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Environmental Protection
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EPA/690/R-11/064F
Final
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Provisional Peer-Reviewed Toxicity Values for
1,2,3 -Trimethyl-4-Propenylnaphthalene
(CASRN 26137-53-1)
Superfund Health Risk Technical Support Center
National Center for Environmental Assessment
Office of Research and Development
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Cincinnati, OH 45268

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AUTHORS, CONTRIBUTORS, AND REVIEWERS
CHEMICAL MANAGER:
Harlal Choudhury, National Center for Environmental Assessment, Cincinnati, OH
DRAFT DOCUMENT PREPARED BY:
National Center for Environmental Assessment, Cincinnati, OH
This document was externally peer-reviewed under contract to:
Eastern Research Group, Inc.
110 Hartwell Avenue
Lexington, MA 02421-3136
Questions regarding the contents of this document may be directed to the U.S. EPA Office of
Research and Development's National Center for Environmental Assessment, Superfund Health
Risk Technical Support Center (513-569-7300).

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
COMMONLY USED ABBREVIATIONS	iv
BACKGROUND	1
DISCLAIMERS	1
QUESTIONS REGARDING PPRTVS	 1
INTRODUCTION	2
REVIEW OF POTENTIALLY RELEVANT DATA (CANCER AND NONCANCER)	3
DERIVATION 01 PROVISIONAL VALUES	3
CANCER WEIGHT-OF-EVIDENCE (WOE) DESCRIPTOR	3
MODE-OF-ACTION (MOA) DISCUSSION	4
REFERENCES	4
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COMMONLY USED ABBREVIATIONS
BMC
benchmark concentration
BMD
benchmark dose
BMCL
benchmark concentration lower bound 95% confidence interval
BMDL
benchmark dose lower bound 95% confidence interval
HEC
human equivalent concentration
HED
human equivalent dose
IUR
inhalation unit risk
LOAEL
lowest-observed-adverse-effect level
LOAELadj
LOAEL adjusted to continuous exposure duration
LOAELhec
LOAEL adjusted for dosimetric differences across species to a human
NOAEL
no-ob served-adverse-effect level
NOAELadj
NOAEL adjusted to continuous exposure duration
NOAELhec
NOAEL adjusted for dosimetric differences across species to a human
NOEL
no-ob served-effect level
OSF
oral slope factor
p-IUR
provisional inhalation unit risk
p-OSF
provisional oral slope factor
p-RfC
provisional reference concentration (inhalation)
p-RfD
provisional reference dose (oral)
POD
point of departure
RfC
reference concentration (inhalation)
RfD
reference dose (oral)
UF
uncertainty factor
UFa
animal-to-human uncertainty factor
UFC
composite uncertainty factor
UFd
incomplete-to-complete database uncertainty factor
UFh
interhuman uncertainty factor
UFl
LOAEL-to-NOAEL uncertainty factor
UFS
subchronic-to-chronic uncertainty factor
WOE
weight of evidence
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PROVISIONAL PEER-REVIEWED TOXICITY VALUES FOR
l,2,3-TRIMETHYL-4-PROPENYLNAPHTHALENE (CASRN 26137-53-1)
BACKGROUND
A Provisional Peer-Reviewed Toxicity Value (PPRTV) is defined as a toxicity value
derived for use in the Superfund Program. PPRTVs are derived after a review of the relevant
scientific literature using established Agency guidance on human health toxicity value
derivations. All PPRTV assessments receive internal review by a standing panel of National
Center for Environment Assessment (NCEA) scientists and an independent external peer review
by three scientific experts.
The purpose of this document is to provide support for the hazard and dose-response
assessment pertaining to chronic and subchronic exposures to substances of concern, to present
the major conclusions reached in the hazard identification and derivation of the PPRTVs, and to
characterize the overall confidence in these conclusions and toxicity values. It is not intended to
be a comprehensive treatise on the chemical or toxicological nature of this substance.
The PPRTV review process provides needed toxicity values in a quick turnaround
timeframe while maintaining scientific quality. PPRTV assessments are updated approximately
on a 5-year cycle for new data or methodologies that might impact the toxicity values or
characterization of potential for adverse human health effects and are revised as appropriate. It is
important to utilize the PPRTV database (http://hhpprtv.ornl.gov) to obtain the current
information available. When a final Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) assessment is
made publicly available on the Internet (www.epa.gov/iris), the respective PPRTVs are removed
from the database.
DISCLAIMERS
The PPRTV document provides toxicity values and information about the adverse effects
of the chemical and the evidence on which the value is based, including the strengths and
limitations of the data. All users are advised to review the information provided in this
document to ensure that the PPRTV used is appropriate for the types of exposures and
circumstances at the site in question and the risk management decision that would be supported
by the risk assessment.
Other U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) programs or external parties who
may choose to use PPRTVs are advised that Superfund resources will not generally be used to
respond to challenges, if any, of PPRTVs used in a context outside of the Superfund program.
QUESTIONS REGARDING PPRTVS
Questions regarding the contents and appropriate use of this PPRTV assessment should
be directed to the EPA Office of Research and Development's National Center for
Environmental Assessment, Superfund Health Risk Technical Support Center (513-569-7300).
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INTRODUCTION
l,2,3-Trimethyl-4-propenylnaphthalene (CAS No. 26137-53-1) is an aromatic, organic
chemical that has been found in ash as a byproduct of combustion. There is little information
available in the scientific literature about this compound. A physical description or listing of
industrial uses for l,2,3-trimethyl-4-propenylnaphthalene could not be located. Table 1 provides
the available physicochemical properties of l,2,3-trimethyl-4-propenylnaphthalene.
Table 1. Physicochemical Properties Table for
l,2,3-Trimethyl-4-propenylnaphthalene (CASRN 26137-53-l)a
Property (unit)
Value
Boiling point (°C)
345.3
Melting point (°C)
No data
Density (g/cm3)
0.985
Vapor pressure (hPa at 25°C)
No data
pH (unitless)
No data
Solubility in water (mg/L at 20°C)
No data
Relative vapor density (air =1)
No data
Molecular weight (g/mol)
210.314
Flash point (°C)
173.1
aLookChem (2011) and Pubchem (2011)
No Reference Dose (RfD), Reference Concentration (RfC), or cancer assessment for
l,2,3-trimethyl-4-propenylnaphthalene is included in the IRIS (U.S. EPA, 2010) or on the
Drinking Water Standards and Health Advisories List (U.S. EPA, 2009). No RfD or RfC values
are reported in the HEAST (U.S. EPA, 2003). The Chemical Assessments and Related Activities
(CARA) list does not include a Health and Environmental Effects Profile (HEEP) for
l,2,3-trimethyl-4-propenylnaphthalene (U.S. EPA, 1994). The toxicity of
l,2,3-trimethyl-4-propenylnaphthalene has not been reviewed by the ATSDR (2010) or the
World Health Organization (WHO, 2010). CalEPA (2008, 2009) has not derived toxicity values
for exposure to l,2,3-trimethyl-4-propenylnaphthalene. No occupational exposure limits for
l,2,3-trimethyl-4-propenylnaphthalene have been derived by the American Conference of
Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH, 2010), the National Institute of Occupational
Safety and Health (NIOSH, 2005), or the Occupational Safety and Health Administration
(OSHA, 2010).
The HEAST (U.S. EPA, 2003) does not report a U.S. EPA (1986) cancer
weight-of-evidence (WOE) descriptor or an oral slope factor (OSF). The International Agency
for Research on Cancer (IARC, 2010) has not reviewed the carcinogenic potential of
l,2,3-trimethyl-4-propenylnaphthalene. l,2,3-Trimethyl-4-propenylnaphthalene is not included
in the 11th Report on Carcinogens (NTP, 2005). CalEPA (2008) has not prepared a quantitative
estimate of carcinogenic potential for l,2,3-trimethyl-4-propenylnaphthalene.
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In the absence of any toxicity or metabolism data on 1,2,3-trimethyl-
4-propenylnaphthalene, a surrogate approach for developing provisional toxicity values is not
deemed appropriate.
Literature searches were conducted on sources published from 1900 through
February 4, 2011 for studies relevant to the derivation of provisional toxicity values for
l,2,3-trimethyl-4-propenylnaphthalene (CAS No. 26137-53-1). Literature searches were
conducted using EPA's Health and Environmental Research Online (HERO) database of
scientific literature. HERO searches the following databases: AGRICOLA; American Chemical
Society; BioOne; Cochrane Library; DOE: Energy Information Administration, Information
Bridge, and Energy Citations Database; EBSCO: Academic Search Complete; GeoRef Preview;
GPO: Government Printing Office; Informaworld; IngentaConnect; J-STAGE: Japan Science &
Technology; JSTOR: Mathematics & Statistics and Life Sciences; NSCEP/NEPIS (EPA
publications available through the National Service Center for Environmental Publications
[NSCEP] and National Environmental Publications Internet Site [NEPIS] database); PubMed:
MEDLINE and CANCERLIT databases; SAGE; Science Direct; Scirus; Scitopia; SpringerLink;
TOXNET (Toxicology Data Network): ANEUPL, CCRIS, ChemlDplus, CIS, CRISP, DART,
EMIC, EPIDEM, ETICBACK, FEDRIP, GENE-TOX, HAPAB, HEEP, HMTC, HSDB, IRIS,
ITER, LactMed, Multi-Database Search, NIOSH, NTIS, PESTAB, PPBIB, RISKLINE, TRI; and
TSCATS; Virtual Health Library; Web of Science (searches Current Content database among
others); World Health Organization; and Worldwide Science. The following databases outside
of HERO were searched for risk assessment values: ACGIH, ATSDR, CalEPA, EPA IRIS, EPA
HEAST, EPA HEEP, EPA OW, EPA TSCATS/TSCATS2, NIOSH, NTP, OSHA, and RTECS.
REVIEW OF POTENTIALLY RELEVANT DATA
(CANCER AND NONCANCER)
The literature search revealed no human or animal studies (i.e., acute-, short-term-, or
chronic-duration) for l,2,3-trimethyl-4-propenylnaphthalene.
DERIVATION OF PROVISIONAL VALUES
Limitations in the available data preclude development of both cancer and noncancer
toxicity values.
CANCER WEIGHT-OF-EVIDENCE (WOE) DESCRIPTOR
Limitations in the available data preclude development of a WOE descriptor.
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MODE-OF-ACTION (MOA) DISCUSSION
Limitations in the available data preclude determination of a MOA discussion.
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