EPA-600/9-76-029
October 1976
OFFICE OF
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
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October 1976 - September 1977
UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20460
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INTRODUCTION
PART I
PART II
PART III
APPENDIX A
APPENDIX B
APPENDIX C
APPENDIX D
APPENDIX E
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page No.
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Office of Research and Development Organization Chart 2
Office of Research and Development Organizational
Directory 3
Office of Research and Development Fiscal Year
1976 Research Program
Health and Ecological Effects Program Area
Health Effects Subprogram
Ecological Processes and Effects Subprogram
Transport and Fate of Pollutants Subprogram
Energy Program Area
Extraction and Processing Technology Subprogram
Conservation, Utilization and Technology
Assessments Subprogram
Health and Ecological Effects Subprogram
Industrial Processes Program Area
Minerals, Processing and Manufacturing Subprogram
Renewable Resources Subprogram
Public Sector Activities Program Area
Waste Management Subprogram
Water Supply Subprogram
Environmental Management Subprogram
Monitoring and Technical Support Program Area
Measurement Techniques and Equipment
Development Subprogram
Quality Assurance Subprogram
Technical Support Subprogram
Program-Budget Structure and Codes
Extramural Program Authorizing Legislation
EPA Organization Chart
EPA Officials and Regional Contacts
Mailing List Form
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Office of Research and Development's Grant and Contract
Activities 56
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OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
PROGRAM GUIDE
Introduction
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was created by Presidential order in December of 1970.
This order brought together 15 programs scattered among several Federal Government agencies to mount a
coordinated attack on environmental problems. These problems include air and water pollution, solid waste
management, pesticides, radiation, noise and toxic substances.
In support of the Agency's mission the Office of Research and Development (ORD) conducts a
comprehensive and integrated research and development (R&D) program to provide:
The scientific and technical base for reasonable standards and regulations.
Standardized methods to measure and assure quality control in programs to assess environmental
quality, implement regulations and enforce standards.
Cost-effective pollution control technology and incentives for acceptance of environmentally sound
options.
Scientific, technical, socio-economic and institutional methodologies needed to judge environmental
management options and balance these options against competing national needs.
ORD's research is supplemented by general scientific and technical research in other federal agencies,
colleges and universities and elsewhere. ORD also supports the Agency's involvement in many international
organizations with mutual environmental R&D concerns.
More general functions of ORD include: (1) maintenance of in-house expertise capable of quickly responding
to emergencies and giving expert consultation and testimony when necessary; (2) sharing the results of
environmental R&D with a wide range of individuals, groups, and agencies in ways that are meaningful and
practical; and (3) giving expert scientific and technical assistance to other EPA offices to help them formulate
environmental policy.
The purpose of this Program Guide is three-fold: First, to acquaint the research and development community
with the organizational structure of the Office of Research and Development PART I; second, to make public
the Office of Research and Development's extramural research program objectives for fiscal year 1977 PART
II; and third, to provide general guidelines necessary when developing grant or contract applications PART
III.
Hand out copies of this Program Guide are available from the EPA's ten regional offices (see Appendix D),
from ORD's fifteen associated laboratories throughout the country, and from the Office of Research and
Development, Headquarters, Washington, DC. Mail requests should be sent to:
Office of Financial & Administrative Services (RD-674)
Office of Research and Development
Environmental Protection Agency
Washington, DC 20460
Anyone wishing to receive future editions of this Program Guide should complete and return the form
located at the back of this publication (Appendix E).
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PART I
OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
ORGANIZATIONAL DIRECTORY
The Office of Research and Development is responsible for the development, direction, and conduct of a national
research, development, and demonstration program in pollution sources, fate, and health and welfare effects; waste
management and utilization technology; environmental sciences; and monitoring systems. The Assistant Administrator for
Research and Development also serves as principal science advisor to the Administrator and coordinator for the Agency's
policies and programs concerning carcinogenesis and related problems.
Assistant Administrator for Research and Development
Wilson K. Talley
Associate Assistant Administrator
Carl R. Gerber
Office of Financial and Administrative Services
Director, Alan Neuschatz
Office of Planning and Review
Director, Phyllis A. Daly
Office of the Principal Science Advisor
Principal Physical Science Advisor, Herbert Wiser
Principal Engineering Advisor, William Lacy
Senior ORD Official, Cincinnati
David G. Stephan
Support Services Office
Director, Robert N. Can-
Environmental Protection Agency
Cincinnati, OH 45268
Senior ORD Official, Research Triangle Park
John H. Knelson, M.D.
Support Services Office
Director, Paul A. Kenline
Environmental Protection Agency
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
Headquarters
Mail Code*
RD-672
RD-672
RD-674
RD-675
RD-676
RD-676
Telephone**
(202) 755-2600
(202) 755-0122
(202) 426-2355
(202) 755-2606
(202) 755-0477
(202) 755-0464
(513) 684-4402
(513) 684-7966
CML(919) 549-8411
FTS 629-2281
CML(919) 549-8411
FTS 629-2613
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OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
ORGANIZATIONAL DIRECTORY
Office of Monitoring and Technical Support
The Office of Monitoring and Technical Support is responsible for the development and demonstration of monitoring
systems; quality control of pollutant measurement and monitoring techniques (quality assurance); technical information
dissemination; and technical support services.
Headquarters
Mail Code*
Deputy Assistant Administrator
Albert C. Trakowski, Jr.
Associate Deputy Assistant Administrator
H. Matthew Bills
Program Operations Staff
Director, Ross K. Robeson
Regional Services Staff
Director, Michael L. Mastracci
Monitoring Technology Division
Director, (Vacant)
Technical Support Division
Director, William A. Cawley
Technical Information Division
Director, W. Randall Shobe
Technology Transfer Staff
Director, Robert Crowe
Environmental Protection Agency
5555 Ridge Avenue
Cincinnati, OH 45268
Technical Information Office - Cincinnati
Director, Gilbert Gigliotti
Environmental Protection Agency
Cincinnati, OH 45268
RD-680
RD-680
RD-680
RD-680
RD-680
RD-680
RD-680
Telephone**
(202) 426-2202
(202) 426-^453
(202) 755-6403
(202) 755-9210
(202) 426-2026
(202) 426-2382
(202) 245-3018
(513) 684-4388
(513) 684-7551
Environmental Monitoring and Support Laboratory
Director, S. David Shearer
Deputy Director, Thomas Hauser
Environmental Protection Agency
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
CML(919) 549-8411
FTS 629-2106
CML(919) 549-8411
FTS 629-2106
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OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
ORGANIZATIONAL DIRECTORY
Telephone**
Environmental Monitoring and Support Laboratory
Director, Dwight G. Ballinger (513) 684-7301
Deputy Director, Robert L. Booth (513) 684-7301
Environmental Protection Agency
Cincinnati, OH 45268
Environmental Monitoring and Support Laboratory CML(702) 736-2969
Acting Director, George B. Morgan FTS 595-2969
Deputy Director (Vacant)
Environmental Protection Agency
P. O. Box 15027
Las Vegas, NV 89114
Vint Hill Field Station (703) 347-6224
P. O. Box 1587
Building 166
Warrenton, VA 22186
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OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
ORGANIZATIONAL DIRECTORY
Office of Energy, Minerals, and Industry
The Office of Energy, Minerals, and Industry is responsible for the assessment and the development of methods for
control of the environmental and socio-economic impacts of energy and mineral resource extraction, processing, conversion,
and utilization systems and of other industrial operations.
Deputy Assistant Administrator
Stephen Gage
Associate Deputy Assistant Administrator
Steven R. Reznek
Program Operations Staff
Director, Everett Lemley
Energy Coordination Staff
Director, Clinton W. Hall
Energy Processes Division
Director, Frank T. Princiotta
Industrial and Extractive Processes Division
Director, Kurt Jakobson (Acting)
Headquarters
Mail Code*
RD-681
RD-681
RD-681
RD-681
RD-681
RD-681
Telephone**
(202) 755-4857
(202) 755-4857
(202) 426-2507
(202) 426-4567
(202) 755-0205
(202) 755-9014
Industrial Environmental Research Laboratory
Director, John K. Burchard
Deputy Director, Norbert Jaworski
Environmental Protection Agency
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
CML(919) 549-8411
FTS 629-2821
CML(919) 549-8411
FTS 629-2821
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OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
ORGANIZATIONAL DIRECTORY
Telephone**
Industrial Environmental Research Laboratory
Director, David G. Stephan (513) 684-4402
Deputy Director, Richard E. Harrington (513) 684-4438
Environmental Protection Agency
5555 Ridge Avenue
Cincinnati, OH 45268
Oil and Hazardous Materials Spills Branch, Edison, NJ CML(201) 548-3347
Environmental Protection Agency FTS 342-7508
Edison. NJ 08817
Mining Technology Branch, Rivesville, WV CML(304) 278-5376
P. O. Box 5555 FTS 923-7496
Rivesville, WV 26588
Food and Wood Products Branch, Corvallis, OR CML(503) 752-4211
200 SW 35th Street FTS 420-4694
Corvallis, OR 97330
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OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
ORGANIZATIONAL DIRECTORY
Office of Air, Land, and Water Use
The Office of Air, Land, and Water Use is responsible for the development and demonstration of cost-effective methods
for the prevention or management of pollutant discharge or waste disposal into the environment, except those related to
energy, minerals, or industrial processes.
Deputy Assistant Administrator
Thomas A. Murphy
Associate Deputy Assistant Administrator
(Vacant)
Program Operations Staff
Director, William Frietsch
Agriculture and Non-Point Source Management Division
Director, Darwin R. Wright
Waste Management Division
Director, William Rosenkranz
Media Quality Management Division
Director, Courtney Riordan
Headquarters
Mail Code*
RD-682
RD-682
RD-682
RD-682
RD-682
RD-682
Telephone**
(202) 426-O803
(202) 426-0803
(202) 426-*255
(202) 426-2407
(202) 426-2260
(202) 426-1532
Environmental Sciences Research Laboratory
Director, A. Paul Altshuller
Deputy Director, Alfred Ellison
Environmental Protection Agency
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
Regional Air Pollution Study Field Office
11640 Administration Drive
St. Louis, MO 63141
CML(919) 549-8411
FTS 629-2191
CML(919) 549-8411
FTS 629-2191
CML(314) 425-7022
FTS 279-7022
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OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
ORGANIZATIONAL DIRECTORY
Municipal Environmental Research Laboratory
Director, Francis T. Mayo
Deputy Director, Louis W. Leflce
Environmental Protection Agency
Cincinnati, OH 45268
Telephone**
(513) 684-7951
(513) 684-7953
Lebanon Pilot Plant
Route 2, Box 7-A
Glosser Road
Lebanon, OH 45036
CML(513) 932-W51
FTS 684-2000,
ask for (513) 932-4951
EPA-DC Pilot Plant
5000 Overlook Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20032
CML(202) 562-6200
FTS 755-4939
Robert S. Kerr Environmental Research Laboratory
Director, William C. Galegar
Deputy Director, Marvin L. Wood
Environmental Protection Agency
P. O. Box 1198
Ada, OK 74820
CML(405) 332-8800
FTS 743-2224
CML(405) 332-8800
FTS 743-2226
Environmental Research Laboratory
Director, David W. Duttweiler
Deputy Director, Henry F. Enos
Environmental Protection Agency
College Station Road
Athens, GA 30601
CML(404) 546-3134
FTS 289-3134
CML(404) 546-3430
FTS 289-3430
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OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
ORGANIZATIONAL DIRECTORY
Office of Health and Ecological Effects
The Office of Health and Ecological Effects is responsible for the development of health and ecological data needed for
the establishment of standards and criteria or guidelines for those components of the environment in which specific pollutants
or activities may require control.
Deputy Assistant Administrator
Delbert Barth
Associate Deputy Assistant Administrator
Andrew McErlean
Program Operations Staff
Director, Harry Thron
Health Effects Division
Director, (Vacant)
Ecological Effects Division
Director, (Vacant)
Criteria Development and Special Studies Division
Director, Roger S. Cortesi
Headquarters
Mail Code*
RD-683
RD-683
RD-683
RD-683
RD-683
RD-683
Telephone**
(202) 755-0820
(202) 755-0638
(202) 755-0611
(202) 755-9723
(202) 755-0649
(202) 426-4637
Health Effects Research Laboratory
Director, John H. Knelson, M.D.
Deputy Director, Robert E. Lee, Jr.
Environmental Protection Agency
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
Wenatchee Research Station
P. O. Box 73
Wenatchee, WA 98801
CML(919) 549-8411
FTS 629-2281
CML(919) 549-8411
FTS 629-2281
CML (504) 663-0031
FTS 446-0243
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OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
ORGANIZATIONAL DIRECTORY
Health Effects Research Laboratory
Director, John Garner
Deputy Director, James Lucas, M.D.
Environmental Protection Agency
Cincinnati, OH 45268
Recreational Water Quality Criteria Group
Environmental Protection Agency
South Ferry Road
Narragansett, RI 02882
Telephone**
(513) 684-7401
(513) 684-7401
CML(401) 789-1071
FTS 838^843
Environmental Research Laboratory
Director, A. F. Bartsch
Deputy Director, Earl Kari
Environmental Protection Agency
200 SW 35th Street
Corvallis, OR 97330
CML(503) 757^601
FTS 420-4601
CML(503) 757^601
FTS 420-4601
Newport Field Station
Marine Science Center
Newport, OR 97365
Ely Field Station
222 West Conan Street
Ely, MN 55731
Western Fish Toxicology Station
1350 SE Goodnight Avenue
Corvallis, OR 97330
Arctic Environmental Research Station
College, AK 99701
CML(503) 867^031
FTS 423^111, ask for
(503) 867-4031
CML(218) 365-5280
FTS 725-4242, ask for
(218) 365-5280
CML(503) 757^735
FTS 420-4735
CML(907) 479-7728
FTS 399-0150, ask for
(907) 479-7728
Environmental Research Laboratory
Director, Donald I. Mount
Deputy Director, David Yount
CML(218) 727-6692
FTS 783-9550
CML(218) 727-6692
FTS 783-9549
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OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
ORGANIZATIONAL DIRECTORY
Telephone**
Environmental Protection Agency
6201 Congdon Boulevard
Duluth, MN 55804
Newtown Fish Toxicology Station
3411 Church Street
Cincinnati, OH 45244
Monticello Field Station
Box 500
Monticello, MN 55362
Large Lakes Research Station
9311 Groh Road
Grosse He, MI 48138
Environmental Research Laboratory
Director, Eric D. Schneider
Deputy Director, (Vacant)
Environmental Protection Agency
South Ferry Road
Narragansett, RI 02882
Environmental Research Laboratory
Director, Thomas W. Duke
Deputy Director, Tudor Davies
Environmental Protection Agency
Sabine Island
Gulf Breeze, FL 32561
Bears Bluff Field Station
Box 368
Johns Island, SC 29455
(513) 684-8601
CML(513) 295-5145
FTS None
CML(313) 675-5000
FTS 226-7811
CML(401) 789-1071
FTS 838^843
CM L (904) 932-5311
FTS None
CML(904) 932-5311
FTS None
CML(803) 559-0371
FTS 577-4171, ask for
(803) 559-0371
*The Office of Research and Development Headquarters mailing address is Environmental Protection Agency,
Washington, DC 20460. Headquarters mail should also include the Mail Code.
'Telephone numbers are both commercial and Federal Telecommunications System (FTS) unless otherwise
indicated.
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PART II
OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
FISCAL YEAR 1977 RESEARCH PROGRAM
The Office of Research and Development (ORD) establishes its objectives and priorities in response to the
overall mission and priorities of EPA and is highly mission-oriented, concerned with solving specific priority
problems rather than only advancing scientific knowledge. Although the scope of ORD projects may vary from
quite fundamental research to the full-scale engineering demonstration of new pollution control processes, all
projects are directed at meeting specified objectives. While unsolicited proposals and grant applications may be
submitted on any subject at any time (see Part HI), all these proposals will be evaluated in the context of these pre-
established research objectives.
In ORD's planning process research objectives are grouped into five major program areas. These are: Health
and Ecological Effects, Energy, Industrial Processes, Public Sector Activities, and Monitoring and Technical
Support. Each program area is further divided into one or more subprogram areas or program elements. The
relationship between ORD's planning structure and EPA's budget structure is shown in Appendix A.
After research objectives have been defined and approved by ORD and other Agency components, they are
formally documented by ORD in planning documents called "Accomplishment Plans." Each Accomplishment
Plan summarizes a specific research objective to be pursued by one or more of ORD's fifteen laboratories. While
these Accomplishment Plans describe the research objectives desired, they do not contain detailed information on
the individual mechanisms or projects required to attain the desired results. This detailed planning is the
responsibility of the Laboratory Director.
The following pages in Part II describe all fiscal year 1977 Accomplishment Plans which have funds reserved
that will be expended through the grant or contract process. The laboratory or laboratories responsible for each
Accomplishment Plan are shown. Contact with ORD's laboratories concerning these plans and objectives is
encouraged.
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HEALTH AND ECOLOGICAL EFFECTS PROGRAM AREA
The Health and Ecological Effects Program Area is fundamental to EPA's responsibility to set criteria,
standards and guidelines to protect and enhance environmental quality. Scientific information on human health
effects of pollutants and ecosystem structure is essential in development of environmental quality standards and
effective pollution control strategies. The link between existence of a damaging pollutant and the way it entered
the environment must also be understood by policy-makers. That is why research on pollutant transport and fate
is essential.
The Health and Ecological Effects Program provides information for establishment and reevaluation of
water quality criteria, air quality criteria, ocean disposal criteria, pesticide registration guidelines, effluent
standards for toxic and hazardous materials and radiation standards. This program contains three subprograms:
Health Effects, Ecological Processes and Effects, and Transport and Fate of Pollutants.
HEALTH EFFECTS SUBPROGRAM
Health effects research is directed toward the assessment of health hazards associated with environmental
pollution from a number of media and categories including air, water, pesticides, radiation, etc. Within this
program, research problems are classified on the basis of exposure, or the way in which pollutants reach man. In
taking environmental action to protect human health, exposure to specific contaminants, not effect, is regulated.
Three primary categories are used in the problem classification: "Air Exposures and Their Effects" which deals
with contaminants reaching man primarily in air, "Water Exposures and Their Effects" which deals with
contaminants reaching man primarily in water, and "Multi-Route Exposures and Their Effects" which addresses
pollutants which commonly reach man by a variety of routes of exposure.
Air Exposures & Their Effects: Refinement of Public Health Risk Assessment on Regulated
and Non-Regulated Pollutants Specifically Associated With Transportation 601B
Extramural Funds: $2,265,000
Accomplishment Plan Summary: This Accomplishment Plan is part of a multidisciplinary research program
begun in fiscal year 1975 focusing on the public health consequences of non-regulated pollutants from mobile
sources. The program is designed to provide timely decision-making input to the EPA regarding sulfuric acid and
other non-regulated pollutants from mobile sources as promised to the Congress in November 1973. The emphasis
is on the evaluation of non-regulated emissions from advanced automotive control systems (principally, but not
restricted to, catalysts) so as to ensure protection of the public health and welfare.
Laboratory Assignment: Environmental Sciences Research Laboratory, Research Triangle Park
Health Effects Research Laboratory, Research Triangle Park
Health Effects Research Laboratory, Cincinnati
Air Exposures and Their Effects: Refinement of Health Information on Pollutants for Which
Ambient Air Quality Standards Have Been Developed601C
Extramural Funds: $3,145,600
Accomplishment Plan Summary: To evaluate the efficacy of existing Ambient Air Quality Standards
(AAQS), certain health information is required to close research gap areas existing at the time that the health
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HEALTH EFFECTS SUBPROGRAM
criteria for SCh, CO, TSP, Ox and HC were compiled. This Accomplishment Plan is directed toward building on
information which has become available, since the criteria were compiled in a way that will provide a scientifically
adequate health data base for refining the existing criteria.
The emphasis needed in this work is an evaluation of exposure averaging times for AAQS and of the
adequacy of existing safety margins. Emphasis is also given for determining the health benefits of meeting the
AAQS and the health risks of exceeding the AAQS on a time-weighted basis. Pollutants to be studied include:
NO:, Ox, particulates, SO?, and CO.
Laboratory Assignment: Health Effects Research Laboratory, Research Triangle Park
Air Exposures and Their Effects: Identification of the Health Implications of Exposure to
Non-Criteria Pollutants Reaching Man Primarily in Air 601D
Extramural Funds: $2,330,900
Accomplishment Plan Summary: Research information is required to elucidate exposure-effects
relationships between pollutants and human health in order to develop a data base for determining: (1) Whether
restricting exposure to particular pollutants is warranted to protect health; and, (2) If so, to what degree exposure
should be restricted. For example, in the case of sulfates, nitrates, and respirable suspended particulates,
information is available which indicates that restricting their exposures may be necessary. The essential questions
concerning these pollutants then relates to the degree of control required. In the case of other pollutants such as
organics, the most basic questions involve identifying whether they have an exposure-effects relation to health.
Once an indication is available that they may require control, questions similar to those posed for sulfates,
nitrates, and respirable suspended particulates must be addressed.
Laboratory Assignment: Health Effects Research Laboratory, Research Triangle Park
Multi-Route Exposures and Their Effects: Identification of the Health Effects of Non-
Pesticide Organic and Inorganic Substances Commonly Reaching Man by Multiple Routes of
Exposure601E
Extramural Funds: $376,000
Accomplishment Plan Summary: In order to protect human health adequately from pollutants through the
variety of legal mechanisms available to EPA, research is needed which will permit assessments of total exposure
and total body burden and their associated health effects. This Accomplishment Plan is directed toward
discerning exposure-effects relationships between health and certain non-pesticide environmental contaminants
which typically reach man by multiple routes of exposure. In addition, populations-at-risk to high exposure and
response end-points appropriate to use in health effects studies are identified. Pollutants under investigation
include vinyl chloride and lead, cadmium, copper, and other metals.
Laboratory Assignment: Health Effects Research Laboratory, Cincinnati
Health Effects Research Laboratory, Research Triangle Park
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HEALTH EFFECTS SUBPROGRAM
Air Exposures and Their Effects: Assessment of the Contribution of Environmental
Carcinogens to Cancer Incidence in the General Population 601F
Extramural Funds: $200,000
Accomplishment Plan Summary: The basic objective of this effort is to provide EPA with a systematic
program which can provide an assessment of the contribution of environmental carcinogens to the incidence of
cancer in the general population. Since a cancer mortality data base already exists in the National Cancer Institute
and cancer incidence data may be obtainable, the principal initial thrust of this program will be to identify the
significance of environmental carcinogens to human cancer incidence via an assessment of media transport, inter-
and intra-media transformation, measurement methodology, exposure levels, dose assessment, and retrospective
estimation of exposure, all conducted under a rigorous quality assurance program, for both anthropogenic and
natural carcinogens which may affect the general population. After this initial phase the coordinated data base
and system program will generate a requirement for targeted epidemiological and toxicologic studies. The results
of this program will be a system to provide an early warning mechanism for hazardous materials. The data output
from such a system will ultimately provide a firm basis on which to base effluent standards for carcinogenic
materials which may be dispersed in the environment in any of the media. The program will consolidate the many
data bases which currently exist in EPA and other agencies for use as the foundation for assessing the impacts of
existing and future environmental agents on human carcinogens. In addition to the coordination of data bases, all
ongoing programs within EPA and all those in other agencies that have a bearing on this program will be used,
where appropriate, so that duplication of programs will not occur.
Laboratory Assignment: Environmental Sciences Research Laboratory, Research Triangle Park
Environmental Monitoring and Support Laboratory, Las Vegas
Air Exposures and Their Effects: Assessment of the Contribution of Environmental
Carcinogens to Cancer Incidence in the General Population 601F
Extramural Funds: $240,000
Accomplishment Plan Summary: The purpose of these studies is to identify candidate compounds or
categories of compounds for carcinogenicity assessment in mammalian and in vitro test systems. Using available
vital statistics, populations with increased cancer incidence will be identified and further studied to delineate
specific neoplasm type and relevant demographic factors. These cancer incidence data will then be related to
known or suspected chemical carcinogens, determined by environmental monitoring and emissions inventories,
which are most likely due to the specific industrial composition of the study area. These environmental factors and
health parameters will be correlated to accomplish the objective of this program.
Laboratory Assignment: Health Effects Research Laboratory, Research Triangle Park
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HEALTH EFFECTS SUBPROGRAM
Air Exposure and Their Effects: Assessment of the Contribution of Environmental
Carcinogens to Cancer Incidence in the General Population 60IF
Extramural Funds: $100,000
Accomplishment Plan Summary: In order to determine the valid experimental model from which to predict
toxic effects to man from experimental animals, it is necessary to conduct comparative metabolism studies in
several species, including the sub-human primate, and to compare these compounds to man's metabolites. The
objectives of this Accomplishment Plan are (1) to expand toxicologic studies to fill gaps in the available data base
on carcinogens and co-carcinogens and to develop testing models to determine causal relationships, and (2) to
develop screening test systems for use in predicting human carcinogenesis.
Laboratory Assignment: Health Effects Research Laboratory, Cincinnati
Preparation of Criteria Documents and Other Scientific and Technical Assessment Reports
601G
Extramural Funds: $534,000
Accomplishment Plan Summary: The objective of this Accomplishment Plan is the preparation and ultimate
publication of: Air Quality Criteria Documents, Scientific and Technical Assessment Documents, and summary
documents as required by the Agency through the Director, Health Effects Research Laboratory, Research
Triangle Park, North Carolina.
Laboratory Assignment: Health Effects Research Laboratory, Research Triangle Park
Water Exposures and Their Effects: Pollutants Posing a Health Risk Related to Water
Quality Directly or Indirectly 607A
Extramural Funds: $ 1,574,000
Accomplishment Plan Summary: Determine direct and indirect health effects resulting from the treatment
and disposal of wastewater and sludge. To include: (1) The determination of health effects associated with land
treatment and disposal of wastewater and sludge and develop the necessary criteria for the safe implementation of
such practices; (2) The development of necessary health effects information to assure that the public is safe from
pollutants emitted during operation of wastewater treatment plants; and (3) Three related projects to quantify
health effects associated with the direct disposal of wastewater and sludge into the aquatic environment, associate
the health effects with some index of the quality of the water (development of marine and fresh recreational water
and shellfish-growing area criteria) and provide the biological inputs to translate the criteria into effluent
guidelines and "siting" requirements for outfalls and sludge disposal. The project to study the fate of microbial
indicators and pathogens in the marine environment (translation of criteria into effluent guidelines) is a joint
EPA-NOAA program in which each agency will contribute to the required funding.
Laboratory Assignment: Health Effects Research Laboratory, Cincinnati
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HEALTH EFFECTS SUBPROGRAM
Multi-Route Exposures and Their Effects: Determination of the Health Implication of
Substances Used as Pesticides 6 ISA
Extramural Funds: $921,000
Accomplishment Plan Summary: This Accomplishment Plan covers the health effects research data needed
by the Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP) in meeting their legally mandated responsibilities in pesticides,
including registration, label reviews, hazard classification, and tolerance setting. OPP has placed particular
emphasis in review studies including the Reregistration Process and Rebuttable Presumption Against
Registration Program. Most of the health effects data needed by OPP is provided by the registrants. However,
supplementary data and missing information as well as checks to establish the validity of registrant-provided
information are supplied by the Office of Research and Development (ORD). The ORD also provides, under this
plan, for development of new and improved methods of toxicity testing.
Laboratory Assignment: Health Effects Research Laboratory, Research Triangle Park
Health Effects of Substitute Pesticide Chemicals 615F
Extramural Funds: $1,250,000
Accomplishment Plan Summary: The Substitute Chemical Program covered under this Accomplishment
Plan refers to the toxicity assessment of those chemicals which are under consideration by the Agency to replace
those pesticides which are banned or removed from the market. In addition to thoroughly reviewing the literature
on candidate biocides, research is focused on gap areas in the health effects data base with special emphasis on
properties relating to carcinogenicity, neurotoxicity, teratogenicity, mutagenicity, inhalation exposure, immune
response and endocrine effects.
Laboratory Assignment: Health Effects Research Laboratory, Research Triangle Park
Criteria Development and Special Studies 630C
Extramural Funds: $775,000
Accomplishment Plan Summary: Prepare multi-media documents assessing the scientific and technical
information available that will assist EPA to regulate environmental pollutants and determine the research status
thereof, carry out special studies to advance the methodology available for determining the optimum levels for
setting pollution control standards and the benefits of pollution control.
Laboratory Assignment: Office of Health and Ecological Effects, Headquarters
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HEALTH AND ECOLOGICAL EFFECTS PROGRAM AREA
HEALTH EFFECTS SUBPROGRAM
Multi-Route Exposures and Their Effects: Identification of Adverse Health Effects Due to
Exposure to Toxic Substances 629 A
Extramural Funds: $613,000
Accomplishment Plan Summary: The objectives of the toxic substances research are: (1) to delineate the
potential hazards to human health of environmental pollutants; (2) to develop methods by which various classes
of toxic substances can be rapidly screened for specific biological activity potentially hazardous to human health;
(3) to provide rapid, sensitive, and unambiguous biochemical parameters by which a quantitative assessment of
exposure level can be made on human populations; (4) by utilizing fundamental physical constants and molecular
structure develop methods by which persistence and disposition of toxic substances as well as biological activity
can be predicted.
Laboratory Assignment: Health Effects Research Laboratory, Research Triangle Park
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ECOLOGICAL PROCESSES AND EFFECTS SUBPROGRAM
Ecological processes and effects research is directed toward determining the effects of air, water and
terrestrial pollutants on the structure and function of the ecosystems and on biotic and abiotic subcomponents of
these ecosystems. The research effort is planned and organized along specific problem area lines; work is directed
toward target media and conducted according to the character of the problem. Media are divided into freshwater,
marine and terrestrial components.
Air Pollutant Effects Upon Terrestrial Ecosystems 602A
Extramural Funds: $621,000
Accomplishment Plan Summary: The objective is to determine the effects of air pollutants, singly and in
combination, in various concentrations, upon individual floral and faunal ecosystems components and upon intact
ecosystems. The resultant information will be suitable to develop a scientific basis for air pollution control
strategies and to establish secondary air quality standards in compliance with the Clean Air Act.
Laboratory Assignment: Environmental Research Laboratory, Corvallis
Freshwater Ecological Processes and Effects 608A
Extramural Funds: $2,210,000
Accomplishment Plan Summary: In order for the Agency to issue quality criteria for water and to publish
proposed effluent standards as mandated by the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (P.L. 92-500), information
is required in four major areas: (1) the effects of specific pollutants and pollutant combinations on representative
or key sensitive organisms in freshwater ecosystems; (2) the effects of specific pollutants and pollutant
combinations on ecosystems-level parameters and processes which are dependent on particular functional
groupings of organisms rather than on any particular species; (3) the physical, chemical, and biochemical
transformation of pollutants which result from their introduction to or passage through freshwater ecosystems;
and (4) environmental requirements and limits for freshwater organisms. Inherent in all of the above is the
consideration, where applicable, of intermedia transport and effects.
Additional research includes the characterization of natural and stressed freshwater ecosystems;
development of mathematical ecosystem simulations and laboratory models which aid in the prediction of
pollutant stress effects on aquatic biota and ecosystems; and development of methods for assessing the socio-
economic impact of pollutants on aquatic ecosystems.
Laboratory Assignment: Environmental Research Laboratory, Corvallis
Environmental Research Laboratory, Duluth
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ECOLOGICAL PROCESSES AND EFFECTS SUBPROGRAM
Marine and Estuarine Ecological Processes and Effects 608C
Extramural Funds: $1,613,000
Accomplishment Plan Summary: In order for the Agency to develop water quality criteria for marine and
estuarine waters, as well as provide information for use in developing effective pollution control programs, certain
ecological information is required. The information required includes: (1) the effects of a pollutant or pollutant
combinations on selected representative organisms; (2) the effect of a pollutant or pollutant combinations on
ecosystem level parameters; (3) methods to measure the relative "health" of an ecosystem; (4) the knowledge of
routes and rates of pollutant movement through the ecosystem, including routes to man; and (5) ecological
requirements for marine organisms. While it is recognized that intermedia effects occur, this research provides
data and evaluation methods regarding toxicity, distribution and degradation of pollutants, singly and in
combination, in marine and estuarine systems.
Laboratory Assignment: Environmental Research Laboratory, Narragansett
Environmental Research Laboratory, Corvallis
Environmental Research Laboratory, Gulf Breeze
Marine and Estuarine Ecological Processes and Effects 608C
Extramural Funds: $75,000
Accomplishment Plan Summary: This program is designed to obtain the biological inputs (parameters) to
transport models so that health effects and target area criteria (such as recreational waters and shellfish-growing
areas) can be translated into guidelines and standards for the disposal of wastewater and sludge into the marine
environment. The transport models, with the added biological inputs, then could be used at a given sewage
treatment plant to determine the required treatment and disinfection and placement of effluent outfalls and sludge
dump sites to meet the target area guidelines.
This program to study the fate of microbial indicators and pathogens in the marine environment will be even
more critical if, as proposed, EPA relaxes the requirement for universal disinfection of and the microbial
standards for STP effluents.
Laboratory Assignment: Health Effects Research Laboratory, Cincinnati
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ECOLOGICAL PROCESSES AND EFFECTS SUBPROGRAM
Preparation of REEP/STARS 616A
Extramural Funds: $205,000
Accomplishment Plan Summary: This program is designed to develop the capability to prepare high quality
documents (scientific and technical assessment reports i.e., STARS). This program will review and assess
multimedia health and environmental effects of pollutants and is, in part, a continuation of an already existing
program. A system for identifying and ranking pollutants with regard to potential environmental hazard will be
developed.
Laboratory Assignment: Health Effects Research Laboratory, Cincinnati
Fate and Effects of Synthetic Organic Compounds on Aquatic Ecosystems 714A
Accomplishment Plan Summary: In order to establish water quality criteria for pesticides as mandated by the
Federal Water Pollution Control Act and subsequent legislation, certain ecological information is required. The
information required includes: (1) the effects of pesticides or pesticide combinations on selected representative
sensitive organisms; (2) the effect of pesticides or pesticide combinations
on ecosystem level parameters; (3) the knowledge of routes and rates of pesticide movement through the
ecosystem, including routes to man; (4) the fate of pesticides in estuarine ecosystems; and (5) the frequency and
significance of carcinogens and viruses in the estuarine and marine environments.
Laboratory Assignment: Environmental Research Laboratory, Gulf Breeze
Environmental Research Laboratory, Duluth
Ecological Effects of Substitute Pesticide Chemicals 714B
Extramural Funds: $324,000
Accomplishment Plan Summary: To develop, validate, and utilize suitable methods and techniques of
assessing deleterious and/or beneficial ecological effects of designated candidate substitute pesticide chemicals
when they may be used or transported to any or all of the following ecosystems: terrestrial, estuarine/marine,
freshwater. Transport within the environment of the substitute pesticide or its degradation components, its bio-
accumulation synergism, and other pertinent ecological properties will be appropriately evaluated within the
context of its likely designated use or which will result from its environmental mobility.
Laboratory Assignment: Environmental Research Laboratory, Gulf Breeze
Environmental Research Laboratory, Duluth
Environmental Research Laboratory, Corvallis
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ECOLOGICAL PROCESSES AND EFFECTS SUBPROGRAM
Development and Characterization of Laboratory Model Ecosystems for Evaluating Toxic
Substances Fate and Effects 715B
Extramural Funds: $250,000
Accomplishment Plan Summary: Characterize existing model ecosystems and microcosms (not necessarily
complete ecosystems) as to replicability, effect of size and structure, applicability of results to real-world
ecosystems, suitability for criteria development, and as screening tools for toxic contaminants.
Develop and characterize new model ecosystems and microcosms capable of simulating a range of key
ecosystem-level processes and parameters, and suitable for evaluating important major categories of ecological
stressing factors.
Use model ecosystems/microcosms to screen toxic contaminants and to provide ecosystem level criteria data
on specific environmental stressing factors.
Laboratory Assignment: Environmental Research Laboratory, Athens
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TRANSPORT AND FATE OF POLLUTANTS SUBPROGRAM
The transport and fate research is directed toward the development of empirical and analytical techniques
that relate air pollution source emissions to ambient exposures. This requires research in the area of (a)
atmospheric processes and effects for the determination of air pollutant sources, sinks, transport and
transformation of airborne gaseous and particulate matter; and the effects of air pollutants on visibility, rainfall,
and climate and (b) air pollutant characterization and measurement for the development of new and/or improved
methodology and instrumentation technology for the characterization and quantification of air pollutants from
stationary mobile sources and in the ambient air. A similar problem area exists for the transport and fate of
pollutants entering the aquatic environment.
Atmospheric Processes and Effects 603A
Extramural Funds: $7,931,000
Accomplishment Plan Summary: Studies on atmospheric processes and effects will be conducted to
determine qualitatively and quantitatively the sources and sinks, kinetics of formation and removal, and
chemical/physical interactions of airborne gaseous and particulate matter. This area of research covers: (1) The
development, evaluation, and validation of air quality simulation models for predicting and describing air quality
impacts anticipated from various control abatement strategies; (2) Determination of atmospheric chemical and
physical processes for describing the formation and decay of gaseous and particulate air pollutants; and (3)
Quantification of the atmospheric effects on visibility, acid rainfall, and climate due to air pollutant and thermal
emissions.
Laboratory Assignment: Environmental Sciences Research Laboratory, Research Triangle Park
Sources, Processes, and Systems 609A
Extramural Funds: $1,292,000
Accomplishment Plan Summary: The overall objective of this Accomplishment Plan is to provide the
scientific understanding, methodologies, and associated data bases required to: (1) evaluate and predict the
transport, transformations and fate of trace organics and inorganic pollutants entering freshwater ecosystems; (2)
predict water quality impacts resulting from the discharge of point and non-point source pollution into fresh
surface waters; and (3) evaluate the relative cost-effectiveness of alternative basin-wide point and non-point source
pollution control strategies. This technology will be used in the development of water quality criteria for toxic
pollutants, evaluation of pesticides under consideration for registration, identification of the necessary point and
non-point source control requirements under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act and similar water quality
management planning efforts, and determination of appropriate effluent limitations to be imposed through the
permit program in water quality limited stream segments.
Laboratory Assignment: Environmental Research Laboratory, Athens
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The Energy Program Area is fundamental to EPA's responsibility to protect the public health and welfare
from the adverse effects of pollutants discharged by or associated with energy systems. Such protection must be
accomplished through a multimedia approach so that the control of one form of pollution does not result in an
unacceptable impact occurring in another media. Because of the potentially acute health and ecological effects
associated with the traditional, as well as the new technologies for fuel extraction, processing, and conversion, the
EPA has a major responsibility in this area to ensure that environmental quality and human health are protected.
Further, since many of the problems are long-term, e.g., many technologies will not be available and in
commercial use before early 1985, the EPA must have programs underway now to develop the health and
technical data base necessary to support future New Source Performance Standards and Ambient Air Quality
Standards.
The Energy Program Area is organized into three subprograms: Extraction and Processing Technology;
Conservation, Utilization and Technology Assessment; and Health and Ecological Effects.
EXTRACTION AND PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY SUBPROGRAM
The Extraction and Processing Technology Subprogram includes the assessment of problems and
development of control techniques to mitigate the environmental impact of the extraction of energy resources.
Solid, liquid and gaseous fuels as well as advanced energy sources, such as uranium and geothermal energy, are
considered. Extraction problems cover a wide spectrum of activities from the development of techniques to abate
acid mine drainage, to the restoration of strip-mined land in humid and dry areas, to the assessment of the socio-
economic impacts of mining a virgin area, to the assessment of practices on off-shore oil rigs. Also included is a
program which provides environmental control technology and environmental assessments of important fuel
processing schemes, including low and high-BTU gasification, liquification, coal cleaning, shale oil processing,
and fluidized bed combustion.
Energy Control Technology: Fuel Processing 623A
Extramural Funds: $ 13,264,000
Accomplishment Plan Summary: The Fuel Processing Program will promote and participate in the
development of advanced technologies for fuel processing by providing environmental technology development
and environmental assessment. Processes for physical/chemical coal cleaning are being developed with the
support of the Bureau of Mines, the Geological Survey, and the Energy Research and Development
Administration. Environmental support is being given to the National Fluidized Bed Combustion Program. In
synthetic fuels and oil shale, the program is identifying and quantifying the discharges from processes under
development and evaluating and developing control technology. The chemically active fluid bed process for
residual oil cleaning is being demonstrated at a utility. Studies are underway to reduce environmental impacts
from parts of the nuclear fuel cycle other than mining and milling. Physical coal cleaning to meet sulfur standards
is being demonstrated at an electrical utility.
Laboratory Assignment: Industrial Environmental Research Laboratory, Research Triangle Park
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EXTRACTION AND PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY SUBPROGRAM
Energy Control TechnologyFuel Processing (Oil Shale and Synthetic Fuels From Non-Coal
Sources and Nuclear Energy Systems) 623A
Extramural Funds: $578,300
Accomplishment Plan Summary: The Fuel Processing program will promote and participate in the
development of advanced technologies for fuel processing by providing environmental technology development
and environmental assessment. In synthetic fuels and oil shale, the program is identifying and quantifying the
discharges from processes under development and evaluating control technology. Characterization of the multi-
media pollution problems associated with synthetic fuel processing and utilization will be accomplished. This
program is being coordinated closely with the oil shale extraction and handling program and with the synthetic
fuels program. In the nuclear area, studies are underway by the Office of Radiation Programs to reduce
environmental impacts from parts of the nuclear fuel cycle other than mining and milling.
Laboratory Assignment: Industrial Environmental Research Laboratory, Cincinnati
Energy Resource Extraction and Handling: Solid Fossil Fuels 623B
Extramural Funds: $2,713,100
Accomplishment Plan Summary: As mandated under the Water, Air, and Solid Waste Acts, it is the intent of
this Accomplishment Plan to develop and prove new pollution control technology for production of solid fossil
fuels. Work will be undertaken to assess the potential environmental damages (air, water, noise, etc.), from active
and abandoned mining transportation and benefication processes; to develop methods to control, treat and abate
environmental pollutants from these operations; to demonstrate and document the technical/operational
feasibility and cost/effectiveness of environmental control options; to provide on a timely basis environmental
control information; and to prepare manuals of practice which encompass all environmental pollution control
aspects in a form that meets the operational needs of both regulatory/control agencies and industry.
Laboratory Assignment: Industrial Environmental Research Laboratory, Cincinnati
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EXTRACTION AND PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY SUBPROGRAM
Energy Resource Extraction: Oil and Gas Production 623C
Extramural Funds: $1,714,900
Accomplishment Plan Summary: Assess the existing and potential adverse environmental impacts (air,
water, land) from active and planned oil and gas production, storage and transportation facilities; develop
methods, technology and equipment to prevent, control and abate environmental pollutants from these
operations; demonstrate and document the technical/operational feasibility and cost/effectiveness of
environmental control options; provide on a timely basis environmental control guidelines; provide standardized
manuals of practice which encompass all environmental pollution control aspects in a format that meets the
operational needs of the industry; and provide technical reports describing the environmental control options
available for practice in a manual suitable for regulatory/control agency use and industrial planning/design use.
Laboratory Assignment: Industrial Environmental Research Laboratory, Cincinnati
Environmental Assessment Interface and Research Studies 623D
Extramural Funds: $120,000
Accomplishment Plan Summary: The goal of the Environmental Assessment Program is to determine, in the
case where a single system or process is being assessed, whether the system/process is environmentally acceptable
or whether further or more economical control of waste streams is necessary. If further control is considered
necessary, the assessment estimates how much control is needed and what waste stream components are especially
important to control. In cases where comparative assessments are being made of two or more systems or
processes, an additional goal may be to determine which one(s) are environmentally preferable.
The overall objective of this Accomplishment Plan is to provide the Office of Energy, Minerals and Industry
Environmental Assessment Program necessary consultation, data, and research information in the development,
use, and interpretation of: (1) decision criteria; (2) impact factors; and (3) bio-assays.
Laboratory Assignment:
Environmental Research Laboratory, Narragansett
Environmental Research Laboratory, Corvallis
Environmental Research Laboratory, Gulf Breeze
Health Effects Research Laboratory, Cincinnati
Health Effects Research Laboratory, Research Triangle Park
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CONSERVATION, UTILIZATION AND TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENTS SUBPROGRAM
The Conservation, Utilization and Technology Assessments Subprogram includes three distinct parts
conservation, utilization (electrical energy production) and technology assessments.
The conservation portion of the Subprogram will provide environmental assessments and contribute to the
development of environmentally compatible advanced technologies and control technologies for waste recovery,
indoor air quality, and second generation energy systems, e.g., solar and geothermal energy.
The utilization portion of this subprogram includes the identification, characterization, assessment and
development, where appropriate, of control technology for pollutants associated with electric utility and
industrial combustion sources. A multi-media approach is planned with gaseous, liquid and solid wastes
considered. Both primary pollutants (effluents from uncontrolled combustion systems) and secondary residuals
(effluents from control technology) must be carefully considered. Emphasis is focused on generating information
which can be used to help set environmental standards and guidelines and develop economical control technology
so that such standards can be achieved.
The objective of the integrated assessment portion of this subprogram is the identification of
environmentally, socially and economically acceptable alternatives for meeting National energy supply objectives,
and assistance in the selection of optimum policies for the attainment of associated environmental quality goals.
Utility and Industrial Power- 624A
Extramural Funds: $18,510,000
Accomplishment Plan Summary: The overall objective of this Accomplishment Plan is the identification,
characterization, assessment and development, where appropriate, of control technology for pollutants associated
with utility and industrial combustion sources. It is important that a multi-media approach be taken with gaseous,
liquid, and solid wastes carefully investigated in terms of a balanced and comprehensive control plan. Both
primary pollutants (effluents from uncontrolled combustion systems) and secondary residuals (effluents from
controlled technology) must be carefully considered. Emphasis must be focused on generating information which
will be useful in the preparation of environmental standards and guidelines and developing economical control
technology so that such standards can be achieved.
Laboratory Assignment: Industrial Environmental Research Laboratory, Research Triangle Park
Utility and Industrial Power/Control of Waste and Water Pollution 624A
Extramural Funds: $200,000
Accomplishment Plan Summary: Conduct specific projects as part of the EPA program to control waste and
water pollution from utility and industrial flue gas cleaning systems. The objectives of these projects are as follows:
(1) Determine the extent to which the migration of chemicals from flue gas cleaning wastes can be attenuated by
soils in land disposal sites and develop an empirical method to describe the migration potential; (2) Determine the
compatibility of various liner materials when exposed to flue gas cleaning wastes; (3) Determine the leachability
and durability of products from first generation flue gas cleaning waste treatment processes; conduct a field
evaluation of current flue gas cleaning waste disposal technology; and assess, screen, and demonstrate (on a pilot
scale) second generation flue gas cleaning waste treatment processes; and
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(4) Establish the data base for the future development of standards for the disposal of flue gas cleaning wastes and
identify research and development needs for standards development. Management and results of these projects
will be coordinated with other projects in the EPA waste and water program.
Laboratory Assignment: Municipal Environmental Research Laboratory, Cincinnati
Wastes-As-Fuel 624B
Extramural Funds: $825,000
Accomplishment Plan Summary: Assess, develop and evaluate equipment and systems for processing wastes
for preparing fuels and feedstocks for energy recovery via all conversion processes, and for converting wastes to
fuels via biological conversion processes. Analyses will determine the optimal composition of waste inputs, energy
balances, materials balances, emissions and residuals, effectiveness of emission controls and residue handling
systems, needs for new types of pollutant control equipment, life-cycle costs, economic viability, theory, and other
aspects. Major technologies and methods will be explored for fuel and feedstocks recovery and for bio-conversion.
For full feedstock processes under development by the Municipal Environmental Research Laboratory, technical
assistance, pollutant assessment, criteria sampling and analysis, and the performance of pollutant
characterizations will be conducted.
Laboratory Assignment: Municipal Environmental Research Laboratory, Cincinnati
Environmental Aspects of Energy Conservation Methods and Advanced Energy Systems
624B
Extramural Funds: $4,411,100
Accomplishment Plan Summary: This Accomplishment Plan will provide environmental assessments and
contribute to the development of environmentally compatible advanced technologies and pollution control
technologies for waste recovery, indoor air quality, energy-conserving industrial processes, advanced energy
conversion cycles, and advanced energy systems (solar, geothermal energy, etc.). Techniques and technologies are
under development by the Energy Research and Development Administration, Federal Energy Administration,
Housing and Urban Development, and other agencies in each of these areas and by the EPA in the resource
recovery area. Environmental and some process development support are provided under this EPA program.
Outputs from this program will support EPA's role on two interagency working groups, the Interagency Task
Force on Energy Conservation in Buildings and the Interagency Task Force on Energy Conservation in Industry,
as well as EPA regulatory responsibilities by assuring the environmental compatibility of techniques and
technologies in each energy area.
Laboratory Assignment: Industrial Environmental Research Laboratory, Research Triangle Park
Industrial Environmental Research Laboratory, Cincinnati
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CONSERVATION, UTILIZATION AND TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENTS SUBPROGRAM
Geothermal Environmental Impact Assessment 624B
Extramural Funds: $150,000
Accomplishment Plan Summary: The objective of this effort is to assess the actual and potential
environmental impacts of existing and potential geothermal energy resource exploitation. Program emphasis is on
groundwater contamination. Coordination with the Energy Research and Development Administration is
essential. Studies should identify pollutants, pathways into the underground water environment, ecological
hazards associated with long term operating facilities and design a monitoring system applicable to any
geothermal resource development and conversion facility. Initial focus should be on The Geysers, Imperial Valley
and Klamath Falls, Rio Grande Rift Zone and include: produced fluids, disposal methods, subsidence
possibilities, seismic effects, thermal losses, groundwater pollution, fluids radioactivity, non-condensates
requiring monitoring, condensates requiring monitoring, food chain uptake of geothermally associated pollutants.
Projects should be coordinated closely with the Industrial Environmental Research Laboratory, Cincinnati, and
data produced should support the development of effluent guidelines and other environmental regulations for
geothermal systems.
Laboratory Assignment: Environmental Monitoring and Support Laboratory, Las Vegas
Energy-Integrated Assessment 624C
Extramural Funds: $ 1,750,000
Accomplishment Plan Summary: The overall objective of this Accomplishment Plan is the identification of
environmentally, socially, and economically acceptable alternatives for meeting national energy supply objectives,
and to assist in the selection of "optimum" policies for the attainment of associated environmental quality goals.
This objective will be met by: (1) Integrating the results of the environmental research program with the
remainder of the Energy Research Program; (2) Evaluating the cost/risk/benefit trade-offs of energy production
and pollution control alternatives; (3) Conducting technology assessments which evaluate alternative energy
technologies and approaches for implementing energy development, preventing environmental damage, and
securing related benefits; and (4) Identifying gaps in present research programs and indicating new priority
research topics which must be addressed in order to support direct Agency responsibilities.
Laboratory Assignment: Office of Energy, Minerals and Industry, Headquarters
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CONSERVATION, UTILIZATION AND TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENTS SUBPROGRAM
Energy Integrated Assessment (SEAS Program)
Extramural Funds: $140,000
Accomplishment Plan Summary: A series of efforts designed to keep the Strategic Environmental
Assessment System in a state of maximum usefulness by continuously updating SEAS data files, revising, and
updating the basic system when improvements become available, and revising SEAS module algorithms to
increase its energy assessment capabilities. In addition, this project provides for application of SEAS to support
Agency response to Congressional requests and other small scale analyses, as well as major support of technology
assessments.
Laboratory Assignment: Office of Monitoring and Technical Support, Headquarters
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HEALTH AND ECOLOGICAL EFFECTS SUBPROGRAM
The Health and Ecological Effects Subprogram encompasses a program to determine the environmental
effects associated with energy extraction, transmission, conversion and use so that measures can be taken in a
timely manner to protect human health, the ecosystem, and social goals. Identification of the pollutants released
by energy-related industrial operations and determination of their impact on the human and natural environment
will define the environmental control requirements for the polluting operations. Included are studies to
characterize the risks, costs or benefits associated with development and utilization of energy technology to
human health and welfare and to environmental quality and ecological systems.
Effects of Energy Related Pollutants on Organisms and Ecosystems 625A
Extramural Funds: $3,389,000
Accomplishment Plan Summary: Determine acute and chronic toxicological effects on freshwater,
marine/estuarine and terrestrial organisms and resultant ecosystem impacts from single pollutants and
combinations of pollutants released from energy extraction, conversion, transmission and use. Develop requisite
baseline information and develop and assess methodology and techniques for reclamation of areas impacted by
energy resource development.
Laboratory Assignment: Environmental Research Laboratory, Gulf Breeze
Environmental Research Laboratory, Corvallis
Environmental Research Laboratory, Duluth
Environmental Research Laboratory, Narragansett
Transport and Fate of Energy-Related Pollutants in Ecosystems 625B
Extramural Funds: $2,089,000
Accomplishment Plan Summary: Determine the origins, loads, transport pathways,
transfer rates and fates in the atmosphere, and fresh surface and groundwaters of
single pollutants and combinations of pollutants associated with energy extraction,
conversion, transmission and utilization.
Develop and test predictive models for determining the transport and fate of
energy-related pollutants.
Laboratory Assignment: Environmental Sciences Research Laboratory, Research Triangle Park
Robert S. Kerr Environmental Research Laboratory, Ada
Environmental Research Laboratory, Athens
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HEALTH AND ECOLOGICAL EFFECTS SUBPROGRAM
Energy Related Pollutant and Effects Monitoring and Associated Methods and Techniques
Development 625C
Extramural Funds: S1,501,000
Accomplishment Plan Summary: The overall objective of this program is to provide validated environmental
quality baseline data in those geographical areas where the impact of new energy development is or is projected to
be of major magnitude on the environment. The output is to be a geographically broad environmental overview
which focuses on the regional and local impact of major energy development.
This program is to provide a scientifically valid reference point from which future environmental degradation
may be measured and upon which rational policy decisions may be made (e.g., classification of areas regarding
non-significant deterioration amendments to the Clean Air Act). These decisions will concern both future
environmental standards and the direction and magnitude of specific energy development (e.g., strip mining
legislation). This program includes the development of new and advanced monitoring methods and techniques
needed to provide data and information of broad scope in support of the main purpose of the energy program.
Laboratory Assignment: Environmental Monitoring and Support Laboratory, Cincinnati
Environmental Monitoring and Support Laboratory, Las Vegas
Environmental Monitoring and Support Laboratory, Research Triangle Park
Energy Related Pollutant Measurement and Instrumentation Development625D
Extramural Funds: $520,000
Accomplishment Plan Summary: The objective of this Accomplishment Plan is the development of methods
and instrumentation for the measurement of energy-related pollutants and the performance of special field studies
and analyses related to characterizing the levels of certain pollutants injected into the environment by new
technologies and energy developments at specific geographical sites.
Laboratory Assignment: Environmental Sciences Research Laboratory, Research Triangle Park
Environmental Research Laboratory, Athens
Air, Water, and Multi-Route Exposures and Health Effects From Pollutants Associated With
Energy Development 625F
Extramural Funds: $1,030,000
Accomplishment Plan Summary: Studies have been designed to assess the health effects of exposures to
substances which pollute air and water as a result of energy technologies. Emphasis is being placed on potentially
toxic agents resulting from fuel extraction, conversion and combustion. The evaluation of the toxicity of the
pollutants and their metabolic products includes a spectrum of bioeffect indices. The present program includes:
(1) the assessment of exposure to toxic organic chemicals which are associated with energy processes and which
reach man through water. The investigations include screening for potential carcinogens, mutagens, and
teratogens in water supplies, as they result from energy sources emphasizing coal and shale oil processing; and (2)
toxicologic data are obtained for multi-route exposures from metal pollutants resulting from fossil fuel extraction,
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combustion and conservation. The establishment of additional physiological and biochemical indicators to
establish a more sensitive dose-effect data base includes studies of age sensitivity and influence of dietary
composition on absorption, deposition and toxicity of the trace elements which pollute the environment from
energy-related sources; long-term effects of inhalation exposures to toxic components of fly ash; biochemical
effects of energy-related trace metals on pulmonary macromolecular metabolism.
Laboratory Assignment: Health Effects Research Laboratory, Cincinnati
Air, Water, and Multi-Route Exposures and Health Effects From Pollutants Associated With
Energy Development 625F
Extramural Funds: $3,734,000
Accomplishment Plan Summary: Research emphasis is placed upon health effects from exposure to sulfates,
particulates and organics. A diversified approach is made through in vitro as well as in vivo studies. Various
species of animals (including non-human primates) and human subjects will be involved. In human studies both
clinical and epidemiological approaches are used. Endpoints for consideration include carcinogenesis, toxicology,
physiological parameters such as cardiovascular and pulmonary function, biological defense mechanism and
biochemistry. Depending upon the discipline approach used, levels of pollutant exposure range from ambient
(epidemiology) to concentrated (in vitro screening).
Laboratory Assignment: Health Effects Research Laboratory, Research Triangle Park
Air, Water, and Multi-Route Exposures and Health Effects From Pollutants Associated With
Energy Development 625F
Extramural Funds: $137,000
Accomplishment Plan Summary: Study the effects of pollutants associated with energy development. Assess
hazards of human exposures to organic chemicals which reach man through bioconcentration in the food chain of
the marine environment.
Laboratory Assignment: Environmental Research Laboratory, Gulf Breeze
Environmental Assessment Interface and Research Studies 625G
Extramural Funds: $100,000
Accomplishment Plan Summary: The goal of the Environmental Assessment Program is to determine, in the
case where a single system or process is being assessed, whether the system process is environmentally acceptable
or whether further or more economical control of waste streams is necessary. If further control is considered
necessary, the assessment estimates how much control is needed and what waste stream components are especially
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important to control. In cases where comparative assessments are being made of two or more systems or
processes, an additional goal may be to determine which one(s) are environmentally preferable.
The overall objective of the Accomplishment Plan is to provide the Office of Energy, Minerals and Industry's
Environmental Assessment Program necessary consultation, data, and research information in the development,
use, and interpretation of: (1) decision criteria; (2) impact factors; and (3) bio-assays.
Laboratory Assignment: Environmental Research Laboratory, Duluth
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INDUSTRIAL PROCESSES PROGRAM AREA
A research program in the Industrial Processes Area is essential for the Agency to meet the requirements of
the Clean Air Act, the Water Act and the Solid Waste legislation. By involvement in research in this area, systems
are developed and transferred to industries which enable them to comply with abatement requirements.
Information is developed for the detection, control and abatement of pollution from industrial and extractive
processes, and land use. Another part of the program is concerned with identification and economic evaluation of
present and alternate systems. This research program is comprised of two subprograms the Minerals,
Processing and Manufacturing Subprogram and the Renewable Resources Subprogram.
MINERALS, PROCESSING, AND MANUFACTURING SUBPROGRAM
The Minerals, Processing and Manufacturing Subprogram concerns point sources of water, air and residue
pollution arising from the industrial sector of the economy and is focused on those mining, manufacturing, service
and trade industries which are involved in the extraction, production and processing of materials into consumer
products. In addition, the environmental problems resulting from the accidental spill of selected materials are also
relevant. It is the purpose of this research activity to support the technology requirements of the Clean Air and
Water Pollution Control Acts through the demonstration of new or improved technology having industry-wide
applicability, short-term achievability and long-term viability.
Hazardous Material Incidents: (Air) 604A (Water) 610A
Extramural Funds: $2,000,000
Accomplishment Plan Summary: The objectives of this Accomplishment Plan are to develop, evaluate and
demonstrate new or improved equipment, devices and systems for the prevention, detection, identification,
containment, control, removal, cleanup, recovery and disposal of spills or acute releases of hazardous pollution
substances. The development of this hardware is to be carried out beyond the prototype stage to the point where it
is ready for field implementation by the commercial community. Techniques are to be defined for the
redevelopment and restoration of ecosystems that have been biologically damaged as a result of spills; to assess
these damages, the ecological effects and persistency of high concentration, short duration slugs (non-continuous
discharges) of hazardous substances on the environment are to be determined. Primary efforts are to be directed
toward demonstration technologies to protect and minimize damages to the water, land and air milieu from
sudden discharges of hazardous chemicals. A special category of this program will focus on research and
development (R&D) technical assistance to Federal, state and local personnel for emergency spill response and for
supervision of the use of newly developed R&D equipment during actual spill situations.
Laboratory Assignment: Industrial Environmental Research Laboratory, Cincinnati
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MINERALS, PROCESSING, AND MANUFACTURING SUBPROGRAM
Materials Processing: (Air) 604B (Water) 610B
Extramural Funds: $4,637,200
Accomplishment Plan Summary: The problem area is discrete point sources of air, water and residue
pollution arising from manufacturing and service industries primarily devoted to the processing of chemicals and
other raw materials into intermediate and final products. Of special concern are toxic and hazardous pollutant
control. The objective of the Accomplishment Plan is to develop technology necessary to eliminate the
discharge/emission of all pollutants (primarily toxic pollutants) from materials processing industry point sources
research activities culminating in the demonstration or assessment of engineering scale technologies. Deliverables
are research findings which will be immediately translated into public/private sector use through reports,
seminars, and Agency standards.
All research activities must have industry-wide applicability, technical and economic achievability for
implementation, long-term viability, and must serve as a basis for establishing, improving or implementing
required standards. The research can be classified as Open Cycle (OC), Closed Cycle (CC), Toxics Control
Technology and Total Environmental Control (TEC). The decision as to which broad technology option has the
highest priority for ORD focus is unique to each point source category and must (a) result from an assessment of
the state-of-the-art control technology, (b) fit within the framework of the Agency's discharge/emission
standards, and (c) include an evaluation of implementation achievability and viability.
Laboratory Assignment: Industrial Environmental Research Laboratory, Cincinnati
Industrial Environmental Research Laboratory, Research Triangle Park
Robert S. Kerr Environmental Research Laboratory, Ada
Materials Production: (Air) 604C (Water) 610C
Extramural Funds: $2,786,000
Accomplishment Plan Summary: The problem area is point sources of pollution associated with the
extraction (both active and abandoned mines) and processing of raw materials into intermediate products for
consumption by the materials processing industries. Excluded from consideration is the extraction of fuels and
processing of solid fuels. Toxic and hazardous pollutant control is of special concern.
The objective of the materials production research, development and demonstration program is to develop
manuals of practice (MOPs best state-of-the-art) to prevent and/or to control environmental damage from the
materials production industries. These MOPs will address the simultaneous control of air, water, and noise
pollution and the environmentally acceptable recovery and utilization of industrial residues from all industry
pollutant sources and will be in a form that meets the operational needs of both regulatory/enforcement agencies
and industry. It is expected that MOPs representing various stages of technology development will be required for
each priority industry to be considered. The goal of this program is to provide MOPs for all materials production
industries by 1985.
Laboratory Assignment: Industrial Environmental Research Laboratory, Cincinnati
Industrial Environmental Research Laboratory, Research Triangle Park
Robert S. Kerr Environmental Research Laboratory, Ada
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MINERALS, PROCESSING, AND MANUFACTURING SUBPROGRAM
Areawide-Combined Industrial Point Sources 610F
Extramural Funds: $275,000
Accomplishment Plan Summary: The problem area is point sources of pollution, industrial in nature,
specifically those manufacturing, mining, electric and water service establishments which seek to manage their
pollution problems on an areawide/combined basis with other point sources. The objective is to develop the
totality of the means necessary to eliminate the discharge/emission of pollutants for the areawide/combined point
source where industrial components predominate environmental management option. Outputs will be a spectrum
of integrated research, development, and demonstration activities culminating in demonstration or assessments of
engineering scale technologies. The activities will be translated for public and private sector use through technical
reports, seminars, design guidelines, and Agency discharge standards.
The research shall be classified as Open Cycle (OC), Closed Cycle (CC), and Total Environmental Control
(TEC) depending upon whether an interim discharge of pollutants is characteristic and whether point source
control of air and solid waste problems is addressed. The research activities must have industry wide applicability,
have technical and economic achievability for implementation, long-term viability, and serve as a basis for
establishing, improving, and/or implementing the required discharge standards. The water standards sought,
levels of control desired, and implied TR leadtime requirements are: (1) Best Available Control Technology
Economically Achievable (BAT)by January 1979; (2) Elimination of the discharge of pollutantsby 1984; (3)
Elimination of multi-media pollution dischargesby 1984.
Laboratory Assignment: Robert S. Kerr Environmental Research Laboratory, Ada
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RENEWABLE RESOURCES SUBPROGRAM
The Renewable Resources Subprogram encompasses the development of total management systems,
including predictive methodology, to control air, water and land pollution from the production and harvesting of
food and fiber and their related residual wastes and assessment of probable trends in the production of renewable
resources and their resulting environmental impact. Major activities include crops on both irrigated and non-
irrigated lands, silviculture practices and animal production.
Irrigated Crop Production 617A
Extramural Funds: $1,090,000
Accomplishment Plan Summary: The control of environmental degradation caused by irrigated crop
production is a multifaceted problem involving technical, legal, economic, and institutional considerations. The
objective of this program is to develop and demonstrate by bench, pilot plant and field scale studies the
fundamental technology needed for full scale pollution control programs in irrigated areas. This technology
includes: canal and lateral lining and other structural controls for water delivery systems; methods to minimize
water use; increased water use efficiency; control of nutrient losses; salinity control; sediment control; leaching
losses; pesticide transport in irrigated systems; and treatment processes. The evaluation of the legal, economic,
and institutional constraints to water management reform and technology changes is required. Development and
verification of mathematical simulation and predictive techniques based on physical-chemical-biological
processes occurring in irrigated soil systems is required to assess the effects of on-farm water management
practices on the water quality of receiving streams. These models can be used to develop technically sound
alternative pollution control management schemes for irrigated systems. The alternatives will include waste
stream treatment processes. The outputs would be used by Federal, state, and local planning and pollution control
agencies for the assessment and control of pollutants resulting from irrigated crop production activities.
Laboratory Assignment: Robert S. Kerr Environmental Research Laboratory, Ada
Non-Irrigated Crop Production 617B
Extramural Funds: $1,186,000
Accomplishment Plan Summary: Define and assess management practices available to preserve desirable
environmental quality affected by non-irrigated agriculture. Develop engineering and management methods to
preserve or restore desirable environmental quality. Determine whether different practices on different areas of a
watershed may be necessary to abate pollution rising from varying climatic and edaphic conditions. Demonstrate
and transfer this information to users. As part of this effort, develop mathematical predictive and simulative
models for degradation and/or runoff of agricultural chemicals, sediment and oxidizable organics. Test, perfect
and demonstrate these models to (1) predict impacts of agricultural practices on pollutant transport and thus on
water quality, and (2) assess the effectiveness of alternative control/management methods. Evaluate cost-
effectiveness of those control options and develop methods for estimating the economic and social impacts of
pesticide regulation and chemical/sediment management systems. Exert influence upon and utilize the expertise
of U.S. Department of Agriculture and other agencies, where appropriate, in achieving these goals.
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The outputs should be completed in time to meet the 1983 requirements for best management practices and
would be used by Federal, state, and local planning and pollution control agencies for the assessment and control
of pollutants resulting from non-irrigated crop producing activities.
Laboratory Assignment: Environmental Research Laboratory, Athens
Forest Management 617C
Extramural Funds: $300,000
Accomplishment Plan Summary: Methods to assess and control the adverse environmental effects of forestry
watersheds activities will be defined, developed, and demonstrated. Assessment methodology includes predictive
modeling and decision protocols to related: (I) watershed activities (including controls) to total environmental
quality; (2) control systems to socio-economic impacts; (3) control systems to total forest and water resource
management. Control methodology includes: (1) forest management and engineering technology designed to
reduce pollutants generated primarily via runoff; and (2) land use constraints to enhance environmental quality.
Control systems and their optimum application through assessment methodology are demonstrative of the "best
management practices" needed to satisfy the 1983 water quality goals.
These tools are needed by the State and local planner/decision makers to determine the water and land
pollution impacts from forestry practices, establish water quality criteria and to develop management practices
appropriate to local conditions.
Laboratory Assignment: Environmental Research Laboratory, Athens
Animal Production 617D
Extramural Funds: $748,000
Accomplishment Plan Summary: The major problem confronting the Agency in the area of animal
production, including both animals and poultry, is that of providing the management tools to dispose of animal
wastes in an environmentally safe manner. Currently the most economically feasible means of disposing of wastes
from the majority of animal production units is by means of land application. Land application may not, in all
cases, be environmentally feasible; therefore, application techniques must be evaluated and guidelines suggested
for all regions of the Nation. Continued animal production in areas where land application is not feasible is
dependent on the utilization of waste disposal methods other than land application. The program will evaluate
these systems, characterize their waste streams, and propose possible means of disposal along with an evaluation
of the effectiveness of each system. For those animal production units not now under any permit system,
guidelines must be suggested for alternative pollution management systems. The majority of animals in the Nation
are produced under non-feedlot conditions and therefore represent a distinctive non-point pollution source.
Pollution potentials from these conditions must be evaluated and control/management
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systems must be developed. The animal production industry is one of constant change and certain of these changes
will impact the environmental acceptability of present management systems. Changes in production systems will
be evaluated by the program to safeguard against potential adverse environmental consequences. New pollution
control management systems will be suggested and evaluated to correspond with industry changes.
Laboratory Assignment: Robert S. Kerr Environmental Research Laboratory, Ada
Alternate Pest Management Systems 617E
Extramural Funds: $ 1,400,000
Accomplishment Plan Summary: The objective of this Accomplishment Plan is to provide the necessary
basis for development of strategies and tactics of insect pest control for major pesticides using crop ecosystems
which will permit marked reduction or virtual elimination of dependence on pesticide chemicals as a regular
agricultural pest management practice. Concomitantly, a similar but a lesser effort will be devoted to development
of scientific basis for control strategies for urban pests. While present emphasis is only on insect control, a gradual
shift of a portion of the effort toward pest-plant control is contemplated for the intermediate out years, i.e., FY
79-80.
Laboratory Assignment: Office of Health and Ecological Effects, Headquarters
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This area contains many subprograms that are fundamental to EPA's responsibilities. These subprograms
have been combined into a single program area, Public Sector Activities, because they are inter-related and also
require many of the same skills and equipment development. This research program focuses on pollution
problems resulting from community, residential or other non-industrial activities; health effects resulting from
contaminated drinking water supplies; water treatment systems management and ground water management; and
land use management studies. This program has three components Waste Management, Water Supply, and
Environmental Management.
WASTE MANAGEMENT
The Waste Management Subprogram includes prevention, control, treatment and management of pollution
resulting from community, residential or other non-industrial activities. Technical areas include municipal and
domestic wastewater, land surface runoff, municipal solid wastes and air pollutants. This program provides
technical information for the Agency's operating programs in construction grants, comprehensive planning and
solid and hazardous waste management.
Runoff Pollution Control 611A
Extramural Funds: $803,000
Accomplishment Plan Summary: From 40% to 80% of the total annual organic loading entering receiving
waters from a city is caused by urban runoff. In the 50% of the Nation's streams that are water quality limited,
control of the pollution from wet weather flows must be considered as part of the strategy for maintaining stream
quality. The stormwater management program objective spans the categories of: problem definition, users
assistance tools, land management, collection systems control, storage, treatment sludge/solids, integrated
systems, and technical assistance all for the three major subobjective categories of Combined Sewer Overflow,
Urban Stormwater, and Hydrologic Modification.
The Office of Water and Hazardous Materials and the Office of Enforcement need receiving water impacts
data and solution methodology tied to receiving water quality for respective program support. The principal effort
and objective will be to fill the serious gaps in data/measurement impact assessment, abatement costs, and
reduction techniques for optimized solution methodologies.
Laboratory Assignment: Municipal Environmental Research Laboratory, Cincinnati
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WASTE MANAGEMENT SUBPROGRAM
Alaska Village Demonstration Program 61 IB
Extramural Funds: $ 126,000
Accomplishment Plan Summary: The objective of this program is to demonstrate methods to provide central
community facilities for safe water and elimination or control of pollution in those native villages of Alaska
lacking such facilities. The primary objective during FY-77 will be to complete the evaluation of the two ongoing
projects at Wainwright and Emmonak with a final report fully documenting the results to be completed by
January, 1978. This report is to be prepared as a formal EPA Report to Congress.
Laboratory Assignment: Environmental Research Laboratory, Corvallis
Wastewater Treatment Technology 61 IB
Extramural Funds: $5,122,000
Accomplishment Plan Summary: Program activities will be closely coordinated through interagency
agreements, co-project funding, and other cooperative arrangements with other agencies. All program activities
will stress energy conservation and disposal techniques and beneficial uses of residues. Guidelines will be issued on
using sludge for timber production reclamation of marginal land and crop production. Processes or methods will
be developed to mitigate the effects of metals and toxic substances on crops. Alternative forms of treatment will be
developed that are less costly than secondary treatment for ocean discharges. Societal constraints to land
spreading of sludge will be improved through films, farm associations, and various institutions.
Nearly one-third of the USA population is presently unsewered, and studies have shown that this percentage
will not change drastically over the next twenty years. New alternative technologies to the traditional septic tank-
soil absorption system will be developed. These systems will permit optimum uses of the land, i.e., methods which
will eliminate building moratoria, de-facto zoning, health hazard conditions and economic hardships. Secondary
benefits include increased tax bases, better community aesthetics through optimum development.
Significant initiatives in the area of disinfection have been made to overcome the problems of induced fish
toxicity and the formation of chlorinated organics. Full-scale testing of ozonation and ultraviolet radiation will be
carried out. Guidelines will be issued on unit process of disinfection that can be implemented in harmony with
environmental goals.
Growing pressures to implement the potable reuse of wastewater for groundwater recharges and direct
addition to domestic water supplies are causing concern among responsible health agencies. Treatment methods
and health impacts of the reuse of wastewater for drinking purposes will be investigated to provide documentation
and data for regulatory agencies in establishing potable reuse standards and criteria.
Laboratory Assignment: Municipal Environmental Research Laboratory, Cincinnati
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WASTE MANAGEMENT SUBPROGRAM
Application of Wastewater to Land (Soil Treatment Systems) 611C
Extramural Funds: $637,000
Accomplishment Plan Summary: The scope of this Accomplishment Plan includes the development and field
evaluations of new or improved control technology for the effective and economical treatment of municipal
wastewater effluents using the soil as a treatment media. Primary efforts are to be directed to demonstrate
technologies for removal of nutrients, organic materials, and microorganisms. The potential for beneficial uses
such as crop irrigation, animal grazing, soil conditioning, etc., and their compatibility with the basic treatment
systems are to be evaluated. Definition of the technological factors for design, construction and operation of land
application systems must be produced. Treatment capability, health factors, groundwater protection, loading
factors, potential for instrumentation and automation must be defined. Development and evaluation of alternative
cost-effective processes with firmly established dependability must be considered as alternatives for a broad
spectrum of plant sizes, flow rates, feed characteristics, and climatic zones.
For this Accomplishment Plan the soil treatment area is considered divided into two technology subprogram
areas: (1) Soil treatment systemseffluent treatment, and (2) aquaculture. The ultimate objective of this soil
treatment program is the publication and wide distribution of useful planning and design manuals with adequate
operation and maintenance backup taking into consideration all of the interacting factors, e.g., soils, groundwater,
chemical/biological systems, climate, facility design, cropping, socio-political-economic-legal, and health effects,
as a total treatment system.
Periodically, interim planning and design manuals should be published. The timing will be a function of the
generation of new design data which will prove useful to the designer. As definitive specialized projects are
completed, e.g., phosphorus model, effect of climate on design, etc., these projects should be published for
distribution as technical reports. Concise design sections should then be melded into the planning and design
manual. All activities should have as a principal objective the production of useful planning, design, operation,
and maintenance data for the use of soil as a media for the treatment of wastewater effluents.
Laboratory Assignment: Robert S. Kerr Environmental Research Laboratory, Ada
Solid and Hazardous Waste Management 618A
Extramural Funds: $ 1,834,000
Accomplishment Plan Summary: Develop, through studies, research and demonstrations, the technologies
necessary to achieve environmentally acceptable and cost effective solid and hazardous waste management
(generation through disposal) in which conservation and recovery of resources are prime considerations. The
primary objectives are: (1) development of methodology and/or equipment to eliminate effects due to the release
into the environment of materials present in solid and hazardous waste which would be adverse to the public
health and welfare, (2) to evaluate, develop, and demonstrate new and/or improved management techniques, and
new and/or improved methods of collection, storage, transportation and disposal, (3) to evaluate, develop, and
demonstrate new or improved methods for the reduction, separation, processing and recovery of resources,
including energy, and (4) to establish a technical basis to support the Agency's efforts in developing guidelines for
solid and hazardous waste management.
Laboratory Assignment: Municipal Environmental Research Laboratory, Cincinnati
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WATER SUPPLY SUBPROGRAM
The Water Supply Subprogram includes research, development and demonstration activities relating to the
provision of a dependably safe supply of drinking water and to the health effects resulting directly or indirectly
from contaminants in drinking water. The research activities provide the technical information for the Agency's
operating Water Supply Program as conducted under the Safe Drinking Water Act (Public Law 92-523).
Water SupplyWater Treatment and Systems Management 614A
Extramural Funds: $3,956,000
Accomplishment Plan Summary: Develop new or improved technology for the effective and economical
control of drinking water contaminants during storage, treatment and distribution. Program efforts will be
directed toward evaluating technologies for limiting compliance with present and future primary drinking water
standards. Improved methods of operating water supply facilities will be developed and evaluated. Specific
attention will be given to the need of small water systems for innovative treatment methods.
Laboratory Assignment: Municipal Environmental Research Laboratory, Cincinnati
Water Supply Health Effects Research 614B
Extramural Funds: $4,422,000
Accomplishment Plan Summary: Determine the nature and concentrations of organic, inorganic, and
microbiological contaminants in water supplies. Evaluate through literature searches and short and long-term
toxicological and epidemiological studies, the health effects of drinking water contaminants. Derive concentration
limits necessary for the protection of the public health.
Laboratory Assignment: Health Effects Research Laboratory, Cincinnati
Water SupplyGround Water Management 614C
Extramural Funds: $ 1,030,000
Accomplishment Plan Summary: In order to protect existing and potential underground sources of drinking
water, the following questions must be answered: (1) Define the pollution problem; (2) Identify sources of
pollutants in the underground environment; (3) Establish waste disposal site selection criteria; (4) Develop
management technology for underground drinking water basins; and (5) Investigate deep well injection and other
waste disposal technology in terms of underground drinking water contamination.
Laboratory Assignment: Robert S. Kerr Environmental Research Laboratory, Ada
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Water Supply Identification and Measurement 614D
Extramural Funds: $606,000
Accomplishment Plan Summary: Develop and improve analytical techniques for the concentration,
separation, identification and measurement of drinking water contaminants; namely, organic compounds, viruses
and inorganic elemental analyses.
Laboratory Assignment: Environmental Research Laboratory, Athens
Water SupplyIdentification and Measurement 614D
Extramural Funds: $200,000
Accomplishment Plan Summary: The major objective of this Accomplishment Plan is to find improved or
new methods for the determination of total organic carbon and purgable organics in drinking water.
Laboratory Assignment: Environmental Monitoring and Support Laboratory, Cincinnati
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ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SUBPROGRAM
The Environmental Management Subprogram focuses on the development of improved procedures for
planning, implementing, enforcing, and assessing cost-effective environmental protection strategies for particular
problem areas (air, water, etc.) and development of a comprehensive planning procedure for integrating all
environmental programs in an efficient manner, utilizing land use management as the basic integrating
mechanism.
Environmental and Community Systems Management 619A
Extramural Funds: $1,253,000
Accomplishment Plan Summary: The objective of this Accomplishment Plan is to provide regional and
community environmental planners with a set of analytical procedures which can be used as effective management
tools to identify feasible alternative solutions to identify environmental quality problems and to provide decision
methodology and selection criteria for identifying least cost solutions. The program emphasizes the integration of
structural and non-structural solutions using land use management as the basic framework or integrating
mechanism. Non-structural efforts include development of improved problem assessment and planning
techniques, and development of comprehensive community systems analysis and evaluation methodologies. The
program will identify and analyze the positive and negative impacts of various pollution control technologies
across environmental media (air, land, water); and will demonstrate the feasibility and benefits of integrated
structural environmental technology management solutions.
The program output will be user oriented and will include both the information needed and the decision
methodology required for selection and implementation of effective environmental quality control programs on a
community and regional level.
Laboratory Assignment: Municipal Environmental Research Laboratory, Cincinnati
Environmental Research Laboratory, Athens
Robert S. Kerr Environmental Research Laboratory, Ada
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MONITORING AND TECHNICAL SUPPORT PROGRAM AREA
The program includes both direct research activities and direct assistance and support to the rest of the
Agency. This research program focuses on the development of reference or standard environmental measurement
and monitoring equipment, techniques and systems, us well as development of Agency-wide quality assurance
programs including standardization of analytical methods and sampling techniques. The components of this
program are the Measurement Techniques and Equipment Development Subprogram, Quality Assurance
Subprogram, and the Technical Support Subprogram.
MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES AND EQUIPMENT DEVELOPMENT SUBPROGRAM
The Measurement Techniques and Equipment Development Subprogram is focused on providing
approaches and measurement techniques for all pollutants (pesticides, toxic substances, industrial chemicals,
petrochemicals, combustion products, etc.) in air, ground water, and surface waters (lakes, rivers, streams,
estuaries, etc.). The spectrum of activities begins with the elucidation of fundamental physical, chemical or
biological principles upon which monitoring techniques are based and ends with determination of the reliability
and standardization of fully operational monitoring methods or systems.
Criteria Development for Selection of Stationary Source Measurement, Strategies,
Methodologies, and Instrumentation 605C
Extramural Funds: $100,000
Accomplishment Plan Summary: The objective of this effort is to develop the performance criteria to be used
in identifying prescribed methods and monitoring systems and to establish test procedures by which criteria can
be verified for stationary source measurement strategies. The specifications and procedures provided by this
program are the basis for guidelines for monitoring systems in support of New Source Performance Standards.
Laboratory Assignment: Environmental Sciences Research Laboratory, Research Triangle Park
Monitoring Systems Development for Operation Applications 612A
Extramural Funds: $288,000
Accomplishment Plan Summary; The objective of this effort is to provide the most efficient and effective
monitoring techniques to meet the needs of EPA and related State monitoring programs. This includes the
development, selection, modification, and adaptation of existing and proposed measurement technology
specifically required to identify, characterize, and quantitate, all environmental pollutants for EPA and State
water monitoring programs; the development and adaptation of improved monitoring techniques to improve the
cost-effectiveness of monitoring operations; and the development of complete monitoring systems designs to
establish and maintain the Agency's monitoring data bases. Emphasis shall be given to methods and techniques
necessary to establish and enforce standards and regulations already promulgated, now under consideration for
promulgation or of specific interest to EPA as potentially harmful to the environment. Priority shall be given to
methods for toxic materials in industrial wastewaters, municipal wastes, fresh and marine waters and ground
waters, and to techniques for the evaluation of hazards to human and aquatic populations from municipal and
industrial discharges.
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MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES AND EQUIPMENT DEVELOPMENT SUBPROGRAM
Laboratory Assignment: Environmental Monitoring and Support Laboratory, Cincinnati
Monitoring Systems Development for Operations Applications 620A
Extramural Funds: $344,000
Accomplishment Plan Summary: The basic objective of this effort is to develop cost-effective and efficient
monitoring systems and techniques which will provide the information required by EPA in meeting its regulatory
and enforcement roles under present and anticipated legislative mandates. This objective will be met by
application of optimization techniques and systematic approaches which permit clear identification and
quantitative definition of the relationships between pollutant sources, their environment pathways, and exposure
of dose-response relationships of the critical receptor(s), i.e., population(s) at risk. These approaches include
adaptation and refinement of available and state-of-the-art monitoring instrumentation and technology such as
modeling and biological methods, and the development of integrated (multimedia) monitoring concepts. In
addition to providing data for fulfilling Agency mandates, application of advanced monitoring techniques and
approaches will permit accurate assessments of the state of the environment so that timely decision can be made
regarding presence and effects of regulated and presently nonregulated pollutants in the environment, including
toxic substances, carcinogens, and heavy metals. A major goal is to provide more cost-effective monitoring
systems, advanced methodology and techniques which will meet the specific Agency requirement for monitoring
data; and to assist in developing specifications for these needs.
Laboratory Assignment: Environmental Monitoring and Support Laboratory, Las Vegas
Air Pollutant Characterization and Measurement 712B
Extramural Funds: $3,330,000
Accomplishment Plan Summary: This Accomplishment Plan is designed to respond to the needs associated
with the detailed description of the composition and level of air contaminants. This level of detail is necessary to
elucidate parameters such as: chemical and physical interference, environmental constraints, and end-use
requirements. The output of this Accomplishment Plan is new and/or improved methodology and
instrumentation technology which will be utilized for stationary source, mobile source, and ambient air
requirements that will support the development and maintenance of Agency air quality goals.
The outputs of this activity are requisite to the achievement of sub-objectives associated with the generation
of air contaminants, their transport, transformation, decay, and ultimatic sinks. This technology is basic for the
determination of atmospheric effects, atmospheric chemical and physical processes and the development and
evaluation of air quality simulation modeling.
Laboratory Assignment: Environmental Sciences Research Laboratory, Research Triangle Park
New Techniques Development for Identification and Measurement of Chemical Constituents
of Water and Soil 713B
Extramural Funds: $234,000
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MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES AND EQUIPMENT DEVELOPMENT SUBPROGRAM
Accomplishment Plan Summary: Develop new techniques to identify and measure all chemical constituents
that relate to assessing, improving, and maintaining water quality through research and regulation. Techniques
should identify and measure organic compounds and chemical elements, should determine the species of the
chemical elements, and should relate responses to problems without necessarily identifying or measuring specific
constituents (e.g. an instrument to measure cholinesterase enzyme inhibitors). Output should be a series of
research reports describing techniques whose applicabilities to pertinent subobjectives have been assessed. The
reports will describe equipment, operation, applicability and limitations. They will contain data from application
to current Agency problems with analyses of the effectiveness of the techniques in these applications. The
performing organization will be responsible for assisting users in developing competence in recommended
techniques.
Laboratory Assignment: Environmental Research Laboratory, Athens
Methodology for Concentration, Recovery, and Identification of Viruses from Ambient
Waters and Wastewaters 713C
Extramural Funds: $193,000
Accomplishment Plan Summary: The objective of this effort is to develop rapid procedures for the
concentration, recovery, and identification of viruses from water and associated media. Viruses, of concern in
human health, appear in waters at about one active particle per gallon. About 200 particles are needed for
traditional assay procedures. Rapid, efficient field methods are sought for recovering the virus particles in a
concentrated form ready for shipment to a central laboratory. Present assay methods require up to ten days to
provide results, consequently, more rapid assay methods are being pursued. There is also concern that human
viruses may be transmitted in aquatic food organisms so there is some effort to determine whether human viruses
are concentrated or propagated in fish. Implementation of water reuse systems will require rapid virus methods if
the public health is to be protected. It is worthwhile to point out that viruses have some resistance to common
disinfection procedures.
Laboratory Assignment: Environmental Monitoring and Support Laboratory, Cincinnati
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QUALITY ASSURANCE SUBPROGRAM
The Quality Assurance Subprogram serves all environmental monitoring activities throughout the Agency,
and, through the Regions and ORD laboratories, serves State and local environmental control programs. This
Subprogram focuses on standardization of measurement methods, provision of standard reference materials and
samples, development of quality control guidelines and manuals, on-site evaluations of all regional laboratories,
inter-laboratory performance tests for air and pesticide measurements, monthly cross-check sample studies for
State and private radiation laboratories, development of Agency-wide laboratory certification and quality
assurance policies, studies for automation of laboratory instruments and statistical data handling, and
participation in regional quality control meetings.
Quality Assurance 621A
Extramural Funds: $363,000
Accomplishment Plan Summary: The objective of this Accomplishment Plan is to provide the reference or
standard monitoring methods, quality control procedures, associated standard reference materials, and quality
control program audits needed by the Agency's operational monitoring program in the acquisition of accurate and
legally defensible ambient and source environmental quality data. Emphasis shall be given to the promulgation of
those reference and equivalent methods and quality control procedures and the production of those standard
reference materials needed to enforce air quality related standards and regulations now in existence and being
planned for adoption.
Laboratory Assignment: Environmental Monitoring and Support Laboratory, Research Triangle Park
Quality Assurance 621A
Extramural Funds: $1,212,000
Accomplishment Plan Summary: The objective of this effort is the development and delivery of reference
methods and approval of equivalent methods, quality control systems and procedures, associated standard
reference samples, and performance audit samples needed by the EPA and state monitoring programs for the
acquisition of accurate and legally defensible drinking, ambient, and source environmental water quality data. In
this role, EMSL-Cincinnati shall serve as the central management point for all water pesticide quality assurance
activities, including those at the Health Effects Research Laboratory, Research Triangle Park, to assure internal
consistency of this Agency-wide program. Emphasis shall be given to the reference methods and regulations now
in existence or planned for adoption. Emphasis in fiscal year 1977 shall be on validation of methods for effluent
discharges, drinking water, and toxic substances in both discharges and ambient waters and ground waters;
standard reference samples and performance audit samples for these methods and substances; and development
and operation of cost-effective systems for the maintenance of laboratory evaluation and performance data.
Specific attention should be given to the establishment of an effective laboratory certification system for water
supply laboratories by the development of acceptance criteria and procedures, development, and
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distribution of quality control and performance samples, provision of guidance and assistance to the regional
offices, and the development of a computerized laboratory performance and measurement methods record
system. All measurement standardization and quality assurance activities for radionuclides will be closely
coordinated with EMSL-Las Vegas.
Laboratory Assignment: Environmental Monitoring and Support Laboratory, Cincinnati
Development and Operation of a Total Quality Assurance Program for Pesticide Residues
Measurements 621B
Extramural Funds: $110,000
Accomplishment Plan Summary: It is of vital importance that all EPA pesticide laboratories in any given
network maintain a rigid analytical quality control program to guarantee accurate and precise sample analyses.
The reputation and testimony of laboratory personnel involved with pesticide analyses may be evaluated on the
strength of the quality assurance program. To maintain such a program requires: (1) periodic interlab check
samples; (2) provision of bulk samples of appropriate substrates suitable for use in intra quality control programs;
(3) distribution of standardized materials important to successful analysis of pesticide residues; (4) studies; (5)
provision of consultation and instrumental analytical backup for unusually difficult problems; (6) provision of
training for laboratory personnel.
Failure to maintain a comprehensive quality assurance program will jeopardize any litigations involving
pesticide residue analyses. Priorities include continuation of quality assurance support in pesticide residue
analysis to the Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP): (a) Epidemiologic Studies Laboratories, (b) National Human
Monitoring Program, and (c) other associated OPP programs.
Laboratory Assignment: Health Effects Research Laboratory, Research Triangle Park
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MONITORING AND TECHNICAL SUPPORT PROGRAM AREA
TECHNICAL SUPPORT SUBPROGRAM
The Technical Support Subprogram provides assistance in all fields of environmental science that the Office
of Research and Development provides toother components of the Agency and in many cases to elements outside
of EPA. It has been the policy of ORD to provide assistance for the immediate technical needs of the Agency
whenever possible by drawing on the expertise of its research personnel. In the past, costs associated with this
effort have been absorbed in the base program. This fiscal year, these costs are being identified and planned for
separately. The decision to identify technical support work separately reflects a determination that ORD will be
more responsive to the immediate needs of EPA.
The Technical Information Program is included under this Subprogram. The main purpose of the Technical
Information Program is to deliver the results of ORD's research program to the user community in a form that is
tailored to the user's needs. The program includes technology transfer, publications, and library oversight.
Additionally, the Minority Institutions Research Support Program (MIRS) is included under the Technical
Support Subprogram. The purpose of the MIRS program is to assist approximately 100 minority colleges and
universities in the development of their environmental research capabilities which are utilized through grant
projects to provide certain technical support to Agency research problems.
Provision of Technical Support to Agency Programs and Regional Offices:
(Air) 606B (Water) 613B (Interdisciplinary) 622A
Extramural Funds: $496,300
Accomplishment Plan Summary: The following items are representative of the types of requests received for
technical support. Since the requests exceed the budget, specific requests to be funded must be determined
through negotiations with the program offices: (1) Assist Regional and program offices with unique water
monitoring capability, utilizing amphibious aircraft and specialized instrument packages; (2) Assist Regional and
program offices with unique air monitoring techniques, primarily aircraft mounted systems; (3) Provide
analytical, quality control and laboratory evaluation services in support of the Rural Water Survey and National
Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES); (4) Assist Regions in adapting models to the optimum siting
of monitoring stations; (5) Assist Regional and program offices in documenting pollution sources and assessing
their impact on the environment with emphasis on the use of overhead remote sensing techniques; and (6) Assist
Regional and program offices in documenting and assessing the nature, extent and impacts of episodal
environmental insults such as spills, accidental releases and air pollution episodes.
Laboratory Assignment: Environmental Monitoring and Support Laboratory, Las Vegas
Minority Institutions Research Support Program 622B
Extramural Funds: $625,000
Accomplishment Plan Summary: The objectives of the Minority Institutions Research Support Program are:
(1) To identify existing and potential environmental research capability within minority institutions and assist
these institutions in utilizing this capability to participate in EPA research activities; (2) To help minority
institutions become more competitive with other institutions for research funds; (3) To award research and
demonstration grants to minority institutions in a manner which will support the research objectives of the Office
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of Research and Development; and (4) To promote a good working relationship between the Agency and
participating institutions.
Laboratory Assignment: Office of Monitoring and Technical Support, Headquarters
Technology Transfer Program 622C
Extramural Funds: $1,588,000
Accomplishment Plan Summary: The fundamental objective of the EPA Technology Transfer Program is to
impact effectively the design, construction, installation and operation of pollution control and abatement facilities
through the active transfer of the latest available technologies to potential users and thus mitigate the potential for
large national investment in obsolete technology. The form of outputs provided by this program includes design
manuals, seminar publications, capsule reports, movies, displays, exhibits, newsletters, etc.
In fiscal year 1977, the scope of the Technology Transfer Program will be expanded to include not only its
historical mission of transferring proven and demonstrated environmental pollution control technology, but also
to encompass the active dissemination and transfer of technical information to users both within and external to
the Agency. The fiscal year 1977 program will continue to transfer on a priority basis technologies in the areas of
land treatment, municipal waste treatment, industrial pollution control technology, non-point sources, water
supply, monitoring technology and energy research and development. It will also support priority technical
information dissemination initiatives such as areawide waste treatment management (208) planning seminars and
regional state-of-the-art technology seminars.
Laboratory Assignment: Industrial Environmental Research Laboratory, Cincinnati
Technical Information Management Activities 622E
Extramural Funds: $441,000
Accomplishment Plan Summary: The principal objective of the Technical Information Division, Office of
Monitoring and Technical Support, is to provide centralized management, planning, coordination and review
functions which are necessary to assure the effective and timely dissemination of technical information including
technology transfer into the Office of Research and Development (ORD), between ORD components and from
ORD to a broad spectrum of users who rely on research and development outputs for environmental decision
making. The major activities assigned to the Technical Information Division include: technology transfer,
technical and scientific publications, library control, Freedom of Information Act compliance, environmental
forecast modeling and response to inquiries for technical information inside and outside ORD.
Laboratory Assignment: Office of Monitoring and Technical Support, Headquarters
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TECHNICAL SUPPORT SUBPROGRAM
Technical Information Support Program 622F
Extramural Funds: $50,000
Accomplishment Plan Summary: The principal objective of the Technical Information Support Program is
to provide technical information support services which will optimize the transfer of technical information into
the Office of Research and Development (ORD), between ORD components and from ORD to the environmental
research and development user community. The scope of these support services includes, but is not limited to, the
following: centralized management, processing, publication and distribution of technical/scientific publications,
information booklets, newletters, etc.; graphic arts, technical editing and television support services; planning,
implementation, coordination and maintenance of special information systems and data bases; support for
technical information inquiries from sources both internal and external to the Agency.
Laboratory Assignment: Industrial Environmental Research Laboratory, Cincinnati
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PART III
Office of Research and Development's Grant and Contract Activities*/
While some of the research required by these Accomplishment Plans will be done in-house by ORD's staff,
much of the research is planned for accomplishment by grant, contract, or interagency agreement. The
Laboratory Director decides how the goals of the Accomplishment Plan can best be achieved. This project level
planning is documented in Work Plans. The Work Plans describe each project or task required to accomplish the
research objective, indicate how the task will be implemented (i.e., grant, contract, in-house), and estimate the
amount of dollars required to complete the task.
All planned contracting is carried out competitively with notices of the availability of Request for Proposal
(RFP) documents publicly advertised. Unsolicited contract proposals should not be submitted for such projects.
The review/selection procedures followed may vary slightly from project to project, but all pertinent information
regarding both the project objectives and criteria for evaluation of proposals will be included in each RFP
package. The Laboratory Director should not be contacted for information on contracts that have been advertised
since such communication may conflict with Federal Procurement Regulations and could serve to disqualify a
prospective contractor from further consideration.
With regard to all grant projects, contact with the cognizant Laboratory Director is encouraged. The
Laboratory Director will generally be the individual responsible for making the award/reject recommendation on
individual proposals.
VNote: Information on other EPA grant programs is presented in the publication "Grant Assistance Programs of
the Environmental Protection Agency", available from EPA's Grants Administration Division, Washington, DC
20460. Information on contracting procedures and policies is presented in the booklet, "Contracting with EPA
A Guide for Prospective Contractors", available from EPA's Contracts Management Division, Washington, DC
20460.
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Guidelines For Submission Of Grant
Applications Or Contract Proposals
A. Solicited contract proposals -
Requests for Proposals (RFP's) for all planned contracts will be advertised in the Commerce Business Daily
issued by the U.S. Department of Commerce. A subscription to this publication may be obtained from the
Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C. 20402. These advertisements
will provide instructions for obtaining RFP packages from EPA's Contracts Management Division. Each
RFP package will include detailed information describing the form and context of proposals to be submitted
as well as the required time and place of submission.
EPA's Contracts Management Division publishes "Contracting With EPA - A Guide for Prospective
Contractors" to assist the business community in its efforts to find new markets in the Environmental
Protection Agency. This publication includes the names and addresses of contracting offices in EPA and the
Office of Research and Development laboratories, the types of products and services procured, general
information about the Agency, and hints to aid businessmen in selling to EPA.
B. Unsolicited contract proposals -
While most of OR&D's contract research and demonstration is conducted through use of RFP's to solicit
proposals (item A above), contracts can also be awarded on the basis of unsolicited proposals which meet the
sole-source requirements of the Federal Procurement Regulations. Unsolicited contract proposals should be
addressed to the Grants Administration Division (PM-216), Environmental Protection Agency,
Washington, DC 20460. While no specific format is required, such proposals should generally contain:
1. Name, address and telephone number of the organization or individual submitting the proposal.
2. Date of preparation or submission.
3. Type of organization (profit, non-profit, educational, individual, other).
4. Concise title.
5. Project objective.
6. Need, utility and significance of project.
7. Scope of work, i.e., an outline and discussion of the purpose of proposed effort of activity, the method
of attacking the problem, and nature and extent of anticipated results.
8. Experimental data developed by feasibility studies previously completed.
9. Estimated duration of the project, proposed starting and completion dates.
10. Scientific or technical references.
11. Names of key personnel to be involved, brief biographical information, including principal publications
and relevant experience.
12. Equipment, facilities and personnel requirements.
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13. Proposed budget, including separate cost estimates for salaries and wages, equipment, expendable
supplies, services, travel, subcontracts, other direct costs and overhead.
EPA's FY-77 Appropriation Act specifically provides that cost sharing must be included in contracts
resulting from proposals for projects not specifically solicited. The extent of the cost sharing by the recipient
will be decided after the proposal has been reviewed and determined to be of mutual interest to the grantee or
contractor and the government.
The material submitted should contain both a technical and a business proposal. The technical proposal
should clearly define the unique concept involved (as required for sole-source procurements) and include a
plan for turning the concept into reality. It is suggested that the technical proposal identify any proprietary
aspects of the proposed ideas or process. The business proposal should include a detailed cost proposal,
information concerning past Government contracts, and any special terms and conditions desired.
C. Research or demonstration grant applications -
Pre-application activity
Although grant applications may be submitted at any time and on any subject, potential grantees should take
the following actions prior to submission of a formal grant application in order to save time and effort both
for the applicant and EPA.
1. Review OR&D's current research program, as described in Part II, to determine if funds are available
in the specific area of interest; and
2. Contact the appropriate research and development personnel cited in this document to ascertain if a
grant project is planned prior to submission of an official grant application.
Submission of a preproposal is also strongly encouraged. The preproposal should be sent directly to the
cognizant Laboratory Director listed in Part II of this document for review. A preproposal should normally
consist of a three or four-page narrative outlining the project concept and containing the following
information:
1. Objective - a clear statement of the specific objective is necessary. If the objective is designed to fulfill a
specific project (as identified in Step 1 above), the project should be identified. If the objective cannot be
associated with any specific project, some statement of the presumed value to EPA of attaining the
research objective should be made.
2. Project Plan - a brief description of the research/development/demonstration concept and the plan
for execution of the proposed project, including a projected time-schedule for accomplishments of
intermediate outputs or key occurrences indicating progress (milestones) and the final objective.
3. Budget - a preliminary estimate of total costs which will be incurred in order to complete the project.
Also, the share of the costs which will be provided by the applicant should be indicated.
4. Staff and Facilities - a brief listing of key project staff and capabilities and a brief description of any
special facilities or other factors which would contribute to the success of the project. A single person
who will have responsibility for planning, coordinating, and supervising the project should be identified
along with the fraction of his time to be devoted to the project.
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Following review and evaluation of the preproposal by the cognizant Laboratory Director, the prospective
applicant will be advised whether (a) an application should be submitted for formal review, (b) submission of
a modified preproposal is suggested, (c) possible submission of the preproposal to another Agency,
Department, or source of funds is suggested, or (d) further pursuit of the particular topic is discouraged.
Formal applications
All formal grant applications are to be submitted to the Grants Administration Division, Environmental
Protection Agency, Washington, DC 20460. After formal "logging in" and acknowledgement, those
applications falling within the Office of Research and Development's purview are referred to the appropriate
ORD program office for program relevance review by the cognizant Laboratory Director. This review
quickly screens out those applications for which EPA has no authority or interest or those for which no funds
are available. For those proposals in which ORD has an interest, scientific/technical merit reviews are then
conducted by both in-house and extramural experts. Extramural reviews are obtained in the National Science
Foundation fashion individual written reviews submitted by mail. Comments are also obtained from the
Regional Office in the Region where the applicant is located and where the project would be conducted to
determine the relationship of the proposed project to Regional programs and policies.
The individual coordinating the scientific/technical merit review (normally the cognizant Laboratory
Director) assembles and evaluates both intramural and extramural review comments and prepares a
recommendation for action on each application. The recommendation may be to award a grant, to reject the
application, or to attempt to negotiate with the applicant to modify the scope of work. In those cases where
the proposed scope of work could be modified in order to relate more directly to EPA's objectives and
thereby qualify for funding, direct contact is made with the applicant to determine whether or not acceptable
adjustments in the scope of work can be made.
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APPENDIX A
OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
PROGRAM-BUDGET STRUCTURE AND CODES
Program
Code
Component Title
1AA
1AA601
1AA602
1AA603
1AB
1AB604
IAD
1AD605
1AD606
1AD712
IBA
1BA607
1BA608
1BA609
IBB
1BB610
1BC
1BC611
1BD
1BD612
1BD613
1BD713
ICC
1CC614
AIR
Health and Ecological Effects
Health Effects
Ecological Processes and Effects
Transport and Fate of Pollutants
Industrial Processes
Minerals, Processing and Manufacturing Industries
Monitoring and Technical Support
Measurement, Techniques and Equipment Development
Technical Support
Characterization and Measurement Methods Development
WATER QUALITY
Health and Ecological Effects
Health Effects
Ecological Processes and Effects
Transport and Fate of Pollutants
Industrial Processes
Minerals, Processing and Manufacturing Industries
Public Sector Activities
Waste Management
Monitoring and Technical Support
Measurement, Techniques and Equipment Development
Technical Support
Characterization and Measurement Methods Development
WATER SUPPLY
Public Sector Activities
Water Supply
SOLID WASTE
1DC
1DC6J8
Public Sector Activities
Waste Management
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Program
Code
Component Title
1EA
1EA615
1EA714
1FA
1FA628
1HA
1HA616
1HA630
1MB
1HB617
1HC
1HC619
1HD
1HD620
1HD621
1HD622
1LA
1LA629
1LA715
PESTICIDES
Health and Ecological Effects
Health Effects
Ecological Processes and Effects
RADIATION
Health and Ecological Effects
Health Effects
INTERDISCIPLINARY
Health and Ecological Effects
Ecological Processes and Effects
Health Effects
Industrial Processes
Renewable Resources Industry
Public Sector Activities
Environmental Management
Monitoring and Technical Support
Measurement, Techniques and Equipment Development
Quality Assurance
Technical Support
TOXIC SUBSTANCES
Health and Ecological Effects
Health Effects
Ecological Processes and Effects
ENERGY
1NE
1NE623
1NE624
1NE625
1NE626
Energy
Extraction and Processing Technology
Conservation and Utilization Technology Assessment
Health and Ecological Effects
Technical Support
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APPENDIX B
EXTRAMURAL PROGRAM AUTHORIZING LEGISLATION
This Appendix describes the legislative authorities within which the Office of Research and Development
must operate.
Auth. Leg. Code
14 Statutory authority: Section 14, Noise Control Act of 1972 (P.L. 92-574) 42 U.S.C.
4900.
Purpose: To conduct research on the effects, measurement and control of noise
including, but not limited to, investigation of the psychological and physiological
effects of noise on humans and the effects of noise on domestic animals, wildlife and
property and determination of acceptable levels of noise on the basis of such effects,
the development of improved methods and standards for measurement and
monitoring of noise and the determination of the most effective and practical means of
controlling noise emissions.
Eligible grantees: Non-profit institutions of higher education or non-profit
organizations whose primary purpose is the conduct of scientific research.
Funding limitations: Grants may not exceed 95 percent of the estimated total eligible
cost of the project.
Other limitations: None
20 Statutory authority: Section 20, Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act,
as amended (P.L. 92-516) 7 U.S.C. 135 et seq.
Purpose: To develop biologically integrated alternatives for pest control and to
conduct other research as necessary to carry out the purposes of the Act.
Eligible grantees: Universities or others.
Funding limitations: Grants may not exceed 95 percent of the estimated total eligible
cost of the project.
Other limitations: None
103 Statutory authority: Section 103, Clean Air Act, as amended (P.L. 88-206) -42
U.S.C. 1857 b.
Purpose: To support and promote the coordination of research, development and
demonstration projects relating to the causes, effects, extent, prevention and control
of air pollution.
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Eligible grantees: Air pollution control agencies, other public or non-profit private
agencies, institutions and organizations and individuals.
Funding limitations: Grants may not exceed 95 percent of the estimated total eligible
cost of the project.
Other limitations: None
104 Statutory authority: Section 104, Clean Air Act, as amended (P.L. 88-206) -42
U.S.C. 1857 b-1.
Purpose: To support research and development projects on new and improved
methods having industrywide application for the prevention and control of air
pollution resulting from the combustion of fuels.
Eligible grantees: Public or nonprofit agencies, institutions, organizations and
individuals.
Funding limitations: Grants may not exceed 95 percent of the estimated total eligible
cost of the project or $1,500,000, whichever is less.
Other limitations: None
104b Statutory authority: Section 104 (b)(3), Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as
amended, (P.L. 92-500) - 33 U.S.C. 1254.
Purpose: Conduct and promote the coordination and acceleration of research,
investigations, experiments and demonstrations relating to the causes, effects, extent,
prevention, reduction, and elimination of water pollution.
Eligible grantees: State water pollution control agencies, interstate agencies, other
public or nonprofit private agencies, institutions, organizations and individuals.
Funding limitations: Grants may not exceed 95 percent of the estimated total eligible
cost of the project.
Other limitations: None
105 1) Statutory authority: Section 105 (a), Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as
amended, (P.L. 92-500) 33 U.S.C. 1255.
Purpose: To assist in the development of (1) projects to demonstrate new or improved
methods of preventing, reducing, and eliminating the discharges into any waters of
pollutants from sewers which carry storm water or both storm water and pollutants;
or (2) projects to demonstrate advanced waste treatment and water purification
methods or new or improved methods of joint treatment systems for municipal and
industrial wastes.
Eligible grantees: States, municipalities or inter-municipal or interstate agencies.
Funding limitations: Grants may not exceed 75 percent of the estimated total eligible
cost of the project.
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Other limitations: Proposed projects must have been approved by the appropriate
State Water Pollution Control agency or agencies. In addition, the Administrator
must determine that such project will serve as a useful demonstration for the purpose
as set forth above.
105 2) Statutory authority: Section 105 (b).
Purpose: To demonstrate in river basins or portions thereof, advanced treatment and
environmental enhancement techniques to control pollution from all sources
including non-point sources, together with instream water quality improvement
techniques.
Eligible grantees: States or interstate agencies.
Funding limitations: Grants may not exceed 95 percent of the estimated total eligible
cost of the project.
Other limitations: None
3) Statutory authority: Section 105 (c).
Purpose: To support research and demonstration projects for prevention of pollution
of any waters by industry including but not limited to, the prevention, reduction, and
elimination of the discharge of pollutants.
Eligible grantees: Individuals, corporations, partnerships, associations, States,
municipalities, commissions or political subdivisions of a State, or any interstate body.
Funding limitations: Grants may not exceed 75 percent of the estimated total eligible
cost of the project.
Other limitations: The Administrator must determine that the project will develop or
demonstrate a new or improved method of treating industrial wastes or otherwise
prevent pollution by industry, which method shall have industrywide application.
4) Statutory authority: Section 105 (d).
Purpose: To develop, refine and achieve practical application of: (1) waste
management methods applicable to point and non-point sources of pollutants to
eliminate the discharge of pollutants, including, but not limited to, elimination of
runoff of pollutants and the effects of pollutants from inplace or accumulated sources;
(2) advanced
waste treatment methods applicable to point and non-point sources, including inplace
or accumulated sources of pollutants, and methods for reclaiming and recycling water
and confining pollutants so they will not migrate to cause water or other
environmental pollution; and
(3) improved
methods and procedures to identify and measure the effects of pollutants on the
chemical, physical and biological integrity of water, including those pollutants
created by new technological developments.
Eligible grantees: Individuals, corporations, partnerships, associations, States,
municipalities, commissions, or political subdivisions of a State, or any interstate
body.
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Funding limitations: Grants may not exceed 75 percent of the estimated total eligible
cost of the project.
Other limitations: None
105 5) Statutory authority: Section 105 (e).
Purpose: To support research and demonstration projects with respect to new and
improved methods of preventing, reducing, storing, collecting, treating, or otherwise
eliminating pollution from sewage in rural and other areas where collection of sewage
in conventional, community-wide sewage collection systems is impractical,
uneconomical, or otherwise infeasible, or where soil conditions or other factors
preclude the use of septic tank and drainage field systems.
Eligible grantees: Individuals, corporations, partnerships, associations, States,
municipalities, commissions, or political subdivisions of a State or any interstate body.
Funding limitations: Grants may not exceed 95 percent of the estimated total eligible
cost of the project.
Other limitations: Grants must be made in consultation with the Secretary of
Agriculture or other interested Federal agencies.
107 Statutory authority: Section 107, Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended,
(P.L. 92-500) 33 U.S.C. 1257.
Purpose: To demonstrate comprehensive approaches to the elimination or control of
acid or other mine water pollution resulting from active or abandoned mining
operations and other environmental pollution affecting water quality within all or
part of a watershed or river basin, including siltation from surface mining.
Eligible grantees: Individuals, corporations, partnerships, associations, States,
municipalities, commissions, or political subdivisions of a State, or any interstate
body.
Funding limitations: Grants may not exceed 95 percent of the estimated total eligible
cost of the project.
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Other limitations: In selecting watersheds, the Administrator shall be satisfied that
the project area will not be affected adversely by the influx of acid or other mine water
pollution from nearby sources. The State shall acquire any land or interests therein
necessary for such project and the State shall provide legal and practical protection to
the project area to insure against any activities which will cause future acid or other
mine water pollution. In addition, for any demonstration project in the Appalachian
region (as defined in Section 403 of the Appalachian Regional Development Act of
1965, as amended) the Appalachian Regional Commission shall determine that such
demonstration project is consistent with the objectives of the Appalachian Regional
Development Act of 1965, as amended.
113 Statutory authority: Section 113, Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended
(P.L. 92-500) 33 U.S.C. 1263.
Purpose: To demonstrate methods to provide for central community facilities for safe
water and elimination or control of water pollution in those native villages of Alaska
without such facilities.
Eligible grantees: The State of Alaska.
Funding limitations: Grants may not exceed 95 percent of the estimated total eligible
cost of the project.
Other limitations: Projects shall include provisions for community safe water supply
system, toilets, bathing and laundry facilities, sewage disposal facilities, and other
similar facilities, and educational and informational facilities and programs relating to
health and hygiene. Such demonstration projects shall be for the further purpose of
developing preliminary plans for providing such safe water and such elimination or
control of pollution for all native villages in Alaska.
204* Statutory authority: Section 204, Solid Waste Disposal Act, as amended (P.L. 89-272) ---
42 U.S.C. 3253.
Purpose: To support and promote the coordination of research, development and
demonstration projects relating to any adverse health and welfare effects of the release
into the environment of material present in solid waste and methods to eliminate such
effects, the operation and financing of solid waste disposal programs, the reduction of
the amount of such waste and unsalvageable waste materials, the development and
application of new and improved methods of collecting and disposing of solid waste
and processing and recovering materials and energy from solid waste, and the
identification of solid waste components and potential materials and energy
recoverable from waste components.
Eligible grantees: Public or private agencies and institutions and individuals.
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Funding limitations: Grants may not exceed 95 percent of the estimated total eligible
cost of the project.
Other limitations: All information, uses, processes, patents and other developments
resulting from these projects will be made readily available on fair and equitable terms
to industries utilizing methods of solid waste disposal and industries engaging in
furnishing devices, facilities, equipment and supplies to be used in connection with
solid waste disposal.
301 Statutory authority: Section 301, Public Health Service Act, as amended (P.L.
78-410)---42 U.S.C, 241.
Purpose: To support and promote the coordination of research projects for the
determination of the extent and character of radiation problems, mechanisms of
radiation damage in humans, improvements in techniques for assessing the effects of
radiation and radiation dose-disease relationship.
Eligible grantees: Universities, hospitals, laboratories and other public or private
institutions or individuals.
Funding limitations: Grants may not exceed 95 percent of the estimated total eligible
cost of the project.
Other limitations: All grants must be recommended by the National Advisory Health
Council.
Mixed Statutory authority and other requirements can be any of the listed laws or the Grants
Act, 42 U.S.C. 1891, depending upon the specific purpose of the project.
*The new Solid Waste Disposal Act was pending Presidential approval at the time
this document was ready for printing.
* "Copies of the new Toxic Substances Control Act had not been released at the time
this document was ready for printing.
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APPENDIX C
U. S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
ADMINISTRATOR
DEPUTY AOMIMWTHATO*
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APPENDIX D
EPA OFFICIALS AND REGIONAL CONTACTS
Administrator
Russell E. Train
Environmental Protection Agency
A - 100
Washington, DC 20460
Telephone*
(202) 755-2700
States Served
Office of Regional and Intergovernmental Operations
Peter L. Cashman
Environmental Protection Agency
A - 101
Washington, DC 20460
(202) 755-0444
Region I
Environmental Protection Agency
Room 2203
John F. Kennedy Federal Building
Boston, Massachusetts 02203
Regional Administrator
John A. S. McGlennon
Deputy Regional Administrator
Kenneth Johnson
Public Affairs Director
Paul G. Keough
R&D Contact
Richard Keppler
(617) 223-7210
(617) 223-7210
(617) 223-4704
(617) 223-3477
Connecticut
Maine
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
Rhode Island
Vermont
Region II
Environmental Protection Agency
Room 1009
26 Federal Plaza
New York, New York 10007
Regional Administrator
Gerald M. Hansler
Deputy Regional Administrator
Eric B. Outwater
(212) 264-2525
(212) 264-2525
Delaware
New Jersey
New York
Puerto Rico
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Telephone*
States Served
Public Affairs Director
Donald R. Bliss, Jr.
R&D Contact
Robert W. Mason
(212) 264-2515
(212) 264-3100
Region III
Environmental Protection Agency
Curtis Building
6th & Walnut Streets
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106
Regional Administrator
Daniel J. Snyder III
Deputy Regional Administrator
Alvin R. Morris
Congressional and Public Affairs Director
Diane Margenau
R&D Contact
Albert Montague
(215) 597-9814
(215) 597-9814
(215) 597-9370
(215) 597-9856
District of Columbia
Maryland
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Virginia
Region IV
Environmental Protection Agency
345 Courtland Street, N.E.
Atlanta, Georgia 30308
Regional Administrator
Jack E. Ravan
Deputy Regional Administrator
John A. Little
Public Affairs Director
Charles D. Pou
R&D Contact
Edmond Lomasney
(404) 526-5727 CML
285-5727 FTS
(404) 526-5727 CML
285-5727 FTS
(404) 526-3004 CML
285-3004 FTS
(404) 526-5458 CML
285-5458 FTS
Alabama
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
Mississippi
South Carolina
Tennessee
Region V
Environmental Protection Agency
230 S. Dearborn
Chicago, Illinois 60604
Illinois
Indiana
Michigan
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Regional Administrator
George R. Alexander, Jr.
Deputy Regional Administrator
Valdas V. Adamkus
Public Affairs Director
Frank M. Corrado
R&D Contact
Clifford Risley, Jr.
Telephone*
(312) 353-2000
(312) 353-2000
(312) 353-5800
(312) 353-2200
States Served
Minnesota
Ohio
Wisconsin
Region VI
Environmental Protection Agency
1201 Elm Street
First International Building
Dallas, Texas 75270
Regional Administrator
John C. White
Deputy Regional Administrator
(Vacant)
Public Affairs Director
Betty Williamson
R&D Contact
Mildred Smith
(214) 749-1962
(214) 749-1962
(214) 749-3971
Arkansas
Louisiana
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Texas
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Telephone*
States Served
Region VII
Environmental Protection Agency
1735 Baltimore Avenue
Kansas City, Missouri 64108
Regional Administrator
Jerome H. Svore
Deputy Regional Administrator
Charles V. Wright
Public Affairs Director
Randall S. lessee
(816) 374-5493 CML
758-5493 FTS
(816) 374-5493 CML
758-5493 FTS
(816) 374-5894 CML
758-5894 FTS
758-5894
Iowa
Kansas
Missouri
Nebraska
R&D Contact
Aleck Alexander
(816) 374-2921 CML
758-2921 FTS
Region VIII
Environmental Protection Agency
Suite 900
1860 Lincoln Street
Denver, Colorado 80203
Regional Administrator
John A. Green
(303) 837-3895 CML
327-3895 FTS
Colorado
Montana
North Dakota
South Dakota
Utah
Wyoming
Deputy Regional Administrator
Roger L. Williams (Acting)
Public Affairs Director
Howard W. Kayner
R&D Contact
John E. Hardaway
(303) 837-3895 CML
327-3895 FTS
(303) 837-4905 CML
327^905 FTS
(303) 837-3849 CML
327-3073 FTS
Region IX
Environmental Protection Agency
100 California Street
San Francisco, California 94111
Regional Administrator
Paul DeFalco, Jr.
Deputy Regional Administrator
L. Russell Freeman
(415) 556-2320
(415) 556-2320
Arizona
California
Hawaii
Nevada
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Chief, External & Inter-Governmental
Relations Branch, Allan Abramson
R&D Contact
William Bishop
Telephone*
(415) 556-6266
(415) 556-6925
States Served
Region X
Environmental Protection Agency
1200 6th Avenue
Seattle, Washington 98101
Regional Administrator
Donald P. DuBois
Deputy Regional Administrator
L. Edwin Coate
Public Affairs Director
Robert H. Jacobson
R&D Contact
Robert Courson
(206) 442-1220 CML
399-1220 FTS
(206) 442-1220 CML
399-1220 FTS
(206) 442-1203 CML
399-1203 FTS
(206) 442-1296 CML
399-1296 FTS
Alaska
Idaho
Washington
Oregon
*Telephone numbers are both commercial and FTS unless otherwise indicated.
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TECHNICAL REPORT DATA
(Please read Instructions on the reverse before completing)
1. REPORT NO. 2.
EPA-600/9-76-029
4. TITLE AND SUBTITLE
Office of Research and Development
Program Guide
7. AUTHOR(S)
9. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME AND ADDRESS
Office of Financial & Administrative Services (RD-
Office of Research and Development
Environmental Protection Agency
Washington, DC 20460
12. SPONSORING AGENCY NAME AND ADDRESS
Same as above
15. SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES
3. RECIPIENT'S ACCESSION'NO.
5. REPORT DATE
October 1976 (Issuing Date)
6. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION CODE
8. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION REPORT NO.
10. PROGRAM ELEMENT NO.
674) 1RW103
11. CONTRACT/GRANT NO.
13. TYPE OF REPORT AND PERIOD COVERED
Final Fiscal Year 1977
14. SPONSORING AGENCY CODE
EPA-ORD
16. ABSTRACT
The Program Guide provides the public with information on the Office of Research
and Development's current extramural research program and serves as a guide
to Office of Research and Development's key personnel. This publication will
be updated each fiscal year.
17. KEY WORDS AND DOCUMENT ANALYSIS
a. DESCRIPTORS b.lDENTIFI
Guides (instructions), Organization Researc
Charts, Grants, Contracts, Financial and Eco
Management, Research Management Energy
Process
Monitor
Support
13. DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT 19. SECURI
Release Unlimited NON-SEN
20. SECURI
NON-SEN
ERS/OPEN ENDED TERMS C. COS AT I Field/Group
h programs, Health 5A
logical Effects,
arogram, Industria .
as, Public Sector,
ing and Technical
FY CLASS (This Report) 21. NO. OF PAGES
5 77
FY CLASS (Thispage) 22. PRICE
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APPENDIX E
MAILING LIST FORM
Complete this form and return it to the address listed below if you wish your name added to or retained on the
mailing list for the ORD Program Guide.
Name of Organization
Sub-Division or Department
Street Address
City State Zip
Individual Contact
Complete the above information and mail to:
Office of Financial and Administrative Services (RD-674)
Office of Research and Development
Environmental Protection Agency
Washington, DC 20460
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