Science & Technology
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Ecological Risk Assessment
A key part of EPA’s mission is understanding the potential effects of environmental stressors created by human activities. As legislatively mandated, EPA pursues options to manage risks from those stressors to protect the health of the natural environment.
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Appendix D: Agenda
Workshop to Discuss a Proposed Protocol to Assess Asbestos-Related Risk.
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The Role of BTAGs in Ecological Assessment
The comprehensive environmental restoration, compensation, and liability act (CERCLA), and the national oil and hazardous materials contingency plan (NCP) mandate that remedial actions
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Multi-criteria Integrated Resource Assessment (MIRA)
MIRA is an approach that facilitates stakeholder engagement for collaborative multi-objective decision making. MIRA is designed to facilitate and support an inclusive, explicit, transparent, iterative learning-based decision process.
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Appendix A: Study Descriptions and Data Summaries
Appendix A provides a summary of each of the epidemiological studies retained for use in the model fitting effort for lung cancer and/or mesothelioma.
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Workshop to Discuss a Proposed Protocol to Assess Asbestos-Related Risk
List of Expert Panelists.
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Report on the Peer Consultation Workshop to Discuss a Proposed Protocol to Assess Asbestos-Related Risk
Eleven expert panelists participated in a peer consultation workshop to review a proposed protocol to assess asbestos-related risks.
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Observer Comments Provided at the Peer Consultation Workshop (Appendix E)
The peer consultation workshop included three observer comment periods, one on the first day of the workshop and two on the second day of the workshop. This appendix includes verbatim transcripts (to the extent that specific remarks were audible from recordings) of the observer comments, in the order the comments were given.
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Appendix F: Observer Post-Meeting Comments
Peer Consultation Workshop to Discuss a Proposed Protocol to Assess Asbestos-Related Risk.
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Appendix B-2 Particle Size Distributions Grouped by Industry
This Excel file contains graphical presentations of length and width distributions by industry. Raw data are based on values presented in Appendix B-1.
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Board of Scientific Counselors (BOSC)
The Board of Scientific Counselors (BOSC) is a federal advisory committee that provides advice and recommendations to EPA's Office of Research and Development.
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Sustainable and Healthy Communities Subcommittee Meeting Materials (April 2-3, 2019)
Meeting documents for the Sustainable & Healthy Communities Subcommittee meeting on April 2-3, 2019.
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Air Climate and Energy Subcommittee Meeting Materials (April 1-2, 2020)
Meeting Materials for the Air and Energy (A-E) Subcommittee meeting on April 1-2 2020.
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Executive Committee Meeting: January 11-13, 2017
Meeting materials for the Executive Committee January 11-13, 2017 meeting.
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Chemical Safety for Sustainability and Human Health Risk Assessment BOSC Subcommittee Teleconference: May 10, 2019
Meeting Materials for Chemical Safety for Sustainability and Human Health Risk Assessment BOSC Subcommittee Teleconference: May 10, 2019.
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Addressing Water Quality Effects from Hydrologic Alteration
EPA has clarified that pollution from hydrologic alteration of rivers, streams, lakes, and estuaries affects water quality.
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Research on Health Effects from Air Pollution
EPA conducts research to examine the health impacts of air pollution on vulnerable populations, including those with lung and heart disease, people in low socioeconomic communities, the elderly and children.
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NHDPlus Guam Data (Vector Processing Unit 22g)
NHDPlus data for the Guam vector processing unit.
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NHDPlus NLCD 2011 Extension Files
NHDPlusV2 NLCD 2011 extension data components are packaged into compressed files by vector processing unit.
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NHDPlus Simplified Catchment Extension Files
NHDPlusV2 simplified catchment data components are packaged into compressed files by vector processing unit.