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Fires in Mass Transit Vehicles Guide for the Evaluation of Toxic Hazards (1991) / Chapter Skim
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1. Background
Pages 5-10

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... UMTA's mission Is to assist in the development of improved mass transportation facilities, equipment, techniques, and methods; to encourage the planning and establishment of areawide urban mass transportation systems where they are cost effective; to provide assistance to state and local governments in financing such systems; and to encourage private sector involvement in local mass transportation systems. Within UMTA's organizational framework, the Safety and Security Office, under the direction of the associate administrator for technical assistance and safety, is responsible for transit safety.
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... For that reason the following sections address only selected related governmental activities and efforts of the National Research Council. For a more thorough examination of the overall field of toxicity, the reader is referred to the literature.
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... National Research Council In 1977 the NMAB published a lO-volume series of reports entitled Fire Safety Aspects of Polymeric Materials. The volumes covered materials, test methods for combustion and toxic gases, fire dynamics and scenarios, a guide to designers, civil and military aircraft, buildings, land transportation vehicles, ships, and mines and bunkers.
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... 1 1~. A related combustion toxicity study was carried out by the National Research Councils Committee on Fire Toxicity of the Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology (1986~.
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... 1-10, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC. Board or Environmental Studies and Toxicology, National Research Council.
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