Laws & Regulations
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North Carolina Proposed Title V Permits
List of Title V petitions and responses.
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Improvements for Heavy-Duty Engine and Vehicle Test Procedures
EPA is taking a final action to improve the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Model (GEM) compliance tool for heavy-duty vehicles.
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Peer Review Handbook 4th Edition, 2015
4th Edition Peer Review Handbook and Addendum
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Framework for Ecological Risk Assessment
This is the first step in a long-term effort to develop risk assessment guidelines for ecological effects. Its primary purpose is to offer a simple, flexible structure for conducting and evaluating ecological risk assessment within EPA.
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Integrating Ecological Assessment and Decision-Making at EPA: A Path Forward - Results of a Colloquium in Response to Science Advisory Board and National Research Council Recommendations
This report was prepared by a Technical Panel of EPA’s Risk Assessment Forum to document an Intra-Agency Colloquium of ecological assessors.
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Framework for Human Health Risk Assessment to Inform Decision Making
The purpose of this document is to describe a Framework for conducting human health risk assessments that are responsive to the needs of decision‐making processes in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
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Guidelines for Mutagenicity Risk Assessment
Guide the Agency analysis of mutagenicity data in line with the policies and procedures established in the statutes administered by EPA.
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Guidance on Selecting Age Groups for Monitoring and Assessing Childhood Exposures to Environmental Contaminants
This document recommends a set of age groupings based on current understanding of differences in lifestage behavior and anatomy and physiology that can serve as a starting set for consideration by Agency risk assessors and researchers.
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Guidelines for Reproductive Toxicity Risk Assessment
These guidelines discuss the scientific basis for concern about exposure to agents that cause reproductive toxicity and describe the principles and procedures to be followed in conducting risk assessments for reproductive toxicity.
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Guidelines for Carcinogen Risk Assessment
The Guidelines for Carcinogen Risk Assessment provide EPA staff with guidance for developing and using risk assessments. They also provide basic information to the public about the Agency's risk assessment methods.
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Policy for Use of Probabilistic Analysis in Risk Assessment at EPA
This policy and the guiding principles attached are designed to support the use of various techniques for characterizing variability and uncertainty.
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Guidelines for the Health Risk Assessment of Chemical Mixtures
1986 procedural guide for evaluating data on the health risks from exposures to chemical mixtures.
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Documents for Recommended Toxicity Equivalency Factors for Human Health Risk Assessments of Dioxin and Dioxin-Like Compounds
This document describes the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (U.S. EPA’s) updated approach for evaluating the human health risks from exposures to environmental media containing dioxin-like compounds (DLCs).
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Guidelines for Developmental Toxicity Risk Assessment
1991 issuing of final amended guidelines for assessing the risks for developmental toxicity from exposure to environmental agents.
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EPA Region 4 Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs)
EPA Regional implementations and regulations for the processing, distribution, use, cleanup, storage and disposal of PCBs under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).
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Permit Limitations for Uncontaminated Stormwater
Uncontaminated Stormwater
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Draft General Permit for Hydroelectric Generating Facilities (HYDROGP) in Massachusetts & New Hampshire
Documents, links & contacts for the Notice of Availability of the Draft NPDES General Permits (HYDROGP) for Discharges at Hydroelectric Generating Facilities in Massachusetts (MAG360000) and New Hampshire (NHG360000).
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Limitless Potential: Keokuk, Iowa, Aims to Revitalize Old Elkem-Carbide Site
EPA's $2 million grant will help Keokuk achieve its goal of revitalizing an abandoned carbide plant, one of the largest 2023 grants offered by Region 7's Brownfields program.
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Ethics Pledge Waivers
ethics waivers
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Learn about FOIA
Overview of FOIA