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Laboratories and Research Centers

Here are links to the major laboratories and other organizations that conduct research and carry out scientific and technical activities within the EPA programs listed below.

Office of Air and Radiation

National Air and Radiation Environmental Laboratory (NAREL) (Montgomery, Alabama) - comprehensive environmental laboratory for measuring environmental radioactivity and evaluating its risk to the public.

National Vehicle and Fuel Emissions Laboratory (Ann Arbor, Michigan) - responsible for developing national regulatory programs to reduce mobile source related air pollution; evaluating emission control technology; testing vehicles, engines, and fuels; and determining compliance with Federal emissions and fuel economy standards.

Radiation and Indoor Environments National Laboratory (Las Vegas, NV) - provides technical support for numerous radiation protection and control activities, conducts site investigations, radon assessments and evaluations, health assessment modeling, and indoor air studies.

Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance

National Enforcement Investigations Center - Laboratory Branch (Denver, Colorado) - provides facilities, equipment, personnel, and expertise needed for measurement activities, data evaluations, and investigations conducted to support civil and criminal environmental enforcement efforts.

Office of Pesticide Programs

Analytical Chemistry Laboratory - Environmental Science Center (Fort Meade, Maryland)

Environmental Chemistry Laboratory - (Bay St. Louis, Mississippi)

Microarray Research Laboratory - Environmental Science Center (Fort Meade, Maryland)

Microbiology Laboratory - Environmental Science Center (Fort Meade, Maryland)


Office of Regional Operations

Regional Science and Technology (RS&T) Laboratories - focuses on the application of science policies and methods in support of regulatory and monitoring programs and special projects. This is done through direct implementation, partnerships with state, local and tribal governments, private industry, the academic community, EPA program offices, and the public.

Office of Research and Development

National Center for Computational Toxicology - located in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina works closely with the STAR-funded Center for Environmental Bioinformatic Research to provide tools and training to broader scientific audiences and sponsors external research in the field of computational toxicology.

National Center for Environmental Assessment - serves as the national resource center for the overall process of human health and ecological risk assessments; the integration of hazard, dose-response , and exposure data and models to produce risk characterizations with divisions that include:

National Center for Environmental Research (Washington, DC) - has primary responsibility to issue and manage research grant and fellowship programs, as well as issues of quality assurance, and peer review.

National Exposure Research Lab (NERL) - located in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina provides scientific understanding, information and assessment tools to reduce and quantify the uncertainty in the Agency's exposure and risk assessments for all environmental stressors with divisions that include:

National Health & Environmental Effects Research Lab (NHEERL) - located in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina the agency's focal point for scientific research on the effects of contaminants and environmental stressors on human health and ecosystem integrity. NHEERL divisions include:

National Homeland Security Research Center - located in Cincinnati, Ohio manages, coordinates, and supports a variety of research and technical assistance efforts used to prevent, prepare for, and recover from public health and environmental emergencies arising from terrorist threats and incidents.

National Risk Management Research Lab (NRMRL) - located in Cincinnati, Ohio advances the scientific understanding and the development and application of technological solutions to prevent, control, or remediate important environmental problems that threaten human health and the environment. NRMRL divisions include:

Office of Science Advisor - provides leadership in establishing specific mechanisms for ensuring that scientific results and hypotheses, with technical evaluation and peer-review, play a prominent role in all regulatory decisions.

Office of Science Policy - integrates and communicates scientific information generated by or for ORD's laboratories and centers, as well as ORD's expert advice on the use of scientific information.

Office of Water

Office of Science and Technology (OST) (Washington, DC) - responsible for developing sound, scientifically defensible standards, criteria, advisories, guidelines, limitations and standards guidelines under the Clean Water Act and the Safe Drinking Water Act for protecting the nation's water supplies.

Science Advisory Board

EPA's Science Advisory Board (SAB) was established by Congress to provide independent scientific and engineering advice to the EPA Administrator on the technical basis for EPA regulations. Members of and Consultants to the Board constitute a distinguished body of scientists, engineers, and economists who are recognized, non-governmental experts in their respective fields.

Regional Laboratories

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