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EPA EcoBox: Phases of ERA - References

References
  • U.S. EPA. (1991). ECO update, volume 1, number 2 (8 pp, 202 K, About PDF) [EPA Report]. Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response. 
  • U.S. EPA. (1997b). Example ecological risk assessments for hypothetical sites [EPA Report]. Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response. 
  • U.S. EPA. (1998). Guidelines for ecological risk assessment (22 pp, 149 K, About PDF) [EPA Report]. (EPA/630/R-95/002F). Washington, DC: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Risk Assessment Forum.
  • U.S. EPA. (2012). Charge to the SAB ecological processes and effects committee for the advisory on the EPA risk assessment forum’s ecological assessment action plan.
  • U.S. EPA Region 5. (2011a). Ecological risk assessment and the ecological technical center. 

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