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Smart Growth Publications

This page links to publications and tools on a variety of smart growth topics.

Clean Air Act Standards and Guidelines for Agriculture, Food and Forestry

This page contains the stationary sources of air pollution for the agriculture, food, and forestry industries, and their corresponding air pollution regulations. To learn more about the regulations for each industry, just click on the links below.

Exploratory Data Analysis

Intro to exploratory data analysis. Overview of variable distributions, scatter plots, correlation analysis, GIS datasets. Use of conditional probability to examine stressor levels and impairment. Exploring correlations among multiple stressors.

Selecting an Analysis Approach

An approach for selecting statistical analyses to inform causal analysis. Describes methods for determining whether test site conditions differ from reference expectations. Describes an approach for estimating stressor-response relationships.

PECBO Appendix: Site Map

Site map for finding content in the PECBO Appendix, PECBO stands for "predicting environmental conditions from biological observations."

Basic Principles & Issues

Interpreting p-values and confidence intervals

Download Software

Overview of the data analysis tools available for download on CADDIS. Provides instructions for downloading and installing CADStat, access to Microsoft Excel macro for computing SSDs, a brief overview of command line use of R, a statistical software.

Using R to Compute the Area Under the ROC Curve

Script for assessing model fit

PECBO Appendix

Overview of PECBO Module, using scripts to infer environmental conditions from biological observations, statistically estimating species-environment relationships, methods for inferring environmental conditions, statistical scripts in module.

Basic Analyses

Use of statistical tests to determine if an observation is outside the normal range of expected values. Details of CART, regression analysis, use of quantile regression analysis, CART in causal analysis, simplifying or pruning resulting trees.

Interactive Conceptual Diagrams (ICDs) User Guide

The Causal Analysis/Diagnosis Decision Information System, or CADDIS, is a website developed to help scientists and engineers in the Regions, States, and Tribes conduct causal assessments in aquatic systems.

PECBO Appendix Introduction: Module Organization

Table of contents for PECBO Module

2010 EPA Letters Regarding Remediation Metrics and GPRA Measures

Collection of letters between EPA and responsible federal agencies regarding planned remediation metrics and EPA's GPRA measures at agencies' sites

Long-Term Stewardship at Federal Facilities

Pages related to Cleanups at Federal Facilities

Frequently Asked Questions about the Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) Program

General information about the BRAC program, including the number of BRAC sites, the challenges they pose, and their relationship to the National Priorities List.

Hot Topics in Colorado

Hot topics for the state of Colorado.

Resources and Lessons Learned from Past Green Infrastructure Technical Assistance

EPA has provided successful green infrastructure technical assistance throughout the country.

List of Chemicals Reported for the 2012 Chemical Data Reporting (CDR) by CASRN or Accession Number

For the 2012 CDR, 7,674 unique chemicals were reported by manufacturers (including importers). Chemicals are listed by CAS Registry Number or by TSCA Accession Number.

A-Z Index for Pesticide Topics

Lists an index of the main topcs found on EPA's Pesticides Web site.

EPA Seeks Beta Testers for Pesticide Mobile Application for Pesticide Label Matching