United States
Environmental Protection
Agency
EPA-600 9-84-024
October 1984
Research and Development
&EPA FY-1985
EPA Research
Program Guide
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Notice
The program descriptions and resource estimates included
in this document reflect the latest detailed information
available at time of publication. Time will change some of
this information. In addition, the resource figures have been
rounded off and some smaller programs omitted. For the
latest information, you may want to contact the individual
listed.
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EPA-600/9-84-024
October 1984
FY-1985
EPA Research
Program Guide
October 1, 1984 - September 30, 1985
U.S. EPA
MID-CONTINENT ECOLOGY DIVISION
LIBRARY
DIJLIJTH. MN 5SR04
Office of Research and Development
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Washington, DC 20460
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Contents
Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3
How to Use the Program Guide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4
Air - Gases and Particles. . .... '" ... . . . . . . . . . . .... ...S
Air - Oxidants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
Air - Mobile Sources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13
Air - Hazardous Air Pollutants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .IS
Air - Stratospheric Modification. .. . . .. . .. . ....... .. .18
Drinking Water. . . . . . . . . . . .. . . .. . ..... . .. . . . ...... .19
Groundwater. . . . . . .. . . . .. . . . . . .. . .. . ... ..... ..... .21
Water Quality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22
Great Lakes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2S
Municipal Wastewater. . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . ......... .26
Industrial Wastewater. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28
Energy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30
Hazardous Waste. . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .. ... .34
Superfund. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39
Toxic Substances. ... .. . . : ."... . .. .... : . . . .. . . . .... .42
Pesticides. . . ; . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .47
Radiation. . . . . . . . . . . ',' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SO
I ntermedia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S I
ORD Organization. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S3
ORD Organizational Descriptions. . .. . . .. ........... .58
ORD Office/Laboratory Abbreviations.............. .63
ORD Key Contats """""""""""""""" .66
ORD Regional Contacts. . .. . . . .. . .. . .. . .. . . . .., . . . .69
EPA Regional Offices. . . . . . . . .. . . . .. . .. . . .. . . .. . . ..70
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Introduction
The free and open exchange of knowledge both stimulates
and provides quality control for the progress of science.
This report provides information on the research which
EP A is planning for fiscal year 1985, on how much we
intend to spend on each program area, and on whom to
contact for further details. More than 60 percent of our
$306.0 million fiscal year 1985 research budget will be spent
through extramural contracts, grants and cooperative
agreements with organizations outside of EP A 's
laboratories.
It is our intent to increase the efficiency and effectiveness
of this research by placing great emphasis upon open
competition for extramural support. We hope that the
information in this report will stimulate qualified parties
and to make their capabilities known to our research
managers so that we all might gain from a sharing of
experience and expertise. Please feel free to contact any of
the parties listed in this report.
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How to Use the Program Guide
The following descriptions of ORO's research program are
organized first by media such as air, water, hazardous
wastes, etc. These categories are further broken down into
research foci such as scientific assessment, monitoring and
quality assurance, health effects, environmental processes,
and engineering technology. Each description is a very
broad summary of the research being done, where that
research is being done, who to contact for more
information about the program, and both the approximate
total funding for that area and the percentage of total
funding which is reserved by EPA for in-house research.
Funding which is not reserved for in-house research is spent
through extramural contracts, grants and cooperative
agreements.
F or each program description, one or more contacts are
listed along with the major research areas to be pursued.
For further information, you may call the contacts. Their
commercial and Federal (FTS) telephone numbers are listed
in a separate section near the end of this report. Where two
or more research laboratories are listed, please turn to the
"EPA R&O Organization" section ofthis report for
descriptions of the major mission and functions of each.
Some of the research funded for fiscal year 1985 will be
done in-house by EPA's laboratories. The rest will be
accomplished extramurally. Proposals for funds for
research in areas of interest to the agency are welcomed and
are considered on a competitive basis. To receive
information regarding application procedures for
extramural funds, please contact the person indicated in the
area of specific interest to you. In addition, approximately
fifteen percent of EP A's research budget is used to support
long-term exploratory research. Information regarding
funds for exploratory research grants can be obtained from
the:
Research Grants Program
Office of Exploratory Research (RD-675)
U.S. EPA
Washington, DC 20460
(202) 382-5750
Finally, for further information regarding Office of
Research and Development research publications
(600jseries) or for additional copies of this report, please
contact:
Center for Environmental Research Information
U.S. EPA
26 W. St. Clair
Cincinnati, OH 45268
(513) 684-7562
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Scientific
Assessment
Health Effects
Air
Gases and Particles
The main objective of the scientific assessment program for
gases and particles is to develop criteria docu"!en!s for
sulfur oxides, particulate matter, and lead. Cntena
documents are used in regulatory decision making related
to setting or revision of National Ambient Air Quality
Standards. Criteria documents summarize scientific data on
the health and welfare effects of a specific pollutant.
The program is presently focussed on revising the air.
quality criteria document for lead (Pb). An external review
draft of the Pb document, prepared by agency scientists and
non-EPA expert consultants completed peer review by the
Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) of
EPA's Science Advisory Board in 1984. The final document
will be available in early 1985. In addition, technical
evaluations will be provided to OAQPS to support the
development of the NAAQS for lead, particulate matter,
and sulfur oxides during 1985.
Office or Contact Total Percent
Laboratory Funds (Sk) In-House
ECAOjRTP Dennis Kotchmar 919 49
OHEAjHQ Tom Miller 89 100
This research program has three major goals: to provide
data on health effects of exposure to gases, S02, particles,
and lead using both human and animal studies; to provide
better models to extrapolate animal data to humans; and to
develop improved test methods for research into the
physiological response of humans to gaseous air pollutants
and particles.
Much of the health effects research refines and improves
the toxicological data base relevant to a size-resolved
particle standard. Fine-mode particles, mostly in the 1-2
micron range, will be studied in normal and susceptible
human and animal populations. Both human and animal
dose-response studies will devote special attention to
determining the deposition, clearance, and pulmonary
function effects of particle$, alone and in combination with
ozone, N02, and S02. Most of the human work is done in-
house, while many of the animal studies are done
extramurally.
The neurological consequences of lead, especially at levels
previously considered to be safe in children «60"pgjdl),
will be studied epidemiologically. Also, primate
neurotoxicology studies will be performed extramurally.
The significance of the effects noted will be evaluated for
use in assessing health risks.
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Environmental
Engineering
and
Technology
Air
Gases and Particles
In 1985, work will be done to provide faster, more
reliable, extrapolation techniques using animal data to
predict human pulmonary and morphological responses to
gas and particle exposure. About half of this work will be
done by contract. Research will also provide data on
biochemical, pulmonary, and cardiovascular disease and
impairment in susceptible populations following S02
exposure.
Office or
Laboratory
Contact
HERL/RTP
OHR/HQ
Richard Dickerson
Karen Morehouse
Total
Funds (Sk)
10,873.9
Percent
In-House
35
Existing technology to control gaseous and particulate
pollutants is expensive. For new utility sources,
approximately 30% of boiler costs are attributable to air
pollution control. Design and performance data for low
cost, high-reliability emission reduction technology are
needed to support the agency's regulatory functions.
Technical support to regulatory and regulated entities will
be provided by conducting assessments and fundamental
research on technologies for reduction of stack emissions of
SOx and particulate matter (PM) as well as PM fugitive
emiSSIOns.
Sulfur oxides (SOx emissions reduction technology: In-
house pilot efforts will emphasize evaluation of lower cost,
more active sorbents and additives for spray drying and
other dry scrubbing systems. Regional workshops are
planned to present a recently developed inspection and
performance evaluation manual for wet scrubbing systems.
A symposium on SOx emission reduction via flue gas
cleanup willl1e conducted.
Particulate emissions reduction technology: In-house
laboratory and pilot efforts will emphasize investigation of
advanced concepts for lowering the costs of particulate
control baghouses and electrostatic precipitators (ESPs).
The range of work will include electrostatic augmentation
of fabric filters (baghouses), larger diameter electrodes for
ESPs, and simultaneous particulate/SOx removal in
existing ESPs. Extramural studies of controlling
condensation aerosols and fugitive emissions will also be
conducted. Symposia and workshops will be used to
transfer the technology.
Office or Contact
Laboratory
AEERL/RTP
OEET/HQ
Everett Plyler
George Rey
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Total
Funds (Sk)
3,841.3
o
Percent
In-House
59
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Acid
Deposition
Environmental
Monitoring
and
Quality
Assurance
Air
Gases and Particles
Improved air pollution monitoring methods are being
developed to help determine air quality trends, support
compliance with standards, and meet enforcement needs.
The data from these methods are often used as the basis of
regulatory action. The areas investigated extramurally
include ambient and source methods development, quality
assurance guidelines and procedures development, and
audit materials preparation.
Ambient and source monitoring methods for gases and
particulate matter pollutants will be developed and
evaluated. Ambient methods development will focus on
measuring particulate matter in support of anticipated
changes to the National Ambient Air Quality Standards.
Source methods will be developed and evaluated under field
conditions. EP A researchers will continue to analyze the
mass and chemical composition of filters collected through
the Inhalable Particulate Network. Also, fiber filters from
national, state and local air monitoring stations will be
analyzed for mass and trace metals.
Quality Assurance (QA) support will be provided
through a standards laboratory and repository of quality
assurance materials. Routine and special audits will be
conducted on laboratories making ambient and source
measurements and on compressed gas vendors. Quality
assurance guidelines, handbooks, data handling systems,
and a precision and accuracy reporting system will be
maintained and updated. QA procedures, materials, and
audit techniques will be developed for compliance
monitoring.
The Atmospheric Processes and Effects objectives of this
program are to develop air quality models in support of the
National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) and the
prevention of significant deterioration (PSD), and to
develop information on the effects of gases and particles on
materials.
Model development research will focus on improved
atmospheric dispersion parameters in air quality models,
S02 air quality dispersion models for use in complex terrain
and particulate dispersion models for use on urban, meso-,
and regional scales. Procedures for computing dispersion
from elevated sources and near-source dispersion models
for use in complex terrain will be improved. A full-scale
plume study of a three dimensional complex terrain area.
will continue. Work will improve urban and regional scale
particulate models to support proposed revisions of State
Implementation Plans (SIPs) for particulate matter. A
regional scale particulate matter air quality model which
will accurately describe the long-range transport of particles
and alternative control strategies is being developed.
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Air
Gases and Particles
Second generation source apportionment methods (SAM)
will be developed. Research will be initiated with the
Peoples Republic of China to study the dispersion of
pollutants. Studies on materials damage will develop
estimates of the cost of air pollution in terms of damaged
materials or accelerated maintenance schedules. Studies will
also be conducted to determine the air pollution and
meteorological factors that contribute to visibility
reduction.
Office or
Laboratory
Contact
Total Percent
Funds (Sk) In-House
EMSL/RTP John Puzak
EMSL/ LV James McElroy
ADEMQA/HQ J. M. Shackelford
ESRL. RTP(APE) AI Ellison
ADEMQAfHQ(APE) William Keith
5,162
6.121
147
7,710.9
368.1
60
67
100
25
57
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Scientific
Assessment
Health Effects
Air
Oxidants
Photochemical oxidants are secondary pollutants produced
by chemical reactions in the atmosphere between primary
pollutants, notably nitrogen oxides, and volatile organic
compounds (VOC). Ozone (03) is by far the most abundant
of the photochemical oxidants.
A criteria document evaluates the available scientific
information on the health and welfare effects of a criteria
pollutant and, as such, is the primary source of information
used by EP A regulatory decision makers in reviewing and
possibly revising the NAAQS. EPA scientists and expert
consultants are developing draft chapters for the
ozone/ photochemical oxidants criteria document. This
document critically assesses data on health effects from
ozone and pollutant mixtures and environmental effects
related to crop loss. An external review draft was published
in August, 1984. CASAC review and a final criteria
document will be completed during 1985. I n addition, the
next review of the nitrogen oxides criteria document will
begin in 1985.
Office or Contact Total Percent
Laboratory Funds (Sk) In-House
ECAO/RTP Beverly Tilton 935 39
OHEA/HQ Tom Miller 76 100
This program has two major goals: to provide data from
human and animal studies on a full range of health effects
of 03 and N02 exposure, and to provide better models to
extrapolate animal data to humans.
The health effects data from this program is incorporated
into EP A criteria documents which are used to set and
revise standards for photochemical oxidants. Research
provides data on the degree to which oxidants cause or
exacerbate the development of non-carcinogenic chronic
disease. Animal, human clinical, and epidemiology studies
are performed. Biological endpoints to be examined include
development of cardiovascular or pulmonary disease,
aggravation of existing conditions, changes in biochemistry
and host defense mechanisms, and changes in pulmonary
structure or function. Emphasis is currently placed on
determining the acute and chronic effects of N02
inhalation.
Tests will be run to improve the models used to
extrapolate animal biochemical and metabolic responses to
human effects. Both human and animal experiments will
provide data on the functional, morphological, and
biochemical changes which occur following exposure to
ozone and N02. Animal dose-response studies, many
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Environmental
Engineering
and
Technology
Air
Oxidants
performed extramurally, will concentrate on the effects of
chronic exposure of rodents to oxidants.
Office or Contact Total Percent
Laboratory Funds (Sk) In-House
HERL/RTP Richard Dickerson 4,722.5 33
OHRI HQ Karen Morehouse
Research in this program supports the development of New
Source Performance Standards (NSPS) and State
Implementation Plans by aiding in the development of
pollutant control technology which is cost-effective and
energy-efficient. The focus of the research is on the
reduction of both VOC and NO. emissions.
V olatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) are a major cause
of non-attainment of National Ambient Air Quality
Standards. Extramural research will evaluate VOC
abatement technology SJJch as carbon adsorption, thermal
oxidation, and catalytic oxidation. Of particular interest
will be effective and affordable control methods for small
VOC-emitting industries. Field tests of process
modifications for VOC emission reduction from printing
and coating operations will be conducted jointly with
industry.
Combustion modification methods of controlling NO.
and other emissions will be evaluated to determine
combustion modification (CM) methods for reducing NO.
emissions and improving the performance of utility and
industrial boilers, process furnaces, and stationary engines.
Utility boilers account for about 53% of the national
stationary source NO. emissions; industrial boilers for
about 14%; process furnaces for about 6%; and stationary
engines for about 21%. Prior work has proven the CM
methods can be effective for control of NO. as well as other
emissions, if each method is tailored to the characteristics of
the specific combustion equipment (e.g., stoker or package
boilers, coal or oil burners, and I.C. engines or gas
turbines). This program, to support OAQPS standards
setting activities in FY85, 86 and 87, will assess low NO.
heavy oil burner (precombustor) technology for industrial
boilers and for the combustion of highly nitrated waste
fuels. Work on a coal-fired precombustor burner for high
NO./SO. control will be continued. The program will
evaluate \n-furnace NO. reduction (reburning by secondary
fuel injection) technology on small scale gas-, oil-, and coal-
fired combustors. It will continue in-house tests of selective
catalytic reduction (SCR) systems for internal combustion
engines. It will complete evaluation of CMs for pilot-scale
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Environmental
Processes and
Effects
Acid
Deposition
Environmental
Monitoring
and
Quality
Assurance
Air
Oxidants
refinery process heaters and cement kilns. Basic NO.
control techniques, selected from those available and those
under development, can soon be integrated into
combination systems to achieve the greatest possible NO.
reduction for these sources.
Fundamental research on combustion processes will also
be conducted to improve the technical basis for estimating
achievable emissions, to help develop NO...SO. emissions
reduction technologies and to support development of an
industrial boiler NSPS.
Office or Contact Total Percent
Laboratory Funds (Sk) In-House
AEERL/RTP W. Gene Tucker 3,237.2 34
Robert E. Hall
OEET/HQ Kurt Jakobson 100
George Rey
A preliminary national assessment on the economic impacts
of ozone on agriculture will be provided for incorporation
into the EP A criteria document used to update the National
Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) for ozone.
Research to be conducted to improve the accuracy of crop
loss assessments will include: the evaluation of the effects of
ozone on the yield of representatives of the hay crop group,
the examination of ozone response differences among crop
varieties, and the determination of the influence of
soil/water relations on ozone responses.
Office or Contact Total Percent
Laboratory Funds (Sk) In-House
ERL/COR Dave Tingey 2,218 30
OEPER/HQ Kenneth Hood
Research activities in this area emphasize the development
of monitoring methods and the provision of quality
assurance samples and support. EP A's monitoring
methodology for oxidant precursors will include the
evaluation of volatile organic compound monitoring
methodology and the preparation of an operations manual
and performance guidelines for commercial monitoring
instruments. Laser technology to measure aerosol mass
associated with oxidant transport will be provided as
technical support to the regions. The National Bureau of
Standards will assist with the development of standard
reference material.
Quality Assurance for the oxidants research program is
essential to ensuring that the data used for regulatory and
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Air
Oxidants
enforcement decisions is accurate. Reference samples, gas
samples, permeation devices and flow rates standards
traceable to NBS will be supplied to the user community.
Short-term monitoring support will be provided to the
OQAPS and the EP A regional offices for use in review of
State Implementation Plans for air transport model
development.
The Atmospheric Processes and Effects portion of this
program is to develop and validate air quality models that
predict the formation of photochemical oxidants (primarily
ozone) in the atmosphere, and to determine the economic
impacts of ozone on agriculture.
Air quality models predicting the air quality impacts
associated with air pollutant abatement strategies are used
in the evaluation and development of State Implementation
Plans for the control of photochemical oxidants. Two
major types of o~one air quality models are under
investigation: urban scale which focuses on local air quality
impacts and regional scale which addresses the long range
transport phenomena of ozone and its precursors (volatile
organic compounds and nitrogen oxides). Over the next
few years, emphasis will be placed on developing better
chemical mechanism within the models for describing ozone
formation in the atmosphere. Also, a second generation
regional scale model for ozone will be tested and evaluated
using the Northeast Regional Oxidant Study (NEROS) air
quality data base.
Office or
Laboratory
Contact
Total Percent
Funds (Sk) In-House
EMSLjRTP John Puzak
EMSLjLV James L. McElroy
ADEMQAjHQ J. M. Shackelford
ASRLjRTP(APE) Basil Dimitriades
ADEMQAjHQ,(APE) Deran Pashayan
698
244
77
2.546.7
120.6
70
83
100
21
97
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Scientific
Assessment
Health Effects
Acid
Deposition
Environmental
Monitoring
and
Quality
Assurance
Air
Mobile Sources
The Clean Air Act requires the agency to prescribe emission
standards for carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, and oxides
of nitrogen for heavy-duty and light-duty vehicles. To do
this, the agency requires information on the chemical
composition of fuels, fuel additives, and diesel and gasoline
exhausts, as well as information on actual human exposure
to motor vehicle pollutants.
The scientific assessment program will continue to
support the development of the carbon monoxide NAAQS
during FY 85 by providing technical evaluations for
OAQPS.
Office or
Laboratory
Contact
Total
Funds (Sk)
Percent
In-House
ECAO/RTP
OHEA/HQ
19
71
100
62
James Raub
Tom Miller
The health effects program funded by the Health Effects
Research Laboratory in mobile sources develops and
validates techniques to produce dose-response data on the
toxic effects of carbon monoxide, and then uses those
techniques to produce dose-response information.
Clinical studies will be used to produce dose-response
data on the toxic effects of low-level exposure to CO. The
cardiac and respiratory effects of CO will be evaluated in
human studies, as will a method to relate ambient CO levels
to blood levels. Non-invasive techniques will be used to
measure the cardiac effects of CO exposure. This
information will be used in performing health risk
assessments by the scientific assessment program.
Extramural funding will also be provided to the Health
Effects Institute, sponsored jointly by EPA and the
automobile industry to perform research on the health
effects of pollutants related to mobile sources.
Office or Contact Total Percent
Laboratory Funds (Sk) In-House
HERL/RTP Richard Dickerson 3,894.2 15
OHR/ HQ Donna Kuroda
Research in this area will focus on development of
methodology for determining population exposures to
carbon monoxide (CO) and other vehicular air pollutants.
Field studies conducted in Washington, DC, and Denver,
Colorado, have provided extensive human CO exposure
data bases. The proposed National Ambient Air Quality
Standard (N AAQS) is designed to assure that 99% of the
population has blood levels below 2.5%
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Air
Mobile Sources
carboxyhemoglobin. Data from field studies will be used to
estimate the proportion of this population above the 99%
criterion, and to determine the validity of human exposure
models and statistical approaches. Models for computing
blood carboxyhemoglobin from human exposure profiles
will be validated with breath data bases, and human activity
patterns will be statistically summarized and evaluated for
use in models. Models relating commuter exposures to
roadway types, traffic volume, model year, vehicle age, and
average speed will be tested and evaluated. The human
exposure methodology developed for CO will be adapted,
where possible, to other vehicular air pollutants.
The registration of fuels and fuel additives, as mandated
by Congress, will be maintained. Also, the quality assurance
program will distribute samples and otherwise assist state
and local agencies in generating precise and accurate air
monitoring data for use in judging compliance with
NAAQS.
The focus of the Atmospheric Processes and Effects
program is to provide information necessary to evaluate the
impacts of regulated and unregulated mobile source
emissions on ambient air quality. Research is conducted to
characterize gaseous and particulate emissions, including
volatile organic compnents from in-use light and heavy duty
diesel and gasoline powered vehicles. Emissions data are
obtained through tests conducted under simulated
conditions using dynamometers.
Research in FY -1985 will focus on: characterizing
emissions from late model diesel vehicles including turbo-
charger and exhaust gas recirculation equipped diesel
passenger cars and light trucks; refining and/ or developing
measurement procedures to permit atcurate analysis of
methanol and formaldehyde emissions from vehicles fueled
by pure methanol and methanol/ gasoline blends;
characterizing emissions from future model year diesel
vehicles with and without particle control devices;
determining impact of methanol fuel emissions on ozone air
quality; and assessing the effect of low ambient temperature
on emissions from late model vehicles. Information
obtained will be used to update emissions factor data bases
used in air quality models to assess the impacts of mobile
source emissions on ambient air quality.
Office or
Laboratory
Contact
Total Percent
Funds (Sk) In-House
EMSL/RTP G. Akland
ADEMQA/ HQ Wayne Ou
ASRL/RTP(APE) Frank Black
ADEMQA/HQ(APE) William Keith
14
835
49
575.5
10.6
59
100
25
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Scientific
Assessment
Health Effects
Air
Hazardous Air Pollutants
Scientific assessments of hazardous air pollutants (HAP)
encompass all known research findings concerning the
health and environmental effects of particular substances
and / or their transformation products, as well as
background information on physical and chemical
properties, sources, emissions, transport and
transformation, and ambient concentrations.
The current agency strategy for evaluating hazardous air
pollutants calls for assessing the toxicity of 37 chemical
substances, and for reviewing the health basis for existing
HAP regulations for several other substances. During 1985
comprehensive health assessment documents will be
completed on 14 chemicals (vinylidene chloride, dioxins,
methylene chloride, cadmium, trichloroethylene,
tetrachloroethylene, vinyl chloride,
hexachlorocyclopentadiene, chlorinated benzenes, asbestos,
ethylene dichloride, ethylene oxide, chloroform,
epichlorohydrin). In addition Tier I final reports or external
review documents will be prepared for propylene oxide,
copper, acetaldehyde, pbenol, chloroprene, dibenzofurans,
nickel, beryllium, phosgene, acrolein, 1,3-butadiene. Tier I
reviews will be started for seven additional chemicals in FY
85.
Office or Contact Total Percent
Laboratory Funds (Sk) In-House
ECAO/CIN Jerry Stara 296 34
ECAO/ RTP Michael Berry 1,401 39
OHEA/HQ Tom Miller 2,354 52
The health research program in hazardous air pollutants
(HAPs) has three goals: to develop and validate methods to
produce dose-response data on the toxic effects of HAPs, to
produce the dose-response data on the toxic effects of
HAPs, and to develop models which improve our ability to
use dose-response data in risk assessments. Extramural
research will support efforts in all three areas.
EPA researchers will develop methods to provide data on
the genetic, developmental, and neurotoxic effects of HAPs.
Emphasis of this research will be on the toxic components
of gaseous-aerosol complex mixtures.
In dose-response toxicological research, data on the
mutagenic and carcinogenic activity of potential HAPs will
be determined. These HAPs will be selected based upon
assessments prepared by the Office of Health and
Environmental Assessment (OHEA). The effects of selected
chemicals suspected of being hazardous to the nervous
system will be studied.
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Engineering
and
Technology
Air
Hazardous Air Pollutants
Animal models of respiratory physiology and function
will be developed to provide more reliable methods for
estimating specific doses to critical lung tissues. Models of
neurologic toxicity will be developed involving physical,
chemical, and behavioral tests to predict human responses
to insult from potential HAPs.
Office or Contact Total Percent
Laboratory Funds (Sk) In-House
HERL/RTP Richard Dickerson 3,604.3 57
OHR/HQ Donna Kuroda
The engineering program for hazardous air pollutants
(HAP) is comprised of three parts: (1) to assess various
industrial and combustion sources of HAPs to determine
the magnitude of emissions and to assess the capability of
technologies to reduce or eliminate HAP emissions, (2) to
conduct source-related measurements and participate in the
management of the Agency's Integrated Air Cancer Project,
and (3) to assess the emissions from and controllability of
sources of indoor air pollutants.
Conventional devices for controlling particulate and
VOC emissions will be evaluated for their effectiveness in
controlling specific HAPs from industrial and combustion
sources. Research will be initiated on deaner-burning wood
stoves, with inherently low emissions of HAPs, for practical
and energy-efficient residential use.
Field and laboratory measurements of hazardous
substances, especially mutagenic substances from residential
wood stoves will be made as part of the FY 85 field studies
of the Integrated Air Cancer Project. Various designs of
catalyst-equipped and conventional stoves will be tested.
Laboratory measurements of organic pollutant emissions
from unvented space heaters, building materials, and.
consumer products will be continued from indoor air
quality projects initiated in FY 84. A field study to
demonstrate the effectiveness of low-cost methods to reduce
radon concentrations in homes will also be continued.
Further work to develop indoor air quality models is also
planned.
Office or Contact Total Percent
Laboratory Funds (Sk) In-House
AEERL/RTP W. Gene Tucker 1,531.1 36
OEET/HQ George Rey
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Environmental
Monitoring
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Quality
Assurance
Air
Hazardous Air Pollutants
At present, there is a particular need for technology to
monitor non-criteria contaminants at the regional, state,
and local level. EP A maintains a monitoring station for
non-criteria pollutants in Philadelphia. This station will
function as a focal point for development and evaluation of
methods for the characterization of monitoring methods.
Stationary source methods will be evaluated and validated.
This will involve measurement of instrument drift,
establishing control limits, defining out-of-controllimits,
and specifying corrective action and alternate methods.
Focus will be on developing and assessing advanced
methods for concentrating and analyzing samples. The
advanced methods to be evaluated are: cryogenic
preconcentration, tuneable atomic line molecular
spectrometry, and gas chromatography I fourier transfer
infrared spectrometry. The methods that will be evaluated
at the center were developed from our extramural program.
To support quality assurance needs within the program,
reference samples will be developed and mainiained,
guidelines for procedures will be developed, and laboratory
audits will be performed.
Methods development for monitoring indoor air quality
will continue. Emphasis will be placed on evaluating devices
to measure particulates, N02, and formaldehyde. A
multi pollutant field survey will be designed and
implemented.
The goal of the Atmospheric Processes and Effects
research is to provide information on the atmospheric
transport. transformation, and fate of hazardous air
pollutants. The information is used in preparing health
assessment documents to determine if the chemicals present
a hazard. Laboratory and field studies will be conducted to
determine the atmospheric lifetimes and transformation
products of hazardous air pollutants to determine
deposition and removal rates of hazardous chemicals; and
identify the factors responsible for concentration levels and
spatial and temporal (i.e., seasonal) variability of selected
volatile organic compounds. Also research studies will
examine the atmospheric chemical and physical processes
that are important in producing mutagenic compounds in
the atmosphere.
Office or
Laboratory
Contact
Total Percent
Funds (Sk) In-House
John Clements
Steve Bromberg
ASRL/RTP(APE) Larry Cupitt
ADEMQA/HQ(APE) Deran Pashayan
EMSL/RTP
6,628
944.6
20.5
54
35
19
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Stratospheric Modification
The stratospheric modification research program will
investigate the effects of pollutants on stratospheric ozone,
the resulting ultraviolet-B radiation characteristics and of
enhanced ultraviolet-B radiation on important crops and
aquatic food-chain organisms. The program will continue
coordination of federal research activities in this area, will
update the comprehensive assessment of the state of science,
will deliver the required biennial report to Congress, and
will provide up-to-date information so that the most current
data will be available for policy and regulatory decisions.
Office or
Laboratory
Contact
Total
Funds (Sk)
Percent
In-House
OPSA/HQ
Herbert Wiser
875
15
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Assessment
Health Effects
Environmental
Engineering
and
Technology
Drinking Water
Revision of national drinking water regulations and health
advisory guidance given to the states requires an assessment
of the potential hazard to human health from exposure to
chemicals in drinking water. Health assessment
documentation will be started for nine chemicals and
responses to public comments made on 1984 health
assessment documents will be performed during 1985.
Office or Contact Total Percent
Laboratory Funds (Sk) In-House
ECAO/CIN Michael Dourson 324 77
OHEA/HQ Thomas Gleason 125 100
This research program provides dose-response data on
organic, inorganic, and microbiological contaminants. It
provides information on the best methods to obtain that
data, and information on the best methods to perform risk
assessments.
Selected contaminants will be evaluated (chlorinated
ethanes, vinyl chloride, trichloropropane, chlorobenzene,
and barium), for possibly setting Maximum Contaminant
Levels or developing Health Advisories. Increasing
emphasis will be put on determining the health effects of
exposure to disinfectants and their by-products. Work will
be done to improve methods for extrapolating health effects
research data in order to assess the risks associated with
simultaneous exposure to multiple chemicals in complex
mixtures. Focus will also be placed on concentrating,
isolating, and identifying infectious disease agents in
drinking water. I n addition, epidemiology studies on
drinking water disinfectants and radon are being conducted.
Finally, in conjunction with the Centers for Disease
Control, research will design methods to identify and
evaluate outbreaks of waterborne infectious diseases in
order to aid the states in alleviating any emergency affecting
public water systems.
Office or Contact Total Percent
Laboratory Funds (Sk) In-House
HERL/RTP Leland McCabe 10,026.0 36
OHR/HQ David Kleffman
To support revision of the national drinking water
standards, this program provides data on the technologies
available, what they can attain in terms of drinking water
quality, and what they cost. Focus is on removal of volatile
organic compounds, organics formed during treatment,
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Environmental
Monitoring
and
Quality
Assurance
Drinking Water
naturally occurring organics responsible for formation of
trihalomethanes, inorganic and microbiological
contaminants and on problems related to maintaining water
quality in distribution systems. Emphasis will be on
developing cost information for treatment processes and for
entire water systems. Evaluation will also be made of the
tradeoffs in planning for rehabilitation of older water
systems. In addition, efforts will be made to address the
problems of small utilities and to assist the states and
municipalities in complying with maximum contaminant
levels.
Office or Contact Total Percent
Laboratory Funds (Sk) In-House
WERL/CIN Gordon Robeck 5,758 44
OEET/HQ Bala Krishnan 218 100
This program will provide the overview for the Agencywide
mandatory quality assurance program. The ten regional
laboratories will be evaluated annually in support of the
National Interim Primary Drinking Water Regulations
monitoring certification program. This program will also
provide methods development and analytical procedures to
produce precise and accurate total measurement systems for
chemical, radiochemical and microbiological analysis. It
will provide technically and economically feasible analytical
procedures to monitor contaminants for use by the Agency,
States, municipalities and operators of public drinking
water systems. In addition, the following groundwater
program will be provided; development of a method to
locate abandoned wells; development of geophysical
methods to detect and evaluate underground movement of
fluids from injection wells; evaluation and development of
fiber optics techniques for monitoring groundwater;
development of accurate and reliable total measurement
systems through the development of standardized methods,
laboratory evaluation, performance evaluation and quality
control sample development, sample testing and
verification; and provide quality control procedures and
guidelines.
Office or
Laboratory
Contact
Total
Funds (Sk)
Percent
In-House
EMSL/CIN Robert Booth
EMSL/LV Glenn Schweitzer
ADEMQA/HQ Vernon Laurie
1.532
1.366
74
36
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Environmental
Processes
and Effects
Groundwater
Ground water is a major source of drinking water for the
nation. This research program seeks to improve methods
for determining the transport and transformation of
contaminants in the subsurface, methods for predicting the
behavior of pollutants in aquifers based on site-specific
subsurface characteristics and on characteristics of the
pollutants. In addition, research will evaluate in-situ aquifer
reclamation methods. Extramural efforts will be directed
toward several areas. Methods will be developed for
determining not only the quantity and type of subsurface
microorganisms, but also their activity in terms of potential
for biotransformation of pollutants. Methods will also be
developed for in-situ detection of other subsurface
parameters important to predicting pollutant behavior.
Biological, physical/ chemical, and hydrologic processes and
their interrelations in the subsurface will be studied to
develop mathematical representations that can be included
in models. Subsurface (site-specific) characteristics that
influence such processes will be determined. Finally,
promising reclamation methods (e.g., biotransformation)
will be studied at laboratory scale and evaluated at one
small field site.
Office or
Laboratory
Percent
In-House
Contact
Total
Funds (Sk)
RSKERLj ADA George Keeler
OEPERjHQ Steve Cordle
4,641
606
25
23
.
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Assessment
Health Effects
Environmental
Engineering
and
Technology
Environmental
Processes and
Effects
Water Quality
EPA's overall research program with regard to water
quality emphasizes development of the scientific and
technical base to help states develop site-specific standards
and to conduct use-attainability analyses. The scientific
assessment program will provide guidance for assessing the
risk of human exposure to mixtures of toxic chemicals,
evaluate site-specific health hazards as required by the
states and EPA, and prepare evaluations for Section 301(g)
permit modification requests.
Office or Contact Total Percent
Laboratory Funds (Sk) In-Houle
ECAO/CIN Michael Dourson 265 66
OHEA/HQ Thomas Gleason 32 100
Investigators will use existing short-term tests for
carcinogenic. mutagenic, and reproductive effects to
determine whether or not a site receiving a large number of
chemical contaminants is a public health risk. Health effect
indicators for shellfish growing water are being developed.
Office or Contact Total Percent
Laboratory Funds (Sk) In-House
HERL/RTP Lyman Condie 966.5 46
OHR/HQ David Kleffman
This program develops data correlating sludge treatment
processes with environmental impacts for use in
determining appropriate treatment levels for sludge prior to
ocean dumping as well as treatment levels for wastewater
discharged through ocean outfalls.
Office or Contact Total Percent
Laboratory Funds (Sk) In-House
WERL/Cin Fred Bishop 174 100
OEET/HQ Tom Pheiffer 27.0 100
This program has two objectives: support for a water
quality-based regulatory approach, and support for
environmentally sound ocean disposal of wastes.
A water quality-based approach to pollution control
provides for correction of ambient water quality problems
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Environmental
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Quality
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Water Quality
that remain after mandated minimum pollution control
technology (e.g., secondary treatment, effluent guidelines) is
in place. This requires the ability to translate water quality
standards into specific effluent condition and discharge
limitations for municipalities and industry. Research will be
undertaken to provide the necessary information base and
scientific tools, including: site-specific criteria modification
protocols, contaminated sediment assessment techniques,
wasteload allocation techniques, complex effluent
bioassays, biomonitoring methods, and use attainability
analyses.
If ocean disposal is to become an acceptable waste
management option, there is a need to provide decision-
makers with rationale and procedures which are both
expeditious and scientifically sound. These should provide
guidance for the acquisition of information, and the
interpretation of this information in order to support ocean
disposal permit decisions. The research program in ocean
disposal will develop techniques and data for evaluating the
impacts of alternative disposal strategies to identify the
optimal approach for both ocean dumping and discharge
from ocean outfalls. Emphasis will be given to:
development of a hazard assessment procedure to define the
probability of harm to the marine environment resulting
from the ocean disposal of wastes; development of
procedures for predicting bioaccumulation of contaminants
from sediments and sewage sludge and determination of the
linkage between tissue residues and biological effects; and
development of procedures to satisfy monitoring needs for
permit, surveillance, and hazard assessment application for
coastal and deep water sites.
Office or Contact Total Percent
Laboratory Funds (Sk) In-House
ERLjATH Walter Sanders 1,004 85
ERLjCOR Ronald Garton 1,208 75
ERLjDUL Nelson Thomas 1,908 86
ERLjNARR William Brungs 4,054 85
ERLjGB Thomas Duke 208 88
OEPERjHQ Sam Williams 1,037 81
The monitoring research program develops chemical,
physical, and biological methods for measuring site-specific
and ambient water pollution concentrations. Most of this
research is conducted in-house at EMSLjCincinnati with a
small portion being conducted at EMSL-L V.
Research on chemical measurement methods emphasizes
standardization of measurement and quality assurance
methods for priority toxic pollutants, as well as increasing
the sensitivity of methods for measuring toxic metals in
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water. Research on biological monitoring methods
emphasizes methods for screening toxic concentrations of
pollutants in ambient waters, characterizing the biological
condition of ambient waters, provision of quality assurance
procedures to analyze chronic and acute toxicological
effects, and standardization of microbial and viral sampling
and analysis methods. Research on physical measurement
methods concentrates on documenting the validity and
accuracy of sampling regimes and flow-sensing equipment.
The quality assurance program provides quality control
calibration materials and procedures for standardization of
chemical and biological analysis. Virus sample preservation
and assay protocols will be standardized.
Office or
Laboratory
Contact
Total
Funds (Sk)
Percent
In-House
EMSLjCIN Cornelius Weber
EMSLjCIN James Lichtenberg
EMSLjCIN John Winter
EMSLjLV Wesley Kinney
ADEMQAjHQ Charles Plost
1,918
113
252
80
100
81
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Environmental
Processes and
Effects
Great Lakes
This program will develop and test methods to measure,
describe, and predict the sources, distribution, movement,
dynamics, and effects of toxic substances on nearshore
areas and harbors for "areas of concern" identified by the
US/Canada Water Quality Agreement. This program will
also provide the International Joint Commission (IJC), the
Great Lakes National Program Office (GLNPO), EPA
Regions and Great Lakes states with technical support and
research data synthesis related to activities under the
US/Canada Water Quality Agreement.
Office or Contact Total Percent
Laboratory Funds (Sk) In-House
ERL/DUL Norbert Jaworski 2,338.1 42
ERL/ATH Robert Ambrose 50.0 0
ERL/NARR Victor Bierman 50.0 0
OEPER/HQ Herbert Quinn 50.3 22
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Scientific
Assessment
Health Effects
Environmental
Engineering
and
Technology
Municipal Wastewater
The scientific assessment program provides health
assessment profiles to support regulatory decisionmaking
on the effective treatment, conversion, use and disposal of
municipal sludge. Preliminary data profiles and hazard
indices are being prepared for a number of chemical
contaminants of municipal sludge. .
Office or
Laboratory
Contact
Total
Funds (Sk)
Percent
In-House
ECAO/CIN
OHEA/HQ
Steven Lutkenhoff
Thomas Gleason
100
100
82
12
Health effects research focuses on two areas: human health
implications of innovative wastewater treatment
technologies and human health aspects of municipal sludge
disposal. The information from these areas are used by the
agency for formulation of regulations, permits, and
guidelines under the Clean Water Act. For innovative and
alternative technologies, research seeks to assess the effects
on human health resulting from exposure to pathogens,
including parasites, viruses, and bacteria and to chemical
toxicants contained in wastewater applied to land. The
greatest emphasis, at present, is on land disposal of
municipal sludge which requires careful assessment of the
effects on human health of exposure to pollutants contained
in the sludges. An appraisal is being prepared on any
potential risks from land application of municipal sludge.
Research will focus on pathogenic organisms, particularly
parasites and viruses, heavy metals, and organic chemicals.
Office or Contact Total Percent
Laboratory Funds (Sk) In-House
HERL/RTP Michael Pereira 1,916.0 51
OHR/ HQ W. Wade Talbot
Revisions to the Clean Water Act provide incentives for the
use of innovative wastewater treatment technology. This
research program will provide engineering support to the
innovative technologies and sludge management programs,
and on techniques to improve the reliability of wastewater
treatment plants.
In the area of innovative/alternative (1/ A) technologies,
assistance will be provided to the construction grant
program in reviewing project plans, recommenaing
innovative technologies, and in making available detailed
planning, engineering and analytical assistance for
innovative technology. Post-construction evaluations of
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full-scale operational projects will produce feedback
information of designing, energy, capital, and operation
and maintenance costs.
Engineering support of municipal sludge management is
provided in two areas-treatment and disposal. In the
treatment area, emphasis will be on innovative stabilization
digestion and thermal conversion processes that are more
efficient in reducing the volume of sludge. Research in the
disposal area will focus on characterizing the mechanisms
controlling the uptake and the transformation of toxic
organics and pathogenic organisms in sludge-amended soils.
In the compliance achievement support program,
emphasis will be on providing design and cost information
on two low cost upgrading methods through the integration
of high biomass reactors and improved air aeration
technology.
Evaluations of the toxics treatability of various municipal
processes will be carried out. Toxicity reduction evaluation
procedures will be developed to support the Agency's
"Policy for Development of Water Quality-Based Permit
Limitations. "
In the area of water quality planning and regulation
support, the engineering data base necessary for states to
assess various control options and water quality impacts to
achieve national water quality goals at optimum cost
savings will be provided.
Office or
Laboratory
Contact
Total
Funds ($k)
Percent
In-House
WERL/CIN
James Kreissl (I/A)
Joseph Farrell (sludge)
Ed Barth (upgrading)
Fred Bishop (toxies)
Lew Rossman (WQ)
Tom Pheiffer (HQ)
6,492
25
OEET/HQ
218.0
100
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Engineering
and
Technology
Environmental
Processes and
Effects
Industrial Wastewater
This program supports Agency regulatory activities relating
to control of specific pollutants or toxicity in industrial
wastewater discharges. Efforts will supply data to enable
permitting authorities to issue BP J discharge permits for
industry to meet water quality based standards in the most
cost-effective manner possible. During 1985 this will be
accomplished by means of laboratory and pilot plant scale
evaluations of biological (particularly anaerobic) and
physical/ chemical wastewater treatment methods. This
work will focus on complex, highly toxic wastewaters such
as dye and pigment manufacturing, aluminum smelters, and
organic chemicals production.
Also, efforts will provide manuals and methods for
conducting site specific toxicity reduction evaluations
(TRE's) to be used by permitting authorities to issue
discharge permits to industry, based on a toxicity as a
major parameter, particularly in the case of multiple
industrial contributions. The TRE method will be
developed by identifying the inplant sources of aquatic
toxicity, measuring stream toxicity, identifying industrial
contributors and recommending control alternatives. The
complete method will be verified at specific sites in
conjunction with OMSQA and is applicable to complex
effluents not easily controlled by the WQA chemical-by-
chemical approach. Initial efforts will include toxicity
reduction for pesticide manufacture, inorganic chemicals,
and petrochemicals.
Office or Contact Total Percent
Laboratory Funds (Sk) In-House
WERL/CIN Alden Christianson 918 20
OEET / HQ Tom Pheiffer 27 100
This program is needed to identify potential problem areas
and set priorities in taking environmental protection
measures. The research will separate, characterize and
measure organic and inorganic chemical species in
industrial effluents. The gas chromatographic/ mass
spectrometric tape library will be expanded and
information on the composition of complex industrial
effluents will be generated.
Office or Contact Total Percent
Laboratory Funds (Sk) In-House
ERLiATH Charles Anderson 311 100
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Environmental
Monitoring
and
Quality
Assurance
Industrial Wastewater
Research will support the Agency in the implementation of
technology-based effluent limitation regulations and the
modification of enforcement activities as required by water
quality-based permit adjustments. Methods standardization
research will be directed to the improvement in precision,
accuracy, and method detection limit of existing regulated
organic contaminants. Research will also validate and
correct analytical methods for high priority industrial
wastewater components and evaluate aJternative analytical
methods to support the National Pollution Discharge
Elimination System (NPDES) program.
Quality Assurance activities include the Discharge
Monitoring Report Quality Assurance (DMRQA) study;
preparation and distribution of repository, quality control,
and performance evaluation samples; and performance
evaluation studies. The research program will support
NPDES quality assurance by providing quality control
samples and protocols and by maintaining the standards
repository, including auditing monitoring systems data
reliability, DMRQA and documentation of its precision
and accuracy.
Office or
Laboratory
Percent
In-House
Contact
Total
Funds (Sk)
EMSL/CIN James J. Lichtenberg
EMSL/CIN John A. Winter
ADEMQA/HQ Charles Plost
1,391
128
69
92
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Acid Rain
Energy
The acid rain program supports research in seven areas:
estimating emissions, understanding atmospheric processes,
monitoring, analyzing aquatic effects, analyzing terrestrial
effects, quantifying effects on materials, evaluating control
techniques, and producing integrated assessments.
A. Estimating emissions from man-made sources:
Emissions inventories will be developed focusing principally
on SO. and NO., and expanding into volatile organic
compounds and carbon monoxide. Models to forecast
emission trends and costs of various control programs are
being developed. These economic sectoral models and the
emissions inventories will be used to support regional and
national policy analysis and assessment.
B. Understanding atmospheric processes: This research is
designed to improve our capability to examine and predict
the movement and atmospheric chemistry of air masses.
Field studies using chemical tracers of emissions, recently
developed gas measuring instruments, and extensive
monitoring may be undertaken to study the movement and
transformation of acids and precursors from sources to
receptors. Modules will be developed for the acid
deposition regional model.
C. Developing a deposition monitoring data base: Efforts
will be increased to develop real-time precipitation
measurement methods, evaluate procedures for precision
and accuracy of precipitation data, standardization of pH
measurements, quality assurance and data system support,
measurement of dry deposition, and analysis of the spatial
and temporal variation of data.
D. Understanding and quantif~'ing aquatic effects:
Research will develop methods to determine trends in
acidity and sensitivity of water bodies, estimate acid
precipitation effects on the interactions between runoff and
soil water, continue a national survey of lakes and streams,
and determine the effects of acid precipitation on fish
populations and other biota.
E. Quantifving terrestrial effects: A variety of field and
laboratory studies will attempt to estimate and predict the
effects of acid precipitation on forests, rangelands,
wetlands, wildlife and crops. The effects of soil infiltration,
soil chemistry, weathering, metal transport, exchange and
depletion of nutrients and soil sensitivity will be addressed.
A national survey of terrestrial sites is planned.
F. Quantif~'ing the effects on materials and cultural
resources: By developing an assay of materials at risk, we
seek to estimate the extent of acid deposition effects.
G. Assessing Control Technologies: This program
assesses emerging technologies for removing acid deposition
precursors from combustion sources. The work considers
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Engineering
and
Technology
Energy
non-hardware approaches such as fuel switching as well as
retrofit technologies such as the limestone injection multi-
stage burner.
H. Integration of research assessments: This program
responds to questions that cut across several research
objectives by supporting integrated assessment functions,
characterization of mass flows, assessment of control
strategies, assessment of potentially sensitive areas, and
eco.n~mic analysis of controlling damage versus controlling
emiSSIOns.
Office or
Laboratory
Contact
Total
Funds (Sk)
Percent
In-House
EMSL/CIN Jack Pfaff (A)
EMSL/RTP Thomas Hauser (B)
AEERL/RTP David Mobley (C)
ASRL/RTP Jack Durham (D)
ERL/COR Ray Wilhour (E)
ERL/DUL John Eaton (F)
ADEMQA/HQ Gary Foley (G)
Gary Foley (H)
1,200
10,576
4,357
8,022
5,610
975
600
3,025
10
17
10
II
10
15
14
26
Explanatory Note: EPA conducts its acid deposition research in
cooperation with the National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program.
The other agencies with substantial roles are the Forest Service, the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the National Park
Service, the Geological Survey, the Fish and Wildlife Service and the
Department of Energy.
The integrated health and environmental risk analysis for
synfuel industries provides the framework by which the
scientific documentation of risks can be utilized in
regulatory and enforcement decisions and determines the
extent to which pollution control processes are required.
The FY'85 program anticipates completing and publishing,
in a refereed journal the risk analysis methodology. A user's
guide on the health and environmental risk analysis
methodology for complex mixtures will be developed.
Office or Contact Total Percent
Laboratory Funds (Sk) In-House
ASRL/RTP Joe Bufalini 66.0 100
ERL/COR Craig McFarlane 237.2 100
OEPER/HQ Alan Moghissi 1,536.2 6
This area is supporting two types of research: the
development for commercialization of an integrated
NO.jSO. control technology-Limestone Injection through
a Multistage Burner (LIMB), and evaluation of pollutants
from proposed synfuel facilities and alternate energy
sources.
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Effects
Energy
The LIMB control technology can substantially reduce
both NO. and SO. emissions while at the same time
reducing the costs for control. A systematic development is
underway to bring the LIMB technology to the point where
industry would be willing to commercialize it. The 1985
program will include: research on sorbent reaction
mechanisms, research at the small bench and pilot scale for
a wide range of fuel types, prototype scale testing of the
tangentially-fired experimental systems for extrapolating
the performance to commercial scale, detailed analysis to
identify potential operability and reliability problems,
planning and site preparation for the industry / EP A
cofunded full scale demonstrations on wall-fired utility
boilers.
To control synfuel pollutants ORD provides special
support to the regional and state permitting process and
review of EISs and environmental monitoring plans of SFC
sponsored projects through special studies and technical
assistance. Direct consultation will be provided to SFC's
process developers as required by the Energy Security Act,
Section 131 (e) which identifies EP A as one of the
consulting agencies to SFC. Limited evaluation will be
made of discharge characterization and controls on key
problem areas at SFC spQnsored plants or other operating
plants. Efforts will be initiated on a data management and
interpretation system for monitoring data from SFC plants.
Research will provide for the evaluation of reduced sulfur
species control for oil shale and coal based technologies and
codisposal of oil shale solid wastes with process waters.
The laboratory at R TP is responsible for the evaluation
of synfuel processes and characterization of the emissions,
waste streams, and control technologies. This includes coal
based synthetic fuels, oil shale, tar sands, geothermal and
other energy-related technologies.
Office or Contact Total Percent
Laboratory Funds (Sk) In-House
AEERL/RTP Robert Hangebrauck 18,292.9 15
Jim Abbott
OEET/HQ Kurt Jakobson
Gregory Ondich
The Agency's Cold Climate Research Program defines
the impacts of oil and gas development, mining activities,
and atmospheric pollution on arctic and sub-arctic
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environments and proposes mitigative measures. Projects in
the FY'85 program include: (I) assessing the impact of oil
development on coastal tundra wetlands of the Alaska
North Slope; (2) developing criteria for protection of
surface waters impacted by placer mining; (3) performing a
literature review and field study of the biodegradation and
toxicity of hydrocarbons in oiled waters; and (4) developing
predictive models that will describe the dispersion,
downwash and deposition of industrial air pollutants along
Alaska's North Slope.
Office or
Laboratory
Contact
Total
Funds (Sk)
Percent
In-House
ERLjCOR
James McCarty
400
o
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Assessment
Health Effects
Hazardous Wastes
This program provides assessments of the health effects and
risks arising from hazardous wastes; improved methods for
performing such assessments; and, chemical-specific health
summaries. These are supplied to the EPA's Office of Solid
Waste (OSW) to support a variety of regulatory activities
and to OSW, EPA regional offices and the states for use in
evaluating permit and enforcement actions.
One type of assessment, the health and environmental
effects profile, characterizes a waste and assesses the
hazards posed to humans or the environment by exposure
to it. The profiles support decisions on listing or delisting a
chemical as a hazardous waste. Most of this work is done
by extramural contract.
In addition, an in-house team develops methods to assess
the extent of human health effects and human exposure to
complex hazardous wastes. These methods support efforts
to assess and refine proposed RCRA permits and to
prepare supporting documentation for enforcement
decisions. Finally, to support the prevention and
containment of hazardous spills, extramural contractors
develop chemical-specific health summaries for use in
evaluating alternatives for dealing with hazardous spill
contaminants.
Office or
Laboratory
ECAO/CIN
OHEA/HQ
Contact
Total
Funds (Sk)
1,334
1.042
Percent
In-House
32
54
Christopher DeRosa
Thomas Gleason
Listing of substances under RCRA requires the ability to
characterize the potential health hazards of wastes. This
research program focuses on developing biological short-
term tests to make determinations of the potential health
hazard of manufacturing residues. Emphasis will be on
recognizing complex mixtures as hazardous wastes for
disposal purpose. This current research is to develop two
screens for Level I of a three-level testing battery. The first,
a prescreen protocol, will be an abbreviated and
inexpensive screen for large numbers of Resource
Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) samples. The
other screen will be a Level I confirmation screening
protocol to provide a more accurate preliminary assessment
of the potential toxicity of RCRA samples. Levels 2 and 3
of the testing battery will not be the subject of research in
this current plan.
Office or
Laboratory
HERL/RTP
OHR/HQ
Contact
Total
Funds (Sk)
1,742.8
Percent
I n- House
44
JoeHen Lewtas
W. Wade Talbot
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Environmental
Processes and
Effects
Hazardous Wastes
Cost-effective decisions on regulation of hazardous wastes
require methods for determining which waste constituents
are hazardous, the potential impacts on human health and
the environment of various disposal and regulatory options,
and the suitability of sites proposed for disposal facilities.
In addition, field-validated methods for quickly assessing
the potential impacts of hazardous material releases (spills)
on the environment are needed for decisions on
counter-measures.
For determining whether wastes are hazardous,
ERLj Duluth is adapting quantitative structure-activity
relationship methods, developed for predicting the toxicity
of single chemicals for use on multi-chemical wastes.
RSKERLj Ada is developing microcosm (e.g., soil column)
technology which will provide a relatively fast and
inexpensive determination of the potential for wastes to
move in the subsurface environment and thus to
contaminate an aquifer.
Models are being developed to determine the exposure of
humans and the environment to hazardous wastes.
RSKERLj Ada is developing, improving, and field-
evaluating ground-water models, while ERL/ Athens is
coordinating ground water and other routes of exposure
(surface water, air) into multimedia methods which can
predict exposure on a consistent basis through multiple
routes.
Criteria developed in FY 1984 by RSKERL/ Ada for site
selection and evaluation based on hydrogeological factors
will be evaluated in several hydrogeological settings in
cooperation with the U.S. Geological Survey in FY 1985.
RSKERLj Ada is also developing a comprehensive
technical data base on new and existing technologies for
land treatment of hazardous wastes for which incineration
or conventional land disposal are inappropriate, infeasible,
or ineffective.
For assessment of the potential hazard of materials
released into the terrestrial or aquatic environment,
ERL/Corvallis is developing and evaluating a multitrophic-
level bioassay protocol. In FY 1985 the protocol will be
evaluated at a third field site, and the protocol will be
augmented with selected alternative testing techniques.
Three studies will be continued to assist the Agency in
defining the threat from dioxin contamination: its
bioavailability in fish, its potential for human exposure
through the food chain, and its mobility and persistence in
soils and ground water.
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Engineering
and
Technology
Hazardous Wastes
Office or
Laboratory
Total Percent
Funds ($k) In-House
737 73
3,465 33
538 63
1,426 56
529 49
Contact
ERL/ATH George W. Bailey
RSKERL/ ADA George Keeler
ERL/COR Spencer A. Peterson
ERL/DUL Philip M. Cook
OEPER/ HQ Will C. LaVeille
This program develops data on control technologies, how
they function, and whether they will, in fact, allow
hazardous waste disposal facilities to meet performance
standards.
In order to develop performance standards for the
treatment, storage, and disposal of hazardous wastes it is
necessary to understand the operational characteristics of
the different kinds of treatment and disposal available.
Methods for use in measurement protocols will be
developed to determine incinerator destruction efficiency
and to continuously monitor control technology. With
regard to landfilling, synthetic and clay liners will be
studied and the effectiveness of alternative closure, and
monitoring procedures for surface impoundments will be
investigated. Technical Resource Documents will be
developed for use by regional and state agencies for
permitting hazardous waste disposal facilities and for
enforcing applicable regulations. This program will update
documents for disposal facility design, operation,
maintenance, and closure.
Incineration Research focuses on four areas:
characterizing performance of existing thermal destruction
technologies; developing methods of rapid cost-effective
compliance monitoring of these facilities; characterizing the
products of incomplete combustion and their formation
conditions; and developing methods to predict performance
to avoid process failure and control process reliability. The
research is conducted at laboratory and pilot scale in
HWERL facilities in Cincinnati and Jefferson, Arkansas.
The hypotheses from these programs are verified in full-
scale field tests. The program examines conventional
incineration as well as high temperature industrial
processes.
The treatment program examines both existing and
emerging alternative technologies for treating or detoxifying
hazardous materials. Emphasis is being placed on those
waste streams which will be banned from land disposal
facilities.
Research is being conducted to evaluate in-situ methods
for the destruction/ detoxification/ containment of dioxins
and pollutants related to the production of dioxins and
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Deposition
Environmental
Monitoring
and
Quality
Assurance
Hazardous Wastes
similar toxicants. One major investigation will involve the
accelerated evaluation of the mobile incinerator at the
Denney Farm site near Verona, Missouri. The purpose of
this research is to determine the economic viability of the
technique and to establish: (a) test burn protocols, (b)
health and safety protocol, (c) site specific, risk assessment
protocol, (d) an economic model for estimating the cost of
treatment per unit of material processed, and (e) national
and state permit protocol.
. Finally, to provide technical support in preventing and
containing hazardous spills, reports will be issued
summarizing research on the evaluation of specialized
equipment and techniques for prevention, control, removal,
and disposal.
The implementation of this program is divided between
two laboratories. The Hazardous Waste Engineering
Research Laboratory in Cincinnati is responsible for land
disposal and control of hazardous spills, incineration
research as well as for advanced technologies such as
chemical, biological and physical treatment alternatives.
The Air and Energy Engineering Research Laboratory in
RTP is responsible for the development of emissions
sampling and analysis protocols.
Office or Contact Total Percent
Laboratory Funds ($k) In-House
HWERL/CIN E. Oppelt 19.304 27
N. Schomaker
AI Klee
OEET/HQ Marshall Dick 342 88
To improve procedures to characterize wastes for listi.ng
under RCRA, research will develop methods for
characterizing and detecting particular wastes and
providing criteria for determining if those wastes constitute
a potential hazard. Methods will be tested for application to
highly toxic wastes in soil and sediments, for detection of
organics in the ambient air of waste disposal facilities, and
for determining the reactions of wastes in all media.
Techniques for field monitoring of hazardous waste sites
will be improved, including statistics for sampling design
and evaluated standard methods for media sampling. Of
particular importance is post-closure monitoring of sites
and investigation of new techniques for monitoring soils,
and biota, ambient air, and waste incinerator emissions.
To support RCRA permitting and enforcement activities,
research is developing screening methods, biological
monitoring methods, and developing remote monitoring
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Hazardous Wastes
techniques. A substantial extramural effort will be directed
toward validating waste incinerator test methods for
volatile and semi-volatile organic compounds and monitors
for carbon monoxide and total hydrocarbons on waste
incinerator stacks.
To support prevention and containment of hazardous
releases, work will be done to develop techniques and
methods to gather and analyze data through such means as
aerial photos, and thermal and multispectral imagery
techniques for site characterization. Tasks will identify
spills, spill movement, and to assist in cleanup operations.
Finally, to ensure that the data on which regulation and
enforcement are based is accurate, quality assurance efforts
will include distribution of analytical and standards
reference materials, on-site field audits of sampling efforts,
laboratory performance evaluations and support in
methods used.
Office or
Laboratory
Contact
Total
Funds (Sk)
Percent
In-House
EMSL/CIN Robert Booth
EMSL/ LV Glenn Schweitzer
EMSL/RTP Thomas Hauser
ADEMQA/HQ John Koutsandreas
2,508
5,965
1,308
437
26
47
21
65
38
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Scientific
Assessment
Environmental
Engineering
and
Technology
Superfund
This program provides technical support to the Office of
Emergency and Remedial Response (OERR) for use in
establishing and implementing regulations mandated by
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation
and Liability Act (CERCLA) as well as technical support
and assessment methods development for the Office of
Waste Programs Enforcement (OWPE) for use in
enforcement decisions. This program produces rapid
response health summaries, for use by on-scene
coordinators after hazardous materials spills or other
emergency response situations. Evaluation of these
chemical-specific summaries should permit a determination
of potential hazards. The literature search is done by
extramural contract.
Following emergency or remedial response at a
hazardous waste site, residual levels of hazardous
substances may remain in the environment. Protocols are
being developed for estimating aggregate acceptability
indices for exposure to residual levels of complex chemical
mixtures. This is mainly an in-house project. In addition,
health effects data are being gathered from the scientific
literature and used to rank health risks posed by individual
chemicals. The final ratings are one factor among several
used in determining a "reportable quantity" for each
chemical. The majority of this work is done by extramural
contract.
Office or Contact Total Percent
Laboratory Funds (Sk) In-House
ECAO/CIN Christopher DeRosa 630 13
OHEA/HQ Thomas Gleason 620 13
Clean-up of uncontrolled hazardous waste sites requires
technologies for response and remedial action, for
protecting the personnel involved and for supporting
enforcement actions.
The R&D support program develops and evaluates clean-
up technology, demonstrating proto-typical equipment such
as mobile incineration systems and mobile soil washing
systems. Remedial technology will be assessed and
handbooks provided which will include design data, and
cost and effectiveness information. Engineering expertise
will be applied to the assessment of uncontrolled hazardous
waste site situations to assist the Office of Emergency and
Remedial Response, Regions and others in the development
of corrective measure options. Manuals will be developed
establishing personnel safety protocols and evaluating
equipment and techniques, especially for decontamination
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Processes and
Effects
Acid
Deposition
Environmental
Monitoring
and
Quality
Assurance
Superfund
of equipment and personnel. I n addition, short-term, quick
turn-around technical advice and consultation will be
provided to the regional programs and the Office of Waste
Programs Enforcement for enforcement support.
Office or
Laboratory
Contact
Total
Funds (Sk)
Percent
In-House
HWERL/CIN
OEET / HQ
Ronald Hill
Ray Thacker
6,158
84
30
100
To support on-scene coordinators of emergency and
remedial response activities, a manual will be prepared
which provides technical guidance on the mechanisms and
applications of biological field sampling at hazardous waste
sites. A comprehensive ground and surface water modeling
applications guide will be produced for use in predicting the
extent of contamination from hazardous waste sites.
Technical assistance will be provided to Regions on ground
,water investigation methods, hydrology, and geology.
Office or
Laboratory
Contact
Total
Funds (Sk)
Percent
In-House
OEPER/HQ
Will C. LaVeille
100
163
This program supports the National Contracts Laboratory
Program and three major activities: situation assessments,
quality assurance and enforcement and technical assistance.
Between 50 and 60 laboratories are involved in the
National Contracts Laboratory Program which will
perform the analytical tests for site and situation
assessment. The ORD program will ensure the quality of
the data from these laboratories through on-site laboratory
evaluations. blind samples analyses, quarterly reviews and a
10 percent data audit. Remote sensing provides detailed
data on sites to help the Superfund Office to prioritize sites
and determine methods of clean-up. Air monitoring
assessment and sampling methods will be evaluated for use
in field assessment of hazardous waste sites.
The Quality Assurance program will provide the basis to
estimate the scientific accuracy of the data acquired by
Superfund.
Enforcement cases will be provided with increased
monitoring expertise to ensure that clean-up by industry is
consistent with proved scientific protocols. Also,
geophysical monitoring and a referee laboratory to provide
quick turnaround will be available to the regions and the
program office.
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Superfund
Office or
Laboratory
Contact
EMSLjL V Glenn Schweitzer
EMSLjRTP Thomas Hauser
EMSLjCIN Robert Booth
ADEMQAjHQ Robert Holmes
41
Total
Funds (Sk)
349.4
619.7
665.0
100.0
Percent
In-House
27
27
22
95
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Scientific
Assessment
Health Effects
Toxic Substances
The scientific assessment research program relating to toxic
substances provides overview of scientific documents, and
develops uniform methodologies for performing risk
assessments. To provide an overview of scientific
documents, carcinogenicity, mutagenicity, adverse
reproductive effects and exposure assessments are reviewed
upon request from the Office of Toxic Substances. Newly
developed data are being gathered to improve risk
assessment methodologies and to ensure continuity
throughout the Agency in the use of risk assessment
methods. Mutagenicity, carcinogenicity and exposure
methods are being revised and reproductive effects methods
are being developed.
Office or
Laboratory
Contact
Total
Funds (Sk)
Percent
In-House
OHEA/ HQ
Tom Miller
271
81
This research program identifies and quantifies risks to
human health from toxic substances through test method
development for provision of dose response data to be used
in risk assessment methods development and structure-
activity model development.
Testing methodology research has three purposes: to
determine which laboratory tests best predict the human
response, to determine the chemical reactivity of metabolic
intermediate compounds, and to improve biological
mathematical extrapolation models.
Risk Assessment activities are directed primarily toward
improving methods to predict toxicity based upon
similarities in chemical structure, improving extrapolations
from high-dose to low-dose, and improving extrapolations
from animal species to humans. This includes the
development of biological markers which are measurable
indicators of exposure, susceptibility, and effect of the
molecular level. By combining epidemiologic studies with
exposure markers, it may be possible to predict the human
health risks from exposures to toxic material more
precisely.
Research into structure-activit)' relationships will be used
to develop methods which can use data on molecular
structure descriptors or combinations to pre~ict genetic and
carcinogenic activities using pattern recognition and
statistical techniques. Also, we will construct a chemical
data base in several areas of toxicological responses and
relate each to effects upon individual organ systems.
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Engineering
and
Technology
"
"
Toxic Substances
Office or
Laboratory
Contact
Total
Funds (Sk)
Percent
In-House
HERL/RTP
OHR/HQ
Bill Durham
Charles Mitchell
35
11,113.2
The areas of focus in this research program are: the
identification and evaluation of alternatives to mitigate
release and exposure of chemicals which will be used by the
Agency in regulating the manufacture and use of existing
chemicals; the development of predictive capabilities to be
used in assessing release and exposure in the review of
Premanufacturing Notices (PMN's) for new chemicals as
required by TSCA; and the assessment of physical,
chemical and biological techniques and devices to contain
and destroy genetically engineered organisms under TSCA.
Alternatives to mitigate release and exposure of specific
existing chemicals will be defined in cooperation with
industry, through the evaluation and adaptation of control
measures related to the release in the workplace and into
the environment of the chemicals during their life cycles.
Technologies, management practices, and personal
protective equipment to limit the release and exposure of
chemicals will be evaluated. ,
Models to predict the release and exposure of different
classes of new chemicals will be developed in cooperation
with industry. The models will address different chemical
unit operations, unit processes and physical/ chemical
properties of chemicals and predict potential exposure and
release levels as well as best control measures to mitigate
release and exposure of new chemicals. Pilot scale testing
for the treatability of classes of potentially toxic chemicals
will be conducted to validate these predictive models for
waste streams.
A program to support PMN review related to genetically
engineered organisms will be conducted through technology
and engineering assessments of the potential for
environmental contamination, and physical, chemical and
biological techniques and devices to contain and destroy
these organisms. Engineering safety and quality control
pr'ograms will be emphasized.
Office or Contact Total Percent
Laboratory Funds (Sk) In-House
WERL/CIN Clyde Dempsey 569.4 64
OEET/HQ Don Tang 50 100
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Environmental
Processes and
Effects
Toxic Substances
Determination of the movement, transformation, and
ultimate disposition of toxic substances and genetically
engineered organisms in all environmental media, and how
plant and animal organisms and larger ecosystems in these
media are affected by toxic substances, are the subjects of
this research effort. This involves specific activities for'
developing and validating tests and methodologies for
assessing environmental hazards and exposure, integrating
these into risk assessments, developing structure-activity
relationships (SAR) for rapid estimation of the fate and
effects of new chemicals and providing technical assistance
on specific existing chemical evaluations and rule makings.
Environmental hazard assessment research focuses on the
development, improvement, and validation of single and
multi-species toxicity tests (including acute and chronic
toxicity), bioconcentration assays, comparative
toxicological relationships using fish, indirect human
exposure methods, and system-level process organisms. The
developed methods are validated in both laboratory
(microcosm) and field ecosystem environments in order to
define their applicability to real-world situations.
Studies on environmental exposure assessment will
develop tests and mathematical models of chemical
transport, transformation and fate in order to determine the
concentrations of toxic substances in various environmental
media and to relate these to actual terrestrial environments,
modeling accumulation of toxic chemicals in food chains,
and developing soil core microcosms for determining
chemical fate and biodegradation processes. Laboratory
and field studies are conducted as a final
improvement/verification step.
Environmental risk assessment studies on the linkage of
environmental exposure and hazard assessment techniques,
and development of methods to evaluate risks associated
with genetically engineered organisms have been initiated.
Structure-activity relationship research develops
methodologies based upon molecular structure
characteristics to rapidly assess the environmental fate and
toxicity of new chemicals. Structure-activity correlations
include those for bioaccumulation, toxicity, and fate.
Activities also include development of data bases on plant
uptake, fate of organic chemicals, toxicity to fish, and
reactivity of chemicals in air.
Technical assistance is provided to the Office of Toxic
Substances on complex problems relating to environmental
fate, exposure, effects, hazards, and the environmental risk
of toxic chemicals as necessary for risk assessment.
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Deposition
Environmental
Monitoring
and
Quality
Assurance
Toxic Substances
Activities in this program are carried out at six field
laboratories. Their locations as well as the kinds of research
they conduct are as follows:
. ERL/ Athens - transport and transformation of organic
and inorganic substances in freshwater and multi-media
environments, and development Df SAR regarding fate
of chemicals;
. ERL/Duluth - effects of toxic substances in freshwater
environments, and development of SAR regarding
effects of new chemicals;
. ERL/Narragansett - chemical fate and effects in marine
environments;
. ERL/Corvallis - fate and effects of toxic substances and
genetically engineered organisms in terrestrial
environments;
. RSKERL/ Ada - terrestrial subsurface fate of chemicals;
. ERL/Gulf Breeze - fate and effects of chemicals and
genetically engineered organisms in estuarine/marine
environments.
Office or
Laboratory
Contact
Percent
In-House
Total
Funds (Sk)
ASRL/RTP Alfred H. Ellison
ERL/ATH Walter M. Sanders
RSKERL/ ADA Clinton W. Hall
ERL/COR Thomas A. Murphy
ERL/DUL Norbert A. Jaworski
ERL/NARR William A. Brungs
ERL/GB Henry F. Enos
OEPER/HQ Charles W. Hendricks
216
1,895
70
1,526
1,188
503
2,134
967
31
83
o
66
64
84
56
59
Efforts to protect human health from the adverse impacts
of environmental exposure to toxic substances are
supported by EP A research to improve monitoring
capabilities, to more accurately determine exposure to
chemicals, and to provide quality assurance. This research
includes the development of new statistical techniques and
sampling design methods for use in conducting the risk
assessments required by the Toxic Substances Control Act.
Research related to monitoring human and
environmental exposure to chemicals involves identification
of the major transport and transformation processes. These
processes are identified through monitoring data, and
through monitoring systems capable of linking
environmental concentrations of chemicals to human
exposure. This exposure program requires the development
of monitoring methodology to determine the extent of
exposure and field testing of monitoring techniques and
methods for a chemical of interest.
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Toxic Substances
Quality Assurance efforts improve measurement
methods, field monitoring systems, and associated
protocols. Under this program, methods will be developed
and evaluated for sampling and analyzing volatile organic
compounds which are currently difficult to isolate.
Biological measurements will be emphasized and
deliverables will include guidelines for conducting
collaborative tests of biological test methods as well as
selected biological reference materials for use in various
analytical procedures.
Office or
Laboratory
Contact
Total
Funds (Sk)
Percent
In-House
EMSL/CIN Robert Booth
EMSL/RTP Thomas Hauser
EMSL/LV Glenn Schweitzer
ADEMQA/HQ Michael Dellarco
657
1,361
3,054
200
o
27
42
o
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Scientific
Assessment
Health Effects
Environmental
Engineering
and
Technology
Pesticides
In support of EPA's role in regulating pesticides, EPA's
researchers prepare and review risk assessment documents
for carcinogenicity, mutagenicity, adverse reproductive
effects and exposure for pesticide compounds as requested
by OPP. Risk assessment methods for mutagenicity,
carcinogenicity, reproductive effects and exposure (dermal
and inhalation) are being updated.
Office or
Laboratory
Contact
Total
Funds (Sk)
Percent
In-House
OHEAjHQ
Tom Miller
401
93
This program develops methods to determine health
endpoints and health effects, methods to determine risk,
and ways to provide quality assurance.
To define the health endpoints of pesticides which are of
concern, data will be provided on the immunological effects
of biological pesticides on mammalian cells. In addition,
research will investigate how pesticides affect children
differently from adults.
In order to identify the health effects of pesticides, EP A
requires industry to supply specific pesticide data. EP A 's
research in this area develops test protocols and health
assay methods for industry to use to produce that data.
During FY 1985, additional test methods will be developed
in the areas of reproductioniteratology,
mutagenesis / carcinogenicity (genotoxic effects),
neurotoxicology and immunotoxicology.
Research also develops methods to improve risk
assessment to determine whether a pesticide poses
unreasonable adverse risk to the public health and the
environment.
A computerized data management and analysis system
for mutagenic/ carcinogenic testing of pesticides will be
developed and applied to assist in finding solutions to
specific tox.icological problems.
Office or Contact Total Percent
Laboratory Funds (Sk) In-House
HERLjRTP William F Durham 4,603.5 45
OHR/HQ Charles T. Mitchell
This research program supports the Office of Pesticides
Regulatory Program in making determinations as to
whether or not certain types of protective clothing reduce
exposure to pesticides during application. Laboratory
studies will be initiated on the permeability and
penetrability by highly toxic pesticide compounds for
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Processes and
Effects
Pesticides
various fabric and rubber compounds used for protective
clothing. This work will establish effects of wearing apparel
degradation and decontamination (e.g., laundering) on
pesticide retention and on continued protective capability of
the fabrics.
Office or Contact Total Percent
Laboratory Funds (Sk) In-House
WERLjCIN Alden Christianson 552.3 3
OEETjHQ Don Tang 27.0 100
This research program is designed to determine the
environmental transport, degradation, fate and effects of
certain pesticides; to assess the environmental exposures;
and to assess hazard and associated risks. Environmental
effects research will develop methods and field-evaluate
predictive techniques to estimate the effects of biological
control agents and chemical pesticides on biota in aquatic
and/ or terrestrial environments. Extramural research will
be sponsored through EP A laboratories in Gulf Breeze,
Corvallis, and Duluth on field evaluation of pesticide
hazard assessment techniques.
To help to assess environmental exposure to pesticides,
additional techniques will be developed to estimate adverse
pesticide exposure in aquatic and terrestrial environments.
Such determinations will include pesticide distribution and
exposure levels in ecosystems and in physical habitats such
as soil, sediment chemical measurements, and sorption
kinetics. Extramural research through EP A laboratories in
Athens and Gulf Breeze will focus on evaluation of
predictive (modelling) techniques for environmental
exposure in the field.
In support of Agency development of environmental risk
assessment capabilities, this research program will select
environmental risk assessment methods for selected
populations o'r their surrogates. Methods will be developed
to perform assessments by integrating new or existing
exposure and effects data into models. These methods are
used by EP A in analyzing the data submitted by industry to
determine the risks and benefits from pesticide use. In
addition, technical assistance is provided to the Office of
Pesticides Programs on complex problems relating to
environmental fate, exposure, effects, and hazards as
necessary for risk assessment. Several field laboratories
conduct pesticide research. These are:
. ERL/ Athens - transport and transformation of
pesticides in freshwater and multi-media environments;
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Deposition
Environmental
Monitoring
and
Quality
Assurance
Pesticides
. ERL/Corvallis - exposure and effects of pesticides in
terrestrial environments;
. ERLI Duluth - effects of pesticides in freshwater
environments;
. ERL/Gulf Breeze - pesticide fate and effects in
marine I estuarine environments.
Office or Contact Total Percent
Laboratory Funds ($k) In-House
ERL/ATH George Bailey 398.4 62
ERL/COR Thomas A. Murphy 250.0 76
ERL/DUL Norbert A. Jaworski 355.3 78
ERL/GB Henry Enos 1,258.0 100
OEPER/HQ Charles W. Hendricks 353.6 90
The pesticides quality assurance program ensures the
accuracy of the data which is attained through testing and
analysis. This program maintains a pesticide repository of
high purity chemicals which are used by more than 1,400
laboratories in the United States and in "foreign countries.
These samples are used as standard reference samples for
internal quality control. I n addition. interlaboratory
comparison samples are prepared. Also, the program will
provide samples of pesticide chemicals no longer produced,
but still regulated, in the United States. Such reference
samples are necessary to perform analyses in soil, plant, or
animal tissues at the required degree of accuracy.
Office or
Laboratory
Contact
Percent
In-House
Total
Funds ($k)
EMSL/LV
R. K. Mitchum
1.152
45
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Health Effects
Acid
Deposition
Environmental
Monitoring
and
Quality
Assurance
Radiation
The goal of the radiation health research program is to
provide data and methodologies to assess the health effects
of exposure to non-ionizing radiation. The program
currently focuses primarily on neurologic effects; long-term,
low-level exposures; dose-extrapolation modeling
(improving extrapolations from high to low dose and from
animals to man); and studies on extremely low frequencies
(ELF) (60 Hz).
Office or Contact Total Percent
Laboratory Funds (Sk) In-House
HERLjRTP Joe Elder 1.899.4 48
OHR/HQ Hugh McKinnon
The overall goal of the research program in radiation is to
provide the scientifically credible data necessary to assess
public exposure to nonionizing radiation and to man-made
radioactive materials and to allow decisions to be made
regarding control of that exposure.
In addition, this program provides quality assurance for
the Agency's programs for monitoring radiation in the
environment. These are supported by providing a common
source of radionuclides standards and reference materials
and through the conduct of laboratory intercomparison
studies to assure data of known quality from analyses of
environmental samples such as milk, water, air and food.
Office or
Laboratory
Contact
Total
Funds (Sk)
Percent
In-House
EMSLjLV
Charles Costa
223
93
50
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Scientific
Assessment
Exploratory
Research
Core Program
Intermedia
The scientific assessment program provides uniform
Agency-wide guidance on, and assures the consistency of,
exposure and risk assessments that support regulatory
decisionmaking by EP A. The Agency is developing
guidelines for the assessment of exposure and risk
(oncogenicity, mutagenicity, reproductive toxicology,
systemic effects, and complex chemical mixtures) from
chemical compounds during 1985.
Office or
Laboratory
Contact
Total
Funds (Sk)
Percent
In-House
ECAO/CIN
OHEA/HQ
Jerry Stara
Tom Miller
148
952
100
68
There are three major components to the exploratory
research program: a grants program, a research centers
program, and a visiting scientists program. The grants
program supports research to advance the state-of-the-art in
key areas of interest to the Agency which are announced
annually in the "Solicitation for Research Grant
Proposals." The research centers program includes eight
university research centers which conduct multidisciplinary
/research in areas of high-priority interest to the Agency. In
1984, guidelines for the periodic review and sponsorship of
the exploratory research centers were developed. The
research centers are:
Waste Elimination: (Illinois Institute of Technology and
the University of Notre Dame) Innovative technology and
process modification to reduce industrial pollutants.
Intermedia Transport: (University of California at Los
Angeles) Definition of chemical/ physical processes
governing pollutant exchange at air-land and air-water
boundaries.
Ecosystem Management: (Cornell University) Identify
and apply ecosystem principles to environmental
management problems.
Marine: (University of Rhode Island) Assess marine
ecosystem health, emphasizing exposure of marine
organisms to toxics.
Advanced Control Technology: (University of Illinois,
Urbana) Separation technology, thermal destruction,
biological separation, and .chemical detoxification.
Ground Water: (University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma
State University, and Rice University) Subsurface
characterization, transport and fate, and ground-water
horizon modeling.
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Intermedia
Epidemiology: (University of Pittsburgh) Basic
epidemiology methods and airborne particulate health
effects.
Hazardous Waste: (Louisiana State University) Design,
construction, maintenance, operation. and closure of
hazardous waste landfills.
The visiting scientists program was initiated in 1984 to
bring distinguished senior scientists into the Agency to
assist in strengthening its science policy and research
program.
Office or
Laboratory
Contact
Total
Funds (Sk)
Percent
In-House
OER/HQ
Roger Cortesi
20,860.2
2.7
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ORD Organization
The Office of Research and Development is responsible for
research, development, and demonstration programs in
pollution sources, fate, and health and welfare effects; waste
management and utilization technology; environmental
sciences; and monitoring systems. Please note, the list below
includes both commercial (CML) and Federal (FTS)
telephone numbers. Where only one number is listed, it
serves both purposes.
Assistant Administrator for Research and Development
Bernard D. Goldstein
Headquarters, Washington, DC (RD-672)
Deputy Assistant Administrator
(202) 382-7676
Donald J. Ehreth
(202) 382-7676
Senior ORD Official, Cincinnati
David G. Stephan
Cincinnati, OH 45268
(513) 684-7418
Support Services Office
Director, Robert N. Carr
Senior ORD Official, Research Triangle Park
(513) 684-7966
Thomas R. Hauser
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
Support Services Office
Director, Paul Kenline (MD-51)
CML (919) 541-2106
FTS 8-629-2106
CML (919) 541-2613
FTS 8-629-2613
Office of Research Program Management
Director, Samuel Rondberg
Headquarters, Washington, DC (RD-674)
(202) 382-7500
Operations Office
Director, Alan Neuschatz
Administrative Management Staff
Chief, Bernard E. McMahon
(202) 382-7500
(202) 382-7462
Planning Staff
Chief, Kay Pettitt
Program Coordination Staff
Chief, Mitch Luxenberg
(202) 382-2597
(202) 382-7468
Regional Services Staff
Chief, Michael Mastracci
Information Systems Staff
Acting Director, Clifford Moore
(202) 382-7667
(202) 382-7466
Center for Environmental Research Information
Director, Calvin O. Lawrence
Cincinnati, OH 45268
(513) 684-7394
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Office 01 Exploratory Research
Director, Roger Cortesi
Headquarters, Washington, DC (RD-675)
Research Grants Staff
Director, Clarice Gaylord
Research Centers Program
Director, Robert A. Papetti
Visiting Scientists Program
Director, John Reuss
Office 01 Health and Environmental Assessment
Director, Elizabeth L. Anderson
Deputy Director, Paul A. Martin
Headquarters, Washington, DC (RD-689)
Cancer Assessment Group
Acting Director, Robert McGaughy
Exposure Assessment Group
Director, James Falco
Reproductive Effects Assessment Group
Director, Peter Voytek
(202) 382-5750
(202) 382-7473
(202) 382-7473
(202) 382-2573
(202) 382-7317
(202) 382-7315
(202) 382-5952
(202) 475-8909
(202) 382-7303
Environmental Criteria and Assessment Office
Director, Lester Grant (MD-52) CML (919) 541-4173
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711 FTS 8-629-4173
Environmental Criteria and Assessment Office
Director, Jerry F. Stara
Cincinnati, OH 45268
Office 01 Environmental Engineering and Technology
Director, Carl R. Gerber
Headquarters, Washington, DC (RD-681)
Special Assistant
David J. Graham
Program Operations Staff
Acting Director, Charles B. Oakley
Technical Programs Division
Director, Darwin R. Wright
(513) 684-7531
(202) 382-2600
(202) 382-2602
(202) 382-2580
(202) 382-5747
Air and Energy Engineering Research Laboratory
Director, Frank Princiotta (MD-60) CML (919) 541-2821
Deputy Director, Chick Craig FTS 8-629-2821
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
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Hazardous Waste Engineering Research Laboratory
Director, David G. Stephan (513) 684-7418
Deputy Director, William Cawley
Cincinnati, OH 45268
Releases Control Branch
Director, Ira Wilder
Edison, NJ 08837
CML (201) 321-6600
FTS 8-340-6600
Water Engineering Research Laboratory
Director, Francis Mayo
Deputy Director, Lou Lefk.e
Cincinnati, OH 45268
(513) 684-7951
Office of Environmental Processes and Effects Research
Director, Erich W. Bretthauer
Deputy Director, Bruce R. Barrett
Headquarters, Washington, DC (RD-682)
(202) 382-5950
Special Assistant
William T. Sayers
(202) 382-5960
Program Operations Staff
Director, Patricia M. N euschatz
(202) 382-5962
Water and Land Division
Director, Herbert B. Quinn
(202) 382-5940
Energy and Air Division
Acting Director, Alfred A. Galli
(202) 382-5776
T oxics and Pesticides Division
Acting Director, Charles Hendricks
(202) 382-5967
Field Laboratories
Robert S. Kerr Environmental Research Laboratory
Director, Clinton W. Hall CML (405) 332-8800
Deputy Director, Marvin L. Wood FTS 8-743-2224
P.O. Box 1198
Ada, OK 74820
Environmental Research Laboratory
Director, Rosemarie C. Russo CML (404) 546-3134
Deputy Director, William T. Donaldson FTS 8-250-3134
College Station Road
Athens, GA 30613
Environmental Research Laboratory
Director, Thomas A. Murphy
Deputy Director, James C. McCarty
200 SW 35th Street
Corvallis OR 97333
CML (503) 757-4601
FTS 8-420-4601
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Environmental Research Laboratory
Director, Norbert A Jaworski
Associate Director for Research, (Vacant)
6201 Congdon Boulevard
Duluth, MN 55804
Monticello Field Station
Box 500
Monticello, MN 55362
Large Lakes Research Station
9311 Groh Road
Grosse lie, M I 48138
Environmental Research Laboratory
Director, William A. Brungs
Deputy Director, (Vacant)
South Ferry Road
Narraganett, RI 02882
Environmental Research Laboratory
Director, Henry F. Enos
Deputy Director, Andrew J. McErlean
Sabine Island
Gulf Breeze, FL 32561
Office of HeaIth Research
Director, Robert L. Dixon
Deputy Director, (Vacant)
Headquarters, Washington, DC (RD-683)
Program Operations Staff
Acting Chief, Tom Veirs
Water and Toxics Division
Acting Director, Frode Ulvedal
Air, Noise and Radiation Division
Acting Director, Hugh McKinnon
Health Effects Research Laboratory
Director, F. Gordon H ueter (M D-51)
Deputy Director, Robert Lee, Jr.
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
CML (218) 727-6692
FTS 8-783-9549
CML only
(612) 295-5145
CML (313) 675-5000
FTS 8-226-7811
CML (401) 789-1071
FTS 8-838-4843
CML (904) 932-5333
FTS 8-686-9011
(202)382- 5900
(202) 382-5891
(202) 382-5893
(202) 382-5893
CML (919) 541-2281
FTS 8-629-2281
Office of Acid Deposition, Environmental Monitoring, and
Quality Assurance
Director, Courtney Riordan
Deputy Director, Matthew Bills
Headquarters, Washington, DC (RD-689)
Program Operations Staff
Chief, Paul Palm
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Quality Assurance Management Staff
Chief, Stanley Blacker
(202) 382-5763
Environmental Monitoring Systems Division
Director, Charles Brunot
Acid Deposition Research Division
Acting Director, Gary J. Foley
(202) 382-5776
(202) 382-7445
Environmental Monitoring Systems Laboratory
Director, Thomas Hauser (MD-75) CML (919) 541-2106
Deputy Director, Thomas A. Clark FTS 8-629-2106
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
Environmental Monitoring and Support Laboratory
Director, Robert L. Booth (513) 684-7301
Deputy Director, (Vacant)
Cincinnati, OH 45268
Environmental Monitoring Systems Laboratory
Director, Glenn E. Schweitzer CM L (702) 798-2100
Deputy Director, (Vacant) FTS 8-545-2525
P.O. Box 15027
Las Vegas, NV 89114
Vint H ill Station
Director, Vernon Webb
P.O. Box 1587, Building 166
Warrenton, VA 22186
CML (703) 347-6224
FTS 8-557-3110
Atmospheric Sciences Research Laboratory
Director, A. H. Ellison CML (919) 541-2191
Deputy Director, Jack H. Shreffler FTS 8-629-2191
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
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Office of
Exploratory
Research
Office of
Health and
Environmental
Assessment
Office of
Environmental
Engineering and
Technology
ORD Organizational Descriptions
The Office of Exploratory Research is responsible for
planning, administering and managing research in response
to EPA priorities as articulated by agency planning
mechanisms and ORD's research committees. Its
responsibilities include: analyzing and assessing long-range
environmental research trends and problems; planning,
administering, managing and evaluating E P A 's anticipatory
and extramural research through competitive grants and
centers of excellence programs; supervising and supporting
visiting scientists and summer fellows programs; managing
small business innovative research activities; identifying
federal workforce training programs to be used by state and
local governments; and assuring the participation of
minority institutions in environmental research and
development activities.
The Office of Health and Environmental Assessment is
responsible for an agency-wide program to provide a
scientific foundation for evaluating the effects of
environmental pollutants in varying exposure situations on
human health and ecological systems and determining the
degree of risks from these exposures.
The Environmental Criteria and Assessment Office in
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, is responsible for
.preparing air quality criteria documents and air pollutant
health assessment documents for use in agency regulatory
activities, as well as legislatively required health-related
reports.
The Environmental Criteria and Assessment Office in
Cincinnati, Ohio, prepares health and hazard assessment
documents on water pollution and solid and hazardous
wastes and hazardous air pollutants. Additionally,
comprehensive methodologies are prepared for health
assessments of both single chemicals and complex mixtures.
Technical assistance to various agency programs and
Regional Offices concerning acceptable pollutant levels and
dose-response relations are also provided.
The Office of Environmental Engineering and Technology
is responsible for the assessment and the development of
methods for control of the environmental and socio-
economic impacts of municipal and industrial operations
and of energy and mineral resource extraction, processing,
conversion, and utilization systems.
The Hazardous Waste Engineering Research Laboratory
in Cincinnati, Ohio, investigates ways to prevent, control,
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Office of
Environmental
Processes and
Effects
Research
and treat hazardous wastes and Superfund related activities.
This includes defining and characterizing sources of
pollution, catalyzing advances in the state-of-the-art of
pollution control, providing engineering concepts for cost-
effective engineering solutions to difficult pollution
problems and early-warning of emerging sources of
pollution.
The Water Engineering Research Laboratory in
Cincinnati, Ohio, investigates, develops and demonstrates
cost-effective methods for the prevention, treatment and
management of municipal wastewater and sludges and
urban runoff; and of industrial processing and
manufacturing and toxic discharges; and the development
of technology and management systems for the treatment,
distribution and presentation of public drinking water
supplies.
The Air and Energy Engineering Research Laboratory in
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, evaluates control
technologies and process modifications needed to establish
and meet standards for air emissions in a timely and cost-
effective manner, and supports EP A's regulatory and
enforcement programs. The Laboratory also
environmentally assesses manufacture and use of synthetic
fuel and other current and emerging energy sources and
technologies.
The Office of Environmental Processes and Effects
Research develops the scientific and technological methods
and data necessary to understand, predict, and manage the
entry, movement, and fate of pollutants in the environment
and the food chain, and to determine the effects of
pollutants upon nonhuman organisms and ecosystems.
The Robert S. Kerr Environmental Research Laboratory
in Ada, Oklahoma, conducts research and development
projects on ground water, natural systems for treating
wastewater, .and the land treatment of hazardous wastes.
The Environmental Research Laboratory in Athens,
Georgia, develops techniques for predicting the movement
of pollutants through soil and water, and the subsequent
changes that take place there. This includes agricultural and
silvicultural sources of pollution, and environmental
systems to control them; and development of models to
help judge the environmental consequences of a
contaminant reaching certain parts of water-soil systems.
The Environmental Research Laboratory in Corvallis,
Oregon, determines the effects of pollution on terrestrial
and freshwater ecosystems-linking air, land, and water.
Studies include air pollutant effects on terrestrial and
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Office of
Health
Research
aquatic ecosystems, toxic effects of chemicals and products
of biotechnology on plants and animals in terrestrial and
aquatic ecosystems, restorative efforts for dying lakes, the
effects of pollution on wetlands, the ecological effects of
runoff, and impacts of energy development in cold climates.
The Environmental Research Laboratory in Duluth,
Minnesota, conducts research on the toxic effects of
chemicals, pesticides and other pollutants on freshwater
ecosystems. This laboratory has primary research
responsibility for describing the fate and effects of
pollutants that enter the Great Lakes.
The Environmental Research Laboratory in
Narragansett, Rhode Island, studies the impacts of
pollution on marine ecosystems, including the build-up of
pollutants, chemical and physical behavior of pollutants in
ocean life systems, and responses of marine organisms to
environmental stress. This research provides a base for
agency decisions on use of the oceans, specifically regarding
ocean discharges and dumping.
The Environmental Research Laboratory in Gulf Breeze,
Florida, conducts research on toxicological test guidelines
and systems and the exposure-effects relationships of
pesticides, toxic substances, and products of biotechnology
in marine, coastal, and estuarine ecosystems. Emphasis is
on the development, evaluation, and application of
techniques and test systems for measuring and predicting
the transport, fate, and biological and ecosystem effects of
pesticides and toxic substances, including products of
biotechnology.
The Office of Health Research is responsible for developing
toxicity test methods and for providing toxicity data to
enable the agency to accurately identify hazards and
determine human risk from environmental exposure. From
this mission, four principal areas of research are derived:
- generation of dose-response data
- toxicity test method development
- extrapolation of laboratory animal data to man
- development of methods to use dose-response data to
estimate human morbidity and mortality.
The Health Effects Research Laboratory (HERL) with
divisions in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina and
Cincinnati, Ohio, works in all four of these areas with
emphasis on inhalation toxicology, genetic toxicology,
reproductive and development toxicology, neurotoxicology,
non-ionizing radiation, waterborne diseases, and
epidemiology.
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Office of Acid
Deposition
Environmental
Monitoring and
Quality
Assurance
This Office is responsible 'for: (a) monitoring the cause and
effects of acid deposition; (b) research and development on
the causes, effects and corrective steps for the acid
deposition phenomenon; (c) research with respect to the
transport and fate of pollutants which are released into the
atmosphere; (d) development and demonstration of
techniques and methods to measure exposure and to relate
ambient concentrations to exposure by critical receptors; (e)
research, development and demonstration of new
monitoring methods, systems, techniques and equipment
for detection, identification and characterization of
pollutants at the source and in the ambient environment
and for use as reference or standard monitoring methods;
(t) establishment, direction and coordination of agency-
wide Quality Assurance Program; and (g) development and
provision of quality assurance methods, techniques and
material including validation and standardization of
analytical methods, sampling techniques, quality control
methods, standard reference materials, and techniques for
data collection, evaluation and interpretation.
The Environmental Monitoring Systems Laboratory in
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, develops methods
to measure and monitor pollutants in ambient air and
emissions sources; operates the quality assurance program
for measurement of air pollutants, develops techniques to
assess population exposure to air pollutants; and,
characterizes non-criteria pollutants in air.
The Environmental Monitoring Systems Laboratory in
Las Vegas, Nevada, conducts research and development
programs related to monitoring of pollutants in the
environment, develops sampling strategies and techniques
for monitoring hazardous waste leachates in soil and
groundwater, develops remote sensing techniques, evaluates
analytical methods for the characterization and
quantification of hazardous wastes, and provides quality
assurance in support of the EP A 's hazardous waste,
"Superfund," pesticides and ionizing radiation programs.
The Environmental Monitoring and Support Laboratory
in Cincinnati, Ohio, standardizes analytical test procedures
to identify and measure major pollutants and
microorganisms of health significance in drinking water,
ambient receiving waters, and municipal and industrial
effluents; operates the quality assurance program for the
monitoring data on water pollutants; develops screening
methods for use at hazardous waste sites; and provides
technical support to water and waste monitoring programs.
The Atmospheric Sciences Research Laboratory in
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, determines the
effects of air pollution on the atmosphere, and subsequent
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effects on air and water quality and land use. It also
assesses the effects of pollution on weather and climate. and
develops mathematical models for relating pollution
emissions to air quality and for forecasting potential air
pollution crises.
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Abbreviations
CERI/CIN
Center for Environmental Research Information
Cincinnati, OH 45268
(513) 684-7394
ECAO/CIN Environmental Criteria and Assessment Office;
Cincinnati, OH 45268
(513) 684-7531
ECAO/RTP Environmental Criteria and Assessment Office;
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
CML (919) 541-4173
FTS 8-629-4173
EMSL/CIN Environmental Monitoring and Support Laboratory;
Cincinnati, OH 45268
(513) 683-7301
EMSL/L V
Environmental Monitoring Systems Laboratory;
Las Vegas, NV
P.O. Box 15027
Las Vegas, NV 89114
CML (702) 798-2100
FTS 8-545-2100
EMSL/RTP Environmental Monitoring Systems Laboratory;
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
CML (919) 541-2106
FTS 8-629-2106
ERL/ATH
ERL/COR
ERL/DUL
ERL/GB
Environmental Research Laboratory; Athens, GA
College Station Road
Athens, GA 30613
CML (404) 546-3154
FTS 8-250-3154
Environmental Research Laboratory;Corvallis
200 SW 35th Street
Corvallis, OR 97333
CML (503) 757-4601
FTS 8-420-4601
Environmental Research Laboratory; Duluth
6201 Congdon Boulevard
Duluth, MN 55804
CML (218) 727-6692
FTS 8-783-9550
Environmental Research Laboratory; G B
Sabine Island
Gulf Breeze, FL 32561
CM L (904) 932-5311
FTS 8-686-90 II
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ERL/NARR Environmental Research Laboratory/Narr.
South Ferry Road
Narragansett, RI 02882
CML (401) 789-1071
FTS 8-838-4843
ASRL/RTP
HERL/RTP
HWERL/
elN
AEERL/
RTP
WERL/
CIN
OEET /HQ
Atmospheric Sciences Research Laboratory / I
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
CML (919) 541-2191
FTS 8-629-2191
Health Effects Research Laboratory /
Research Triangle Park, NC 277 I I
CML (919) 541-2281
FTS 8-629-2281
Hazardous Waste Engineering Research Laboratory /
Cincinnati, OH 45268
(513) 684-7418
Air and Energy Engineering Research Laboratory /
Research Triangle Park, NC 2771 I
CML (919) 541-2821
FTS 8-629-2821
Water Engineering Research Laboratory /
Cincinnati, 0 H 45268
(513) 684-795 I
Office of Environmental Engineering and Technology
(RD-681)
Washington. DC 20460
(202) 382-2600
OEPER/HQ Office of Environmental Processes and Effects
Research
(RD-682)
Washington, Dc 20460
(202) 382-5950
OER/HQ
OHEA/HQ
OHR/HQ
Office of Exploratory Research
(RD-675)
Washington. DC 20460
(202) 382-5750
Office of Health and Environmental Assessment
(RD-689)
Washington, DC 20460
(202) 382-7317
Office of Health Research
(RD-683)
Washington. DC 20460
(202) 382-5900
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ADEMQA/
HQ
RSKERL/
ADA
Acid Deposition Environmental Monitoring and
Quality Assurance
(RD-680)
Washington, DC 20460
(202) 382-5767
Robert S. Kerr Environmental Research Laboratory /
Ada, 0 K
P.O. Box 1198
Ada, OK 74820
CML (405) 332-8800
FTS 8-743-2011
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ORD Key Contacts
Telephone Telephone
Abbott, Jim CML (919) 541-3443 Dempsey, Clyde (513) 684-7502
FTS 8-629-3443 DeRosa, Christopher (513) 684-7572
Akland, G. CML (919) 541-2346 Dick, Marshall (202) 382-2604
FTS 8-629-2346
CML (404) 546-3546 Dickerson, Richard CML (919) 541-2909
Ambrose, Robert FTS 8-629-2909
FTS 8-250-3546
CML (404) 546-3183 Dimitriades, Basil CML (919) 541-2706
Anderson, Charles FTS 8-629-2706
FTS 8-250-3183
CML (404) 546-3307 Dourson, Michael (513) 684-7573
Bailey, George Duke, Tom CML (904) 932-5311
FTS 8-250-3307
FTS 8-686-9011
Barth, Ed (513) 684-7641 Durham, Jack CML (919) 541-2183
Berry, Michael CML (919) 541-4172 FTS 8-629-2183
FTS 8-629-41 72
Bierman, Victor CML (401) 789-1071 Durham, William F. CML (919) 541-2909
FTS 8-629-2909
FTS 8-838-5087
Bishop, Fred (513) 684-7629 Eaton, John CML (218) 727-6692
FTS 8-783-9557
Black, Frank CML (919) 541-3037 Elder, Joe CML (919) 541-2771
FTS 8-629-3037 FTS 8-629-2771
Booth, Robert (513) 684-7301 Ellison, Alfred CML (919) 541-2191
Bromberg, Steve CML (919) 541-2919 FTS 8-629-2191
FTS 8-629-2919 Enos, Henry F. CML (904) 932-5311
Bmngs, William A. CML (401) 789-1071 FTS 8-686-90 II
FTS 8-838-4843 Farrell, Joseph (513) 684-7645
Bufalini, Joe CML (919) 541-2422 Foley, Gary (202) 382-7445
FTS 8-629-2422
Christianson, Alden (513) 684-7486 Garton, Ronald CML (503) 757-4605
FTS 8-420-4605
Clark, Robert (513) 684-7488 Gleason, Thomas (202) 382-5740
Clements, John CML (919) 541-2454 Hall, Clinton W. CML (405) 332-8800
FTS 8-629-2454 FTS 8-743-2224
Condie, Lyman (513) 684-7211 Hall, Robert E. CML (919) 541-2477
Cook, Philip M. CML (218) 727-6692 FTS 8-629-2477
FTS 8-783-9523 Hangebrauck, R. P. CML (919) 541-4134
Cordle, Steven (202) 382-5940 FTS 8-629-4134
Cortesi, Roger (202) 382-5750 Hauser, Thomas CML (919) 541-2106
Costa, Charles CML (702) 798-2476 FTS 8-629-2106
FTS 8-545-2476 Hendricks, Charles W. (202) 382-5960
Cupitt. Larry CML (919) 541-2878 Hill, Ronald D. (513) 684-7861
FTS 8-629-2878 Holmes, Robert (202) 382-5772
Dellarco, Michael (202) 382-5772 Hood, Ken (202) 382-5967
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Jakobson, Kurt (202) 382-2591 Murphy, Thomas A. CML (503) 757-4601
Jaworski, Norbert A. CML (218) 727-6692 FTS 8-420-460 I
FTS 8-783-9549 Ondich, Gregory (202) 382-2627
Keeler, George CML (405) 332-8800 Oppelt, E. (513) 684-7696
FTS 8-743-2212 Ott, Wayne (202) 382-5743
Keith, William (202) 382-5945 Pashayan, Deran (202) 382-5988
Kinney, Wesley CML (702) 798-2358 Pereira, Michael (513) 684-7411
FTS 8-545-2358
Klee, AI (513) 684-7493 Peterson, Spencer CML (503) 757-4794
FTS 8-420-4794
Kleffman, David (202) 382-5895 Pfaff, Jack (513) 684-7307
Kotchmar, Dennis CML (919) 541-4158 Pheiffer, Tom (202) 382-2620
FTS 8-629-4158
Koutsandreas, John (202) 382-5791 Plost, Charles (202) 382-5789
Kreissl, James (513) 684-7611 Plyler, Everett CML (919) 541-2918
FTS 8-629-2918
Krishnan, Bala (202) 382-2613 Puzak, John CML (919) 541-2106
Kuroda, Donna (202) 382-5895 FTS 8-629-2106
Laurie, Vernon (202) 382-5795 Quinn, Herbert B. (202) 382-5954
Laveille, Will C. (202) 382-5976 Raub, James CML (919) 541-4157
Lewtas, J oellen CML (919) 541-3849 FTS 8-629-4157
FTS 8-629-3849 Rey, George (202) 382-2628
Liberick, Wally (513) 684-7774 Robeck, Gordon (513) 684-7201
Lichten berg, James (513) 684-7306 Rossman, Lewis (513) 684-7636
Lutkenhoff, Steven (513) 684-7531 Sanders, Walter M. CML (404) 546-3171
McCabe, Leland (513) 684-7404 FTS 8-250-3171
McCarty, James CML (503) 757-4601 Schomaker, Norbert (513) 684-7871
FTS 8-420-460 I Schweitzer, Glenn CML (702) 798-2100
McElroy, James L. CML (702) 798-2476 FTS 8-545-2525
FTS 8-545-2361 Shackelford, J. M. (202) 382-5795
McFarlane, Craig CML (503) 757-4670 Stara, Jerry (513) 684-7531
FTS 8-420-4670 Talbot, W. Wade (202) 382-5895
McKinnon, Hugh (202) 382-5882 Tang, Don (202) 382-2621
Miller, Tom (202) 382-3139 Thomas, Nelson CML (218) 727-9702
Mitchell, Charles (202) 382-5895 FTS 8-783-9702
Mitchum. R. K. CML (702) 798-2476 Tilton, Beverly CML (919) 541-4161
FTS 8-545-2103 FTS 8-629-4161
Mobley, David CML (919) 541-2578 Tingery, Dave CML (503) 757-4621
FTS 8-629-2578 FTS 8-420-4621
Moghissi, Alan (202) 382-5991 Tucker, W. Gene CML (919) 541-2745
Morehouse, Karen (202) 382-5895 FTS 8-629-2745
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Weber, Cornelius
Wilhour, Ray
Williams, Sam
Winter, John
Wiser, Herbert
Telephone
(513) 684-7336
CML (503) 757-4634
FTS 8-420-4634
(202) 382-5979
(513) 684-7325
(202) 382-7400
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Regions 1 and 2
Region 3
Region 4
Region 5
Regions 6 and 7
Regions 8 and 10
Region 9
ORD Regional Contacts
The Office of Research and Development's Regional
Services Staff is responsible for planning, coordinating, and
reviewing a program to provide inter-communication and
assistance on all matters of mutual interest and/ or
responsibility of the Agency's Regional Offices and the
Office of Research and Development.
Finally, for further information regarding EP A research
publications, or for additonal copies of this report, please
contact:
Director, Michael L. Mastracci
Regional Services Staff (RD-674)
Washington, DC 20460
Regional Liaison Officers
Gerald Rausa
Regional Services Staff
Washington, DC 20460
(202) 382-7667
Telephone
(202) 382-7667
Morris Altschuler
Regional Services Staff
Washington, DC 20460
(202) 382-7667
Si Duk Lee (MD-52)
ECAO
Environmental Protection Agency
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
CML (919) 541-4159
FTS 8-629-4159
Eugene Harris (513) 684-7711
Hazardous Waste Engineering Research Laboratory
Environmental Protection Agency
Cincinnati, OH 45268
Douglas Kreis CML (405) 332-2303
R. S. Kerr Environmental Research Laboratory FTS 8-743-2303
Environmental Protection Agency
P.O. Box 1198
Ada, OK 74820
Marvin O. Allum
Environmental Research Laboratory
Environmental Protection Agency
200 SW 35th Street
Corvallis, OR 97333
CML (503) 757-4736
FTS 8-420-4349
Gilbert D. Potter CML (702) 798-2321
Environmental Monitoring Systems Laboratory FTS 8-545-2321
Environmental Protection Agency
P.O. Box 15027
Las Vegas. NV 89114
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EP A Regional Offices
Region 1 Environmental Protection Agency Connecticut
Room 2203 Maine
John F. Kennedy Federal Building Massachusetts
Boston, Massachusetts 02203 New Hampshire
Rhode Island
Vermont
Regional Administrator
Michael R. Deland (617) 223-7210
Deputy Regional Administrator
Paul G. Keough (617) 223-5424
Office of Public Affairs Director
David Pickman (617) 223-5779
Region 2 Environmental Protection Agency New Jersey
Room 1009 New York
26 Federal Plaza Puerto Rico
New York, New York 10278 Virgin Islands
Regional Administrator
Christopher Daggett (212) 264-2525
Deputy Regional Administrator
(Vacant) (2 I 2) 264-0396
Office of Public Affairs Director
James R. Marshall (212) 264-4913
Region 3 Environmental Protection Agency Delaware
Curtis Building District of Columbia
6th & Walnut Streets Maryland
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania .191 06 Pennsylvania
West VirgtRia
Virginia
Regional Administrator
Thomas P. Eichler (215) 597-9814
Deputy Regional Administrator
Stanley L. Laskowski (215) 597-9812
Office of Public Affairs Director
George Bochanski (215) 597-9370
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Region 4 Environmental Protection Agency Alabama
345 Courtland Street, N. E. Florida
Atlanta, Georgia 30365 Georgia
Kentucky
Mississippi
North Carolina
South Carolina
Tennessee
Regional Administrator CML (404) 881-4727
Charles R. Jeter FTS 8-257-4727
Deputy Regional Administrator CML (404) 881-4727
John A. Little FTS 8-257-4727
Office of Public Affairs Director CML (404) 881-3004
Frank Redmond FTS 8-257-3004
Region S Environmental Protection Agency Illinois
230 S. Dearborn Indiana
Chicago. Illinois 60604 Michigan
Minnesota
Ohio
Wisconsin
Regional Administrator
Valdas V. Adamkus (312) 353-2000
Deputy Regional Administrator
Alan Levin (312) 353-2000
Office of Public Affairs Director
(Vacant) (312) 353-2072
Region 6 Environmental Protection Agency Arkansas
1201 Elm Street Louisiana
First I nternational Building New Mexico
Dallas. Texas 75270 Oklahoma
Texas
Regional Administrator CML (214) 767-2600
Dick Whittington FTS 8-729-2600
Deputy Regional Administrator CML (214) 767-2600
Frances E. Phillips FTS 8-729-2600
Office of Public Affairs Director CML (214) 767-2630
Roger Meacham FTS 8-729-2630
Region 7 Environmental Protection Agency Iowa
324 E. II th Street Kansas
Kansas City, Missouri 64106 Missouri
Nebraska
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Regional Administrator CML (816) 374-5493
Morris Kay FTS 8-758-5493
Deputy Regional Administrator CML (816) 374-5495
William W. Rice FTS 8-758-5495
Office of Public Affairs Director CML (816) 374-5894
Rowena Michaels FTS 8-758-5894
Region 8 Environmental Protection Agency Colorado
Suite 900 Montana
1860 Lincoln Street North Dakota
Denver, Colorado 80295 South Dakota
Utah
Wyoming
Regional Administrator CM L (303) 837-3895
John G. Welles FTS 8-327-3895
Deputy Regional Administrator CML (303) 837-3895
Alexandria Smith FTS 8-327-3895
Office of Public Affairs Director CML (303) 837-5927
Rich Lathrop FTS 8-327-5927
Region 9 Environmental Protection Agency Arizona
215 Fremont Street California
San Francisco, California 94105 Hawaii
Nevada
Regional Administrator
Judith E. Ayres (415) 454-8153
Deputy Regional Administrator
John C. Wise (415) 454-8153
Office of Public Affairs Director
AI Zemsky (415) 454-8083
Region 10 Environmental Protection Agency Alaska
1200 6th Avenue Idaho
Seattle, Washington 98101 Washington
Oregon
Regional Administrator CML (206) 442-5810
Ernesta B. Barnes FTS 8-399-5810
Deputy Regional Administrator CML (206) 442-1220
L. Edwin Coate FTS 8-399-1220
'Regional Press Office CML (206) 442-1465
Robert Jacobson FTS 8-399-1465
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