-17.

Green, Aaron, Paillet, F.L., and Gurrieri, J.T., 1992 , A multi-faceted evaluation of a gasoline contaminated bedrock aquifer in Connecticut [abs.]: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 24, no. 3, p. 25.

Gullick, R.W., and LeChevallier, M.W., 2000 , Occurrence of MTBE in drinking water sources: American Water Works Association, v. 92, no.1, p. 100-113.

Happel, A.M., Beckenbach, E.H., and Halden, R.U., 1998 , An evaluation of MTBE impacts to California groundwater resources: Livermore, Calif., Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, UCRL-AR-130897, 68 p.

Hartley, W.R., Englande, A.J., Jr., and Harrington, D.J., 1999 , Health risk assessment of groundwater contaminated with methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE): Water Science Technology, v. 39, no. 10-11, p. 305-310.

Hartley, W.R., and Englande, A.J., Jr., 1992 , Health risk assessment of the migration of unleaded gasoline--A model for petroleum products: Water Science & Technology, v. 25, no. 3, p. 65-72.

Iowa Department of Natural Resources, 2000 , Methyl tertiary-butyl ether (MTBE) occurrence in Iowa--A report for the 2000 session of the seventy-eighth general assembly: Demoines, Iowa, Underground Storage Tank Section, 32 p.

Keller, Arturo, Froines, John, Koshland, Catherine, Reuter, John, Irwin, Suffet, and Last, Jerold, 1998 , Health and Environmental Assessment of MTBE, Report to the governor and legislature of the State of California as sponsored by SB 521: University of California, UC Toxic Substances Research and Teaching Program, v. 1, Summary & Recommendations, 63 p.

Klan, M.J., and Carpenter, M.J., 1994 , A risk-based drinking water concentration for methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE), in Stanley, Anita, ed., Petroleum Hydrocarbons and Organic Chemicals in Ground Water--Prevention, Detection, and Remediation Conference, Houston, Tex., November 2-4, 1994: Houston, Tex., National Ground Water Association and American Petroleum Institute, p. 107-115.

Komex H2O Science, 1997 , Draft investigation report--MTBE contamination--City of Santa Monica Charnock well field, Los Angeles, California: Huntington Beach, Calif., Komex H2O Science, 60 p.

Lawuyi, Richard, and Fingas, Merv, 1997 , Environmental impact of methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE), in Technical Seminar of Chemical Spills, 14th, [Proceedings]: Ottawa, Ontario, Environment Canada, p. 127-141.

Lindsey, B.D., Breen, K.J., and Daly, M.H., 1997 , MTBE in water from fractured-bedrock aquifers, southcentral Pennsylvania, in American Chemical Society Division of Environmental Chemistry preprints of papers, 213th, San Francisco, Calif.: ACS, v. 37, no. 1, p. 399-400.

Mace, R.E., and Choi, Wan-Joo, 1998 , The size and behavior of MTBE plumes in Texas, in Stanley, Anita, ed., Petroleum Hydrocarbons and Organic Chemicals in Ground Water--Prevention, Detection, and Remediation Conference, Houston, Tex., Nov. 11-13, 1998 [Proceedings]: Houston, Tex., National Ground Water Association and American Petroleum Institute, p. 1-11.

Maine MTBE Drinking Water Study, 1998 , The presence of MTBE and other gasoline compounds in Maine's drinking water--Preliminary report: Bureau of Health, Department of Human Services, Bureau of Waste Management & Remediation, Department of Environmental Protection, Maine Geological Survey, and Department of Conservation, 23 p.

McCarthy, J.E., and Tiemann, Mary, 1998 , MTBE in Gasoline--Clean Air and drinking water issues: Congressional Research Service, Environment and Natural Resources Policy Division, 98-200 ENR, 10 p.

McKinnon, R.J., and Dyksen, J.E., 1984 , Removing organics from groundwater through aeration plus GAC: Journal of the American Water Works Association, v. 76, no. 5, p. 42-47.

Mehlman, M.A., 1995 , Dangerous and cancer-causing properties of products and chemicals in the oil refining and petrochemical industry, Part XV. Health hazards and health risks from oxygenated automobile fuels (MTBE)--Lessons not heeded: International Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology, v. 4, no. 2, p. 17.

Moran, M.J., Zogorski, J.S., and Squillace, P.J., 2003 , MTBE in groundwater of the U.S.--Occurrence, potential sources, and long-range transport, in Rapport, D.J., Lasley, W.L., Rolston, D.E., Nielsen, N.O., Qualset, C.O., and Damania, A.B., eds., Managing for Healthy Ecosystems: Boca Raton, Fla., Lewis Publishers, p. 1435-1446.

New York, 1993 , Fact Sheet--Village of Liberty water supply system: Department of Health, State of New York, 3 p.

Oxygenated Fuels Association, 1998 , Modeling the volatilization of methyl tertiary-butyl ether (MTBE) from surface impoundments: Arlington, Va., Oxygenated Fuels Association, 44 p.

Oxygenated Fuels Association, 1998 , Taste and odor properties of methyl tertiary-butyl ether and implications for setting secondary maximum contaminant level: Arlington, Va., Oxygenated Fuels Association, 46 p.

Page, N.P., 1989 , Gasoline leaking from undergound storage tanks--Impact on drinking water quality, in Hemphill, D.D., ed., Trace substances in environmental health XXII: Columbia, University of Missouri, p. 233-245.

Patterson, G.J., 1998 , Potential claims for water purveyors impacted by MTBE or perchlorate, in The Southwest Focused Ground Water conference--Discussing the Issue of MTBE and Perchlorate in Ground Water, Anaheim, Calif., June 3-4, 1998, [Proceedings]: Anaheim, Calif., National Ground Water Association, p. 78-85.

Petroleum Review, 2000 , MTBE--How should Europe respond?: The institute of Petroleum, v. 54, no. 637, p. 37-38.

Post, Gloria, 1994 , Methyl tertiary butyl ether health-based maximum contaminant level support document, in New Jersey Drinking Water Quality Institute, Maximum contaminant level recomendations for hazardous contaminants in drinking water--Appendix A--Health-based maximum contaminant level support documents and addenda: Trenton, N.J., Division of Science and Research, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, July [September 26], 16 p.

Rodriguez, Rey, 1997 , MTBE--Clean water vs. clean air: Ontario, Canada, Association of California Water Agencies, March 13, 200 p.

Schmidt, T.C., Morgenroth, E., Schirmer, M., Effenberger, M., and Haderlein, S.B., 2002 , Use and occurrence of fuel oxygenates in Europe, in Diaz, A.F., and Drogos, D.L., eds., Oxygenates in Gasoline--Environmental Aspects, Washington, D.C. American Chemical Society, ACS Symposium Series 799, p. 58-79.

Schorr, Paul, 1994 , Appendix E--Occurrence, treatability and estimated statewide costs to achieve a proposed maximum contaminant level of 70 ppb for methyl tertiary butyl ether in public and nonpublic drinking water systems in New Jersey: Bureau of Safe Drinking Water, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, 33 p.

Shelton, J.L., Burrow, K.R., Belitz, Kenneth, Dubrovsky, N.M., Land, Michael, and Gronberg, JoAnn, 2001 , Low-level volatile organic compounds in active public supply wells as ground-water tracers in the Los Angeles Physiographic Basin, California, 2000: U.S. Geological Survey, Water Resources Investigations Report, WRIR 01-4188, Sacramento, Calif., 29 p.

Sorrell, R.K., Daly, E.M., Weisner, M.J., and Brass, H.J., 1985 , In-home treatment methods for removing volatile organic chemicals: Journal of the American Water Works Association, v. 77, no. 5, p. 72-78.

Squillace, P.J., Zogorski, J.S., Wilber, W.G., and Price, C.V., 1996 , Preliminary assessment of the occurrence and possible sources of MTBE in groundwater in the United States, 1993-1994: Environmental Science & Technology, v. 30, no. 5, p. 1721-1730.

State of Maryland, 2001 , Final report--Task force on the environmental effects of (methyl tertiary butyl ether) MTBE:, 33 p. http://www.mde.state.md.us/was/pdf/mtbe_finalreport.pdf.

Stocking, A.J., Suffet, I.H., McGuire, M.J., and Kavanaugh, M.C., 2001 , Implications of an MTBE odor study for setting drinking water standards: Journal American Water Works Association, v. 93, no. 3, p. 95-105.

Sykes, Richard., Tikkanen, Maria, Pierner, Jim, Owen, Dave, Abbors, Steve, Berger, Robert, English, Roy, and Farr, Cheryl, 1999 , Watershed investigation and protection program for MTBE at East Bay Municipal Utility District [CD ROM], in American Water Works Association Annual Conference, Chicago, Ill., June 20-24, 1999 [Proceedings]: American Water Works Association.

Tardiff, R.G., and Stern, B.R., 1997 , Estimating the risks and safety of methyl-tertiary-butyl ether (MTBE) and tertiary butyl alcohol (TBA) in tap water for exposures of varying duration, in American Chemical Society Division of Environmental Chemistry preprints of papers, 213th, San Francisco, Calif.: ACS, v. 37, no. 1, p. 430-432.

Task Force on Health Effects of Reformulated Gas, 1995 , Assessment of the health effects of reformulated gasoline in Maine: Clean Air Stakeholders Conference, The Joint Standing Committee on Natural Resources, Maine State Legislature, May 1995, 40 p.

Tulloch, Christine, Matthews, David, Scott, Seyfried, Beatty, Jenifer, and Levine-Fricke, L.F.R., 1999 , Occurrence of methyl tertiary butyl ether (MtBE) in groundwater at operating UST facilities in Santa Clara County--A study to assess groundwater vulnerability, in Stanley, Anita, ed., Petroleum Hydrocarbons and Organic Chemicals in Ground Water--Prevention, Detection, and Remediation, Houston, Tex., Nov. 17-19, 1999 [Proceedings]: National Ground Water Association, and American Petroleum Institute, p., 354-365.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1997 , Drinking water advisory--Consumer acceptability advice and health effects analysis on methyl tertiary-butyl ether (MtBE): Washington, D.C., Office of Water, EPA-822-F-97-009, 43 p.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1996 , Drinking water regulations and health advisories: Washington, D.C., Office of Water, EPA 822-R-96-001, 16 p.

Washington State Department of Ecology, 2000 , Occurrence of methyl tertiary-butyl ether (MTBE) in groundwater at leaking underground storage tank sites in Washington: October, 2000, Publication No. 00-09-054, 23 p.

Weaver, J.W., Haas. J.E., and Sosik, Charles, 1999 , Characteristics of gasoline releases in the water table aquifer of Long Island, in Stanley, Anita, ed., Petroleum Hydrocarbons and Organic Chemicals in Ground Water--Prevention, Detection, and Remediation, Houston, Tex., Nov. 17-19, 1999 [Proceedings]: National Ground Water Association, and American Petroleum Institute, p. 260-261.

Williams, P.R.D., 2001 , MTBE in California drinking water--An analysis of patterns and trends: Environmental Forensics, v. 2, no. 1, p. 75-86.

Williams, P.R.D., and Sheehan, P.J., 2001 , A better perspective on the incidence and implications of MTBE in California's drinking water: Contaminated Soil Sediment and Water, Special Oxygenated Fuels Issue, Spring 2001, p. 23-28.

Wilson, Elizabeth, 1997 , Scientists wrangle over MTBE controversy: Chemical & Engineering News, v. 75, no. 18, p. 54-56.

Young, W.F., Horth, H., Crane, R., Ogden, T., and Arnott, M., 1996 , Taste and odour threshold concentrations of potential potable water contaminants: Water Research, v. 30, no. 2, p. 331-340.

Zogorski, J.S., Baehr, A.L., Bauman, B.M., Conrad, D.L., Drew, R.T., Korte, N.E., Lapham, W.W., Morduchowitz, A., Pankow, J.F., and Washington, E.R., 1997 , Significant findings and water-quality recommendations of the Interagency Oxygenated Fuel Assessment, in Kostecki, P.T., Calabrese, E.J., and Bonazountas, Marc, eds., Contaminated Soils: Amherst, Mass, Amherst Scientific Publishers, v. 2, p. 661-679.

Zogorski, J.S., Delzer, G.C., Bender, D.A., Squillace, P.J., Lopes, T.J., Baehr, A.L., Stackelberg, P.E., Landmeyer, J.E., Boughton, C.J., Lico, M.S., Pankow, J.F., Johnson, R.L., and Thomson, N.R., 1998 , MTBE--Summary of findings and research by the U.S. Geological Survey, in 1998 Annual Conference of Water Quality, June 21-25, 1998, Dallas, Texas [Proceedings]: American Water Works Association, v. D, p. 287-309.

Zogorski, J.S., Morduchowitz, A.M., Baehr, A.L, Bauman, B.J., Conrad, D.L., Drew, R.T., Korte, N.E., Lapham, W.W., Pankow, J.F., and Washington, E.R., 1996 , Fuel oxygenates and water quality--Current understanding of sources, occurrence in natural waters, environmental behavior, fate, and significance--Final Report: Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President, 37 p. with attachments. [Also published by National Science and Technology Council, 1997, Interagency assessment of oxygenated fuels, Chap. 2, Fuel oxygenates and water quality: Washington, DC, Office of Science and Technology Policy, The Exectutive Office of the President, p. 2-1--2-80.]


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