Science & Technology
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Climate Ready Estuaries
Information on climate change impacts to different estuary regions, tools and resources to monitor changes, and information to help managers develop adaptation plans for risk management of estuaries and coastal communities.
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Remote Sensing Information Gateway
Remote Sensing Information Gateway, a tool that allows scientists, researchers and decision makers to access a variety of multi-terabyte, environmental datasets and to subset the data and obtain only needed variables, greatly improving the download time.
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Chemicals under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)
This web area will allow stakeholders to search and view centralized chemical info from various systems. This page will focus on TSCA chemical data such as health and safety studies, risk assessments and hazard characterizations.
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Risk Evaluation for 1,2-Dichloropropane
EPA designated 1,2-dichloropropane as a high priority chemical in December 2019 and the chemical is currently undergoing risk evaluation.
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Calculating Upper Confidence Limits for Exposure Point Concentrations at Hazardous Waste Sites: December 2002
Updates a guidance on estimating exposure of individuals to chemicals at hazardous waste sites with alternative methods for calculating the 95% upper confidence limit of the mean concentration.
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Human Health Evaluation Manual
The purpose of this directive is to transmit the Interim Final Standard Exposure Factors guidance to be used in the remedial investigation and feasibility study process.
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Risk Assessment Guidance for Superfund (RAGS): Part D
EPA's Risk Assessment Guidance for Superfund (RAGS) Part D provides planning tools and other approaches to support standardization of risk assessments.
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Risk Assessment Guidance for Superfund (RAGS): Part B
EPA's Risk Assessment Guidance for Superfund (RAGS) Part B provides guidance on the development of risk-based preliminary remediation goals for decision makers.
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Risk Assessment Guidance for Superfund (RAGS) Volume III: Part A
EPA's Risk Assessment Guidance for Superfund (RAGS) Volume 3A provides policies and guiding principles on the application of probabilistic risk assessment (PRA) methods to human health and ecological risk assessment in the EPA Superfund Program.
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Review of the Reference Dose and Reference Concentration Processes Document
Summarizes the review and deliberations of the Risk Assessment Forum’s RfD/RfC Technical Panel and its recommendations for improvements in oral reference
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Guidance on Cumulative Risk Assessment: Part 1. Planning and Scoping
EPA's risk assessment emphasis has shifted increasingly to a more broadly based approach characterized by greater consideration of multiple endpoints, sources, pathways and routes of exposure.
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Framework for Metals Risk Assessment
The Framework for Metals Risk Assessment is a science-based document that addresses the special attributes and behaviors of metals and metal compounds to be considered when assessing their human health and ecological risks.
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A Summary of General Assessment Factors for Evaluating the Quality of Scientific and Technical Information
Informs information-generating scientists about quality issues that should appropriately be taken into consideration at the time information is generated.
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FITARA Implementation Plan and Chief Information Officer Assignment Plan
EPA's FITARA Implementation Plan and CIO Assignment Plan.
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Draft API Strategy
Overview of EPA's Draft API Strategy
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Data Download
Download EnviroAtlas National and Community datasets.
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Cutting-Edge Contracting Innovation Lab (CECIL)
EPA's Cutting-Edge Contracting Innovation Lab (CECIL) offers EPA's contracting professionals access to innovative acquisition concepts, techniques, and strategies with support. Inspired by the DHS PIL, this is the hub of EPA's innovation in acquisition.
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Analytical Methods and Protocols
To protect the environment and human health from the impacts of a chemical, biological or radiological contamination incident, EPA’s Homeland Security Research Program (HSRP) has been identifying and developing effective and accurate analytical methods.
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Superfund Technical Guidance: Criteria for Evaluation Blood Lead Data Quality and Use
Regional guidance provides specific criteria for evaluating the quality of the design and conduct of human blood lead studies.
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Superfund Technical Guidance: Estimating Site-Specific Exposure to Contaminants in Indoor Dust
Regional guidance provides a basic mathematical approach for estimating site-specific exposure from contaminants in indoor dust.