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TABLE OF CONTENTS
USEPA Organization Chart ii
ORD Organization Chart hi
Directory Description 1
Human Health Assessment Group 2
Exposure Assessment Group 4
Environmental Criteria and Assessment Office - RTF 5
Environmental Criteria and Assessment Office - Gin 7
Risk Reduction Engineering Laboratory 9
Air and Energy Engineering Laboratory 11
Atmospheric Research and Exposure Assessment Laboratory 13
Environmental Monitoring Systems Laboratory - Cin 16
Environmental Monitoring Systems Laboratory - Las Vegas 19
Robert S. Kerr Environmental Research Laboratory - Ada 22
Environmental Research Laboratory - Athens 24
Environmental Research Laboratory - Corvallis 26
Environmental Research Laboratory - Duluth 28
Environmental Research Laboratory - Gulf Breeze 30
Environmental Research Laboratory - Narragansett 32
Health Effects Research Laboratory 34
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U. S. Environmental Protection Agency Organization Chart
Staff Offices Administrator
Administrative Law Judges
Civil Rights p,.
Small & Disadvantage Admnistrator
Business Utilization
1
Assistant
Administrator for
Administration and
Resources Management
Office of
" the Comptroller
Office of
Administration
Office of Information
' Resources Management
Office of
• Human Resources
Management
Office of
Administration &
" Resource Management
RTP.NC
Office of Administration
Cincinnati, OH
Assistant General
Administrator for Counsel
Enforcement and
Compliance Monitoring
Office of Criminal
Enforcement
Office of Senior
Enforcement Counsel
Assistant
Administrator for
Water
Office of Water
Enforcement and
Permits
Office of Water
Regulations and
Office of Municipal
Pollution Control
Office of
Drinking Water
Office of Marine and
Estuarines
Protection
Office of Ground
Water Protection
Office of Wetlands
Protection
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Assistant
Administrator for
Solid Waste and
Emergency Response
Office of
' Solid Waste
Office of
. Emergency and
Remedial Response
Office of Waste
. Programs
Enforcement
Office of
. Underground
Storage Tanks
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1
Associate Administrator
for nternational Activities
Associate Administrator
for Regional Operations
Assistant
Administrator for
Policy, Planning
and Evaluation
Office of
Policy Analysis
Office of Standards
and Regulations
Office of Management
Systems and Evaluation
1
1
Assistant
Administrator for
External Affairs
Office of
~ Congressional Liaison
Office of
Federal Activities
Office of
legislative Analysis
Office of Community
_ and ntergovernmental
Relations
Office of
Public Affairs
Assistant
Administrator for
Air and Radiation
Office of Air
. Quality Planning and
Standards
Office of
Mobile Sources
Office of
Radiation Programs
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Inspector
General
Office of
Audit
Office of
investigations
Office of Management
- and Technical
Assessment
1
Assistant
Administrator for
Pesticides and
Toxic Substances
Office of
Pesticide Programs
Office of
Toxic Substances
Office of
Compliance
Monitoring
1 1 1 1
Region 1
Boston
Region II , Region II
New York Philadelph
Region IV Region V Region VI
a Atlanta Chicago Dallas
F
Region VII
Kansas City
Assistant
Administrator for
Research and
Development
Office of
Modeling, Monitoring
Systems and
Quality Assurance
Environmental
Engineering and
Technology
Demonstration
Office of
Environmental
Processes and
Effects Research
Office of
Health Research
Office of Health
and Environmental
Assessment
1 1
Region VIII
Denver S
Region IX
an Francisco
1
Region X
Seattle
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Office of Research
Program Management
Clarence Mahan, Oir.
Office of Modeling.
Monitoring Systems &
Quality Assurance
Rick Linthurst.* Dir.
Program Operations
Staff
Paul Palm. Oir.
Quality Assurance
Management Staff
Stanley Blacker, Oir.
Modeling &
Monitoring System
Staff
John Montanari,* Dir.
Atmospheric
Research & Exposure
Assessment
Lab.,Research
Triangle Park, NC
Gary Foley," Oir.
Environmental
Monitoring Systems
Lab, Cincinnati. OH
Tom Clark. Dir.
Environmental
Monitoring Systems
Lab.,Las Vegas. NV
Robert Snelling," Dir.
Assistant Administrator tor Research
and Development
Erich Bretthauer*
Deputy Assistant Administrator
John H. Skinner*
JL
Office of Environmental
Engineering & Technology
Demonstration
Fred Lindsey,* Oir.
Program Management
Staff
Alfred Galli, Dir.
Program Development
Staff
Greg Ondich, Dir.
Air & Energy
Engineering Research
Lab., Research Triangle
Park, NC
Frank Princiotta, Dir.
Risk Reduction
Engineering Lab.,
Cincinnati, OH
Timothy Oppelt, Oir.
* Acting
Office of Exploratory
Research
Roger S. Cortesi, Dir.
Office of Environmental
Processes & Effects
Research
Courtney Riordan, Dir.
Program Operations
Staff
Patricia Neuchatz, Dir.
Terrestrial & Ground
Water Staff
Jack Durham, Dir.
Marine, Freshwater &
Modeling Staff
Peter Jutro,* Dir.
Environmental Research
Lab., Corvallis, OR
Thomas Murphy, Dir.
Environmental Research
Lab., Athens, GA
Rosemarie Russo, Dir.
Environmental Research
Lab., Ouluth, MN
Gilman Veith, Dir.
Environmental Research
Lab., Narragansett, Rl
Norbert Jaworski. Dir.
Environmental Research
Lab., Gulf Breeze, FL
Ray Wilhour," Dir.
R. S. Kerr Environmental
Research Lab., Ada. OK
Clinton Hall, Oir.
Office of Health
Research
Ken Sexton, Dir.
Program
Operations Staff
Mary Radzikowski,
Dir.
Environmental
Health Research
Staff
David Kleffman,
Dir.
Health Effects
Research Lab.,
Research Triangle
Park, NC
Lawrence Reiter, Dir.
Office of Senior ORD
Official Cincinnati,
OH
Francis Mayo, Oir.
Office of Senior ORD
Official, Research
Triangle Park, NC
Ralph Hazel, Dir.
J_
Office of Technology
Transfer & Regulatory
Support
Peter Preuss, Dir.
Office of Health &
Environmental
Assessment
William Farland, Dir.
Program Operations
Staff
Barry Goldfarb, Dir.
Program Liaison
Staff
Jerry Moore. Dir.
Technical
Information Staff
Marie Pfaff, Dir.
Human Health
Assessment Group
Charles Ris,* Dir.
Exposure Assessment
Group
Michael Callahan, Dir.
Environmental Criteria
& Assessment Office,
Research Triangle Park,
NC
Lester Grant, Dir.
Environmental Criteria
& Assessment Office,
Cincinnati, OH
Steven Lutkenhoff,* Dir.
Center for Environmental Research
Information, Cincinnati, OH
Calvin Lawrence, Dir.
Ill
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
The Office of Research and Development conducts
an Agency-wide integrated program of research and
development relevant to pollution sources and control,
transport and fate processes, health and ecological
effects, measurement and monitoring, and risk
assessment. The office rigorously disseminates its
scientific and technical knowledge and upon request
provides technical reviews, expert consultations,
technical assistance and advice to environmental
decision makers in the federal, state, and local
government.
The ORD implements its activities through its
Washington, DC, headquarters' offices and associated
laboratories and field locations (see organizational
chart).
The programs, areas of expertise, and primary
contacts in each of the major ORD operations are
conveyed in the following directory. These information
sheets are made available in an effort to improve
communication and technology transfer with our
clients.
In addition, information may be obtained from the
following offices in Washington, DC. ORD publications
may be requested from the Center for Environmental
Research Information in Cincinnati, OH.
Clients are urged to make direct contacts. If help or
coordination is needed to properly access the listed
operations, directory assistance can be easily
obtained by contacting the Office of Technology
Transfer and Regulatory Support in Washington, DC
on (CML) 202-382-7669 or (FTS) 8-382-7669.
Commercial
FTS
Office of Health Research
Office of Environmental
Processes and Effects
Research
Office of Modeling,
Monitoring Systems and
Quality Assurance
Office of Health and
Environmental
Assessment
Office of Research
Program Management
Office of Environmental
Engineering and
Technology Demonstration
Office of Exploratory
Research
Office of Technology
Transfer and Regulatory
Support
Center for Environmental
Research Information
202-382-5900
202-382-5950
202-382-5767
202-382-7317
202-382-7500
202-382-2600
202-382-5750
202-382-7669
513-569-7562
8-382-5900
8-382-5950
8-382-5767
8-382-7317
8-382-7500
8-382-2600
8-382-5750
8-382-7669
8-684-7562
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HUMAN HEALTH ASSESSMENT GROUP
The Human Health Assessment Group provides advice
on the health risks associated with suspected cancer-
causing agents and the risks associated with chemicals
suspected of causing detrimental reproductive effects,
including mutagenic, teratogenic, and other adverse
reproductive outcomes and reduced fertility. Expertise is
provided in the following areas:
• Carcinogen Assessment Toxicology: health risks
associated with suspected cancer-causing agents as
interpreted from animal toxicology and pathology data.
• Carcinogen Statistics and Epidemiology: health risks
associated with suspected cancer-causing agents as
interpreted from epidemiology data and the statistical
analysis of both epidemiologic and animal data.
• Reproductive and Developmental Toxicology: health
risks associated with suspected reproductive and
developmental toxicants as interpreted from in vitro,
experimental animal, and human data.
• Genetic Toxicology Assessment: health risks asso-
ciated with suspected genotoxins as interpreted from in
vitro, experimental animal, and human data.
• Technical Assistance: technical assistance to state and
local air pollution control agencies and regional offices
on matters pertaining to health and risk assessments
for toxic air pollutants through the Agency's Air RISC
Support Center; revisions to proposed and final
regulations and guidance documents for various
agency and regional offices; and risk assessments for
EPA program and regional offices and state agencies.
Director
Carcinogen
Assessment
Toxicology
Carcinogen
Assessment Statistics
and Epidemiology
Genetic Toxicology
Assessment
Reproductive and
Developmental
. Toxicology
Areas of Expertise
Name and Title
Charles Ris, Acting Director
Robert McGaughy,
Senior Scientist
Carcinogen Assessment
Toxicology Branch
Charalingayya Hiremath, Acting
Chief
TTS: 382-xxxx; CML: 202-382-xxxx
Telephone*
5898
5898
5898
Area of Expertise
Risk assessment (general) for state environmental programs;
industrial technology research; environmental engineering
Risk assessment (all phases) for chemical carcinogens;
program planning for pesticides; toxicology research;
medical problems in manned space flight; basic physics;
spectroscopy; toxicology; modelling; epidemiology; radiation
Toxicologic and carcinogenic effects of inhaled air
pollutants; risk assessment methodology for route-to-
route and species extrapolation
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Areas of Expertise
(continued)
Name and Title
Carcinogen Assessment Statistics
and Epidemiology Branch
V. James Cogliano, Acting Chief
Genetic Toxicology Assessment
Branch
Margaret Chu, Acting Chief
Reproductive and Developmental
Toxicology Branch
Harold Zenick, Chief
*FTS: 382-xxxx; CML: 202-382-xxxx
Telephone*
5898
Area of Expertise
7303
7303
Risk estimation; Superfund reportable quantities;
mathematical modelling; computer simulation
Mammalian somatic cell genetics and gene regulation;
mechanistic and applied mutagenesis; test system
development and mechanisms of induction for aneuploidy;
design of mutagenicity tests
Reproductive and developmental toxicology;
neurobehavioral toxicology; human field studies; human and
animal semen studies; animal models for human diseases
(or exposures); experimental design and test protocol issues
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EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT GROUP
Exposure Assessment Group provides advice on the
exposure characteristics and factors of agents that are
suspected of causing detrimental health effects; provides
state-of-the-art methodology, guidance, and
procedures for exposure determinations; and prepares
independent assessments of exposure and recom-
mendations concerning the exposure potential of specific
agents. The Exposure Assessment Group offers
expertise in the following areas:
• Exposure Assessment Applications: performing expo-
sure assessments, applying exposure assessment
methods to site-specific cases, reviewing Regional
Superfund risk assessments, and reviewing exposure
assessments prepared by other organizations.
• Exposure Assessment Methods: developing methods
for use in exposure assessments, chairing Agency-
wide work groups on subjects such as guidelines
development and related Risk Assessment Forum
topics, performing exposure assessments, and
reviewing exposure assessments prepared by other
organizations.
• Technical Assistance: conducting exposure assess-
ment workshops for the regions and states and
providing peer review of regional and state risk and
exposure assessments and endangerment assess-
ments.
Director
Exposure Assessment
Applications
Exposure Assessment
Methods
Areas of Expertise
Name and Title Telephone*
Michael A. Callahan, Director 8909
Exposure Assessment 8909
Applications Branch
Kevin G. Garrahan, Chief
Exposure Assessment Methods 8909
Branch
John Schaum, Chief
Area of Expertise
Exposure assessment
Superfund risk assessments; RCRA requirements; water
and wastewater treatment; remedial cleanup technologies
Exposure assessments; multimedia modelling; waste
treatment technology
*FTS: 475-xxxx; CML: 202-475-xxxx
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ENVIRONMENTAL CRITERIA AND ASSESSMENT OFFICE
Lester D. Grant,
Director
FTS: 629-4173
CML: 919-541-4173
(MD-52)
Research Triangle Park, NC
27711
The Environmental Criteria and Assessment Office at
Research Triangle Park is primarily responsible for
preparing criteria and other assessment documents for
use in Agency regulatory activities. The primary activities
consist of preparing and publishing (1) revised or new
criteria documents when prescribed by legislation or
requested by national decisionmakers, (2) health and
environmental assessment documents that serve as a
basis for decisions by the EPA Administrator regarding
the regulation and control of pollutants, and (3) special
health-related reports as required by various legislative
authorities or technical assistance to international
organizations and governments. The ECAO-RTP offers
expertise in the following:
• Environmental Media Assessment: broad, usually
multi-disciplinary, assessments of widespread pollu-
tants or classes of pollutants. These assessments
require substantial evaluation and integration of
information not only on health effects, but also on
ecological or other environmental effects. Additionally,
they include background information on sources,
emissions, transport and fate, and exposure aspects.
Activities include the preparation of air quality criteria
documents and the preparation or review of cross-
media pollutant assessments.
• Hazardous Pollutant Assessment: detailed studies of
health (lexicological) effects associated with specific
individual pollutants or classes of pollutants. A principal
activity is the review or preparation of health
assessments for particular pollutants under con-
sideration for possible listing as Hazardous Air
Pollutants. Another is the review or preparation of
assessments of the health effects of specific
substances or classes of substances evaluated for
regulation under Superfund or water quality statutes.
Indoor Air Program Assessment: Lead responsibility
for management of the integrated Indoor Air Research
Program; preparation of related materials (e.g., Report
to Congress) and coordination of other Federal indoor
air research activities. Development of risk
characterization methodology as well as indoor air
public awareness documents; participation in
associated activities (Administrator briefings, Congres-
sional testimony, public hearings, etc.).
1 Technical Assistance: Scientific assessment support to
Regions, States, local agencies through contributions to
our review of risk assessment materials dealing with
problem situations in particular geographic areas falling
under various EPA Regional Offices, States, or local
governmental purviews. Includes operation of the Air
RISC "hotline" and provisions of expert testimony or
expert assistance in preparation of legal positions or
strategies in dealing with litigation situations.
Director
Hazardous Pollutant
Assessment
Environmental Media
Assessment
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Areas of Expertise
Office of the Director
Lester 0. Grant, Director
Michael A. Berry, Deputy Director
Judith A. Graham, Associate
Director
Si Duk Lee
Environmental Media
Assessment Branch
Norman E. Childs, Acting Chief
Darcy L Campbell
Robert W. Elias
Jasper H. B. Garner
Dennis J. Kotchmar
Thomas B. McMullen
James A. Raub
Beverly E. Tilton
Hazardous Pollutant Assessment
Branch
Judith A. Graham, Acting Chief
Harriet M. Ammann
Beverly M. Comfort
J. Michael Davis
William G. Ewald
Mark M. Greenberg
Ann M. Jarabek
Winona W. Victery
David E. Weil
Telephone*
4173
4172
4159
617-495-9130**
2229
4477
4167
4153
4158
4150
4157
4161
4159
4930
4165
4162
4164
4156
4847
4828
4163
Area of Expertise
Criteria air pollutants; health assessment of air
pollutants; technical assistance for health effects of air
pollutants.
Environmental legislation; indoor air pollution
Health assessment of toxic air pollutants; criteria air
pollutants
Health risk assessment of air pollutants
Criteria air pollutants; indoor air pollution
Forest ecological systems; indoor air pollution
Heavy metals; exposure modeling
Terrestrial effects
Epidemiology and pulmonary effects
Air quality data
Carbon monoxide; ozone
Ozone; hydrocarbons
Inhalation toxicology; criteria air pollutants; aerosols;
metals
Indoor air pollution/woodsmoke; radiation biology;
toxicology
Pesticides
Neurobehavioral toxicology and teratology; lead; acid
deposition
Toxicology; radiation; biology
Organic chemicals; toxicology
Inhalation risk assessment
Chromium; metals; Air RISC Hotline
Neuropathology; lead; project management and PC
applications
*FTS: 629-xxxx; CML: 919-541-xxxx
"Currently on IPA at Harvard University
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ENVIRONMENTAL CRITERIA AND ASSESSMENT OFFICE
Steven D. Lutkenhoff,
Acting Director
FTS: 684-7531
CML: 513-569-7531
Cincinnati, OH 45268
The Environmental Criteria and Assessment Office in
Cincinnati, Ohio (ECAO-Cin) is responsible for
developing risk assessment documents, assessment
methodologies, and guidelines to estimate human health
effects. Primarily, the ECAO-Cin (1) prepares and
publishes new or revised criteria documents when
needed as input and guidance for setting environmental
standards, (2) prepares and publishes scientific
assessment documents/health risk assessment reports,
which will serve as a basis for decisions by the EPA
Administrator regarding the listing of pollutants for
standards and control under various legislative author-
ities, (3) develops risk assessment methods, which
provide guidance for evaluating potential risks to human
health from exposure to environmental pollutants, and (4)
actively participates in Agency-wide work groups in the
planning, development and implementation of future
research strategies for the Agency. The ECAO-Cin has
three areas of expertise:
• Chemical Mixtures Assessment Branch: Develops
background docu-mentation and technical support
necessary to formulate human health risk assessment
activities as mandated by both the Comprehensive
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability
Act of 1980 (CERCLA) and the Resource Conservation
and Recovery Act (RCRA). These assessments estab-
lish the basis for regulatory activities associated with
the potential human exposure to environmental
pollutants, particularly chemical mixtures.
Systemic Toxicants Assessment Branch: Develops
background documentation and technical support
necessary in the formulation of human health risk
assessment activities as mandated by the Clean Water
Act (CWA) (including ambient water, municipal waste
water-sludge), the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA),
the Clean Air Act (CAA) and the Resource Conservation
and Recovery Act (RCRA) - Subtitle D. These
assessments establish the basis for regulatory activities
associated with the potential human exposure to
environmental pollutants, particularly systemic
toxicants.
Methods Evaluation and Development Staff: Develops
coordinates risk assessment methods for chemical
mixtures and systemic toxicity and reviews new
methods in response to identified Agency needs. The
staff also coordinates the Agency's Integrated Risk
Information System (IRIS). This activity helps ensure
that the Agency's risk assessments remain credible
and that state-of-the-art methods are continuously
developed.
Director
Chemical Mixtures
Assessment
Systemic Toxicants
Assessment
Methods Evaluation and
Development
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Areas of Expertise
Office of the Director
Steven D. Lutkenhoff, Acting Director
Debdas Mukerjee
Chemical Mixtures Assessment
Branch
Christopher DeRosa
Harlal Choudhury
Chris Cubbison
Larry Glass
Pei-Fung Hurst
Deborah McKean
Moiz Mumtaz
Robin Osborne
Dave Reisman
John Risher
Bennett Smith
Systemic Toxicants Assessment
Branch
Cynthia Sonich-Mullin
Randall Bruins
Annette Gatchett
Judith Olsen
Lynn Papa
Bruce Peirano
Methods Evaluation and
Development Staff
Michael Dourson
Pat Daunt
Richard Hertzberg
Jacqueline Patterson
Rita Schoeny
Jeff Swartout
Telephone*
7531
7572
Area of Expertise
7534
7536
7599
7541
7585
7569
7593
7571
7588
7633
7543
7523
7539
7813
7576
7587
7540
7533
7596
7582
7574
7544
7811
Risk assessment
Cancer assessments
Superfund; solid waste
Land disposal bans; .reference doses
Less-than-lifetime risk assessments; reportable
quantities
Toxicology; complex exposure assessments
Epidemiology; virology; ATSDR; toxicological profiles
Pathology
Risk characterization; pharmacology
Data base development
CURE data base
CBI data; neurotoxicity
Immunology
Water and hazardous air pollutant programs
Sludge disposal/reuse methodology
Drinking water disinfectants
Information transfer
Physiology/health assessment
Pharmacokinetics
Reference doses (RfDs) IRIS; non-cancer risk
assessment guidelines
IRIS data base
Biomathematical models; STARA and MIXTOX data
bases; chemical mixture guidelines
IRIS data base
Carcinogen Risk Assessment Endeavor (CRAVE);
polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
IRIS; non-cancer risk assessment
*FTS: 684-xxxx; CML: 513-569-xxxx
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RISK REDUCTION ENGINEERING LABORATORY
E. Timothy Oppelt,
Director
FTS: 684-7418
CML: 513-569-7418
Cincinnati, OH 45268
The mission and function of the Risk Reduction
Engineering Laboratory (RREL) is to provide an
authoritative, defensible, engineering basis in support of
the policies, programs and regulations of the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency with respect to drinking
water, hazardous wastes, pesticides, Superfund, toxics,
and wastewater. Research and technical assist-
ance/support are conducted in the following specific
areas:
• Drinking Water: Engineering solutions for the treatment,
distribution, and preservation of public drinking water
supplies.
• Hazardous Wastes: Research in incineration, land
disposal practices, and to determine existing and
emerging alternatives for treating, detoxifying, volume
reduction and waste minimization of hazardous
materials and municipal solid wastes.
• LUST Trust Fund Technical Support: Technical assist-
ance on corrective action, site assessments, decision
tools and cleanup technologies to LUST Trust Fund
administrators and implementors.
• Pesticides: Technical support to the Office of Pesticide
Programs for technological alternatives for disposal of
cancelled and suspended pesticides, and to provide
data and guidance on the capabilities of protective
clothing for reducing working exposure to pesticides.
• Superfund: Technologies for response and remedial
action for supporting enforcement actions and
protecting personnel involved in cleanup. Superfund
Innovative Technology Evaluation (SITE) program to
enhance development and demonstration of innovative
technologies as alternatives to containment.
• Toxics Chemical Testing and Assessment: Alter-
natives for regulating the manufacture and use of
existing chemicals (including asbestos); assessing
release and exposure in review of Premanufacturing
Notices (PMNs) for new chemicals; and techniques and
devices to contain and destroy genetically engineered
organisms
• Wastewater (Municipal and Industrial): Cost-effective
methods for the prevention, treatment and manage-
ment of municipal wastewater, sludges and urban
runoffs, and industrial processing, manufacturing, and
toxic discharges.
Director
Drinking Water
Research
Superfund
Technology
Demonstration
Inorganics and
Partculates Control
I
Site Demonstration
and Evaluation
Microbiological
Treatment
Releases
Control
Organics
Control
Systems and Field
Evaluation
Water and
Hazardous Waste
Treatment
Research
Hazardous Waste
Treatment
Municipal
Wastewater
Toxics
Control
Treatment
Assessment
1
Waste
Minimization,
Destruction and
Disposal Research
Municipal Solid Waste
and Residuals
Management
Thermal
Destruction
WasteM inimization
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Areas of Expertise
Telephone*
Area of Expertise
Office of the Director
E. Timothy Oppelt, Director
John J. Convery, Acting Deputy
Director
Drinking Water Research Division
Robert M. Clark, Director
Thomas J. Sorg
Gary S. logsdon
Alan Stevens
Benjamin W. Lykins
Marvin Gardels
Richard Miltner
J. Keith Carswell
Edwin E. Geldreich
Superfund Technology
Demonstration Division
Ronald D. Hill, Director
Robert A. Olexsey
John S. Farlow
Stephen C. James
Donald E. Sanning
Frank Freestone
Paul dePercin
Naomi P. Barkley
Jonathan G. Herrmann
Water and Hazardous Waste
Treatment Research Division
Clyde J. Dial, Acting Director
Alden G. Christiansen, Deputy
Director
Benjamin L Blaney
Carl A. Brunner
Roger C. Wilmoth
Dolloff F. Bishop
Kenneth A. Dostal
John O. Burckle
Richard A. Dobbs
Waste Minimization, Destruction
and Disposal Research Division
Robert Hall, Acting Director
Clyde R. Dempsey
Harry M. Freeman
James S. Bridges
Robert E. Landreth
Carlton Wiles
George L. Huffman
Michael H. Roulier
Donald A. Oberacker
7418 Hazardous waste management
7896 Municipal wastewater treatment
7201 Drinking water treatment
7370 Drinking water inorganics control; radionuclides
7345 Drinking water microbiological treatment
7342 Organics control; disinfection byproducts
7460 Drinking water field evaluations; costs
7217 Corrosion
7403 Activated carbon adsorption
7389 Ozone; granular activated carbon
7232 Drinking water management
7861 Superfund engineering technology
7717 Superfund Site demonstration and evaluation
6635** Superfund releases control
7877 Superfund innovative technology evaluation;
demonstration
7875 Superfund containment technology
6632" Superfund on-site technology
7797 Fugitive dust control
7854 Containment technology-plume management
7839 Containment technology-permeable treatment
7601 Hazardous waste alternative technologies
7406 Industrial wastewater treatment
7519 Hazardous waste treatment
7655 Municipal wastewater treatment
7509 Toxics control; asbestos
7629 Municipal wastewater toxics control; pilot plants
7503 Industrial wastewater treatment
7506 Biotechnology
7649 Fate and treatability of toxics
7546 RCRA facilities; municipal solid wastes
7504 Industrial wastewater treatment; thermal destruction
7529 Waste minimization
7683 Waste minimization in federal facilities
7836 Landfill design and operation
7795 Surface impoundments; stabilization
7881 Thermal destruction; combustion
7796 Waste leaching; pollutant migration
7431 Thermal destruction of hazardous materials
*FTS: 684-xxxx; CML: 513-569-xxxx
**Edison. NJ, FTS: 340-xxxx; CML: 201-906-xxxx
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AIR AND ENERGY ENGINEERING RESEARCH LABORATORY
Frank T. Princiotta,
Director
FTS: 629-2821
CML: 919-541-2821
(MD-60)
Research Triangle Park, NC
27711
The mission of the Air and Energy Engineering
Research Laboratory (AEERL) is to research, develop
and demonstrate methods and technologies for
controlling air pollution from stationary sources. Among
these stationary sources are electric power plants,
manufacturing and processing industries, and
incinerators. The Laboratory does not deal with pollution
from mobile sources or nuclear power plants.
Staffed primarily by engineers, the Laboratory creates
and improves air pollution control equipment, seeks
means of preventing or reducing pollution through
changes in industrial processes, develops predictive
models and emissions inventories, identifies and
assesses the importance of air pollution sources, and
conducts fundamental research to define the mechanisms
by which processes, equipment, and fuel combustion
produce air pollution.
Currently, AEERL is concentrating its efforts in eight
main program areas, which are briefly described below:
• Acid Rain: Developing means of controlling acid rain
precursors, S02 and NOX, including the Limestone
Injection Multistage Burner; developing models that will
identify the best possible control alternatives for various
scenarios, and developing inventories of acid rain
precursor emissions.
• Air Toxics: Developing control technologies for volatile
organic compounds (VOCs); identifying sources of
VOCs; developing improved designs that will achieve
better control of woodstove emissions; and developing
computerized advisory systems that will, for instance,
assist permit writers in making decisions about new
industries or that will assist local emergency planning
committees in preparing for accidental releases of
hazardous chemicals.
• Hazardous Wastes: Studying the fundamental com-
bustion mechanisms that influence thermal destruction
of hazardous wastes. Included are studies of droplet
atomization of liquid wastes, failure modes in a small
pilot-scale rotary kiln, and small pilot-scale studies of
fluidized-bed incineration.
• Indoor Air Quality: Developing and demonstrating
means of reducing the entry of naturally occurring
radon into houses, schools and other public buildings.
Studying building materials and consumer products as
sources of indoor air pollution.
• Municipal Waste Combustion: Developing means of
minimizing pollutant formation during combustion, and
determining the effectiveness of various devices in
controlling air pollution from municipal waste incin-
erators.
• Ozone Non-Attainment: Developing strategies, pro-
cess modifications and improved technologies that will
prevent, or reduce, the emission of hydrocarbons,
nitrogen oxides and VOCs.
• Stratospheric Ozone: Evaluating the importance of
various chlorofluorocarbons and other substances in
depleting the Earth's protective ozone layer, and
.seeking to identify and recommend substitutes for
depleting substances that are now in use.
• Global Climate Change: Evaluating the importance of
various substances (carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous
oxide) as causes of global climate change and seeking
innovative solutions to the problem. Also planned is the
development of predictive models and inventories of
emissions that are contributing to global climate
change.
Director
Combustion and
Indoor Air
Engineering
Applications
Air Toxics
Research
Combustion
Research
Indoor Air
Technology
Development
Technology
Applications
Acid
Deposition
Air Toxics
Control
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Areas of Expertise
Telephone* Area of Expertise
Office of the Director
Frank T. Princiotta, Director
G. Blair Martin, Deputy Director
Combustion and Indoor Air
Division
Everett L. Plyler, Director
Combustion Research Branch
Robert E. Hall, Chief
Indoor Air Branch
W. Gene Tucker. Chief
Engineering Applications Division
James H. Abbott, Director
Technology Development
Branch
J. David Mobley, Chief
Technology Applications
Branch
Richard D. Stern, Chief
Acid Deposition Branch
Michael A. Maxwell, Chief
Air Toxics Research Division
Robert H. Hangebrauck, Director
Air Toxics Control Branch
Wade H. Ponder, Chief
(industrial Processes Branch
William J. Rhodes, Chief
2821
7504
2918
2477
2746
3443
2612
2973
3091
4134
2818
2853
Air and energy environmental assessment and control
technology development
Control technology for simultaneous removal of NOX, and
SOX; low NOX burners
Combustion modification control technology; fundamental
studies of municipal and hazardous waste incineration;
control; radon control; indoor air quality
Combustion modification control technology; fundamental
studies of municipal and hazardous waste incineration;
N2O control
Radon mitigation for houses, schools and other public
buildings; development of building codes to prevent radon
entry; or to simplify mitigation of new structures
Control technology for simultaneous removal of NOX and
SOX; low NOX burners; NOX selective catalytic reduction
LIMB development; low NOX burners; fundamental sorbent
reactivity/kinetics studies; flue gas cleaning technologies;
NOX selective catalytic reduction
LIMB demonstrations (wall-fired and tangentially-fired);
low NOX burner demonstrations; other prototypes and
demonstrations
Acid rain precursor emission inventories and models;
sources and management of global climate change
Ozone non-attainment; characterization of air toxics and
VOC sources; particulate control
Air toxics control; VOC control; particulate control;
improved woodstove designs; municipal waste
combustion control
Ozone non-attainment; Control Technology Center;
stratospheric ozone depletion; accidental releases
*FTS: 629-xxxx; CML: 919-541-xxxx
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ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH AND EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT LABORATORY
Gary J. Foley,
Acting Director
FTS: 629-2106
CML: 919-541-2106
(MD-75)
Research Triangle Park, NC
27711
The Atmospheric Research and Exposure Assessment
Laboratory (AREAL), Research Triangle Park, North
Carolina conducts intramural and extramural research
programs, through laboratory and field research, in the
chemical, physical, and biological sciences designed to:
• characterize and quantify present and future ambient
air pollutant levels and resultant exposures to humans
and ecosystems on local, regional, and global scale;
• develop and validate models to predict changes in air
pollution levels and air pollutant exposures and
determine the relationships among the factors affected
by predicted and observed change;
• determine source-to-receptor relationships relating
to ambient air quality and air pollutant exposures,
developing predictive models to be used for
assessments of regulatory alternatives derived from
these relationships, directly or indirectly;
• provide support to Program and Regional Offices and
to state and local groups, in the form of technical
advice, methods research and development, quality
assurance, field monitoring, instrument development,
and modeling for quantitative risk assessment and
regulatory purposes;
• develop and carry out long-term research in the areas
of atmospheric methods, quality assurance, bio-
markers, spatial statistics, exposure assessment, and
modeling research to solve cutting edge scientific
issues relating to EPA's mission;
• collect, organize, manage, and distribute research data
on air quality, human and ecosystem exposures and
trends for Program and Regional Offices, ORD, the
scientific community, and the public at large.
The Laboratory is engaged in the following research
and exposure tasks:
• Methods Development: Develop and improve moni-
toring systems for measuring air pollutants in ambient
air and stationary sources. Implement the ambient air
monitoring equivalency regulations.
• Quality Assurance: Develop guidance documents for
assuring the quality of air pollution measurements;
standardize methods and work with NBS in developing
primary standards.
• Toxics: Develop methods for measuring toxic air
pollutants in ambient air and around toxic waste
sites;conduct special air monitoring studies to assess
the nature and amount of pollution. Assess the sources,
sinks, transport, formation, removal, reaction products,
and ultimate fate of HAPs and HAPs precursors in the
atmosphere.
• Acid Deposition: Assess related atmospheric pro-
cesses to model and to evaluate acid rain, acid
deposition, and acid transport and transformation over
urban and regional scales; materials damage function
studies. Develop methods and quality assurance
materials for measuring dry and wet deposition;
operate monitoring networks and serve as the data
repository for national acid deposition monitoring
program.
• Gas and Particles: Urban, regional, complex terrain,
and source apportionment air quality model develop-
ment, evaluation and validation; materials damage and
visibility studies; air quality model documentation.
• Mobile Sources: Characterize the regulated and
unregulated emissions from motor vehicles; assess the
impact of mobile emissions on air quality.
• Global Climate Change: Investigate possible effects of
increases in the atmospheric concentrations of trace
gases on the Earth's climate and stratospheric ozone;
relate projected climate change to air pollution potential
in the lower atmosphere.
• Human Exposure Assessment: Develop means to
estimate the frequency distribution of human exposure
to individual pollutants including personal exposure
monitors, questionnaires, and protocols which relate
exposure to sources. Total Exposure Assessment
Monitoring (TEAM) programs designed to estimate
exposure to hazardous materials are being conducted.
• Ecological Monitoring Assessment: Conduct studies to
determine effects of air pollution on ecosystems.
Develop methods and protocols for exposure
assessment of various sensitive ecosystems and for
status and trends monitoring of nonurban environ-
ments.
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Director
Chemical
Processes &
Characterization
Methods
Research &
Development
Exposure
Assessment
Research
Quality
Assurance
Atmospheric
Sciences
Modeling
Areas of Expertise
Telephone* Area of Expertise
Office of the Director
Gary J. Foley, Acting Director
William E. Wilson
Program Design and Integration
Staff
Mike Barnes
Steve Bromberg
Jay Messer
John Clements
Chemical Processes and
Characterization Division
Jack H. Shreffler
Basil Dimitriades
Joseph J. Bufalini
Robert K. Stevens
Kenneth T. Knapp
Frank M. Black
Methods Research and
Development Division
Robert E. Lee
Don Scott
Joseph Walling
Warren Loseke
Joe Bumgarner
Robert G. Lewis
Robert Harless
Nancy Wilson
William McClenny
James Mulik
2601
2551
2184
2919
0150
2188
2194
2706
2422
3156
3085
3039
2454
7948
7954
2173
2430
3065
2248
4723
3158
3067
(continued)
Atmospheric studies
Visibility, aerosol chemistry
Acid deposition
Global change issues
Ecological studies
Quality assurance
Atmospheric processes
Photochemistry, ozone
Gas kinetics
Source apportionment
Stationary sources
Mobile sources
Methods development
Chemometrics
Chemical analysis
Inorganics analysis
Organics analysis
Methods development
Dioxin
Analytical methods development
Monitoring methods development
Ion chromatography
*FTS: 629-xxxx; CML: 919-541-xxxx
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Areas of Expertise
(continued)
Telephone*
Area of Expertise
Exposure Assessment Research
Division
Gerald G. Akland
William Nelson
Dave Holland
Gary Evans
Thomas Hartledge
Barry Martin
Thomas Lawless
Quality Assurance Division
John C. Puzak
Darryl J. von Lehmden
Frank McElroy
Larry J. Purdue
Michael Beard
William J. Mitchell
Raymond C. Rhodes
Rodney Midgett
Joe Knoll
Atmospheric Sciences Modeling
Division
Francis A. Schiermeier
John F. Clarke
Peter L. Finkelstein
D. Bruce Turner
James L. Dicke
William H. Snyder
John H. Novak
2346 Exposure assessment
3184 Exposure assessment
3126 Statistics and design
3124 Monitoring design
3008 Air monitoring
4386 Air monitoring
2291 Computer systems
0944 Quality assurance
2415 Quality assurance handbook; traceability protocols
2622 Equivalent methods
2665 Methods evaluation, standardization
2623 Asbestos
2769 Performance audits
2574 Quality assurance statistics, quality control
2196 Source methods
2952 Source methods
4542 Meteorological modeling
3660 Model development
4553 Complex terrain modeling
4564 UNAMAP
5682 Regulatory use of models
1198 Wind tunnel
4545 Data base management
*FTS: 629-xxxx; CML: 919-541-xxxx
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ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING SYSTEMS LABORATORY
Thomas A. Clark,
Director
FTS: 684-7301
CML: 513-569-7301
Cincinnati, OH 45268
The Environmental Monitoring Systems Laboratory -
Cincinnati (EMSL-Cincinnati) has as its primary mission
to conduct research in development, evaluation, and
standardization of chemical and biological methods for
environmental assessments; to conduct research for
detecting, identifying, and quantifying microbial patho-
gens found in environmental media; and to operate the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) Quality
Assurance (QA) Program for maintaining the scientific
credibility of the Agency's water, wastewater, and solid
wastes/Superfund/ toxics data bases.
Developed and standardized methods are used to
identify inorganic and organic pollutants and to detect
and identify bacteria, viruses, parasites, and aquatic
organisms in the environment. Analytical methods for
effluent compliance monitoring [304(h)J are improved,
modified and updated on a regular basis. These methods
include procedures for inorganic, organic and biological
pollutants.
Research is conducted on biotechnological methods for
determining the occurrence, distribution, transport, and
fate of human pathogenic parasites in the environment.
Methods are developed and evaluated for the detection,
enumeration, and identification of indicator and
pathogenic bacteria in environmental media. Methods for
sample handling, transport, and preservation are also
developed. Reid methods and advanced state-of-the-
art approaches are developed to be applicable to drinking
water, ambient water, raw and treated wastewaters,
sediments, sludges, and biological samples.
The QA program involves method confirmation and
validation studies to establish the precision and bias of
USEPA's selected analytical methods, QA manuals and
guidelines, quality control (QC) samples, and calibration
standards for all analytes regulated under water and
waste programs. Performance evaluation studies and
laboratory certification activities are conducted to evalu-
ate and report on the competency of analysts and
laboratories. A QA monitoring program (biology and
chemistry) evaluates the adequacy of promulgated
analytical methods and procedures and effluent toxicity
tests. Quality assurance (QA) samples are provided for
ambient/non-point source monitoring programs.
The EMSL-Cincinnati is currently engaged in the
following research and evaluation tasks:
• Industrial Wastewater: Validated analytical test
methods for National Pollutant Discharge Elimination
System (NPDES) monitoring; performance evaluation
(PE) studies for discharge monitoring reports.
• Drinking Water: Official chemical and microbiological
methods for meeting regulatory monitoring require-
ments of Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA); certification
of laboratories and distribution of QA materials.
• Toxics: Evaluation of analytical methods for key toxic
organic materials and preparation of specialized QA
materials.
• Solid Waste: Evaluation and standardization of solid
waste (SW-846) methods and generic methods for the
measurement of volatile, and semivolatile organic
compounds; preparation and distribution of QA
materials.
• Superfund: Development of analytical methods for the
measurement of toxic materials in Superfund-type
samples and QA materials for evaluation of contract
laboratory program (CLP) laboratories.
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Director
Microbiology Research
Chemistry Research
Quality Assurance Research
Virology
Inorganic Chemistry
Development and Evaluation
JL
Bacteriology
Organic Chemistry
Aquatic Biology
Parasitology and Immunology
J.
Project Management
Areas of Expertise
Telephone* Area of Expertise
Office of the Director
Thomas A. Clark, Director
Gerald McKee, Deputy
Director
Robert Booth
James Lichtenberg
Microbiology Research Division
Alfred Dufour, Director
Virology Branch
Robert Safferman
Bacteriology Branch
Gerard Stelma
Parasitology and Immunology
Branch
Walter Jakubowski
7301
7303
7364
7306
7218
7334
7384
7385
Methods and quality assurance
Methods and quality assurance
Methods and quality assurance
Standardization and certification
Microbiology
Virology
Bacteriology
Parasitology
(continued)
*FTS: 684-xxxx; CML: 513-569-xxxx
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Chemistry Research Division
William Budde, Director
Organic Chemistry Branch
Robert Graves.Acting Director
Inorganic Chemistry Branch
Larry Lobring, Director
Quality Assurance Research
Division
John Winter, Director
Development and Evaluation
Branch
Harold Clements
Aquatic Biology Branch
Cornelius Weber, Acting Director
Project Management Branch
Raymond Wesselman
Areas of Expertise
(continued)
Telephone*
Area of Expertise
7309 Chemical methods
7315 Organic methods
7372 Inorganic methods
7325 Quality assurance matters
7325 QC/PE samples
8350** Aquatic biology
7325 Methods standardization
*FTS: 684-xxxx; CML: 513-569-xxxx
"Newtown, OH, FTS: 778-xxxx; CML: 513-527-xxxx
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ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING SYSTEMS LABORATORY
Robert N. Snelling,
Acting Director
FTS: 545-2525
CML: 702-798-2525
P.O. Box 93478
Las Vegas, NV 89193-3478
The Environmental Monitoring Systems Laboratory-
Las Vegas develops methods, systems and strategies for
monitoring the environment with the primary purposes of
assessing the exposure of man and other receptors in the
environment to polluting substances, characterizing the
status of environmental quality, and identifying the trends
in environmental quality.
The Laboratory develops and applies field monitoring
techniques, analytical methods, and remote sensing
systems for monitoring environmental pollutants. It field
tests, demonstrates and applies these systems, and
initiates transfers of operational systems to Agency user
organizations. It provides technical support to Agency,
Regional and Program Offices in response to their
requests for pollutant monitoring, testing and surveillance
assistance.
The Laboratory develops and operates quality
assurance programs for radiation, hazardous wastes, and
toxic/pesticide monitoring. This includes the development
and maintenance of reference standards, preparation of
performance evaluation materials, and the conduct of
performance audits for EPA as well as other Federal,
state, and local laboratories.
Under a Memorandum of Understanding with the
Department of Energy, the Laboratory collects radio-
logical surveillance data and performs pathways research
to determine the actual and potential radiation exposure
to man and his environment from past and present
testing of nuclear devices.
The Laboratory's major programs are:
• Advanced Analytical Methods: Development and
evaluation of innovative techniques for sample
extraction and analysis of organic and inorganic
contaminants in complex environmental matrices.
Advanced techniques such as Liquid Chromatography,
Mass Spectrometry, Fourier Transform Infra-Red
Spectroscopy, Gas Chromatography, Inductively
Coupled Plasma Spectroscopy, and Immunoassay are
developed and evaluated.
• Advanced Monitoring Methods: Research directed at
providing monitoring methods that are more reliable,
more rapid or simpler to use than existing methods.
Overhead remote sensing, aerial photography,
multispectral scanner and laser fluorosensing technol-
ogies, airborne laser systems, and geophysical
techniques are tools used to detect waste discharges,
locate waste disposal sites, identify erosion, assess air
particulate problems, and monitor pollutants in soils
and in ground water.
• Monitoring Network Design: The Laboratory has long
been in the forefront of monitoring design - a concept
that advocates a multimedia approach to environmental
monitoring emphasizing proper selection of critical
receptors, optimum siting, and number of samples,
through planning and an understanding of how
pollutants are transported from the source to the
receptor. Geostatistics play a major role through use of
data from a preliminary sampling to design a sampling
network which establishes the optimum distance
between sampling points.
• Quality Assurance: In an effort to support the Agency's
attention to the quality assurance aspects of
environmental sampling and analysis, validated
analytical test methods are developed, and standards
and reference materials are distributed to laboratories
throughout the country. These laboratories' per-
formance, along with the precision, accuracy, and
ruggedness of the analytical protocols are then
evaluated. Quality assurance support and data audits
are provided for the Superfund Contractor Laboratory
Program. The Laboratory, in cooperation with the
University of Nevada-Las Vegas, has established a
modern, fully-equipped Quality Assurance Laboratory
to support EPA's Superfund Program.
• Exposure Assessment: Human exposure assessment
provides critical information required to make risk
estimates for environmental pollutants. A compre-
hensive approach is required to develop simultaneous
information on sources, exposure, dose, effect, and
control. Projects related to this topic include:
examination of consumer products as sources of
pollutants, evaluation/validation of indoor air models,
evaluation of indoor air sinks, development of a
benzene exposure model, human activity patterns, the
dispersal and half-lives of GEMs (genetically
engineered micro-organisms), chemometrics, and the
examination of biomarkers as indicators of exposure.
• Radiological Monitoring and Analysis: The Laboratory
maintains extensive radioanalytical and field radio-
logical monitoring capability to monitor environmental
radioactivity levels around the nuclear weapons testing
sites in Nevada and other parts of the country. The
group is available to assist in radiation accident
emergencies. For example, it was mobilized for the
Three Mile Island incident to collect environmental
radioactivity data for water, air, soils, dairy products
and other foods, and to collect population exposure
data in public areas around the facilities. A whole body
counter is operated at the Laboratory for determining
radionuclide body burdens in members of the
population. The Laboratory also serves as a radio-
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analytical quality assurance center for drinking water
sample analyses.
Acid Deposition: The Laboratory is responsible for
providing logistical and analytical support, standardized
methods, and comprehensive quality assurance
programs for projects under the acid deposition Aquatic
Effects Research Program. This activity pertains also to
the soil characterization surveys of the Direct/Delayed
Response Project. The standardized methods include
both analytical procedures and field methods, and
preparation of post-survey reports on evaluation of
methods and data quality.
Field Screening Methods: New advances in portable
instrumentation and field test kits are being evaluated
and demonstrated for cost-effective screening and
monitoring of hazardous waste sites. Techniques
include portable gas chromatographs, ion mobility
spectrometers, long-path-length FTIR instruments,
immunochemical test kits and miniaturized portable
readers, fiber optic and other chemical sensors,
portable x-ray fluorescence units and mass spec-
trometers, and soil-gas analyzers.
Director
QA and Methods
Development
Advanced Monitoring
Systems
Nuclear Radiation
Assessment
Exposure Assessment
Research
Methods
Research
_E
1
Aquatic and Subsurface
Monitoring
I
Dose
Assessment
Ecosystems Monitoring
Quality Assurance
Research
Remote and Air
Monitoring
Environmental
Photographic
Interpretation Center
Reid
Monitoring
_L
Radioanalysis
Areas of Expertise
Telephone*
Office of the Director
Robert N. Snelling, Acting Director
Pong N. Lem
Charles H. Nauman
D. Gene Easterly
Donald T. Wruble
Office of Program Management
and Support
Richard L. Garnas
Quality Assurance and Methods
Development Division
Ronald K. Mitchum
*FTS: 545-xxxx; CML: 702-798-xxxx
Area of Expertise
2525 Environmental monitoring
2522 Program management; environmental engineering
2258 Exposure assessment
2108 Quality assurance
2530 Environmental science
2564 Environmental chemistry
2103 Physical organic and analytical chemistry; mass
spectrometry
(continued)
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Areas of Expertise
(continued)
Telephone*
Area of Expertise
Quality Assurance and Methods
Development Division (cont'd)
Methods Research Branch
Stephen Billets
Quality Assurance Research
Branch
Jimmie D. Petty
Exposure Assessment
Research Division
J. Gareth Pearson
Llewellyn R. Williams
Advanced Monitoring Systems
Division
Eugene P. Meier
James G. Payne, Jr.
Aquatic and Subsurface
Monitoring Branch
Joseph J. D'Lugosz
Remote and Air Monitoring
Branch
Thomas H. Mace
Environmental Photographic
Interpretation Center
(Warrenton, VA)
John H. Montanari
Nuclear Radiation Assessment
Division
Charles F. Costa
John M. Moore
Dose Assessment Branch
Norman R. Sunderland
Field Monitoring Branch
Daryl L. Thome
Radioanalysis Branch
Chung-King Liu
*FTS: 545-xxxx; CML: 702-798-xxxx
**FTS: 557-xxxx; CML: 703-349-8970
2232
2383
2203
2138
2237
2237
2598
2262
3110**
2305
2304
2331
2158
2136
Physical analytical chemistry; mass spectrometry
Organic chemistry; analytical chemistry; trace level
environmental contaminant analysis
Environmental biology; quality assurance
Biological testing; water quality; quality assurance
Ground-water monitoring; analytical environmental
chemistry
Remote sensing; engineering; radiation safety; program
management
Hydrogeology; ground-water modeling
Remote sensing; geographical information systems
Remote sensing; wetlands environment
Radiation safety
Systems engineering
Data validation; health physics
Gamma spectrometry; mathematical statistics; health
physics
Radiochemistry
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ROBERT S. KERR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LABORATORY
Clinton W. Hall,
Director
FTS: 743-2224
CML: 405-332-8800
P.O. Box 1198
Ada, OK 74820
The Robert S. Kerr Environmental Research Labora-
tory (RSKERL) serves as U.S. EPA's center for ground-
water research, focusing its efforts on studies of the
transport and fate of contaminants in the subsurface,
development of methodologies for protection and
restoration of ground-water quality, and evaluation of the
applicability and limitations of using natural soil and
subsurface processes for the treatment of hazardous
wastes. The Laboratory has a long history of research
responsibilities related to the use of soils and subsurface
for waste treatment and to the protection of the soil,
ground water and surface water. These responsibilities
have included the development and demonstration of
cost-effective methods for land treatment of municipal
wastewaters, animal production wastes, and petroleum
refining and petrochemical wastes, as well as the
development of technologies for the protection of
ground-water quality.
RSKERL carries put research through in-house
projects and cooperative and interagency agreements
with universities, national laboratories, and other research
centers. RSKERL currently has over 80 ongoing or
planned extramural projects at approximately 40 research
institutions in 25 states.
An examination of the environmental legislation that
relates to ground-water quality protection reveals four
common regulatory or management requirements:
• Establishment of criteria for location, design, and
operation of waste disposal activities to prevent
contamination of ground water or movement of
contaminants to points of withdrawal or discharge.
• Assessment of the probable impact of existing
pollution on ground water at points of withdrawal or
discharge.
• Development of remediation technologies which are
effective in protecting and restoring ground-water
quality without being unnecessarily complex or costly,
and without unduly restricting other land use activities.
• Regulation of the production, use, and/or disposal of
specific chemicals possessing an unacceptably high
potential for contaminating ground water when
released to the subsurface.
Major research efforts at RSKERL are concentrated in
the following major program areas:
• Drinking Water: Determination of the fate, transport
and transformation rates and mechanisms of pollutants
in the subsurface environment for the protection of
ground water from pollution by municipal, industrial
and agricultural activities.
• Hazardous Wastes: Determination of the processes
used in characterizing the subsurface and prediction of
the effects of pollutants thereon in order to define the
capabilities and limitations of natural processes to
egrade and attenuate wastes.
• Superfund: Development and maintenance of a
Superfund subsurface remediation support program to
provide technical support to EPA/State decision-
makers responsible for implementation of the
Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of
1986.
Director
1
Processes and Systems Research
I
Extramural Activities and Assistance
Subsurface Processes
Extramural Activities and Evaluations
Subsurface Systems
I
Applications and Assistance
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Areas of Expertise
Telephone*
Area of Expertise
Process and Systems Division
Carl G. Enfield
Subsurface Processes Branch
William J. Ounlap, Chief
Don Clark
Roger Cosby
Steve Hutchins
Don Kampbell
Dennis Miller
Guy Sewell
Garmon Smith
Robert Smith
John Wilson
Subsurface Systems Branch
Vacant, Chief
Frank Beck
Dermont Bouchard
Jong Cho
Wayne Downs
Fred Pfeffer
Susan Mravik
Robert Puts
Steve Schmelling
Thomas Short
Dave Walters
James Weaver
Candida West
Lynn Wood
Extramural Activities and
Assistance Division
H. George Keeler, Director
Extramural Activities and
Evaluations Branch
James F. McNabb, Chief
Jerry N. Jones
R. Douglas Kreis
Applications and Assistance
Branch
M. Richard Scalf, Chief
Bert Bledsoe
Dom DiGiulio
Don Draper
Scott Huling
Lowell Leach
John Matthews
Randall Ross
Jerry Thornhill
Joe Williams
2210 Contaminant transport modeling
2314 Biochemistry
2311 Inorganic analytical chemistry
2320 Organic analytical chemistry
2327 Subsurface biotransformations
2358 Soil chemistry; vapor transport
2263 Immiscible flow, vapor transport
2232 Subsurface biotransformations
2316 Organic analytical chemistry
2248 Biological analyses
2259 Subsurface biorestoration
2246 Soil science
2321 Subsurface abiotic processes
2271 Contaminant transport modeling; vapor transport
2272 Contaminant transport modeling; biotransformations
2305 Analytical chemistry
2434 Soil science
2262 Geochemistry
2315 Contaminant transport modeling; fractured
2234 Contaminant transport modeling; unsaturated
2261 Soils; modeling
2420 Contaminant transport modeling; multiphase
2257 Subsurface abiotic processes
2420 Subsurface abiotic processes
2212 Land treatment
2416 Microbiology
2251 Analytical chemistry; aquifer restoration
2303 Ecological effects
2308 Monitoring
2324 Analytical chemistry; metals transport
2271 Hydrology, modeling, contaminant transport
2202 Hydrogeology; underground injection (UIC)
2313 Land treatment; RCRA; modeling
2333 Ground-water monitoring; UIC; land treatment
2233 Hazardous wastes biological processes
2313 Hydrogeology; modeling
2310 Hydrogeology; underground injection
2246 Soil science; modeling
*FTS: 743-xxxx; CML: 405-332-8800 (ask for extension)
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ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LABORATORY
Rosemarie C. Russo,
Director
FTS: 250-3134
CML: 404-546-3134
College Station Road
Athens, GA 30613-7799
The Environmental Research Laboratory at Athens
conducts and manages fundamental and applied research
to predict and assess the human and environmental
exposures and risks associated with conventional and
toxic pollutants in water and soil. The research focus is
predictive ecological science.
This research identifies and characterizes the natural
biological and chemical processes that affect the
environmental fate and effects of specific toxic
substances, such as pesticides or metals. The results are
applied in state-of-the-art mathematical models for
assessing and managing environmental pollution prob-
lems.
EPA's Center for Exposure Assessment Modeling
(CEAM), an internationally known center of modeling
expertise located at the Athens Lab, provides models,
training, and support in exposure evaluation and
ecological risk assessment. CEAM assists the Agency
and States in environmental risk-based decisions
concerning the protection of surface water, soil, ground-
water and air.
Lab-developed data and assessment techniques
support EPA's major programs. The Athens research is
concentrated in the following areas:
• Predictive Pollutant Fate: Identify chemical processes
that transport or transform organics and inorganics
(especially metals) in soil, sediment, and water;
establish the kinetics of microbial degradation of
hazardous chemicals in the environment; develop
mathematical models (with appropriate expert systems)
to predict environmental fate and effects of chemicals
and to describe chemical and biological processes for
assessing human and ecological exposure and risk;
develop structure-reactivity relationships and prop-
erty-reactivity correlations for predicting hydrolysis,
photolysis, and other reactivity parameters vital to
pollutant fate modeling; identify transformation mech-
anisms and products for environmentally important
chemicals; identify problem chemicals and source
constituents through multispectral techniques; describe
and predict the multimedia transport of pollutants; and
establish methodologies for estimating uncertainty in
model predictions.
• Predictive Exposure Assessment: Provide accurate
data, methods, and models for predicting exposures
and reconstructing past exposures to pollutants
affecting aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems; develop
and validate process-oriented models that predict the
dynamics of the bioaccumulation and internal distri-
bution in fish and other aquatic organisms of organic
chemicals and metals.
• Predictive Ecological Risk Assessment and Eco-
resource Management: Develop multi-level (from
species-population through landscape-regional) risk
assessment framework, methodology, and decision
support system for aquatic and terrestrial envi-
ronments; develop quantitative uncertainty analysis
methods for assessment and reduction of ecological
risk factors; develop framework for analyzing regional,
landscape, and ecosystem monitoring data; test
methods to identify impacts of industrial society on the
ecosphere.
• Technology Transfer and Technical Support: Provide
models, training, and support in exposure evaluation
and ecological risk-assessment through EPA's Center
for Exposure Assessment Modeling (CEAM), an
internationally known center of modeling expertise
located at the Athens Lab; assist the Agency and
States in environmental risk-based decisions con-
cerning the protection of water, soil, ground water and
air (through, for example, the Agency's Technical
Support Center for Ecological Risk Assessment);
provide database of physical, chemical and microbial
rate and equilibrium constants for mathematical
modeling.
Director
Chemistry
Biology
Measurements
1
Assessment
Center for
Exposure
Assessment
Modeling
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Areas of Expertise
Office of the Director
Rosemarie C. Russo, Director
Robert R. Swank, Jr.
Chemistry Branch
Arthur W. Garrison
Leo V. Azarraga
George W. Bailey
Chad T. Jafvert
Samuel W. Karickhoff
Nicholas T. Loux
Eric J. Weber
N. Lee Wolfe
Richard G. Zepp
Biology Branch
John E. Rogers
M. Craig Barber
George L. Baughman
Donald L. Brockway
Lawrence A. Burns
Ray R. Lassiter
David L. Lewis
Susan A. Moore
Luis A.Suarez
William W. Sutton
Measurements Branch
William T. Donaldson
Timothy W. Collette
J. Jackson Ellington
Heinz P. Kolig
John M. McGuire
William C. Steen
Assessment Branch
Lee A. Mulkey
Robert B. Ambrose, Jr.
Thomas O. Barnwell, Jr.
David S. Brown
Robert F. Carsel
Fred K. Fong
Steve C. McCutcheon
Charles N. Smith
Regional/State Contact
Robert C. Ryans
Telephone*
3134
3128
3145
3453
3307
3186
3149
3174
3198
3429
3428
3103
3147
3103
3422
3511
3208
3358
3469
2301
3422
3183
3525
3197
3770
3185
3776
3546
3130
3210
3310
3476
3330
3301
3175
3306
Area of Expertise
Ammonia/nitrite toxicity to aquatic organisms
Multimedia models; industrial sources; control
technology
Organic chemical analysis
Molecular spectroscopy; metal-humic interactions
Metal sorption; soil chemistry
Organic sorption process
Structure-activity relationships (chemical)
Inorganic analysis; metal adsorption/speciation
Fate of organic pollutants
Hydrolysis/redox reactions in water
Environmental photochemistry; global climate change
Microbial kinetics; biochemistry; ecology;
bioremediation
Ecologyical risk assessment
Dye chemistry
Aquatic biology; fish toxicology
Exposure-effects modeling; ecology
Exposure-effects modeling; ecology
Microbial biotransformation processes
Structure-activity relationships (biological)
Pharmacokinetics of biological systems
Hazard assessment
Multispectral analysis; transformation rate constants
Molecular spectroscopy; organic ID
Chemical kinetic constant measurement
Fate constant database; reliability evaluation
Mass spectrometry; organic ID
Microbial kinetic constant measurement
Landfill permitting/site selection; hazardous waste
management
Exposure and risk assessment modeling
Water quality modeling; decision support/expert
systems
Metals speciation; terrestrial exposure
Pesticide and groundwater leachate modeling
Numerical analysis, mass transport phenomena
Sediment transport; hydrodynamics; sorption modeling
Pesticide dynamics; field sampling methods
•FTS: 250-xxxx; CML: 404-546-xxxx
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ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LABORATORY
Thomas A. Murphy,
Director
FTS: 420-4601
CML: 503-757-4601
200 SW 35th Street
Corvallis, OR 97333
The Corvallis Laboratory conducts research and
assessment on the effects of pollutants and other human
stresses on inland ecological systems that include: plant
and wildlife populations; soils and other microbial
systems; forests, grasslands and agricultural systems;
wetlands; watersheds; and regional landscapes. It also
develops and evaluates methods for mitigating effects on
and restoring inland ecological systems. The Laboratory
provides the Agency's primary scientific expertise in
terrestrial ecotoxicology and terrestrial, watershed and
regional ecology. Research is conducted in five major
areas:
• Air Pollution Effects: Assess the effects of atmospheric
pollutants including acidic deposition on forests, crops,
watersheds, and surface waters. Determine the
ecological effects of pollutant-induced environmental
changes, such as changes in climate and increased
solar UV-B radiation.
• Toxic Effects: Develop and test methods to assess
ecological effects and food chain contamination from
toxic chemicals in terrestrial environments including
wildlife, vegetation and soils.
• Wetlands and Lakes: Develop and test methods to
assess the ecological impact of human modification of
wetlands and lakes, and criteria and techniques for
their functional restoration.
• Genetically Engineered Organisms: Develop and test
methods to assess ecological effects from introduction
into the terrestrial environment of novel biological
organisms, such as those produced by genetic engi-
neering.
• Hazardous Wastes: Develop and test methods to
assess the ecological hazards from contaminated
areas, such as hazardous waste sites.
• Multimedia: Define and characterize ecological systems
and measures by which their "health" can be directly
determined, especially as affected by multiple
environmental stresses.
The following specific activities are currently underway:
• effects of acidic deposition on surface waters and
forests
• effects of tropospheric ozone on crops and forests
• effects of global climate change and stratospheric
ozone depletion on ecological systems
• effects of toxic chemicals on wildlife and plants
• effects of genetically engineered organisms and
microbial pest control agents on terrestrial ecological
systems
• hazardous waste site ecological impact evaluation
• evaluation of cumulative wetland loss
• mitigation of wetland loss
• uptake, movement and metabolism of chemicals in
plants
• regional analysis of ecosystem conditions and trends
Director
Ecotoxicology
Terrestrial
Watershed
Wildlife
Team
Ozone Team
Plant Team
Aquatic Team
Forest Team
Microbiology Team
Watershed Team
Global Team
Wetlands Team
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Areas of Expertise
Telephone*
Area of Expertise
Terrestrial Branch
Roger Blair
Christian P. Andersen
Peter A. Beedlow
William E. Hogsett, III
Robert T. Lackey
Donald L. Phillips
David T. Tingey
James A. Weber
Watershed Branch
M. Robbins Church
Dixon H. Landers
D. Phillip Larsen
Jeffry Lee
Daniel H. McKenzie
James M, Omernik
Spencer A. Peterson
Eric P. Preston
Richard R. Sumner
Parker J. Wigington
Ecotoxicology Branch
John L. Armstrong
Richard S. Bennett
Clarence A. Callahan
Anne Fairbrotner
Charles W. Hendricks
Harold V. Kibby
Lawrence Kaputska
Bruce Lighthart
J. Craig McFarlane
Alan V. Nebeker
Paul T. Rygiewicz
Gerald S. Schuytema
Ramon J. Seidler
Mostafa A. Shirazi
Bill A. Williams
4662 Forest ecology
4605 Air pollution effects on vegetation
4791 Global climate change; landscape ecology
4632 Air pollution effects on vegetation
4634 Acid rain effects; aquatic/terrestrial ecology
4355 Ecology
4621 Air pollution effects on vegetation
4503 Air pollution effects on vegetation
4666** Limnology
4695 Limnology
4666" Lake/stream ecology
4666" Ecology
4666" Ecological modeling
4666" Geography/cartography
4605 Limnology/lake restoration
4666" Wetlands ecology
4666" Wetlands ecology
4640 Hydrology
4760 Molecular genetics
4582 Wildlife ecology/toxicology
4764 Soil invertebrate ecology
4716 Wildlife ecology/toxicology
4640 Microbiology
4625 Ecology
4606 Plant ecology
4350 Microbiology
4670 Plant physiology
4875 Aquatic toxicology
4833 Plant ecology
4764 Invertebrate taxonomy/toxicology
4661 Microbial ecology/biotechnology
4666" Systems ecology
4679 Wildlife physiology/toxicology
*FTS: 420-xxxx; CML: 503-757-xxxx
"CML503-753-6221
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ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LABORATORY
Gilman D. Veith,
Director
FTS: 780-5550
CML: 218-720-5550
6201 Congdon Boulevard
Duluth, MN 55804
The Environmental Research Laboratory at Duluth
(ERL-D) conducts research to advance our fundamental
understanding of aquatic toxicology and freshwater
ecology. Its mission is to develop a scientific basis for
EPA to create environmental policies concerning the use
of freshwater resources. To accomplish this, ERL-D
conducts the research, development, and technical
assistance programs described below.
Researchers are studying complex effluents and are
developing cost-effective methods for managing their
toxicity in wastewaters. An ongoing project is the
development of numerical water quality criteria for
industrial chemicals to protect aquatic life and its uses.
ERL-D scientists also develop sediment criteria for
chemicals which pose long-term contamination
problems and describe the fate and effects of pollutants
in waters of the Great Lakes.
Pesticide scientists conduct research with both
biological and chemical insecticides. The biological agent
research is developing tests that will assess the virulence,
survival and distribution of these unique forms in natural
and laboratory systems. Field studies are conducted to
verify earlier results from laboratory studies. Methods
developed in both research areas are being incorporated
into the Federal pesticide registration process.
Toxic substances research specializes in developing
methodology for conducting aquatic toxicity tests and in
predictive aquatic toxicology. The data base produced is
being modeled using computers so that predictions of
toxicity can be made from physical/chemical properties
and chemical structure. Scientists are also developing
procedures to define the mode of toxic action and
understand the metabolism of chemicals. Studies to
determine the ecological significance and adequacy of
existing laboratory-derived toxicity testing methods for
protecting aquatic life are being conducted.
Other researchers are investigating a series of
industrial chemicals to determine how fish absorb,
distribute, metabolize, and excrete chemicals. ERL-D is
participating in a national study that determines the levels
of dioxin in fish, water, and sediment samples from
across the country. In addition to analyzing field samples,
ERL-D is conducting laboratory studies on the bio-
availability of dioxin.
ERL-Duluth research is concentrated in the following
areas of development, evaluation, and surveillance:
• Develop a sound chemical, physical, and biological
understanding to determine concentrations of
pesticides, toxic substances and hazardous wastes
non-harmful to freshwater aquatic life; establish a data
base for this knowledge; share this expertise and data
resource with EPA program offices, other agencies and
scientists, and community leaders.
• Develop, refine, and improve cost-effective aquatic
laboratory tests for determining the adverse effects of
single or multi-contaminant pollutants associated with
toxic substances, pesticides, hazardous wastes, and
whole effluents.
• Develop common denominators, quantitative struc-
ture-activity relationships, toxicity wasteload allocation
methods, and models that can be used to predict or
assess the impact of chemical and physical pollutants
on aquatic and aquatic-related organisms.
• Evaluate the ability of laboratory test methods and
models to predict the fate and effects of contaminants
under field conditions through use of ecological
studies.
• Develop criteria for individual physical and chemical
contaminants and complex mixtures for the protection
of aquatic organisms and consumers of aquatic
organisms; conduct related site-specific studies to
support and assess agency use of the criteria.
• Maintain exploratory surveillance for new and unre-
cognized types and quantities of xenobiotics in
components of aquatic and aquatic-related eco-
systems; develop analytical methods required for this
exploratory surveillance.
Director
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Toxic
Substances
Research
Pesticides
Research
Hazardous
Waste
Research
I
Water Quality
Research
I
Large Lakes
Research
I
Monticello
Ecological
Research
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Areas of Expertise
Telephone*
Area of Expertise
Office of the Director
Gitman D. Veith, Director
Nelson A. Thomas
Donald I. Mount
Philip M. Cook
Robert A. Drummond
Water Quality Resarch Branch
Anthony R. Carlson
William Sanville
Russell J. Erickson
Robert L. Spehar
John Arthur
Charles E. Stephan
John 3. Eaton
Pesticides Research Branch
Richard E. Siefert
Richard L. Anderson
Alfred W. Jarvinen
Hazardous Waste Research
Branch
Douglas W. Kuehl
James McKim
5550 Toxicity data bases; structure activity; predictive
toxicology
5702 National programs; complex effluents; technology
transfer
5528 Whole effluent toxicity; Ceriodaphnia testing; toxicity
reduction
5553 Bioavailability; particles bioassays; suspended solids;
asbestos-fiber data
5733 Scientific outreach; behavioral toxicology
5523 Site-specific water quality; toxicity testing-field
response sediment criteria
5723 Wetlands; ecological effects
5534 Complexing agents; metals; ammonia
5564 Chronic bioassays; test methods development
5565 Watersheds; ecological effects
5510 Water quality criteria documents
5557 Acid rain - biological
5552 Pesticide bioassays; fish and fish food taxonomy
5616 Invertebrates; toxicity testing chemical/microbial
pesticides
5561 Pesticide bioassays
5558 Environmental chemistry; organics in tissue and water;
LC/MS systems
5567 Dose-response; comparative toxicology;
pharmacodynamics
Toxic Substances Research
Branch
Steven J. Broderius
Steven Bradbury
Rodney Johnson
J. D. Yount
Large Lakes Research Station
William L. Richardson
Russet Kreis
Doug Endicott
Monticello Ecological Research
Station
Steven F. Hedtke
5574 Toxic mechanisms; mixture toxicity
5527 Toxicokinetics; mechanisms of toxic action; metabolism
5731 Carcinogenicity; histotechnology - fish
5752 Laboratory ecosystems; risk assessments
2245** Great Lakes; ecosystem modeling waste load
allocation; eutrophication
2245™ Ecosystem-chemical effects; effects assessment
2245** Modeling theory; ecosystem modeling
2492*** Outdoor channels; field applicability; microcosms;
wetlands
*FTS: 780-xxxx; CML: 218-720-xxxx
**CML: 313-675-xxx
""FTS: 777-xxxx
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ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LABORATORY
Raymond G. Wilhour,
Acting Director
FTS: 686-9011
CML: 904-932-5311
Sabine Island
Gulf Breeze, FL 32561
The Environmental Research Laboratory at Gulf Breeze
develops and analyzes scientific data on the impact of
hazardous materials released in marine and estuarine
environments. Scientific investigations primarily involve
chemical compounds and biological products regulated
by EPA's Office of Pesticides and Toxic Substances, the
Office of Water Programs, and the Office of Solid Waste
and Emergency Response.
Laboratory scientists develop and evaluate test
systems to (1) evaluate and define mechanisms that
affect biodegradation and accumulation of toxicants in
aquatic food webs; (2) define procedures and evaluate
protocols for biological treatment of hazardous wastes; (3)
determine effects of carcinogens, mutagens, and
teratogens in aquatic species; (4) develop principles and
applications of ecotoxicology, including measurement and
prediction of fate and effect of chemicals and synthetics
on estuarine species and environments. Methods also are
under development to apply laboratory observations to
field situations and to evaluate potential risks from the
release of biotechnological products in the marine
environment.
Information from laboratory research is used to
establish guidelines, standards, and strategies for
management of hazardous materials in the near-coastal
marine environment, to define and predict its ecological
health, and describe cause(s) of aberrant conditions or
changes in its ecological status.
Research at Gulf Breeze is organized into these
branches:
• Ecotoxicology Branch: (1) develop and test methods to
determine acute and chronic effects (including
bioaccumulation) of contaminants on estuarine and
marine plants and animals; (2) develop culture
techniques for test organisms; (3) develop and verify
biological indicators for laboratory and field
investigations to detect contaminant exposure and
effects at the population, community, and ecosystem
levels; (4) develop and validate model systems to
predict resiliency (impact and recovery) of populations,
communities, and ecosystems exposed to contami-
nants; (5) determine effects of contaminants on
ecological structure and function and delineate
endpoints that describe structure and function; (6)
conduct field studies (i.e., verification of laboratory
methodologies and results) to predict environmental
response to pesticide use in potential impact areas; (7)
develop and improve methods to analyze seawater and
marine matrices (plants, animals, sediments) for
contaminants prior to laboratory and field studies; (8)
assess risks of chemicals and other contaminants by
integration and interpretation of biological, chemical,
and physical data in aquatic environments.
Microbial Ecology and Biotechnology Branch: (1)
characterize rates, mechanisms, and metabolic
limitations of biodegradation processes carried out by
microbial communities and assess their ability to
transform organic chemicals and heavy metals into
nontoxic products; (2) evaluate potential risks assoc-
iated with release of genetically engineered micro-
organisms (biotechnology) in the environment; (3)
define quantitatively environmental factors that control
biodegradation and describe the potential manipulation
of ecosystems and microbial communities to enhance
extent and rate of biodegradation of specified single
compounds and complex mixtures.
Pathobiology Branch: (1) develop methods to evaluate
risks of biological pesticidal agents to nontarget,
aquatic species and systems, including natural and
genetically altered microbial pest control agents and
biochemical control agents; (2) develop aquatic species
as indicators and models to assess hazards of
genotoxic agents to aquatic animals and humans; and
(3) elucidate mechanisms in toxicants that impair
development or cause disease in aquatic species.
Director
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Ecotoxicology
Microbial Ecology &
Biotechnology
1
Pathobiology
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Areas of Expertise
Telephone*
Area of Expertise
Office of the Director
Raymond G. Wilhour, Acting Director
John A. Couch
Andrew J. McErlean
Frank G. Wilkes
Ecotoxicology Branch
Foster L. Mayer
James R. Clark
Geraldine Cripe
William P. Davis
David Flemer
Leroy Folmar
Larry Goodman
Douglas P. Middaugh
James C. Moore
Rodney Parrish
Gerald E. Walsh
Microbial Ecology and
Biotechnology Branch
Parmely H. Pritchard
Tamar Barkay
Peter Chapman
Stephen M. Cuskey
Fred J. Genthner
Leonard H. Mueller
Richard W. Eaton
Pathobiology Branch
John Fournie
Lee Courtney
Charles L. McKenney
Wilhelm Peter Schoor
Plant pathology/terrestrial ecology
Pathology/toxic mechanisms
Pollution ecology
Aquatic ecology
Toxicology/aquatic ecology
Aquatic ecology/toxicology
Crustacean culture/toxicology
Ichthyology/marine ecology
Aquatic ecology
Physiology/toxicology
Aquatic toxicology
Fish culture/toxicology
Analytical chemistry
Toxicology/aquatic ecology
Marine toxicology
Microbial ecology/biodegradation
Microbial ecology
Biochemistry/biodegradation
Microbial genetics
Microbial ecology
Analytical chemistry
Microbial genetics/biodegradation
Pathology
Electron microscopy
Physiology
Biochemistry
*FTS: 686-9011; CML: 904-932-5311 (for all contacts)
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ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LABORATORY
Norbert A. Jaworski,
Director
FTS: 838-6001
CML: 401-789-3001
South Ferry Road
Narragansett, Rl 02882
The Environmental Research Laboratory at Narra-
gansett, Rhode Island, along with its Pacific Coast
Laboratory in Newport, Oregon, is the Agency's National
Marine Environmental Quality Research Laboratory. The
Laboratory's research supports primarily the EPA Office
of Water, Office of Emergency and Remedial Response,
and the Office of Air and Radiation. The Laboratory's
efforts respond to legislative requirements of the Clean
Water Act, the Marine Protection, Research and
Sanctuaries Act, and the Superfund Reauthorization Act.
Major emphasis is placed on providing the scientific base
for environmental criteria, waste disposal practices,
environmental analysis/impacts, assessments, and marine
and estuarine risk assessments for regulatory activities of
responsible offices.
The Laboratory's principal themes are: Environmental
Chemistry, Transport and Fate, Biological and Ecological
Effects, Biomonitoring, Ecological Risk Assessment, and
Multidisciplinary Information Management.
The Laboratory is responsible for the following research
program areas: (1) marine and estuarine disposal,
discharge of (and recovery from) complex wastes,
dredged material, and other wastes; (2) water use
designation and derivation of criteria for marine and
estuarine water and sediment; (3) environmental assess-
ment of ocean disposal and discharges of waste and
wastewaters; (4) technical and research support for
evaluating remediation options at proposed and
designated marine/estuarine superfund sites; and (5)
research on the effects of global warming and the
depletion of stratospheric ozone on marine systems.
Technical assistance, technology transfer, and investi-
gations of an emergency nature, e.g., spills of toxic
materials, also are provided to aid EPA offices in
evaluating environmental threats posed by toxicants,
other pollutants, and physical modifications along the
Mid- and North Atlantic Coast, the West Coast, and
other geographic locations. Technical assistance is also
provided to other federal agencies, states, municipalities,
and industry.
The current program areas, expertise and special
facilities at Narragansett are discussed below to provide
an overview of the laboratory's current activities:
• Programmatic Areas: Estuarine and marine disposal
and discharge of complex wastes, dredged materials,
and other wastes; water use designation and quality
criteria for estuarine and marine water and sediment;
environmental assessment of ocean discharges; sup-
port of the National Estuary Program.
• Expertise: Toxicological testing using marine orga-
nisms; ecosystems analysis; physiological responses
of organisms to contaminants; organic and inorganic
analytical chemistry, biomonitoring; national and site-
specific water quality criteria; physical transport and
water quality modeling; contaminant bioavailability;
bioaccumulation; and ecological risk assessment.
• Special Facilities: Wet lab facilities available for
biological testing using flowing seawater; capable of
tempering of influent water, isolation of hazardous
testing, and treatment of effluent water; maintains Field
Station at the Hatfield Marine Science Center, Newport,
OR.; control pH and dissolved oxygen and temperature.
Director
ERL-Narragansett, Rl
and
Newport, OR
I
Exposure
(Narragansett, Rl)
Effects
(Narragansett, Rl)
I
Ecosystems
(Narragansett, Rl)
Pacific Ecosystems
(Newport, OR)
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Areas of Expertise
S. Baksi
D. J. Baumgartner
A. D. Beck
G. A. Chapman
E. H. Dettmann
J. H. Gentile
G. R. Gardner
R. J. Haebler
D. J. Hansen
E. H. Jackim
N. A. Jaworski
J. L. Lake
R. W. Latimer
H. Lee II
A. R. Malcolm
D. C. Miller
W. G. Nelson
J. F. Paul
K. T. Perez
G. G. Pesch
D. K. Phelps
J. C. Prager
R. J. Pruell
N. I. Rubinstein
S. C. Schimmel
R. L. Steele
R. C. Swartz
H. A. Walker
D. R. Young
G. E. Zaroogian
Telephone* Area of Expertise
Biomarkers; physiological response
Ocean disposal; contaminant transport and fate
National Estuary Program; ecological risk assessment
Aquatic toxicology and water quality criteria
Exposure assessment; water quality modeling
Ecological toxicity
Histological responses
Marine mammals; histological responses
Water quality control; water and sediment criteria;
toxicity testing; sludge effects
Biomarkers
Water quality modeling
Environmental chemistry; bioaccumulation
Environmental engineering
Bioaccumulation processes; bioavailability
Physiological responses; biomarkers
Dissolved oxygen; environmental criteria
Hazard assessment and biological effects
Sediment transport; remote sensing; ocean disposal;
exposure assessment; hazard assessment; waste load
allocation; risk characterization
Marine microcosms; surface microlayers
Genetic toxicology; biological oceanography
Biomonitoring
Eutrophication
Environmental and analytical chemistry
Dredging; bioaccumulation
Complex effluents; toxicity testing
Biological effects; algae
Benthic toxicity testing; community analysis; sediment
criteria
Ocean disposal; dumpsite designation; wasteload
allocation; nutrient cycling
Environmental chemistry; biomagnification
Biochemistry
*FTS: 838-6000; CML: 401-782-3000 (for all contacts)
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HEALTH EFFECTS RESEARCH LABORATORY
Lawrence W. Reiter,
Director
FTS: 629-2281
CML: 919-541-2281
(MD-51)
Research Triangle Park, NC
27711
The Health Effects Research Laboratory formulates and
implements a comprehensive research program to
investigate human health effects resulting from exposure
to environmental pollutants. Staffed by health scientists
with recognized expertise in a variety of disciplines -
environmental medicine, physiology, epidemiology,
statistics, biochemistry, neurotoxicology, reproductive
toxicology, teratology, and perinatal toxicology, geriatric
toxicology, pulmonary toxicology, immunotoxicology,
cardiovascular toxicology, genotoxicology, hepato-
toxicology and other target organ toxicology, and
microbiology - HERL is the focal point for toxicologies!,
clinical and epidemiological research within the Agency.
HERL also establishes cooperative research projects with
academic and other scientific institutions which facilitate
the Agency efforts in understanding health effects of
environmental pollutants. This research program
develops and applies state-of-the-science biological
assays, predictive models and extrapolation methods
which serve as the basis for the Agency's health risk
assessments.
The long-term basic components of the HERL
research program are designed to anticipate the future
needs of the Agency and enable the Office of Health
Research to provide direction on environmental health
issues. In recognition of legislative and regulatory needs,
HERL conducts an effective mission-related research
program to enable the Agency to better determine
toxicological hazard, define dose-response relationships,
and estimate human exposure characteristics in support
of the Agency's overall risk assessment and guideline
development. The breadth of expertise of the HERL
researchers is also marshalled in the event of Program
Office requests and environmental emergencies to
address immediate public health issues. HERL evaluates
and communicates its research results and provides
advice on their use to offices for criteria development and
scientific assessments in support of regulatory and
standard setting activities.
HERL advises the Agency on the scientific
interpretation and integration of information used in the
determination of human health risks. It responds with
recognized authority to changing requirements for
technical assistance to other ORD Offices, Program
Offices, Regions, senior Agency managers, Agency
Workgroups, and Interagency Task Forces. Through the
active involvement of its scientific staff with Agency
research and advisory committees, other Agency offices,
and through interaction with academic and other
independent scientific bodies, the Laboratory assists in
the formulation of health science policy for the Agency.
Finally, as a result of these relationships and the scientific
capabilities of its staff, the Laboratory provides the
leadership in the development of national and
international environmental health research efforts.
Organizationally, HERL consists of six research
divisions. While most of the research facilities are located
in the Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, HERL has
several branches located in Cincinnati, Ohio. Also HERL
has one of the nation's few sophisticated human
inhalation exposure facilities which is located on the
campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Research at HERL is being conducted in the following
areas:
• Oxidants: Develop a data base for use in regulatory
decision making on the health effects of 63 and NOa
exposure by conducting human clinical, epidem-
iologic and animal studies. Models are also being
developed to quantitatively extrapolate animal data to
humans.
• Hazardous Air Pollutants (HAP): Develop and validate
techniques to evaluate the toxic effects of HAPs,
produce dose-response data on the toxic effects of
HAPs and develop models which improve our ability to
use toxicological data in risk assessments.
• Mobile Sources: Provide quality health data on the
effects of vehicle fuels and additives, including
methanol and exposure to CO and develop methods for
obtaining dose response data for use in risk assess-
ments for regulatory purposes.
• Superfund: Develop and evaluate dose response data,
extrapolation models and test methods on complex
mixtures to reduce uncertainties in risk assessment.
• Gases and Particles: Develop a data base for use in
regulatory decision making on the health effects of
SOa, particles and Pb by conducting human clinical,
epidemiologic and animal studies. Models are also
being developed to extrapolate animal data to humans
and to provide information on the relationship between
particle size and lung deposition in man.
• Water Quality: Evaluate methods to assess health
hazards associated with complex mixtures arising as
discharges from public owned treatment works.
• Municipal Wastewater: Provide data and appraisal
documents on health aspects of land application of
municipal sludge and use of renovated wastewater for a
source of drinking water.
• Drinking Water: Provide health effects information for
drinking water standards and health advisories with
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special emphasis on hazards posed by drinking water
disinfectants (chlorine, chloramine, chlorine dioxide and
ozone) utilizing state-of-the-art toxicologic and
epidemiologic methodologies.
• Hazardous Waste: Evaluate the health effects of
emissions and residues from hazardous waste
incineration (HWI) and municipal waste combustion
(MWC).
• Pesticides: Develop methodologies and generate data
for the assessment of health risks from pesticides;
define environmental and health endpoints for future
test methods. Studies are also being carried out on
health effects of biological and bioengineered pesti-
cides.
• Indoor Air Research (with an emphasis on combustion
products , sick building syndrome, VOCs, and envi-
environmental tobacco smoke): Apply results of this
research to the development of health risk assess-
ments.
• Improved Health Risk Assessments: Develop a
systematic and integrated approach to improve the
health risk assessment process.
• Toxic Chemical Testing and Assessment: Develop and
validate test methods for identifying health hazards
under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). Study
relationship between chemical structure and toxicologic
activity. Carry out human epidemiological studies on
hazardous chemicals. Also, evaluate human health
hazards of bioengineered materials.
Director
Human
Studies
Clinical
Research
Epidemiology
Genetic
Toxicology
Mutagenesis
& Cellular
Toxicology
I
Carcinogenesis
& Metabolism
Neuro-
toxicology
Behavior &
Neurochemistry
Neuro-
physiology &
Neuropathology
Genetic
Bioassay
Biochemical &
Molecular
Toxicology
Systems
Development
Developmental
Toxicology
Reproductive
Toxicology
Perinatal
Toxicology
Reproductive
and
Developmental
Biochemistry
Research
and
Regulatory
Support
Environmental
Toxicology
I
Biostatistics
Experimental
Dosimetry
1
Special
Studies and
Technology
Transfer
Pulmonary
Toxicology
1
Analytical
Studies
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Areas of Expertise
Telephone*
Area of Expertise
Office of the Director
Lawrence W. Reiter, Director
Developmental Toxicology
Division
Robert J. Kavlock
Sally P. Darney
Clinton Y. Kawanishi
M. Kate Smith
Environmental Toxicology
Division
Fred J. Miller
Jeno P. Bercz
Daniel L. Costa
Genetic Toxicology Division
Michael D. Waters
F. Bernard Daniel
Joellen Lewtas
Martha M. Moore
Stephen C. Nesnow
Human Studies Division
John J. O'Neil
Richard B. Everson
Timothy R. Gerrity
Neurotoxicology Division
Robert C. MacPhail
William K. Boyes
Robert R. Payne
Research and Regulatory
Support Division
Joe A. Elder
John P. Creason
Richard D. Phillips
•FTS: 629-xxxx; CML: 919-541-xxxx
"FTS: 684-xxxx; CML: 513-569-xxxx
2281 Environmental toxicology
2771 Reproductive toxicology
2782 Reproductive physiology
7965 Microbial pesticides
7577** Developmental biochemistry
2655 Biochemical and inhalation toxicology
7480** Theoretical chemistry
2531 Pulmonary toxicology
2537 Genetic toxicology
7411" Toxicologic mechanisms
3849 Genetic toxicology of complex mixtures
3933 Mammalian mutagenesis
3847 Chemical carcinogenesis
6203 Human inhalation toxicology
1963 Epidemiology
6206 Respiratory physiology
2671 Behavioral toxicology and pharmacology
7538 Neurophysiological toxicology
5156 Computer science
2339 Bioeffects of radiofrequency radiation
2598 Multivariate analysis
2772 Stress physiology
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