Science & Technology
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Shellfish Harvesting
An assessment of shellfish harvesting beaches in the Salish Sea. Part of the U.S. EPA and Environment and Climate Change Canada's Health of the Salish Sea Ecosystem Report.
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Toxics in the Food Web
An assessment of metals and persistent organic pollutants such as PCBs and PBDEs in the Salish Sea. Part of the U.S. EPA and Environment and Climate Change Canada's Health of the Salish Sea Ecosystem Report.
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Proposed Rule - Phasedown of Hydrofluorocarbons: Establishing the Allowance Allocation and Trading Program under the AIM Act
This proposed rule is the first regulation under the American Innovation and Manufacturing (AIM) Act of 2020 to address the production and consumption of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs)
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Understanding Exposures in Children’s Environments
EPA scientists have conducted a series of studies to provide a better understanding of the chemical sources, pathways and routes of exposure, and other factors that contribute most to children’s exposures to chemicals.
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U.S. Virgin Islands Impaired Waters List
The documents detail the U.S. Virgin Islands' impaired waters list.
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USDA’s NIFA-CEAP Watershed Synthesis: Lessons Learned
Archived Watershed Academy CEAP webcast
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The Water Data Collaborative: Citizen Science Monitoring Data And Data Sharing
Watershed Academy archived webcast
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Benchmark Dose Software (BMDS) Version 2.7 - Download Source Code
Instructions on downloading and installing the files needed to compile the BMDS executable.
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Download CatReg
Procedure for downloading the most recent version of CatReg
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Download Benchmark Dose Software (BMDS) - Version 2.7 (No Longer Supported)
Procedure for downloading the BMDS 2.7 (archival version)
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Download BMDS 3.3.2
Procedure for downloading and installing BMDS
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Decision Analysis for a Sustainable Environment, Economy & Society
DASEES is a web-based interactive tool for structured decision-making. It provides an environment where communities can build common understanding of complex problems then create and evaluate management alternatives.
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Growing DASEES: EPA Tool Helps Cultivate Better Decisions
Feature story about EPA's Decision Analysis for a Sustainable Environment, Economy, and Society, or DASEES, tool, designed to help address these kinds of complicated decision-making needs.
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EPA’s Title 42 Researchers
Title 42 is a special federal hiring authority. It gives EPA the ability to recruit world-renowned scientists and engineers in academia, private industry, and other government agencies. Meet some of the Title 42 scientists doing important research at EPA.
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Watershed Academy Webcast: Understanding Nutrient Issues Affecting Ohio’s Inland Lakes
This page contains a description and documentation associated with the webcast on how USDA’s NWQI is working in priority watersheds to help farmers, ranchers and forest landowners improve water quality.
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Can Programs Other Than Microsoft Excel be Used to Edit Input Database Files?
See More Frequent Questions about MOVES and Related Models . Yes. In addition to MS Excel files, in the County Data Manager/Project Data Manager, MOVES can read in other file types using ASCII text and comma separated variables.
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Can Non-database Files be Stored in a MySQL Database Folder Without Causing MySQL Errors? For Example, Can Users Store the Spreadsheet(s) Containing County-Level Input Data in the Same Folder as the County Input Database?
See More Frequent Questions about MOVES and Related Models . In MYSQL, each table in a database is stored as a set of three files with the table suffixes .frm, .MYI and .MYD. Generally, MySQL will ignore non-database files contained in the MySQL database folder; however, any script commands to…
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How do I Obtain the Populations for Each of the MOVES Source Types?
See More Frequent Questions about MOVES and Related Models . To output vehicle populations, when setting up your RunSpec select the "Inventory" calculation type from the Scale panel and the "Population" activity option from the General Output panel of the MOVES GUI. The movesactivityoutput table in your MOVES output database…
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How Do I get Carbon Dioxide Equivalent (CO2e) Results for Nonroad Equipment?
See More Frequent Questions about MOVES and Related Models . CO2e is simply the combination of the pollutants that contribute to climate change adjusted using their global warming potential. This can be done manually summing the mass of the pollutants multiplied by their global warming potential factors. These are the…
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Why Does the "hourvmtfraction" Table in the MOVES Default Database Include Fractions for roadTypeID 1 (off-network)?
See More Frequent Questions about MOVES and Related Models . The original concept for MOVES assumed that there would be some vehicle miles traveled (VMT) not accounted for in the other four road types. This remaining VMT would be accounted for in roadTypeID=1. As the model developed, it was decided…