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American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists, 1995 , 1994-1995 Threshold limit values for chemical substances and physical agents and biological exposure indices: Cincinnati, Ohio, ACGIH, 100 p.

American Petroleum Institute, 1988 , Alcohols and ethers--A technical assessment of their application as fuels and fuel components (2d ed.): Washington, D.C., Refining Department, American Petroleum Institute Publication No. 4261, 89 p.

Ames, T.T., and Grulke, E.A., 1995 , Group contribution method for predicting equilibria of nonionic organic compounds between soil organic matter and water: Environmental Science & Technology, v. 29, no. 9, p. 2273-2279.

Anthony, J.W., Henry, B.M., Wiedemeier, T.H., Gordon, E.K., Bidgood, J.B., Hinchee, R.E., and Hansen, J.E., 1999 , Methodology to evaluate natural attenuation of methyl tertiary-butyl ether, in Alleman, B.C., and Leeson, Andrea, eds., Natural Attenuation of Chlorinated Solvents, Petroleum Hydrocarbons, and Other Organic Compounds, V. 1, Fifth International In Situ and Onsite Bioremediation Symposium, San Diego, Calif., April 19-22, 1999 [Proceedings]: Columbus, Ohio, Battelle Publications, p. 121-133.

Arce, Alberto, Arce, Alberto Jr., Martinez-Ageitos, Jose, Rodil, Eva, Rodriguez, Oscar, and Soto, Ana, 2000 , Physical and equilibrium properties of diisopropyl ether + isopropyl alcohol + water system: Fluid Phase Equilibria, v. 170, p. 113-126.

Baur, Christoph, Kim, Bongsoo, Jenkins, P.E., and Cho, Yong-Seok, 1990 , Performance analysis of SI engine with ethyl tertiary butyl ether (ETBE) as a blending component in motor gasoline and comparison with other blending components, in Nelson, P.A., Schertz, W.W., and Till, R.H., eds., Intersociety Energy Conversion Engineering Conference, 25th, [Proceedings]: v. 4: New York, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, p. 337-342.

Belpoggi, Fiorella, Soffritti, Morando, and Maltoni, Cesare, 1995 , Methyl-tertiary-butyl ether (MTBE)--a gasoline additive--causes testicular and lymphohaematopoeitic cancers in rats: Toxicology and Industrial Health, v. 11, no. 2, p. 1-31.

Bender, D.A., Zogorski, J.S., Halde, M.J., and Rowe, B.L., 1999 , Selection procedure and salient information for volatile organic compounds emphasized in the National Water-Quality Assessment Program: U.S. Geological Survey Open File Report 99-182, 32 p.

Bouzas, Alberto, Burguet, M.C., Monton, J.B., and Munoz, Rosa, 2000 , Densities, viscosities, and refractive indices of the binary systems methyl tert-butyl ether + 2-methylpentane, + 3-methylpentane, + 2,3-dimethylpentane, and + 2,2,4-trimethylpentane at 298.15 K: Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data, v. 45, p. 331-333.

Brown, Anthony, Devinny, J.S., Browne, T.E., and Chitwood, D., 1997 , A review of treatment technologies for methyl tertiary butyl ether (MtBE) in drinking water, in The ACS 1997 Pacific Conference on Chemistry and Spectrometry: Komex.H20 Science, p. 1-19.

Buscheck, T.E., Gallagher, D.J., Peargin, T.R., Kuehne, D.L., and Zuspan, C.R., 1998 , Occurrence and behavior of MTBE in groundwater, 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. 2-3.

Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1992 , Priority substances list, assessment report no. 5, methyl tertiary-butyl ether: Government of Canada, Beauregard Printers Limited, 17 p.

Chatin, L., Fombarlet, C., Bernasconi, C., Gauthier, A., and Schmelzle, P., 1994 , ETBE as a gasoline blending component--The experience of Elf Aquitaine: Society of Automotive Engineering, [Spec. Publ.] SP-1054 (Gasoline--Composition and additives to meet the performance and emission requirements of the nineties), p. 1-10.

Clark, A.Q., McBain, S.E., Kilner, John, 1997 , Vapour-liquid equililbrium of (ethers + hydrocarbons or methanol or water) for motor gasoline modelling: Fluid Phase Equilibria, v. 133, p. 239-246.

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.

Conrad, D.L., 1995 , The impacts of gasoline/oxygenate releases to the environment--A review of the literature: Port Arthur, Texas, Texaco Research & Development Department, 48 p.

Davidson, J.M., and Parsons, Rick, 1996 , Remediating MTBE with current and emerging technologies, in Stanley, Anita, ed., Petroleum Hydrocarbons and Organic Chemicals in Ground Water--Prevention, Detection, and Remediation Conference, Houston, Tex., Nov. 13-15, 1996, [Proceedings]: Houston, Tex., National Ground Water Association and American Petroleum Institute, p. 15-29.

Deeb, R.A., Hu, H.-Y., Hanson, J.R., Scow, K.M., Alvarez-Cohen, Lisa, 2001 , Substrate interactions in BTEX and MTBE mixtures by an MTBE-degrading isolate: Environmental Science & Technology, v. 35, no. 2, p. 312-317.

Deeb, R.A., McMillan, B., and Kavanaugh, M.C., 2001 , Environmental fate and transport of fuel oxygenates in Petroleum Hydrocarbons and Organic Chemicals in Ground Water--Prevention, detection, and remediation, Houston, Tex., Nov.14-16, 2001 [Proceedings]: National Ground Water Association, p. 69-72.

Diaz, A.F., and Drogos, D.L., 2002 , Stability of methyl tert-butyl ether, tert-amyl methyl ether, and ethyl tert-butyl ether in acidic media, iin Diaz, A.F., and Drogos, D.L., eds., Oxygenates in Gasoline--Environmental Aspects, Washington, D.C. American Chemical Society, ACS Symposium Series 799, p. 138-152.

Drogos, D.L., and Diaz, A.F., 2002 , Appendix A--Physical properties of fuel oxygenates and additives, 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. 258-279.

Fandary, M.S.H., Aljimaz, A.S., Al-Kandary, J.A., and Fahim, M.A., 1999 , Liquid-liquid equilibria for the system water + ethanol + ethyl butyl-butyl ether: Journal of Chemical and Engineering Data, v. 44, no. 6, p. 1129-1131.

Fite, C., Tejero, J., Iborra, M., Cunill, F., and Izquierdo, F.J., 1997 , Effect of solubility parameter on the MTBE synthesis kinetics, in Froment, G.F., and Waught, K.C., eds., Dynamics of Surface and Reaction Kinetics in Heterogenous Catalysis, The International Symposium on Studies in Surface Science and Catalysis, Antwerp, Belgium, September 15-17 [Proceedings]: Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, p. 541-546.

Garrett, Peter, Moreau, Marcel, and Lowry, J.D., 1986 , MTBE as a ground water contaminant, in Conference on Petroleum Hydrocarbons and Organic Chemicals in Ground Water--Prevention, Detection, and Restoration, Houston, Tex., November 12-14, 1986, [Proceedings]: Dublin, Ohio, National Ground Water Association, p. 227-238.

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, J., Brasil, T., and Chan, N., 1998 , An overview of the use of oxygenates in gasoline: State of California, California Air Resources Board, 31 p.

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.

Heerman, S.E., and Powers, S.E., 1998 , Modeling the partitioning of BTEX in water-reformulated gasoline systems containing ethanol: Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, v. 34, no. 4, p. 315-341.

Hinchee, R.E., and Reisinger, H.J., 1995 , Multi-phase transport of petroleum hydrocarbons in the subsurface environment--Theory and practical application in NWWA/API Conference on petroleum hydrocarbons and organic chemicals in ground water-prevention, detection and restoration, Houston, TX, November 13-15 [Proceedings]: Dublin, Ohio, National Water Well Association, p. 58-76.

Howard, P.H., Boethling, R.S., Jarvis, W.F., Meylan, W.M., and Michalenko, E.M., 1991 , Handbook of environmental degradation rates: Chelsea, Mich., Lewis Publishers, Inc., p. 653-654.

Howard, P.H., ed., 1993 , Handbook of environmental fate and exposure data for organic chemicals: Ann Arbor, Mich., Lewis Publishers, Inc., v. IV, p. 71-75.

Huttunen, H., Wyness, L.E., and Kallioski, P., 1997 , Identification of environmental hazards of gasoline oxygenate tert-amyl methyl ether (TAME): Chemosphere, v. 35, no. 6, p. 1199-1214.

Iborra, Montserrat, Izquierdo, J.F., Tejero, Javier, and Cunill, Fidel, 1988 , Getting the lead out with ethyl t-butyl ether: Chemtech, v. 18, no. 2, p. 120-122.

Jeffrey, David, 1997 , Physico-chemical properties of MTBE and predictions of preferred environmental fate and compartmentalization, in American Chemical Society Division of Environmental Chemistry preprints of papers, 213th, San Francisco, Calif.: ACS, v. 37, no. 1, p. 397-399.

Jensen, H.M., and Arvin, Erik, 1990 , Solubility and degradability of the gasoline additive MTBE, methyl tert-butyl-ether, and gasoline compounds in water, in Arendt, F., Hinsenveld, M., and van den Brink, W.J., eds., Contaminated Soil '90: Netherlands, Kluwer Academic Publishers, p. 445-448.

Johnson, Richard, Pankow, James, Bender, David, Price, Curtis, and Zogorski, John, 2000 , MTBE--To what extent will past releases contaminate community water supply wells?: Environmental Science & Technology, v. 34, no. 9, p. 210A-217A.

Keller, A.A., Sandall, O.C., Rinker, R.G., Mitani, M.M., Bierwagen, Britta, and Snodgrass, M.J., 2000 , An evaluation of physiochemical treatment technologies for water contaminated with MTBE: Ground Water Monitoring & Remediation, v. 20, no. 4, p. 114-126.

Kleindienst, T.E. and Smith, D.F., 1993 , The atmospheric chemistry of tertiary-amyl methyl ether (TAME): Research Triangle Park, N.C., ManTech Environmental Technology, Inc. Report AQ-1-3, 43 p.

Kusalik, P.G., Bergman, D.L., and Laaksonen, A., 2000 , Computer simulation study of tert-butyl alcohol. 2. Structure in aqueous solution: Journal of Physical Chemistry, v. 104, no. 40, p. 9533-9539.

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.

Mackay, Donald, Shiu, W.Y., and Ma, K.C., 1993 , Illustrated handbook of physical-chemical properties and environmental fate for organic chemicals--Volume III--Volatile organic chemicals: Ann Arbor, Mich., Lewis Publishers, Inc., p. 756.

Miller, M.E., and Stuart, J.D., 2000 , Measurement of aqueous Henry's Law Constants for oxygenates and aromatics found in gasolines by the static headspace method: Analytical Chemistry, v. 72, no. 3, p. 622-625.

Mizuno, K., Kimura, Y., and Ochi, T., 2000 , Hydrophobic hydration of tert-butyl alcohol probed by NMR and IR: Journal of Molecular Liquids, v. 85, no. 1-2, p. 139-152.

Montgomery, C.R., 1994 , n-octanol/water partition co-efficient (Kow) for ethyl tertiary butyl ether (ETBE) at 25C +/- 1C: Cambridge, Mass., Biodevelopment Laboratories, Inc., Study no. 57374-2, 44 p.

National Technical Information Service, 1992 , Methyl tertiary-butyl ether, in Government reports announcements & index, no. 15: NTIS, 57 p.

Nihlen, Annsofi, Lof, Agneta, and Johanson, Gunnar, 1995 , Liquid/air partition coefficients of methyl and ethyl t-butyl ethers, t-amyl methyl ether, and t-butyl alcohol: Journal of Exposure Analysis and Environmental Epidemiology, v. 5, no. 4, p. 573-582.

Noureddini, H., 2002 , Ethyl tert-butyl ether and methyl tert-butyl ether--Status, review, and alternative use, 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. 107-124.

Oktar, Nuray, Murtezaoglu, Kirali, Dogu, Timur, and Dogu, Gulsen, 1999 , Dynamic analysis of adsorption equilibrium and rate parameters of reactants and products in MTBE, ETBE and TAME production: The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, v. 77, p. 406-412.

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.

Pankow, J.F., Rathburn, R.E., and Zogorski, J.S., 1996 , Calculated volatilization rates of fuel oxygenate compounds and other gasoline-related compounds from rivers and streams--A comparison with other gasoline-related compounds: Chemosphere, v. 33, no. 5, p. 921-937.

Peaff, George, 1994 , Court ruling spurs continued debate over gasoline oxygenates: Chemical & Engineering News, v. 72, no. 39, p. 8-13.

Piel, W.J., 1995 , MTBE use and possible occurrences in water supplies: ARCO Chemical Company, May 10, 4 p.

Pimentel, A.S., and Arbilla, Graciela, 1998 , Kinetic analysis of the gas-phase of methyl tert-butyl ether with the OH radical in the presence of NOx: Journal of the Brazilian Chemical Society, v. 9, no. 6, p. 539-550.

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.

Powers, S.E., Rice, David, Dooher, Brendan, and Alvarez, P.J.J., 2001 , Will ethanol-blended gasoline affect groundwater quality--Using ethanol instead of MTBE as a galoline oxygenate could be less harmful to the environment: Environmental Science & Technology, v. 35, no. 1, p. 24A-30A.

Prager, J.C., ed., 1992 , Methyl tert-butyl ether, in Dangerous properties of industrial materials report: v. 12, no. 3, p. 381-394.

Rathbun, R.E., 1998 , Transport, behavior, and fate of volatile organic compounds in streams: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1589, 151 p.

Rixey, W.G., and He, X., 2001 , Dissolution characteristics of ethanol from NAPL sources and the impact on BTX groundwater concentrations in Petroleum Hydrocarbons and Organic Chemicals in Ground Water--Prevention, detection, and remediation, Houston, Tex., Nov.14-16, 2001 [Proceedings]: National Ground Water Association, p. 41-49.

Robbins, G.A., Wang, Suya, and Stuart, J.D., 1993 , Using the static headspace method to determine Henry's Law constants: Analytical Chemistry, v. 65, no. 21, p. 3113-3118.

Rouhi, A.M., 1995 , Amoco, Haldor Topsoe develop dimethyl ether as alternative diesel fuel: Chemical & Engineering News, v. May, no. 29, p. 37-39.

Salanitro, J.P., Johnson, P.C., Spinnler, G.E., Maner, P.M., Wisniewski, H.L., and Bruce, Cristin, 2000 , Field-scale demonstration of enhanced MTBE bioremediation through aquifer bioaugmentation and oxygenation: Environmental Science & Technology, v. 34, no. 19, p. 4152-4162.

Sevilla, Al, Beaver, Peter, and Cherry, Phil, 1997 , Effect of MTBE on the treatability of petroleum hydrocarbons in water, in American Chemical Society Division of Environmental Chemistry preprints of papers, 213th, San Francisco, Calif.: ACS, v. 37, no. 1, p. 403-405.

Shen, Y.F., Yoo, L.J., Fitzsimmons, S.R., and Yamamoto, M.K., 1997 , Threshold odor concentrations of MTBE and other fuel oxygenates, in American Chemical Society Division of Environmental Chemistry preprints of papers, 213th, San Francisco, Calif.: ACS, v. 37, no. 1, p. 407-409.

Smith, D.F., Kleindienst, T.E., Hudgens, E.E., McIver, C.D., and Bufalini, J.J., 1992 , Kinetics and mechanism of the atmospheric oxidation of ehtyl tertiary butyl ether: International Journal of Chemical Kinetics, v. 24, p. 199-215.

Squillace, P.J., Pankow, J.F., Korte, N.E., and Zogorski, J.S., 1997 , Review of the environmental behavior and fate of methyl tert-butyl ether: Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, v. 16, no. 9, p. 1836-1844.

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Stanley, C.C., 1998 , MTBE - The need for a balanced perspective, 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. 76-77.

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