EQC Agency Oversight Subcommittee
2003-2004 Interim
Meeting Minutes
January 13, 2004
Exhibit 31
DEC 0'1 2003
MT Dept. of Environmental Quality
Enforcement Division
Chemical Exposures Associated with Clandestine
Methamphetamine Laboratories
John W. Martyny, Ph.D., C M
Associate Professor, National Jewish Medical and Research Center
Shawn L. Arbuckle
Industrial Hygiene Program Coordinator, National Jewish Medical and Research Center
Charles S. McCarnmon, Jr., Ph.D., C M
Senior Industrial Hygienist, Tri-County Health Department
Eric J. Esswein, MSPH, CIH, CIAQP
Senior Industrial Hygienist, National Institute For Occupational Safety and Health
Acknowledgements:
This project was sponsored, in part, by a grant fiom the Colorado Department of Public
Safety and the United States Department of Justice through the Colorado
Methamphetamine Program. Ln addition, the National Institute for Occupational Safety
and Health provided a substantial amount of the laboratory analysis. The North Metro
Task Force allowed us to sample at a number of their clandestine laboratory
investigations and assisted in the Colorado Springs Police Department Sampling and the
controlled manufacturing sampling. The Tri-County Health Department provided
personnel and assistance during the sampling efforts and the Denver Police Department
and Trinidad Police Department allowed us to conduct sampling at suspected
methamphetamine laboratories within their jurisdictions. The Colorado Springs Police
Department allowed us to conduct sampling during a controlled methamphetamine
manufacture in their crime laboratory enabling us to test our sampling methodologies and
to determine maximum chemical concentrations. Assistance was also provided by the
Colorado Alliance for Drug Endangered Children and many of the emergency service
agencies (police, fire, and EMS) in the Denver Metropolitan Area. The project personnel
also wish to thank Lt. Lori Moriarty, Sgt. Jim Gerhardt, and Lynn Riemer for their help
throughout the study.