Region 2

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The Region 2 library is open to the public.  It is located at our regional headquarters –

290 Broadway, New York, New York (16th Floor).

Library Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday from 10:00 am – 2:00 pm, Closed Monday, Friday and federal holidays.

The Librarian is available to locate documents and answer questions. For more information, contact library.region2@epa.gov or call (212) 637-3185.

The Region 2 Library does not circulate materials to the public. Members of the public are, however, welcome to visit the library by appointment and review publications on-site. People who need to borrow materials should contact their local public, school, or university libraries and ask for an interlibrary loan. If you have any questions, please call or email.

Information For Other Libraries: We freely share materials with other libraries in North America via the OCLC Interlibrary Loan system. Our OCLC symbol is EIA and we are members of FEDL (Federal Libraries and Information Centers) and LVIS (Libraries Very Interested in Sharing). For libraries that do not have OCLC access, please contact the Librarian at 212-637-3185 for alternate methods.

Many EPA documents are available through online sources.  Look for a direct link to a particular document in the EPA Online Library System.

The National Center for Environmental Publications maintains and distributes, free of charge, EPA publications in hard copy, CD Rom and other formats.  The current publication inventory includes over 7,000 titles.

The National Technical Information Service is the largest central resource for government-funded scientific, technical, engineering and business related information from over 200 agencies.