United States
Environmental Protection
Agency
EPA/600/9-86/028
September 1986
Research and Development
&EPA
FY-1987
EPA Research
Program Guide
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Notice
The program descriptions and resource estimates included
in this document reflect the latest detailed information
available at time of publication. Time and pending
Congressional actions will change some of this information.
In addition, the resource figures have been rounded off and
some smaller programs omitted. For the latest information,
you may want to contact the individual listed.
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EPA/600/9-86/028
September 1986
FY-1987
EPA Research
Program Guide
October 1, 1986 — September 30, 1987
Office of Research and Development
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Washington, DC 20460
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Contents
introduction .
How to Use the Program Guide .2
Air
Global and Microenvironmental 3
Hazardous Air Pollutant Regulatory Activities 5
Mobile Source Pollutant Regulatory Activities
National Ambient Air Quality Standards
(NAAQS) 10
Ne Source Performance Standards and State
Implementation Plans 13
Drinking Water 17
Health Effe s of Drinking Water Contaminants 17
Groundwater IS
Drinking Water Technology 19
Water Quality
Water Quality Based Approach Permitting 21
Wastewater Treatment Technology 3
Marine. Estuaries, and Lakes 26
Hazardous Waste 28
Alternate Technologies 28
Dioxin 28
Incineration 30
Land Disposal 30
Quality Assurance 31
Releases 31
Waste Characterization 33
Waste Identification 36
TAxic Chemical Testing Assessment 37
Biotechnology Microbial and Biochemical Pest
Control Agents 37
Ecology: Ecotoxicity and Risk Assessment 39
Ecology: Transport Fate Field Validation 40
Exposure Monitoring 41
Health: Markers, Dosimetry. and Extrapolation 41
Special Human Data Needs 42
Structure Activity Relationships 42
Support for Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) . . .43
Engineering 44
Test Method Development 44
Pesticides 47
Biochemical Microbial and Biochemical Pest
Control Agents 47
Ecology: Ecotoxicit and Risk Assessment 48
Ecology: Transport Fate Field Validation 48
Engineering 49
Exposure Monitoring 49
Health: Markers, Dosimetry and Extrapolation 50
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Multi-Media Energy
Develop and Evaluate LIMB Technology..
Establish Deposition Monitoring Data Base
Estimate Emissions from Man-Made Sources
Evaluate Availability and Cost of Applicable
Control Technology
Understand and Quantify Effects on Material
and Cultural Resources
Understand and Quantify Aquatic Effects -
Understand and Quantify Terrestrial Effects
Understand Atmospheric Processes
Intermedia
Manage the Mandatory Quality Assurance
Program
Manage Visiting Scientists Program
Manage Exploratory Research Grant and
Centers Program
Integrated Risk Assessment
Radiation
Off-Site Monitoring Program
Scientific Support for Radon Program
ORD Organization
ORD Organizational Descriptions
ORD Office/Laboratory Abbreviations
ORD Key Contacts
ORD Regional Contacts
EPA Regional Offices
Support for the Federal Insecticide. Fungicide. and
Rodenticide Act (F1FRA’ 50
Test Method Development 51
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Introduction
The free and open exchange of knowledge both stimulates
and provides quality control for the progress of science.
This report provides information on the research which
EPA is planning for this fiscal ear, on how much we
intend to spend on each program area, and on whom to
contact for further details. More than 60 percent of our
research budget will be spent through extramural contracts.
grants, and cooperative agreements with organizations
outside of EPA ’s laboratories.
It is our intent to increase the efficiency and effectiveness
of this research by placing great emphasis upon open
competition for extramural support. We hope that the
information in this report will stimulate qualified parties
and make their capabilities known to our research
managers so that we all might gain from sharing experience
and expertise. Please feel free to contact any of the parties
listed in this report.
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How to Use the Program Guide
The following descriptions of ORIYs research program are
organized first by media such as air, water, hazardous
wastes, etc. These categories are further broken down into
research foci such as scientific assessment, monitoring and
quality assurance, health effects, environmental processes,
and engineering technology. Each description is a very
broad summary of the research being done, where that
research is being done, who to contact for more
information about the program, and both the approximate
total funding for that area and the percentage of total
funding which is reserved by EPA for in-house research.
Funding which is not reserved for in-house research is spent
through extramural contracts, grants and cooperative
agreements.
For each program description, one or more contacts are
listed along with the major research areas to be pursued.
For further information, you may call the contacts. Their
commercial and Federal (FTS) telephone numbers are listed
in a separate section near the end of this report. Whete two
or more research laboratories are listed, please turn to the
‘ 4 EPA R&D Organization” section of this report for
descriptions of the major mission and functions of each.
Some of the research funded for this fiscal year will be
done in-house by EPA’s laboratories. The rest will be
accomplished extramurally. Proposals for funds for
research in areas of interest to the agency are welcomed and
are considered on a competitive basis. To receive
information regarding application procedures for
extramural funds, please contact the person indicated in the
area of specific interest to you. In addition, approximately
fifteen percent of EPA’S research budget is used to support
long-term exploratory research. Information regarding
funds for exploratory research grants can be obtained from
the:
Research Grants Program
Office of Exploratory Research (RD-675)
USEPA
Washington, DC 20460
(202) 382-5750
Finally, for further information regarding Office of
Research and Development research publications
(600/series) or for additional copies of this report, please
contact:
Center for Environmental Research Information
USEPA
26 W. St. Clair
Cincinnati, OH 45268
CML (513) 569-7562
FTS 8-684-7562
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Air
Global and Microenvironmental
Acid Indoor air research consists of development and testing of
Deposition monitoring devices and the design and implementation of
Environmental field studies to identify and quantitate pollutants indoors.
Monitorin This research supports investigation of pollutant sources.
exposures and health effects.
and Methods development research investigates monitoring
Quality devices for pollution monitoring levels in homes. Results
Assurance are used to produce information regarding proper use
(sample locations and sample times) and performance
limitations of these devices. This research will continue to
develop and test these devices, especially personal monitors,
in other mieroenvironments (buildings, vehicles, etc.).
Survey designs are emphasized in field studies. National
multipollutant field studies designed for combustion and
volatile organic compounds stimulated an interest to design
a pilot study to investigate the distribution and use of
consumer products. This field study will be designed and
implemented in conjunction with an intensive review of
data needs to better understand indoor air pollution. Based
on these results, additional field studies will be conducted to
increase our understanding about indoor air pollution.
Research into global climate change will develop
tropospheric chemistry models to predict the impact of
changes in trace gases, temperature, and humidity in the
troposphere on tropospheric ozone and the hydroxyl
radical.
Office or Total Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds (5k) tn-House
EMSL/RTP John Puzak 1,350.0 15
ADEMQA/IIQ Lance Wallace 50.0 0
Mike Dellarco
ASRL/RTP Basil Dimitriades 250.0 0
Global and Microenvironment a!
Environmental This research provides state-of-the-art information on the
Processes and causes, biological and health effects and control strategies
Effects for stratospheric ozone depletion. The work should reliably
quantify effects of increasing intensity of ultra-violet B
radiation which causes increased biological damage to
agricultural productivity, marine and freshwater food
chains for economically useful fish and to overall global
climate. Field, laboratory and modeling efforts addressing
the biological effects of UV-B and will concentrate on
sensitive field crops, and on dose responses to marine and
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fresh water food webs. The nature of UV-B damage to
competitive specie interactions and critical energy flow
through the ecosystems may be examined. Health effects
studies will examine immunotoxicity and genotoxicity
effects due to UV-B exposure. Influence of UV-B on ozone
and its implications on ozone air quality attainment/non-
attainment need preliminary examination. These data are
sought to provide an authoritative scientific base for
regulatory decisions on stratospheric ozone protection.
Office or Total Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds (Sk) In-House
ERL ICOR James McCarty 679.9 0.0
OEPER1 FIQ Kenneth Hood 45.9 0.0
HERL ; RTP Judith Graham 45.0 0.0
AEERL; RTP William Rhodes 170.0 29.0
Global and Miesoenvironmental
Health Effects The goal of the indoor air health effects research program is
to determine whether exposure to indoor air pollution
contributes or leads to adverse health effects. Indoor air
often contains higher levels of pollutants than outdoor air.
Most individuals spend over 80% of their time indoors.
Sensitive populations, e.g., children and the elderly, may be
at higher risk from exposure to indoor air pollution.
Therefore, the exposure, dose, and effects from indoor air
pollution needs to be factored into the total picture of air
pollution.
The approach to study the effects of indoor air is broad.
Genetic bioassay studies of the combustion products from
indoor air sources will be conducted in chambers, test
homes, and targeted field studies to provide a comparative
estimate of the potential cancer risk from various sources.
H uman clinical studies in chambers of volatile organic
compounds will be conducted to determine effects
related to the “sick building syndrome.” Field and clinical
studies will continue to evaluate cotinine as a biochemical
marker for nicotine.
Office or Total Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds ($10 In-House
HERL!RTP Richard Dickerson 500 20
OHR/HQ Donna Kuroda
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Hazardous A i v Pollutant Regulatory A cliv ities
Environmental The engineering program for hazardous air pollutants
Engineering (HAP) is comprised of four parts: (I) to assess various
and industrial and combustion sources of HAPs to determine
Te hnolo the magnitude of emissions and to assess the capability of
C gy technologies to reduce or eliminate HAP emissions; (2) to
conduct source-related measurements and participate in the
management of the Agency’s Integrated Air Cancer Project;
(3) to assess the emissions from and controllability of
sources of indoor air pollutants; and (4) to assess the
emissions from and controllability of accidental releases of
high hazard chemicals.
Conventional devices for controlling particulate and
VOC emissions will be evaluated for their effectiveness in
controlling specific HAPs from industrial and combustion
sources. Research will be initiated oil cleaner-burning wood
stoves, with inherently low emissions of HAPs, for practical
and energy-efficient residential use.
Field and laboratory measurements of hazardous
substances, especially mutagenic substances from residential
wood stoves will be made as part of the field studies of the
Integrated Air Cancer Project. Various designs of catalyst-
equipped and conventional stoves will be tested.
Laboratory measurements of organic pollutants
emissions from unvented space heaters, building materials,
and consumer products will be continued from indoor air
quality projects initiated earlier. A computerized database
will be developed on indoor source emissions. Test house
studies of indoor sources will be started. Further work to
develop indoor air quality models is also planned.
Engineering evaluations will be undertaken of air cleaners
for indoor particles and for indoor organics vapors.
The issue of accidental releases will be addressed through
a study of hazard identification and evaluation techniques,
preparation of reference manuals for key hazard chemicals,
and technical support to regions and states to assist in
preventing such releases or reducing the hazards once such
a release has occurred.
Office or Total Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds ( 5k) In-House
AEERL/RTP W. Gene Tucker 3,562.6 47
OEET/ HQ Paul Shapiro 0 0
Marshall Dick
Hazardous Al , Pollutant Regulatory A clivities
Health Effects The health research program in hazardous air pollutants
(HAPs) has three goals: to develop and validate techniques
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to evaluate the toxic effects of HAN. to produce dose-
response data on the toxic effects of HAN. and to develop
methods which improse our ability to use toxicological data
in performing risk assessments. Extramural research will
support efforts in all three areas.
EPA researchers will develop methods to provide data on
the genetic, developmental, and neurotoxic effects of HAPs.
Emphasis of this research will be on the toxic components
of gaseous-aerosol complex mixtures and source emissions.
In dose-response toxicological research data on the
mutagenic and carcinogenic activity and noncancerous
health effects of potential HAPs will be determined. These
HAPs will be selected based upon assessments prepared by
the Office of Health and Assessment (OHEA) and research
needs identified by Office of Air Quality. Planning, and
Standards (OAQPS). The effects of selected chemicals
suspected of being hazardous to the nervous system will be
studied.
The dose-exposure research will provide quantitative
information on the relationship between dose (body
burden) and human exposures to toxic pollutants. Models
of neurologic toxicity will be developed involving physical,
chemical, and behavioral tests to predict human responses
to insult from potential HAPs.
Office or Total Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds ($k) in-House
HERL RTP Richard Dickerson 5,375.2 59
OHR HQ Donna Kuroda
Hazardous A ir Pollutant Regulatory A ctivities
Acid At present, there is a particular need for technology to
Deposition monitor non-criteria contaminants at the regional, state, and
Environmental local level. EPA has developed monitoring stations for non-
criteria pollutants in Boston, Chicago, and Houston. The
Monitoring stations will function as focal points for development and
and evaluation of monitoring methods in ambient air. Stationary
Quality source methods will be evaluated and validated. Methods for
Assurance asbestos, cadmium, nickel, dioxins, and gaseous organics are
needed. in addition, certain advanced methods will be
evaluated, including cryogenic preconcentrations and gas
chromatography Fourier transform infrared (FTI R)
spectrometry.
To support quality assurance needs within the program,
reference samples will be developed and maintained,
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guidelines for procedures will be developed, and laborators’
audits will be performed.
A series of studies to monitor human exposure are being
carried out, including the Integrated Air Cancer Project
(IACP) and the Total Human Exposure Assessment
Methodology (TEAM) studies.
In the Characterization, Transport. and Fate research
program, laboratory and field studies will be conducted to
determine the atmospheric lifetimes and transformation
products of HAPs to determine deposition and removal rates
of hazardous chemicals: and identify the factors responsible
for concentration levels and spatial and temporal (i.e..
seasonal) variability of selected volatile organic compounds.
Also, research studies will examine the atmospheric chemical
and physical processes that are important in producing
mutagenic compounds in the atmosphere. The information
obtained from this program is used for preparing health
assessment documents to determine if chemicals in the
atmosphere present a hazard.
Office or Total Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds ( 5k) In-House
EMSL RTP John Cements 8,X20.8 35
Ste e Bromberg
ASRL RTP Larry Cupiti 1,479.4 26
(CTF)
ADEMQA l-IQ Deran Pashayan 25.4 0
(CIF )
ADEMQA HQ Lance Wallace X 14.0 37
Hazardous A ir Pollutant Regulatory A ctivities
Scientific Scientific assessments of HAPs evaluate pertinent research
Assessment findings concerning the health effects of particular
substances emitted from restricted stationary sources
and or their transformation products. as well as
background information on physical and chemical
properties, sources, emissions. transport and
transformation, and ambient concentrations. Such
assessments also evaluate chemical compositions of fuel
additives, diesel and gasoline exhausts, information on
actual human exposure to motor vehicle pollutants. and
evidence of resulting health effects.
The Agency strategy for assessing the toxicity of various
chemical substances nominated by the Office of Air Quality
Planning and Standards consists of the following steps. The
first is the preparation of a summary health issue
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assessment. This is an initial review of the scientific
literature concerning the most important health effects
associated with a given chemical or class of chemical
substances. If the evidence suggests there are significant
health effects associated with exposure to the substance(s)
reviewed, then a draft health assessment document is
developed for scientific review at a public workshop. If the
scientific peer review supports the conclusion that there are
significant health effects, then a comprehensive health
assessment is developed for public comment and Science
Advisory Board review prior to final publication.
In addition, during FY 87, the Scientific Assessment
Program will also provide direct assessment support to
Regions and States for Agency Air Toxics Strategy.
Office or Total Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds (Sk) In-House
ECAO/ RTP Lester Grant 3,560 54
Mobile Source Pollutant Regulatory Activities
Health Effects The health effects program developed by the Health Effects
Research Laboratory in mobile sources develops and
validates techniques to produce dose-response data on the
toxic effects of carbon monoxide, and then use those
techniques to produce dose-response information.
Clinical studies will be used to produce dose-response
data on the toxic effects of low-level exposure to CO. The
cardiac and respiratory effects of CO will be evaluated in
human studies, as well as methods to related ambient CO
levels to blood levels. Non-invasive techniques will be used
to measure the cardiac effects of CO exposure. In addition,
neurobehavioral effects of CO exposure will be evaluated.
This information will be used in performing health risk
assessments by the scientific assessment program.
Extramural funding will also be provided to the Health
Effects Institute, sponsored jointly by EPA and the
automobile industry to perform research on the health
effects of pollutants related to mobile sources, i.e., diesel
emissions, NO 2 , CO. 03, and aldehydes.
Office or Total Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds (5k) In-House
HERL! RTP Richard Dickerson Funding not available
OHR/HQ Donna Kuroda at this time.
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Mobile Source Pollutant Regulatory A ctivities
Acid The purpose of the Characterization. Transport, and Fate
Deposition portion of this program is to characterize the emissions
Environmental from motor vehicles using both traditional fuels as well as
Monitorin alternative fuels, such as methanol.
g Laboratory studies of the impact of low ambient
and Quality temperature on the emission rates of criteria and non-
Assurance criteria pollutants from light duty motor vehicles will
continue. Emphasis will be directed to the composition of
organic emissions. Studies of the relationship between fuel
composition, including gasoline and gasoline-alcohol
blends, and the composition and rate of tailpipe,
evaporative, and refueling emissions will continue. Other
programs will emphasize the development of analytical
procedures suitable for real-time measurement of motor
vehicle emissions. Procedures for determination of the
operating condition of motor vehicle emission control
devices will be evaluated. Programs for examination,
development, and improvement of procedures for
apportionment of observed ambient pollution to motor
vehicles will begin.
Studies will also be conducted to characterize organic
emissions from motor vehicles under widely variant
operating conditions, i.e., temperature, speed, and fuels.
Emission rates of formaldehyde, benzene, branched
paraffins, and other organic compounds of interest will be
determined.
Research in the Monitoring Systems and Quality
Assurance portion of the program focuses on developing
methodology for determining exposures of the population
to mobile source pollutants. A general methodology has
been developed for measuring and modeling the exposures
of the population to carbon monoxide, and this
methodology has been successfully field tested. Future
research will extend this methodology to other locations
and, where possible, to other mobile source air pollutants.
Detailed analyses of human exposure field data collected in
selected highway microenvironments will be undertaken to
develop improved commuter exposure models
incorporating traffic variables (roadway type, traffic count,
trip time, and seasonal characteristics). Data on human
activity patterns and time budgets will be further evaluated.
Improved models of human activity patterns and
microenvironmental concentrations will be developed and
field tested. The Simulation of Human Activities and
Pollutant Exposure (SHAPE) methodology will be
modified and validated using field data from another urban
area. Additional testing of basic assumptions in NAAQS
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Exposure Model (NEM) will be undertaken. The purpose
will be to improve the accuracy and reliability of the
Agency’s exposure assessment methodology for mobile
source pollutants.
Office or Total Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds (Sk) In-House
EMSL; RTP Gerald Akland 493.6 53
ADEMQA/HQ Wayne Ott - -
ASRL RIP Frank Black 1,287.4 60
(CTF)
ADEMQAJHQ William Keith 6.9 0
(CTF)
National A mbientA ir Quality Standards (NAA QS)
Acid The Characterization, Transport, and Fate portion of this
Deposition program is responsible for conducting studies to determine
Environmental the air pollution and meteorological factors that contribute
Monitorin to visibility reduction, and for developing information on
g the effects of particles on materials. Light extinction budget
and Quality field studies will be performed to determine the
Assurance contribution of various types of fine particles to visibility
reduction and to determine the sources of the particles.
Laboratory and field studies will be performed to identify
and determine the significance of the volatile component.
Visibility models will be developed.
Research on the effects of particles on materials will
concentrate on the influence of particle size and
composition on the soiling of paint.
Under the Monitoring Systems and Quality Assurance
portion of this program, improved air pollution monitoring
methods are being developed to help determine air quality
trends, support compliance with standards, and meet
enforcement needs. The data from these methods are often
used as the basis for regulatory action. The areas
investigated include ambient methods development, quality
assurance guidelines and audit materials preparation.
Ambient methods development will focus on measuring
particulate matter in support of anticipated changes to the
National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS). EPA
researchers will continue to analyze the mass and chemical
composition of the particulates collected through the
Inhalable Particulate Network. Also, fiber filters from the
national, state, and local air monitoring stations will be
analyzed for trace metals and benzo-a-pyrene.
Quality Assurance (QA) support will be provided
through a standards laboratory and repository of quality
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assurance materials. Routine and special audits will be
conducted at laboratories making ambient measurements
and at compressed gas vendors. QA guidelines, handbooks,
data handling systems and a precision and accuracy
reporting system will be maintained and updated. QA
procedures, materials, and audit techniques will be
developed for compliance monitoring. LIDAR support will
continue to be provided to field studies in plume lair mass
transport.
Office or Total Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds (Sk) In-House
EMSL/RTP John Punk 2,904.0 57
EMSL /LV James McElroy 780 .5 24
ADEMQA/HQ J. M. Shacke lford 193 .3 77
ASRL /RTP Alfred Ellison 386 .6 23
(CTF)
National Ambient A f r Quality Standards (NAA QS)
Health Effects This research program has three major goals: ( 1) to provide
data on health effects of exposures to 03, NO 2 , sulfur
oxides, particles, and lead using both human and animal
studies; (2) to provide better models to extrapolate animal
data to human effects; and (3) to develop improved test
methods for research into the physiological responses of
humans to gaseous air pollutants and particles.
Health Effects Research is conducted to refine and
improve the toxicological data base relevant to a size-
resolved particle standard (i.e., PM 10 ). Fine-mode particles
(<10 micron) will be studied in normal and susceptible
human and animal populations, as appropriate. Both
human and animal-dose response studies, as well as
mathematical modeling, will be given special attention to
determine the deposition, clearance, and pulmonary
function effects of particles, alone and in combination with
ozone, NO 2 and SO 2 .
The neurological consequences of lead, especially at levels
previously considered to be safe in children will be studied
epidemiologically, supplemented with animal studies where
needed. Research will also be done to improve the models
used to extrapolate animal biochemical and metabolic
responses to human effects. Both htiman and animal
experiments will provide data on the functional,
morphological, and biochemical changes which occur
following exposures to the primary air pollutants, and
provide extrapolation techniques to predict human
pulmonary and morphological responses to gases and
particles.
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This research provides data on the degree to which
primary air pollution cause or exacerbate the development
of non-carcinogenic chronic disease. Animal, human
clinical, and epidemiology studies are performed. Biological
endpoints to be examined include development of
cardiovascular or pulmonary disease, aggravation of
existing conditions, changes in biochemistry and host
defense mechanisms, and changes in pulmonary structure or
function. Emphasis is currently placed on determining the
acute and chronic effects of 03 and NO 2 inhalation.
The heath effects data from this research program are
incorporated into EPA criteria documents which are used
to set and revise National Ambient Air Quality Standards
(NAAQS).
Office or Total Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds (Sk) In-House
HERL RTP Richard Dickerson 12,496.9 38
OHR1-IQ Erode Ulvedal
NationalA mbient A ir Quality Standards (NA A QS)
Environmental Research will continue to determine impacts on crop yield
Processes and due to crop cultivar (genotype) and climate influence and
Effects dynamics (such as moisture) of varying ozone exposure
patterns during the growing season. Crop yield reductions
and soil moisture interactions with exposure dynamics will
be emphasized. Process directed studies will develop
conceptual or predictive models to define multiple
interactions between levels of various stress factors. Field
validated models will be used to predict yield effects of
single or multiple experimental variables. Preliminary
research design of ozone impacts on selected forest species
will be undertaken.
Office or Total Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds (Sk) In-House
ERL COR DaveTingey 1,658.7 40
OEPERHQ Kenneth Hood
NufionalA mbient A ir Quality Standards (NA A QS)
Scientific The main objective of the NAAQS scientific assessment
Assessment program is to review and revise criteria documents for
sulfur oxides, particulate matter, nitrogen oxides, ozone
and other photochemical oxidants, carbon monoxide and
lead.
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Criteria documents are mandated by the Clean Air Act
and, as directed by the Act, are revised at 5-year intervals.
These documents are evaluations of the available scientific
information on the health and welfare effects of criteria
pollutants. As such, criteria documents are the primary
source of information used by EPA regulatory decision
makers in setting or revising the NAAQS.
Criteria document draft materials are developed by EPA
scientists and outside expert consultants and are peer-
reviewed by scientific experts in public workshops.
Subsequently, the document drafts are revised and, through
announcements in the Federal Register, the public is invited
to comment on the resulting external review drafts, which
are also reviewed in public meetings by the Clean Air
Scientific Advisory Committee of EPA ’s Science Advisory
Board. The final documents are submitted to the Clean Air
Docket and are published concurrently with the proposed
regulatory decisions.
Office or Total Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds ( 5k) in-House
ECAO RTP Lester Grant 1,656 49
New Source Performance Standards and State
Implementation Plans
Acid Air quality models predicting the air quality impacts
Deposition associated with pollution abatement strategies are used in
Environmental the evaluation and development of State Implementation
• Plans for the control of photochemical oxidants and gases
Monitoring
and particles.
and Quality The Characterization, Transport, and Fate portion of this
Assurance program is responsible for the conduct of air quality
modeling studies to develop a single, defensible chemical
mechanism module for use in ozone air quality simulation
models. Regional ozone air quality models are being
developed for use in secondary ozone air quality standard
development and to provide a simpler regional ozone
model.
Field and laboratory studies to further develop and test
different Source Apportionment Methods (SAMs) are
underway and will evaluate hybrid (chemical composition
and meteorology) SAMs for apportionment of regional
aerosols. in anticipation of a revised particulate air quality
standard based on inhalable particulates, field, smog
chamber, wind tunnel, water channel, and laboratory
studies are being used to develop and evaluate chemistry
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and dispersion components of urban scale particulate air
quality models. Research is continuing to develop a first
generation regional particulate air quality model (RPM).
Cooperative transport and fate studies with the Peoples
Republic of China will continue. The User’s Network for
Applied Modeling of Air Pollution (UNAMAP) program is
continuing to evaluate models to prepare computer
programs for new versions of UNAMAP, prepare user’s
guides and supplements, and provide modeling consultation
to users. Field, wind tunnel, and modeling studies are being
used to develop the first generation SO 2 Complex Terrain
Dispersion Model. Fluid modeling studies are being
.conducted on the flow in the wake of buildings.
Additional research activities in the Monitoring Systems
and Quality Assurance area emphasize the development of
monitoring methods and provision of quality assurance
samples and support. EPAS5 monitoring methodologies for
source air pollutants will include evaluation, methods
improvement, preparation of operating guidance and
manuals for developed and commercial monitoring
instruments. Quality Assurance for the source monitoring
program is essential to ensuring that the data of known
accuracy and precision are used for regulatory and
enforcement decisions. Reference samples will be provided
and audits of laboratories making source measurements will
be continued.
Environmental
Engineering
and
Technology
Office or
Laboratory
EMSL IRTP
EMSL/ LV
ADEMQA/HQ
ASRL! RTP
(CTF)
ADEMQA! HQ
(CTF)
Total Percent
Funds (5k) In-House
New Source Performance Standards and State
Implementation Plans
Research in this program supports the development of New
Source Performance Standards (NSPS) and State
Implementation Plans by aiding in the development of
pollutant control technology which is cost-effective and
energy-efficient. The focus of the research is on the
reduction of VOC, NOR, SOS, and particulate emissions.
Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) are a major cause
of non-attainment of National Ambient Air Quality
Standards. Extramural research will evaluate VOC
Contact
John Punk
James McElroy
J. M. Shackelford
Alfred Ellison
William Keith
1,115.0
425.6
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7,216 ,5
39
77
0
30
526.8 55
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abatement technology such as adsorption, thermal
oxidation, and catalytic oxidation. Of particular interest
will be effective and affordable control methods for small
VOC-emitting industries. Field tests of process
modifications for VOC emission reduction from printing
and coating operations will be conducted jointly with
industry.
Combustion modification methods of controlling NO 1
and other emissions will be evaluated to determine
combustion modification (CM) methods for reducing NO 1
emissions and improving the performance of utility and
industrial boilers. Prior research has proven the CM
methods can be effective for control of NO 1 as well as other
emissions, if each method is tailored to the characteristics of
the specific combustion equipment (e.g.. stoker or package
boilers, coal or oil burners, and internal combustion engines
or gas turbines). Research will continue to assess low NO 1
heavy oil burner (precombustor) technology for industrial
boilers and the combustion of highly nitrated waste fuels.
Further, research will evaluate an in-furnace NO 1 reduction
technique called reburning which involves injection of fuel
downstream of the primary combustion zone, In-house
reburning experiments on pilot-scale combustors will be
continued and field test projects in a full-scale coal-fired
utility boiler will be started. In-house tests of selective
catalytic reduction (SCR) systems for internal combustion
engines will be completed.
Fundamental research on combustion processes will also
be conducted to improve the technical basis for estimating
achievable emissions, to help develop NO 1 -SO 1 emissions
reduction technologies and to support development of
emission standards for gas, oil, and coal-fired combustors.
Existing technology to control gaseous arid particulate
pollutants is expensive. For new utility sources,
approximately 30% of boiler costs are attributable to air
pollution control. Design and performance data for low
costs, high-reliability emission reduction technology are
needed to support the Agency’s regulatory functions.
Technical support to regulated entities will be provided by
conducting assessments and fundamental research on
technologies for reduction of stack emissions of sulfur
dioxide (SO 1 ) and particulate matter (PM), as well as PM
fugitive emissions.
SO 1 emissions reduction technology: In -house pilot
efforts will emphasize evaluation of low cost, more active
sorbents and additives for spray drying and other dry
scrubbing systems. A symposium on SO 1 emission
reduction via flue gas cleanup will be conducted.
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PM emissions reduction technology: In-house laboratory
and pilot efforts will emphasize investigation of advanccd
concepts for lowering the costs of particulate control
baghouses and electrostatic precipitators (ESPs). The range
of work will include electrostatic augmentation of fabric
filters (baghouses). larger diameter electrodes for ES Ps. and
simultaneous particulate/ SO removal in existing ESPs.
Extramural studies of controlling condensation aerosols
and fugitive emissions will also be conducted.
Office or Total Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds (5k) In-House
AEERL; RTP Everett Plyler 2.4M0.9 50
W. Gene Tucker
Robert E. Hal l
OFET HQ Marshall Dick 0 0
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Health Effects 0/Drinking Water Contaminants
Health Effects This research program provides dose-response data on
organic, inorganic, and microbiological contaminants. It
provides information on the best methods to obtain that
data, and information on the best methods to perform risk
assessments.
Selected contaminants will be evaluated to assist in
setting maximum contaminant levels or developing health
advisories. Increasing emphasis will be on determining the
health effects of exposure to disinfectants and their by-
products. Work will be done to improve methods for
extrapolating health effects research data in order to assess
the risks associated with simultaneous exposure to multiple
chemicals in complex mixtures. Focus will also be on
concentrating. isolating, and identifying infectious disease
agents in drinking water. Epidemiology studies on the
relationship between disinfectants and cardiovascular
disease and another study designed to determine the
significance of low-levels of viruses to human health are
underway.
Office or Total Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds ( 5k) In-House
HERL (‘IN Elmer Akin 9.692 ,7 35
OHR HQ David Klef lman
Health Effects of Drinking Water Contaminants
Scientific Revision of national drinking water regulations and health
Assessment advisory guidance given to the states requires an assessment
of the potential hazard to human health from exposure to
chemicals in drinking water. The health assessment
documents prepared under this program take the form of
both criteria documents and health advisories. These
documents are assessments of the health effects of exposure
to contaminants in drinking water. They specifically
evaluate the relevant scientific data describing the physical
and chemical properties, the pharmacokinetics, the health
effects in animals and humans, and the mechanisms of
toxicity. The health assessments are prepared for various
chemicals as requested by EPA ’s Office of Drinking Water
(0 0W). This risk assessment process enables ODW to
establish a Recommended Maximum Contaminant Level
(RMCL) or health goal, representing a level designated to
preclude the risk of an adverse effect on human health.
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Office or Total Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds ( 5k) In-House
ECAO CIN Cynthia Sonich-Mullin 647 62
Groundwater
Acid This program will provide development of methods for
Deposition locating abandoned welts, develop geophysical methods to
Environmental detect and evaluate underground moyement of fluids from
M o injection wells and evaluate existing instruments and
Oflit i’rng conduct research to develop new and advanced fiber optic
and Quality techniques for monitoring groundwater. The program will
Assurance also investigate the effects of seasonal variability on
monitoring well network design(s). In addition, accurate
and reliable total measurement systems will be developed
through standardized methods, laboratory evaluation, and
quality control procedures.
Office or Total Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds (5k) In-House
EMSL/LV Erich Bretthauer 934.6 35
ADEMQA’HQ Vernon J. Laurie 31.8 85
Groundwater
Environmental Ground water is a major source of drinking water for the
Processes nation. This research program seeks to improve methods
and for determining the transport and transformation of
Effects contaminants in the subsurface, methods for predicting the
behavior of pollutants in aquifers based on site-specific
subsurface characteristics and on characteristics of the
pollutants. In addition, research will evaluate in-situ aquifer
reclamation methods.
Extramural efforts will be directed toward several areas.
Methods will be developed for determining not only the
quantity and type of subsurface microorganisms, but also
their activity in terms of potential for biotransformation of
pollutants, Methods will also be developed for in-situ
detection of other subsurface parameters, important to
predicting pollutant behavior. Biological,
physical/chemical, and hydrologic processes and their
interrelations that will included in models. Subsurface (site-
specific) characteristics that influence such processes will be
determined.
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Promising reclamation methods (e.g.. biotransformation)
will be studied at laboratory scale and evaluated at one field
site. Finally, information transfer activities will be
continued.
Office or Total Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds ($k) In-House
RSKERL ADA George Keeler 4,695 25
OEPER HQ Steve Cordle 298 36
Drinking Water Technology
Acid This program will provide support for the Agency-wide
Deposition mandatory quality assurance program. The ten regional
Environmental laboratories will be evaluated annually in support of the
M • • National interim Primary Drinking Water Regulations
monitoring certification program. This program will also
and Quality conduct methods development research and provide
Assurance analytical procedures to produce precise and accurate total
measurement systems for chemical, radiochemical and
microbiological analysis. it will provide technically and
economically feasible analytical procedures to monitor
contaminants for use by the Agency, States, municipalities,
and operators of public drinking water systems.
Office or Total Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds (5k) In-House
EMSL/C 1N Robert Booth 1,436.3 45
EMSLf LV Erich Bretthauer 329.8 95
ADEMQA/HQ Vernon Laurie 64.1 95
Drinking Water Technology
Environmental To support revision of the national drinking water
Engineering standards, this program provides data on the technologies
and available, what they can attain in terms of drinking water
Technoto quality, and what they cost. Focus is on removal of volatile
gy organic compounds, organics responsible for formation of
trihalomethanes, inorganic and microbiological
contaminants and on problems related to maintaining water
quality in distribution systems. Emphasis will be on
developing cost information for treatment processes and for
entire water systems. Evaluation will also be made of the
tradeoffs in planning for rehabilitation of older water
systems. In addition, efforts will be made to address the
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problems of small utilities and to assist the states and
municipalities in complying with maximum contaminant
levels.
Office or Total Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds (Sk) In-House
WERL CIN Robert Clark 4.29 1.8 68
OEET HQ Bala Krishnan 0 0
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Water Quality Bused Approach/Permitting
Acid The monitoring research program develops chemical,
Deposition physical, and biological methods for measuring site-specific
Environmental and ambient water pollution concentrations. Most of this
research is conducted in-house at EMSL-Cincinnati with a
smaJ l portion being conducted at EMSL-LV.
and Quality Research emphasizes chemical measurement method
Assurance standardization and development of quality assurance
methods for priority toxic pollutants. Addtionally, research
seeks to extend the sensitivity of methods for measuring
toxic metals in water. Research on biological monitoring
methods addresses methods for screening toxic
concentrations of pollutants in ambient waters,
characterizing the biological condition of ambient waters,
provis ion of quality assurance procedures to analyze
chronic and acute toxicological effects, and standardization
of microbial and viral sampling and analysis methods.
Research on physical measurement methods concentrates
on documenting the validity and accuracy of sampling
regimes and flow-sensing equipment. The quality assurance
program provides quality control calibration materials and
procedures for standardization of chemical and biological
analysis. Virus sample preservation and assay protocols will
be standardized.
Office or Total Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds ( 5k) in-House
EMSL-CIN Cornelius Weber 2,027.5 99
James Lichtenberg
John Winter
ADEMQAIHQ Charles Plost 90.5 89
Water Quality Bused Approach/Permitting
Environmental A water quality-based approach to pollution control
Processes provides for correction of ambient water quality problems
and that remain after mandated minimum pollution control
Eff technology (e.g., secondary treatment, effluent guidelines) is
ec S in place. This requires the ability to translate water quality
standards into specific effluent conditions and discharge
limitations for municipalities and industry. Research will be
undertaken to provide the necessary information base and
scientific tools, including: site-specific criteria modification
protocols; contaminated sediment assessment techniques;
wasteload allocation techniques; complex effluent
bioassays; biomonitoring methods; and use attainability
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analyses. Research on wetland impact mitigation and
cumulative effects will also be conducted.
Office or Total Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds (5k) In-House
ERL ATH Robert Swank 1 ,455 69
ERL COR Spencer Peterson 815 75
ERLDUL NelsonThomas 2,885 97
ERL NARR Norbert Jaworski 845 96
OEPERA HQ Douglas Lipka 425 98
Water Quality Based Approach/Permitting
Health Effects Investigators will use existing short-term tests for
carcinogenic, mutagenic. and reproductive effects to
determine whether or not a site receiving a large number of
chemical contaminants into ambient waters is a public
health risk. Health effect indicators for shellfish growing
waters, are being developed. The results of these studies will
be used to revise and update water quality criteria and
NPDES permits.
Office or Total Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds (5k) In-House
HERL/CIN Lyman Condie 931.0 36
OHR/ HQ David Kleffman
Water Quality Bused Approach/Permitting
Scientific EPA’s overall research program with regard to water
Assessment quality emphasizes development of the scientific and
technical base to help states develop site-specific standards
and to conduct use-attainability analyses. The scientific
assessment program will provide guidance for assessing the
risk of human exposure to mixtures of toxic chemicals,
evaluate site-specific health hazards as required by the
states and EPA, and prepare evaluations of NPDES permit
modification requests submitted Section 30 1(g) of the Clean
Water Act.
Office Or Total Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds (5k) In-House
ECAO/CIN Cynthia Sonich-Mullin 290 68
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Wastewater Treatment Technology
Acid Research will support the Agency in the implementation of
Deposition technology-based effluent limitation regulations and the
Environmental modification of enforcement activities as required by water
Monitorin quality-based permit adjustments. Methods standardization
g research will be directed to the improvement of precision,
and Quality accuracy, and method detection limit of existing regulated
Assurance organic contaminants. Research will also validate and
correct analytical methods for the analysis of high priority
industrial wastewater components as well as evaluate
alternative analytical methods to support the National
Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES)
program.
Quality Assurance activities include the Discharge
Monitoring Report Quality Assurance (DMRQA) study;
preparation and distribution of calibration repository,
quality control, and performance evaluation samples; and
the conduct of performance evaluation studies. The
research program will support NPDES quality assurance by
providing quality control samples and protocols and by
maintaining the standards repository, including auditing
monitoring systems data reliability, DMRQA and
documentation of its precision and accuracy.
Office or Total Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds ( 5k) In-House
EMSL, CIN James Lichtenberg 1,087.9 100
John Winter
ADEMQAHQ Charles Plost 112.6 100
Wastewater Treatment Technology
Environmental Revisions to the Clean Water Act provide incentives for the
Engineering use of innovative wastewater treatment technology. This
research program will provide engineering support to the
Technolo innovative technologies and sludge management programs,
gy and on techniques to improve the reliability of wastewater
treatment plants.
In the area of innovative/alternative (I/A) technologies,
assistance will be provided to the construction grants
program in reviewing project plans, recommending
innovative technologies, and in making available detailed
planning, engineering, and analytical assistance for
innovative technology. Technical evaluations of full-scale
operational projects will produce feedback information of
designing, energy, capital, and operation and maintenance
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costs. Also, a new effort will evaluate reasons for failure of
I/A projects for the 100% modification/replacement
provisions.
Engineering support of municipal sludge management is
provided in two areas—treatment and disposal. In the
treatment area, emphasis will be on innovative stabilization,
digestion, and thermal conversion processes that are more
efficient in reducing the volume of sludge. Research in the
disposal area will focus on characterizing the mechanisms
controlling the uptake and the transformation of toxic
organics and pathogenic organisms in sludge-amended soils.
Overall emphasis is to provide the engineering information
on sludge management options to support implementation
of the Agency’s new sludge disposal regulations.
In the compliance achievement support program,
emphasis will be on providing design and cost information
on two low cost upgrading methods through the integration
of high biomass reactors and improved air aeration
technology.
Evaluations of the toxics treatability of various municipal
processes will be carried out. Toxicity reduction evaluation
procedures will be developed to support the Agency’s
“Policy for Development of Water Quality-Based Permit
Limitations.”
This program also supports Agency regulatory activities
relating to control of specific pollutants or toxicity in
industrial wastewater discharges. Efforts will supply data to
enable permitting authorities to issue BPJ discharge permits
for industry to meet water quality based standards in the
most cost-effective manner possible. This will be
accomplished by means of laboratory and pilot plant scale
evaluations of biological (particularly anaerobic) and
physical/chemical wastewater treatment methods. This
work will focus on complex, highly toxic wastewaters such
as dye and pigment manufacturing, aluminum smelters, and
organic chemicals production.
Also, efforts will provide manuals and methods for
conducting site-specific toxicity reduction evaluations
(TREs) to be used by permitting authorities to issue
discharge permits to industry, based on a toxicity as a
major parameter, particularly in the case of multiple
industrial contributions. The TRE method will be
developed by identifying the inplant sources of aquatic
toxicity, measuring stream toxicity, identifying industrial
contributors and recommending control alternatives. The
complete method will be verified at specific sites in
conjunction with ADEMQA and is applicable to complex
effluents not easily controlled by the WQA chemical-by-
chemical approach. Initial efforts will include toxicity
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reduction for pesticide manufacture, inorganic chemicals
and petrochemicals.
Office or Total Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds ( 5k) In-House
WERL/CIN Carl Brunner
Fred Bishop
Joseph Farrell 659.4 82
James Kreissl
Lew Rossman
Clyde Dempsey
OEET/ HQ Bala Krishnan 0 0
Don Tang
Wastewater Treatment Technology
Environmental This research will identify and determine distribution of
Processes unlisted chemicals in industrial wastewaters. Compounds
and that can be identified by empirical mass spectra matching as
Effects well as those that elude identification by this technique will
be included.
Office or Total Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds (5k) In-House
ERL/ATI - ! William Donaldson 470 58
OEPER/HQ Chieh Wu
Wastewater Treatment Technology
Health Effects Health effects research focuses on human health aspects of
municipal sludge disposal. The data from these studies are
used by the Agency for formulation of regulations, permits,
and guidelines under the Clean Water Act. One emphasis,
at present, is on land use and disposal of municipal sludges
which requires careful assessment of the effects on human
health of exposure to pollutants contained in the sludges.
Research will focus on the fate of pathogenic organisms,
particularly parasites and viruses, and on toxic risks of
heavy metals and organic chemicals. A critical aspect of
human exposure to municipal sludges is the potential close
human contact from sludge distribution and marketing
systems. Studies of the occurrence of pathogens and
chemicals in these systems are underway. Information from
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these studies will be part of a determination of the
feasibility of epidemiological evaluation of risks to the
human population from sludge distribution and marketing.
Office or Total Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds (5k) In-House
HERL CIN Elmer Akin i .158.O 75
OHR HQ David Kleffman
Wastewate, Treatment Technology
Scientific The scientific assessment program provides health
Assessment assessment profiles to support regulatory decision making
on the effective treatment, conversion, use, and disposal of
municipal sludge. Preliminary data profiles and hazard
indices are being prepared for a number of contaminants of
municipal sludge.
Office or Total Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds (5k) In-House
ECAO/CIN Cynthia Sonich-Mullin 388 25
Marine, Estuaries, and Lakes
Environmental This program has three components: ocean disposal,
p estuaries, and Great Lakes.
and To support ocean disposal permit decisions, there is a
Eff CIS need to provide decision makers with rationale and
procedures which are scientifically sound. These should
provide guidance for the acquisition of information and the
interpretation of this information in order to support ocean
disposal permit decisions. Under the ocean disposal
research program, emphasis will be given to the
development and testing of procedures to better evaluate
the impacts of ocean disposal actions; development of
procedures to satisfy monitoring needs for permit,
surveillance, and hazard assessment application; and
development of procedures for predicting the
bioaccumulation of contaminants and evaluation of the
significance of bioaccumulation processes, resultant tissue
residues and biological effects.
Methods for better source control decisions in the
NPDES and construction grants program are needed for
estuaries. The research program is developing generic
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procedures for conducting wasteload allocations in
estuaries. These generic methods are being developed using
data intensive case studies.
The Great Lakes research program will measure, describe
and predict the distribution, movement, fate, and effects of
toxic substances in nearshore “areas of concern” identified
by the US/Canada Water Quality Agreement. Emphasis
will be given to problems involving in-place pollutants. This
program will also provide the International Joint
Commission (IJC), the Great Lakes National Program
Office (GLNPO), EPA Regions and Great Lakes states with
technical support and research data synthesis related to
activities under the US/Canada Water Quality Agreement.
Office or Total Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds ($k) In-House
ERL/NARR Norbert Jaworski 3,690 84
ERL GB Thomas Duke 265 76
ERL/DUL Gil Veith 930 46
OEPER/HQ Sam Williams 170 63
Marine, Estuaries, and Lakes
Environmental This program develops data correlating sludge treatment
Engineering processes with environmental impacts for use in
and determining appropriate treatment levels for sludge prior to
T h ocean dumping as well as treatment levels for wastewater
1 ec no ogy discharged through ocean outfalls.
Office or Total Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds (Sk) In-House
WERL/CI Fred Bishop 66.8 100
OEET/HQ Bala Krishnan 0 0
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A kernate Technologies
Environmental The treatment program examines both existing and emerging
Engineering alternative techniques for treating or detoxifying hazardous
materials. Emphasis continues to be placed on those waste
r b i streams which will be banned from land disposal facilities.
ec no ogy Research is being conducted to evaluate in-situ methods
for the destruction / detoxification / containment of
dioxins/furans and pollutants related to the production
dioxins and similar toxicants. Major investigation will
involve the accelerated evaluation of the mobile incinerator at
the Denney Farm site near Verona, Missouri. and destruction
tests of potassium polyethylene glycolates (KPEG) on wood
treating wastes in Montana. The purpose of this research is to
determine the economic viability of the technique and to
establish: (a) test burn protocols; (b) health and safety
protocol; (c) site-specific, risk assessment protocol; (d) an
economic model for estimating the cost of treatment per Unit
of material processed; and (e) national and state permit
protocol
0111cc or Total Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds ($k) In-House
HWERL/CIN C. Dial 6,433.8 24
A. KIee
I. Wilder
OEETJ HQ P. E. des Rosiers 0 0
Dioxin
Environmental The research is designed to provide techniques and
Processes necessary data for predicting the rate and extent of
movement and transformation of 2,3,7,8-
Effects tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (2,3,7,8-TCDD) and selected
isomers in soils and ground waters. Also, the bioavailability
of dioxins is evaluated and the potential for uptake of
dioxins by plants, fish, and large animals is determined for
defining the potential biomaghification in food chain
systems.
ERL / Athens is evaluating the photodegradation of
2,3,7,8-TCDD in soils. RSKERL/Ada, using saturated and
unsaturated zone microcosms with soils from actual
contaminated sites, is determining the degradation and
mobility of 23,7,8-TCDD and isomers in soils.
ERL/Duluth is studying the bioavailability to fish of dioxin
and selected isomers from contaminated sediments, while
the program at ERL/ Corvallis deals with comparative plant
uptake kinetics and the potential bioaccumulation of
2,3,7,8-TCDD from contaminated soils in large animals.
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Office or Total Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds ( 5k) In-House
ERL’ATH Rosemarie C. Russo 75.0 0
RSKERLI ADA Harold G. Keeler 299.7 29
ERL/DUL Philip NI. Cook 424.1 18
ERL /COR Harold Kibby 184.3 29
Dioxin
Health Effects The purpose of the dioxin health research program is to
provide improved methodologies and assessments for
prediction of toxicity and exposure to halogenated dioxins,
furans, and related compounds. Tetrachlorodibenzodioxin
(TCDD) and some of its presently uncharacterized
congeners are among the most highly toxic compounds.
This research program is designed to improve the scientific
methodology for detection of these toxins and
characterization of their effects. Specific areas of research
are the investigation of the effects of polychlorinated
dibenzodioxins and dibenzofurans on the immune system
and serum chloresterol. In addition, the structure-activity
relationship of various congeners to specific biological
activity will be determined.
Office or Total Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds (5k) In-House
HERL/RTP Richard Phillips 500.0 0
OHR/HQ W. Wade Talbot
Dioxin
Scientific This program supports the activities of the Agency’s dioxin
Asàessment program through research designed to fill gaps in the
Agency’s information base on dioxins in order to reduce the
uncertainties in dioxin risk assessments. The specific
projects include analysis of soil ingestion patterns in
children, investigation of the pharmacokinetics of 2,3,7,8-
TCDD in rhesus monkeys as a model for pharmacokinetics
in humans, and determination of the physical and chemical
properties of the most overt congeners of dioxins and
furans.
Office or Total Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds ($k) In-House
OHEA/HQ Alan Ehr lich 488 10
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Incineration
Environmental Incineration research focuses on four areas: characterizing
Engineering performance of existing thermal destruction technologies:
and developing methods of rapid cost-effective compliance
Technolo monitoring of these facilities: characterizing the products of
gy incomplete combustion and their formation conditions: and
developing methods to predict performance to avoid
process failure and control process reliability. The research
is conducted at laboratory and pilot-scale facilities in
Cincinnati, Research Triangle Park, and Jefferson,
Arkansas. The hypotheses from this program are verified in
full-scale field tests. The program examines conventional
incineration as well as high temperature industrial
processes.
Office or Total Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds (5k) In-House
HWERL.CIN E, Oppelt 2,578.5 41
OEET; HQ K. Jakobson 0 0
Land Disposal
Environmental With regard to land disposal, synthetic and clay liners will
Engineering be studied and the effectiveness of alternative closure and
and monitoring procedures for surface impoundments will be
Technolo° investigated. Technical Resource Documents will be
updated for use by regional and state agencies for
permitting hazardous waste disposal facilities and for
enforcing applicable regulations. This program will update
documents for disposal facility design, operation,
maintenance, and closure.
Research is also being conducted to characterize air
emissions from hazardous waste treatment, storage, and
disposal facilities and to assess methods to control them.
Office or Total Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds (5k) In-House
HWERL/CIN N. Schomaker 2,883 34
OFET HQ K. Jakobson 0 2
Land Disposal
Environmental The goal of this research is to develop information on new
Processes and existing technologies for land treatment of hazardous
and wastes for which incineration or conventional land disposal
n are inappropriate, infeasible, or ineffective. In addition, the
r 4 nec S Land Treatment Permitting Standards require all applicants
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show that hazardous constituents can be degraded,
transformed, or immobilized in the treatment zone.
Through the design and operation of laboratory-, bench-,
and pilot-scale land treatment systems, RSKERL/Ada is
studying the effects of waste mixtures, closure approaches,
treatment zone limitations, runoff control, volatilization,
loading rates, and unsaturated zone monitoring. Training
manuals for permit writers and applicants are produced
from these studies.
Office or Total Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds (5k) in-House
RSKERL/ADA Harold G. Keeler 768.0 37
Quality A ssurance
Acid To ensure that the data on which regulations and
Deposition enforcement are based are accurate, QC samples will be
Environmental provided to USEPA contractor, state, and local
Monitorin laboratories conducting RCRA monitoring. Calibration
standards will be provided for Appendix VIII compounds
and Quality to USEPA contractor, state, and local laboratories. Natural
Assurance matrix, liquid and solid performance evaluation samples
will be developed and distributed to RCRA contractors,
EPA, and state laboratories conducting RCRA hazardous
waste analyses. Statistical data on the laboratory
evaluations will be reported to the Office of Solid Waste.
Referee laboratory analyses on all RCRA samples will be
conducted. NBS traceability for PE, QC, and method
validation study samples prepared for RCRA monitoring
activities will be provided.
Office or Total Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds (5k) In-House
EMSLJCIN Robert Booth 589.7 26
EMSL/LV Erich Bretthauer 667.5 28
EMSL/RTP John Puzak 165.9 18
ADEMQA/HQ John Koutsandreas 50.0 10
Releases
Acid In order to determine whether underground storage tanks
Deposition (UST) containing hazardous materials are leaking, an
Environmental evaluation of basic leak detection monitoring methods for
Mo outside UST will be conducted. This will include: the
i ii ormg establishment of candidate performance criteria for several
and Quality classes of techniques; the development of a test protocol for
Assurance determination of the performance criteria; and testing of the
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“most promising” leak detection methods to validate the
test procedure and to establish that instrumentation
presently exists which can meet the candidate performance
criteria.
Network design for the placement of leak detection
sensors will focus on the excavation zone around tanks with
emphasis on vapor monitoring. However, monitoring in the
saturated zone and in native soils will also be considered.
Field measurements will be conducted and existing private
and local ‘state experiences with leak detection will be
investigated. Technical guidance will use a panel of experts
to develop a “decision tree” approach to provide guidance
for the many and varied sites throughout the country. New
technologies for leak detection monitoring, such as fiber
optics and geochemical sensors, will be evaluated.
The Clean Water Act (Section 311) mandates that Spill
Prevention Control and Countermeasure plans be prepared
for all facilities engaged in the production, storage,
processing, and distribution of hazardous materials. EPA
regional offices are responsible for ensuring compliance.
The ADEMQA provides remote sensing techniques for
monitoring. Support will be provided to the Regions for the
development and revision of monitoring techniques.
Office or Total Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds (5k) In-House
EMSL/LV Erich Rretthauer 1,556.1 15
ADEMQA!HQ John Koutsandreas 23.1 10
Releases
Environmental Underground storage tank (UST) research is evaluating
Engineering prevention, detection, and corrective action technologies to
identify cost-effective, reliable techniques and equipment
Technolo for USTs. Early work is producing state-of-the-art
documents for each type of technology. The primary focus
of ongoing work is the evaluation of leak detection
technologies at a test apparatus in Edison, NJ, and the
targeting of high potential technologies for improved
performance. Rest engineering practices for leak prevention,
the detection of leaks, and site cleanup will be documented.
To provide technical support in preventing and
containing hazardous spills, reports will be issued
summarizing research on the evaluation of specialized
equipment and techniques for prevention, control, removal,
and disposal of hazardous releases.
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Office or Total Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds (5k) In-House
HWERL/CIN 1. Wilder 3,052.4 21
OEET! HQ D. Berg 0 0
K. Jakobson
Releases
Environmental Within this activity, research is conducted to address
Processes evaluation of assessment and cleanup techniques for
and unplanned releases of hazardous wastes. This includes the
Effects development and evaluation of a multiple bioassay
screening protocol to indicate the biological hazard
associated with contaminated soils, water, and sediment;
and the determination of the applicability and cost-
effectiveness of in-situ reclamation techniques for
unsaturated-zone and ground-water contamination
resulting from leaking underground storage tanks and other
hazardous waste sources.
ERL/Corvallis has developed and is now testing and field
evaluating a multimedia, multiorganism bioassay designed
to indicate whether the toxicants in contaminated water,
soil, and sediments are biologically available and if the level
of bioavailability poses a significant risk to exposed
organisms in the environment. At RSKERL/Ada,
coordinated laboratory and field tests of biological,
physical, and chemical methods, previously tried at
hazardous waste sites, are being conducted to determine
their cost and applicability to cleanup of pollutants from
leaking underground storage tanks.
Office or Total Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds (Sk) In-House
ERL/COR Spencer A. Peterson 352.6 80
RSKERL/ ADA Harold G. Keeler 348.7 42
Waste Characterization
Environmental Regulation of hazardous wastes in the most cost-effective
Processes manner requires methods and data for predicting toxicity of
and waste materials and evaluating the concentrations of these
Eff materials at some point of exposure, and then integrating
ec S these methods for different media into single evaluation
techniques which incorporate uncertainty into the
predictions.
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ERLJ Duluth is developing methods and data for rapidly
predicting the toxicity and bioaccumulation potential of
wastes, waste streams, and leachates on the basis of
quantitative chemical structure-activity relationships. This
is achieved by linking chemical molecular descriptors with
known toxicities of single chemicals and chemical classes,
developing a model to predict toxicity of chemical mixtures
on the basis of individual components, identifying modes of
action of chemical types, and comparing fish dose/response
relationships to those of mammalian species.
Providing field-evaluated methods and data to predict the
concentrations of hazardous chemicals in the subsurface
environment from the treatment, storage, or disposal of
wastes is the thrust of the program at RSKERL/Ada.
Physical, chemical, and biological processes that govern the
transport rate, transformation, and fate of wastes are
evaluated and their mechanisms are described in
mathematical models. These, in turn, are evaluated through
field experiments.
Integrated, multimedia mathematical models and data
are being developed by ERL/Athens for implementing the
land disposal banning rule and evaluating waste
management and treatment needs based on potential
human health and environmental impacts. Probabilistic
techniques are developed and used to address uncertainty.
The various media models are coupled to produce both
screening-level and more site-specific multimedia exposure
assessment packages.
Office or TotJ Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds (Sk) In-HoUse
ERL/DUL Philip M. Cook 1,185.2 55
RSKERL/ ADA Harold G. Keeler 2,380.6 32
ERL/ATH Rosemarie C. Russo 3,062.5 17
OEPER/ HQ Will C. LaVeille 594.4 45
Waste Characterization
Health Effects Listing of substances under the Resource Conservation and
Recovery Act (RCRA) requires the ability to characterize
the potential health hazards of wastes. This research
program focuses on developing a three-level biological
testing battery of short-term tests to make determinations
of the potential health hazard of manufacturing process
residues. Emphasis will be on recognizing complex mixtures
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as hazardous wastes for disposal purposes. This current
research is to develop a screen for Level 1 of a three-level
testing battery. This prescreen protocol will be an
abbreviated and inexpensive screen for large numbers of
RCRA samples. The screen will provide a rapid and
sensitive prioritizing assessment of the potential toxicity of
RCRA samples. In 1987, the program will begin validating
the use of the prescreen protocol on actual field samples
from hazardous waste sites.
Office or Total Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds (Sk) In-House
HERL. RTP Richard Phillips 1,903.7 34
OHR HQ W. Wade Talbot
Waste Characterization
Scientific This program provides assessments of the health effects and
Assessment risks arising from hazardous wastes, improved methods for
performing such assessments, and chemical-specific health
summaries. These are supplied to the EPA’s Office of Solid
Waste (OSW) to support a variety of regulatory activities
and to EPA regional offices, and the states for use in
evaluating permit and enforcement actions.
One type of assessment, the health and environmental
effects profiles characterizes a waste and assesses the
hazards posed to humans or the environment by exposure
to it. The profiles support decisions on listing or delisting a
chemical as a hazardous waste. Most of this work is done
by extramural contract.
In addition, the program develops methods to assess the
extent of human health effects and human exposure to
complex hazardous wastes. These methods support efforts
to assess and refine proposed RCRA permits and to
prepare supporting documentation for enforcement
decisions. Finally, to support the prevention and
containment of hazardous spills, extramural contractors
develop chemical-specific health summaries for use in
evaluating alternatives for dealing with hazardous spill
contaminants.
Office or Total Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds (Sk) In-House
ECAOICIN Christopher DeRosa 3,653 33
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Waste Identification
Acid To improve procedures to characterize wastes for listing
Deposition under RCRA, research will be conducted to develop
Environmental methods ! r characterizing and detecting particular wastes
Monitorin and providing critena for determining if those wastes
g constitute a potential hazard. The lack of standardized
and Quality methods emphasizes the immediate need for a
Assurance comprehensive program to assure that data of known
quality are being collected. Methods will be tested for
application to highly toxic wastes in soil and sediments, for
detection of organics in the ambient air of waste disposal
facilities, and for determining the reactions of wastes in all
media.
Techniques for field monitoring of waste sites will be
improved, including statistics for sampling design and
evaluated standard methods. RCRA land disposal
regulations require the establishment of a ground water
monitoring program at most facilities, including detection
and compliance of saturated and vadose zone monitoring.
Of particular importance is subsurface monitoring of sites
and investigation of new techniques for monitoring soils,
biota, ambient air, and waste incineration emissions.
Efforts will be directed toward validating waste
incinerator test methods for semi-volatile organic
compounds and monitors for carbon monoxide and
organics on waste incinerator stacks.
Office or Total Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds (5k) In-House
EMSL/C IN Robert Booth 1,958.3 25
EMSL/LV Erich Brctthauer 7,249.6 27
EMSL/RTP John Punk 936.7 21
ADEMQA/HQ John Koutsandreas 100.0 15
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Biotechnology/Microbial and Biochemkal Pest
Control Agents
Environmental The areas of focus in this research program are: the
Engineering identification and evaluation of alternatives to mitigate
and release and exposure of chemicals which will be used by the
Technolo Agency in regulating the manufacture and use of existing
gy chemicals; the development of predictive capabilities to be
used in assessing release and exposure in the review of
Premanufacturing Notices (PMNs) for new chemicals as
required by TSCA; and the assessment of physical,
chemical and biological techniques and devices to contaim
and destroy genetically engineered organisms under TSCA.
Alternatives to mitigate release and exposure of specific
existing chemicals will be defined in cooperation with
industry, through the evaluation and adaptation of control
measures related to the release in the workplace and into
the environment of the chemicals during their life cycles.
Technologies, management practices, and personal
protective equipment to limit the release and exposure of
chemicals will be evaluated.
Models to predict the release and exposure of different
classes of new chemicals will be developed in cooperation
with industry. The models will address different chemical
unit operations, unit processes and physical/chemical
properties of chemicals and predict potential exposure and
release levels as well as best control measures to mitigate
release and exposure of new chemicals. Pilot scale testing
for the treatability of classes of potentially toxic chemicals
will be conducted to validate these predictive models for
waste streams.
A program to support PMN review related to genetically
engineered organisms will be conducted through technology
and engineering assessments of the potential for
environmental contamination, and physical, chemical and
biological techniques and devices to contain and destroy
these organisms. Engineering safety and quality control
programs will be emphasized.
Office or Total Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds ($k) In -House
WERL/C LN Clyde Dempsey 53 1.5 18
OEET/ HQ Don Tang 0 0
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Biotechnology/Microbial and Biochemical Pest
Control Agents
Environmental The biotechnology research effort is concerned with
Processes interactions between microorganisms and ecological
processes in an attempt to develop comprehensive
Effects knowledge of the biochemical, physiological, and genetic
mechanisms involved. The program will examine the
potential environmental risk associated with the application
of genetically engineered microorganisms (GEMs).
Assessment of environmental impacts of GEMs requires
reliable methodologies for identification enumeration in
environmental samples. The methods must address the
analytical and operative criteria required for any
monitoring program. They must be sensitive and specific to
differentiate GEMs from the background of indigenous
organisms. They have to be feasible, accurate, reproducible,
and widely applicable since samples will differ greatly from
one another, such as leaf surfaces and freshwater reservoirs.
In addition, laboratory systems (microcosms) containing
sediment, water, and indigenous microorganisms are used
to assess the fate of GEMs in various ecosystems. These
systems attempt to simulate interactions between
microorganisms surfaces. The fate of microbes in
microcosms is compared with fate in natural systems to
assess the validity of laboratory data.
Research in this area applies techniques of molecular and
classical genetics to ecological studies to address questions
on survival and growth of novel microorganisms. Questions
such as specific niche requirements, selective advantages of
new genotypes, and potential for causing harmful effects to
populations, ecosystems, or processes will be examined. The
work requires techniques to enumerate and detect GEMs or
genetic material in complex ecosystems. The research also
addresses genetic stability of altered microorganisms;
including transmissibility of plasmids and other genetic
information in, situ.
Office or Total Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds (Sk) In-House
ERLJGB Henry F. Enos 1,948.4 11.7
ERLICOR T. Murphy 1 ,947.4 11.7
Biotecisnology/Mkrobial and Biochemical Pest
Co , Weal Agents
Health Effects Biotechnology research is aimed at the development of
methods to evaluate the potential health hazards of
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genetically engineered organisms and the products of these
microorganisms. Potential mechanisms of action and
screening methods for adverse mechanisms are being
investigated. Models are being developed to assess the
potential dispersal capability of genetically engineered
genes.
Office or Total Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds ($k) In-House
HERL/RTP William F. Durham 337.8 45
OHR/HQ Lynda Erinoff
Ecology: Ecotoxkity and Risk Assessment
Environmental Environmental risk assessment studies on the linkage of
Processes and environmental exposure and ecotoxicology hazard
Effects assessment techniques, and development of methods to
evaluate risks associated with genetically engineered
organisms have been initiated.
The ecotoxicology study includes the movement, trans-
formation and ultimate disposition of toxic substances in all
environmental media and is a critical component of this risk
assessment. How plants and animals or larger ecosystems
are affected by toxic substances are also the subjects of this
research effort. This involves specific activities for
developing and validating tests and methodologies for
assessments on specific existing chemical evaluations to be
used in rule making by the Office of Toxic Substances.
Activities in this research program are conducted at four
field laboratories and EPA headquarters as follows:
• ERL/Athens—transport and transformation of organic
and inorganic substances in freshwater and multi-media
environments, and development of SAR techniques and
models to predict the fate of new chemicals;
• ERL/Corvallis —fate and effects of toxic substances and
genetically engineered organisms in terrestrial
environments;
• ERL/Duluth—effects of toxic substances in freshwater
environments, and development of SAR regarding the
effects of new chemicals;
• ERL/Gulf Breeze—fate and effects of chemicals and
genetically engineered organisms in estuarine/ marine
environments.
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Office or Total Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds (Sk) In-House
ERL /ATH Rosemarie C. Russo 405.6 100
ERL /COR Thomas A. Murphy 56.7 100
ERL/DIJL Oilman Veith (LU 0
ERL/G8 Henry F. Enos 0.0 0
OEPERJHQ Frederick W. Kutz 1,631.8 0
Ecology: Transport/Fate/Field Validation
Environmental This research encompasses the determination of the effects,
Processes and movement, transformation, and ultimate relocation of toxic
Effects substances and their degradation products that
inadvertently enter into all environmental media. This
program provides information on how plants and animals
and Larger ecosystems are affected by exposure to toxic
substances caused by accidents in commerce and industry.
Specific activities include developing and validating tests for
assessing hazards, exposure and estimation of the fate of
existing chemicals.
Information developed in the above studies provides data
necessary for hazard and exposure assessment tests and
mathematical models of chemical transport, transformation
and fate. These results allow the Agency to determine toxic
substances in environmental media and to relate these
estimates to terrestrial and aquatic systems. These data are
used as input to models which predict the accumulation of
toxic chemicals in food chains. This research will
demonstrate how important biodegradation is in this
process.
Activities in the programmatic areas of transport,
transformation and fate, and biodegradation of chemicals
are conducted at four field laboratories. Their locations and
the research they conduct are as follows:
• ERL/DUL—effects of toxic substances in freshwater
environments;
• ERL/OB—fate and effects of toxic chemicals and
genetically altered organisms in estuarine/marine
systems;
• ERL-NARR—-chemical fate and effects in marine
systems;
• ERLfCOR—fate and effects of toxic substances in
terrestrial systems.
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Office or Total Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds (Sk) In-House
ERL. ATH Rosemarie A. Russo 7605 100
ERL:GB Henry F. Enos 826.8 91.6
ERL’COR Thomas A. Murphy 488.0 100
ERL DUL Gilman Veith 153.0 100
Exposure Monitoring
Acid Research for exposure monitoring is dedicated to
Deposition development and improvement of methods to estimate total
Environmental human exposure arid population exposure. Geostatistics,
M human activity pattern analysis, model evaluation and
application of geographic information systems are used to
*1) improve population estimates of exposure. Personal
Quality exposure monitoring, including total human exposure
Assurance methodology, is compared to network monitoring systems
to improve techniques to estimate an individual’s pollutant
exposure in all media.
Office or Total Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds {Sk) In-House
EMSL/LV Shelly Williamson 1,818.8 30
EMSL/RTP John Puzak 903.9 12
ADEMQA/HQ Michael Dellarco 0.0 0
Health: Markers, Dosimetry, and Extrapolation,
Health Effects This research is aimed at providing techniques to reduce the
uncertainties in risk assessments. Techniques are needed to
extrapolate between adverse effects seen in animal species
and human health effects and between high doses used in
animal toxicity testing and low doses typical of
environmental exposure. Dosimetry models are being
developed for dermal and inhalation routes of exposure.
Biological markers research focuses on the development of
indicators of biological dose and resulting effects for
eventual application to studies of human populations.
Office or Total Percen
Laboratory Contact Funds (Sk) In-Ho
HERL/RTP William F. Durham 6,228.9 V
OHR/HQ Lynda Erinoff
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Special Human Data Needs
Health Effects This research is designed to provide information to assist in
identifying and regulating existing chemicals with potential
human health risks. Research focuses on developing
epidemiological and biostatistical methods. Efforts in
biochemical epidemiology are underway to identify and
evaluate biomonitoring and screening methods for potential
application to human environmental epidemiology.
Office or Total Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds (5k) In-House
HERLjRTP William F. Durham 2,532.2 13
OHR/HQ LyndaErinoff
Structure Activity Relationships
Environmental This thematic research program is designed to determine
Processes and the disposition of new toxic chemicals in all environmental
Effects media and how to determine if selected plants and animals
might be affected. This involves developing structure-
activity relationships (SAR) for rapid estimation of the fate
and effects of new chemicals. Structure-activity relationship
research develops methodologies based upon molecular
structure characteristics to rapidly assess the environmental
fate and toxicity of new chemicals. Structure-activity
includes those data bases mathematical models which are
used for predicting bioaccumulation, toxicity, and fate.
Activities also include the development of data bases on
plant uptake, fate of organic chemicals, toxicity to fish and
reactivity of chemicals in the air. Activities in this research
program area are conducted at two field laboratories. Their
geographic locations and the kinds of research they conduct
are as follows:
• ERL/ATH—transport and transformation of both
organic and inorganic substances in freshwater and
multi-media environments and development of SAR to
predict the potential fate of new chemicals.
• ERL/ DUL—effeds of toxic substances in freshwater
environments, and development of SAR to predict the
effects of new chemicals on aquatic organisms.
Office or Total Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds (5k) In-House
ERL/ATH Rosemarie C. Russo 354.9 100
ERL/DUL Oilman Veith 36Z9 66
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Structure A clivity Relationships
Health Effects Methods are being developed to use combinations of
descriptions based on molecular structure to predict
enzymatic, genetic, carcinogenic, and other activities of new
chemicals to support section 5 of TSCA. Techniques include
pattern recognition and statistical and thermodynamic
analyses. In addition, chemical data bases are being
constructed for use in predicting toxicological responses for
new chemicals with similar structures.
Office or Total Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds ( 5k) lnHouse
HERl.. RIP William F. Durham 1,216.9 36
OHR:HQ Lynda Erinoff
Support for Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)
Acid Quality assurance efforts are dedicated to providing support
Deposition program activities. Specifically, research is conducted to
Envfronmental evaluate the reliability and reproducibility of analytical
Monitorin methods for complex organic chemical compounds used in
g monitoring networks, to produce reference chemicals and
attn analytical spectra and to provide quality assurance for
Quality program office sample collection in field studies.
Assurance
Office or Total Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds (5k) tn-House
EMSL/C JN Tom Clark 186.5 13
EMSLJLV Shelly Williamson 1,174.3 31
EMSL RIP John Puzak 318.8 7
ADEMQA: HQ Michael Dellarco 26.8 0
Support for Toxic Substances Control A ct (TSCA)
Scientific The scientilie assessment program provides evaluations and
Assessment assistance to the Office of Toxic Substances in the conduct
of unilorm risk assessment procedures for carcinogenicits.
mutagenicit ’.. adverse reproductive developmental effects.
and exposure.
Office or Total Percent
Laborator Contact Funds ( 5k) In-House
OFIEA HQ lat renee Valcovic 115
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Engineering
Environmental The areas of focus in this research program are the
Engineering identification and evaluation of alternatives to mitigate
and Technology release and exposure of chemicals which will be used by the
Agency in regulating the manufacture and use of existing
chemicals and the development of predictive capabilities to be
used in assessing release and exposure in the review of
Premanufacturing Notices (PMN’s) for new chemicals as
required by TSCA.
Alternatives to mitigate release and exposure of specific
existing chemicals will be defined in cooperation with
industry, through the evaluation and adaptation of control
measures related to the release in the workplace and into the
environment of the chemicals during their life cycles.
Technologies, management practices, and personal protective
equipment to limit the release and exposure of chemicals will
be evaluated.
Models to predict the release and exposure of different
classes of new chemicals will be developed in cooperation
with industry. The models will address different chemical unit
operations, unit processes and physical/chemical properties
of chemicals and predict potential exposure and release levels
as well as best control measures to mitigate release and
exposure of new chemicals. Pilot scale testing for the
treata bility of classes of potentially toxic chemicals will be
conducted to validate these predictive models for waste
streams.
Office or Total Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds (Sk) In-House
WERL!CJ Clyde Dempsey 2,393.1 19
OEET/HQ Don Tang 1214 69
Test Method Development
Acid Test methods development research seeks to provide
Deposition improved procedures to identify and quantitate chemical
Environmental compounds of interest. Emphasis is placed on development
of biological and chemical procedures to estimate total
human exposure from different media and to measure
and pollutant dose in the body. New statistical techniques are
Quality developed for field study designs and population sampling
Assurance to improve network monitoring systems and population
exposure assessments.
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Office or Total Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds (5k) In-House
EMSLC IN Tom Clark 153 .3 20
EMSL LV Shelly Williamson 544.7 23
EMSLI RTP John Puzak 437.8 27
ADEMQA 1 HQ Michael Dellarco 0.0 0
Test Method Development
Environmental Environmental hazard assessment research focuses on
Processes and developing, improving and validating single and multi-
Effects species toxicity tests for chronic and acute toxicity in
aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. The developed methods
are validated in microcosms in the laboratory, and in
natural and constructed field ecosystems to define their
applicability in real-world situations.
Test methods development for aquatic and terrestrial
biota provides new or modified bioassays for plants and
animals and is an essential part of hazard assessment. This
effort encompasses the cellular level of organisms and
includes larger ecosystems to assess how exposure to toxic
substances can adversely affect these biological systems.
These methods are verified and validated both in the
laboratory and in the field using specific chemicals before
they are given to the Office of Toxic Substances for the
assessment of existing chemicals.
Activities in this program are carried out in four field
laboratories. Their locations and kinds of research
conducted are as follows:
• ERL/Duluth—effects of toxic substances in freshwater
environments;
• ERL/Gulf Breeze—fate and effects of toxic chemicals
and genetically altered organisms in estuarine/ marine
systems;
• ERL/ Narragansett—chemical fate and effects in marine
systems; and
• ERL/Corvallis—fate and effects of toxic substances and
in marine systems.
Office or Total Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds (5k) In-House
ERL/DUL Gilman Veith 143.1 100
ERLJGB Henry F. Enos 268.0 100
ERLJNARR Norbert A. Jaworski 126.3 100
ERL/COR Thomas A. Murphy 369.9 100
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Test Method Development
Health Effects Under the Toxic Substances Control Act, EPA must provide
industry with guidance to test chemicals for potential hazards
to public health. In order to base regulatory decisions on the
best possible data, reliable test methods must be developed
for incorporation into test guidelines. The goal of this
research is to develop short-term, cost-effective, predictive
methods for detecting the toxic effects of chemicals. These
test systems include both In vitro and in ‘ivo methods and
bioassays for predicting adverse health effects such as
alterations in reproductive and developmental processes, and
immunotoxic and neurotoxic effects.
Office or Total Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds (5k) In-House
HERLI RTP William F. Durham 1,675.6 57
OHR: HQ Lynda Erinoff
Test Method Development
Scientific The role of the scientific assessment program is to reduce
Assessment the uncertainties associated with risk assessment by
conducting or sponsoring efforts intended to develop
and/or improve approaches and methods in this area.
Efforts include the development of biologically-based
models to extrapolate laboratory-derived data to human
risk applications, assessment of risk as a function of
different exposure scenarios and the quantification of
exposure that incorporates pharmacokinetic/
pharmacodynamic factors, and the development of methods
that can be directly applied to human populations to assess
the occurrence and degree of exposure and estimate the
probable health risk.
Office or Total Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds (5k) in-House
OIIEA/HQ Lawrence Valcovic 304 34
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Biotechnology/Microbial and Biochemical Pest
Control Agents
Environmental This portion of the research program is planned to develop
Processes and or improve bioassay methodologies for determining the
Effects effects of biological control agents or biochemical agents
(e.g. hormones, pheromones) on non-target biotic receptors.
The application of the results assists in establishing testing
guidelines and in registering and controlling the use of these
control agents. Agents of interest include both genetically
altered and unaltered bacteria, viruses and fungi.
Parameters to be studied include routes of exposure,
methods to recover or identify the agents and virulence,
toxicity and infectivity. Survival, monitoring, growth,
persistence and effects plus controlling abiotic factors are of
concern. Probable genetic transfer/stability and the risks
associated with genetically engineered microorganisms
(GEMs) will be investigated. Special handling and testing
methods and systems will be studied.
Office or Total Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds ($k) In-House
ERL/COR Thomas A. Murphy 505.5 21
ERLIDUL Gilman Veith 246.2 39
ERL/OB Henry Enos 842.1 48
Biotechnology/Microbial and Biochemical Pest
Control Agents
Health Effects Models will be developed on potential interaction of
microbial agents and the mammalian cell. Goals are (I) the
determination of the ability of microbial agents to replicate,
and (2) to provoke immune responses in non4arget
(mammalian) hosts. Methods will also be developed using
monoclonal antibodies and biotinated DNA probes to enable
the identification of genetic material from microbial
pesticides in non-target sites such as mammalian cells in vitro
and in vivo.
Office or Total Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds ( 5k) In-House
HERL/RTP William F. Durham 868.0 15
OHR/HQ Charles T. Mitchell
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Ecology: Ecoloxicity and Risk Assessment
Environmental To register or re-register pesticides it is necessary to develop
Processes and a focused risk assessment process for integrating hazard and
Effects exposure assessments into models which express the
probability of risk to important non-human populations.
This facet of the research program develops environmental
risk assessment methodology by combining impact data
using existing or new models to express risk as a probability
with estimates of the associated uncertainty.
New endpoint responses will be studied encompassing
ecosystem structures and function. Selected wildlife and
microbial populations will be used to reflect population
changes and other changes that influence risk evaluations.
Other parameters that affect model integrity will be studied
(e.g., species susceptibility; chemical routes of exposure and
uptake and residues). Modeling will be supported through
data integration and the model, its calibration and
validation will be supported through field studies which
includes all media. Upon completion of the planning cycle
all extramural monies will be disbursed through the
participating laboratories.
Office or Total Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds (Sk) In-House
ERL/ATH Rosemarie C. Russo 0.0 0.0
ERL/COR Thomas A. Murphy 52.7 100
ERL/DUL Gilman Veith (1.0 0.0
ERL/GB Henry Enos 0.0 0.0
OEPER/HQ Frederick Kutz 789.6 0.0
Ecology: Transport/Fate/Fidd Validation
Environmental Research will concentrate on the development, refinement
Processes and and validation of techniques and models to measure and
Effects predict pesticide transport, degradation, exposure, effects and
fate in the environment. Laboratory and field studies will be
conducted to substantiate the applicability of methods and
mathematical models and to insure that results are valid and
reflect environmental responses under natural conditions.
Data from these studies will be used to assess pesticide
hazards to surrogate species, populations and communities
representative of aquatic and terrestrial habitats.
These investigations will include analysis of abiotic
influences on study results and on various chemical and
physical factors and processes. Sorption, leaching and
residues will be evaluated. Ground water contamination and
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associated processes will be explored and remedial actions
sought. Predictive techniques for exposure concentrations
will be improved with studies on pesticide sorption kinetics,
transformations and mechanisms of degradation.
Information and data including assessments and predictive
tools, evaluations of assessment criteria, reference hand
books and manuals, workshops and reviews are transferred
to support the Agency’s regulatory actions.
Laboratories involved in this research are shown below.
Most extramural monies currently retained at Headquarters
will be dispersed to the laboratories subsequent to final
planning actions.
Office or Total Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds (5k) In-House
ERL /ATH Rosemarie C. Russo 353.3 100
ERL/COR Thomas A. Murphy 393.2 42
ERL/ DUL Gilman Veith 399.2 42
ERL/GB Henry Enos 825.7 73
OEPER!HQ Frederick Kutz 1,164.4 28
Engineering
Environmental This research program supports the Office of Pesticides
Engineering Regulatory Program in making determinations as to whether
and or not certain types of protective clothing reduce exposure to
T i pesticides during application. Laboratory studies will be
aecinio ogy initiated on the permeability and penetrability by highly toxic
pesticide compounds for various fabric and rubber
compounds used for protective clothing. This work will
establish effects of wearing apparel degradation and
decontamination (e.g., laundering) on pesticide retention and
on continued protective capability of the fabrics.
Office or Total Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds (5k) In-House
WERL/CIN Alden Christianson 903.2 6
OEET/HQ Don Tang 0 0
Exposure Monitoring
Acid The Non-Occupational Pesticide Exposure Study (NOPES)
Deposition is being conducted to develop and test Total Exposure
Environmental Assessment Methodology (TEAM) approach for
M • • measurement of pesticides used routinely by the general
on ltor lng population. This study will evaluate TEAM methods for
and pesticide exposure and determine if non-occupational
Quality pesticide usage in and about homes should be studied
Assurance further as an important pollutant source.
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Office or Total Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds (Sk) In-House
EMSL RTP Gerald Akland 394.1 0
ADEMQA HQ Michael Dellarco 0 0
Health: Markers, Dosimetry and Extrapolation
Health Effects Models will be developed using animals as test species. This
research will include evaluation of interspecies differences in
the dermal absorption of pesticides, examination of
structure-activity relationships in teratogenesis,
examination of metabolic differences between species which
may contribute to teratogenic outcomes, and the
investigation of potential interactions between alterations in
maternal health status and susceptibility teratogenic
exposures. Additionally, a computerized data management
system which analyzes genetic data will continue to be
developed.
Office or Total Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds (Sk) In-House
HERL/RTP William F. Durham 1,241.0 44
•OHRJ HQ Charles T. Mitchell
Support for the Federal Insecticide, Fun gidde, and
Rodentidde Act (FIFRA)
Acid The pesticides quality assurance program ensures the
Deposition accuracy of the data which is attained through testing and
Environmental analysis. This program maintains a pesticide repository of
M high purity chemicals which are used by more than 1,400
oni oring laboratories in the United States and in foreign countries.
and These samples are used as standard reference samples for
Quality internal quality control. In addition, interlaboratory
Assurance comparison samples are prepared. Also, the program will
provide samples of pesticide chemicals no longer produced,
but still regulated, in the United States. Such reference
samples are necessary to perform analyses in soil, plant, or
animal tissues at the required degree of accuracy.
Office or Total Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds (Sk) In-House
EMSL/ LV R. K. Mitchum 1,103.7 37
ADEMQA/HQ Jim Shackelford 0.0 0
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Support for the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and
Rodenticide A ct (FIFRA)
Scientific In support of EPA ’s role in regulating pesticides, EPA’s
Assessment researchers prepare and review risk assessment documents for
carcinogenicity, mutagenicity, adverse reproductive effects and
exposure for pesticide compounds as requested by the Office of
Pesticide Programs.
Office or Total Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds (5k) In-House
OHEAHQ Lawrence Valcovic 262 100.0
Test Method Development
Environmental Laboratory studies will develop and validate bioassay
Processes and methodologies to be used as standardized pesticide testing
Effects protocols for marine/estuarine and freshwater organisms.
Various methods will be geared to testing chosen life stages of
representatives or surrogate test species for long-term or
short-term durations. These methods will assess both
exposure and effects of pesticides under acute and chronic
conditions and some may be used for monitoring particular
pesticides or sensitive biota and for predicting response.
Influencing environmental factors which may modify testing
results will be studied to establish confidence limits for the
methods under given conditions. The methods will contribute
to establishing or modifying pesticides testing guidelines.
Office or Tota l Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds (5k) In-House
ERL IGB Henry F. Enos 308.3 100
ERL/DUL Gilman Veith 67.9 100
Test Method Development
Health Effects This research involves developing and refining bioassays for
the detection of adverse alterations in the development and
reproductive processes of animals which allow for more
accurate evaluations of reproductive development and
function. Techniques are also being developed, validated,
refined and implemented for determining genetic effects
caused by human exposure to chemical carcinogens and
mutagens. Additionally, methods are being developed to
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refine the relationship between biological indicators of
neurotoxicity and disease as well as methods development in
the area of immunotoxicology.
Office or Total Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds (Sk) In-House
HERL RTP William F. Durham l,85L4 70
OHR HQ Charles T. Mitchell
Test Method Development
Scientific The scientific assessment program carries out specific risk
Assessment assessment work in direct support of the Office of Pesticide
Programs, prepares and reviews guidelines for Agency-wide
application in conducting risk assessments, and seeks to
reduce the uncertainties in risk assessment through
development of new risk assessment techniques and methods.
Assessment methods are being reviewed and updated to
address program-specific problems, including data gathering
and analysis of heritable risks from low-dose exposures.
Research is also underway to evaluate human reproductive
dysfunction, which may result from exposure to chemicals.
Office or Total Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds (Sk) In-House
OHEA/HQ Lawrence Valcovic 509 27
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Multi-Media Energy
Develop and Evaluate LIMB Technology
Environmental This area is supporting the evaluation of alternative acid
Engineering rain control technologies research: specifically the
and development for commercialization of an integrated
Technolo NO 1 ! SO 2 control technology—The Limestone Injection
gy Multistage Burner (LIMB).
The LIMB control technology can substantially reduce
both NO 1 and SO 2 emissions while at the same time
reducing the costs for control. A systematic development is
underway to bring the LIMB technology to the point where
industry would be willing to commercialize it. The 1987
program will include: research on sorbent reaction
mechanisms, prototype scale testing of the tangentially-fired
experimental systems for extrapolating the performance to
commercial scale, detailed analysis to identify potential
operability and reliability problems, and installation and
initial operation of the industry/EPA cofunded full scale
demonstration on wall-fired utility boiler.
Office or Total Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds ( 5k) In-House
AEERL/RTP Jim Abbott 3,770.4 28
OEET/ HQ Marshall Dick 251.8 82
Establish Deposition Monitoring Data Base
Acid Efforts will involve development of real-time precipitation
Deposition measurement methods, as well as the development of field
Environmental techniques for measuring dry deposition. Quality assurance,
data systems support, and analysis of spatial and temporal
uzonitonng variation of data are an integral part of the program. The
and first 45 sites of the dry deposition monitoring network will be
Quality in place.
Assurance
Office or Total Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds (5k) In-House
EMSL/RTP Steven Bromberg 6, 181.5 6
ADEMQA/ HQ Richard A. Livingston
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Estimate Emissions from Man-Made Sources
Acid This research effort gives primary emphasis to the
Deposition development of a high quality emissions data base for
Environmental calendar year 1985. 502, NOR, and VOCs are the emission
Monitoring species of principal interest. Models to forecast emission
trends and costs of various control programs are being
and developed. These economic sectoral models and the
Quality emissions inventories will be used to support regional and
Assurance national policy analysis and assessment.
Office or Total Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds (Sit) In-House
AEERL/RTP Michael Maxwell 3,379.5 35
ADEMQAJHQ Lowell Smith
Evaluate A vailabiity and Cost of Applicable
Control Technology
Acid This program assesses the engineering and economic
Deposition potential of emerging technologies for removing acid
Environmental deposition precursors from combustion sources. The work
considers non-hardware approaches such as fuel switching
Monitoring as well as retrofit technologies such as the limestone
and injection multi-stage burner, E-SO and duct injection.
Quality
Assurance Office or Total Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds (Sit) In-House
AEERLJ RTP Julian Jones 623.0 35
ADEMQA/HQ Lowell Smith
Understand and QUwitify Effects on Material and
Cukural Resources
Add Roth chamber and field studies will continue on selected
Deposition metals and paint/substrate systems. A damage function for
Environmental galvanized steel will be completed. A study of pollutant
transport through concrete and a pilot study on intra-city
Monitoring variability of pollutants will be initiated, A non-residential
and materials inventory data base will be compiled and the
Quality materials inventory model refined.
Assurance
Office or Total Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds (Sit) In-House
ASRL/RTP John Spence 2,700.0 3
ADEMQA/HQ Richard A. Livingston
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Understand and Quantjfy A quatic Effects
Add
Deposition
Environmental
Monitoring
and
Quality
Assurance
Using the sampling frame of the Eastern and Western Lake
Surveys and the Stream Survey in the Southeast (all
completed in 1986), research into the extent, duration, and
frequency of variations in surface water chemistry will
continue in 1987 (National Surface Water Survey, Phase 11;
Episodic Response Project). Analysis of soils data in
watersheds of the Northeast and Southeast will continue,
leading to predictions of the future rate of change of surface
water chemistry, based on single-factor analyses (i.e., cation
exchange, sulfate adsorption) and dynamic modeling
(Direct/Delayed Response Project). Assumptions and
hypotheses upon which the predictions depend will be tested
and evaluated via experimentally acidified watersheds
(Watershed Manipulation Project).
Understand and Quantjfy Terrestrial Effects
Contact
Add
Deposition
Environmental
Monitoring
and
Quality
Assurance
Office or Total Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds (5k) In-House
ERL/COR Robert A. Lackey 5,579.3 9
EMSL/LV Robert Schonbrod 4,162.0 5
EMSL/ RTP Rick A. Linthurst 320.0 35
ADEMQA/HQ John L. Malanchuk 8,425.9 7
ASRL/RTP Jack L. Durham 75.0 31
ERL/DUL John 0. Eaton 390.0 5
Research will be performed at several integrated, multi-
disciplinary intensive research sites in spruce/fir, southern
commercial, eastern hardwood, and western coniferous forest
types. The effects of acidic deposition alone or in
combination with associated pollutants will be considered in
the light of hypothesized mechanisms. A vegetation survey
and a central synthesis and integration activity will be
undertaken in support of this research.
Office or Total Percent
Laboratory Funds (5k) In-House
EMSL/RTP Ron Bradow 1,134.3 3.0
ASRL/RTP Jack Durham 1,900.8 7.5
ERL/COR Robert A. Lackey 6,868.1 2.7
ADEMQA/HQ Anthony Janetos 1,650.8 20.1
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Multi-Media Energy
Understand A Imospheric Processes
Acid This research is designed to improve our capability to
Deposition examine and predict the atmospheric transport, chemical
Environmental transformation and the wet and dry deposition of acidic
M • • substances emitted into the atmosphere. Laboratory and
field studies, using chemical tracers of emissions, recently
anu developed gas measuring instruments, and extensive
Quality monitoring is being undertaken to study the movement and
Assurance transformation of acids and their precursors from sources
to receptors. Modules which mathematically simulate the
atmospheric processes are being developed for the Regional
Acid Deposition Model (RADM). A major field program
has been proposed to test and evaluate RADM.
Office or Tots Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds (Sk) In-House
ASRLIRTP Jack Durham 10,281.6 6
ADEMQA/ HQ Dennis Trout
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Manage the Mandatory Quality Assurance
Program
Acid A significant portion of EPA ’s budget is spent on collecting
Deposition environmental data. Quality assurance (QA) activities play
Environmental an integral role in the planning and implementation of
Monitorino environmental data collection efforts and in evaluation of
S the resulting data. By means of their QA programs, EPA
*flU uaiity organizations can enjoy substantial resource savings,
Assurance because they collect only those data that are needed, and
because they can be sure that the data they collect are of the
requisite quality.
Quality assurance is the process of management review
and oversight at the planning, implementation, and
completion stages of an environmental data collection
activity to assure that data provided by a line operation to
data users are of the quality needed and claimed. Quality
assurance should not be confused with quality control
(QC); QC includes those activities required during data
collection to produce the data quality desired and to
document the quality of the collected data (e.g., sample
spikes and blanks).
Quality assurance programs consist of specific activities
conducted before, during and after environmental data
collection. During the planning of an environmental data
collection program, QA activities focus on assuring that the
quality of the data needed by data users has been defined,
and that a QC system has been designed for measuring the
quality of the data being collected. During the
implementation of a data collection effort, QA activities
ensure that the QC system is operating and that problems
found by QC are corrected. After environmental data are
collected, QA activities focus on assessing the quality of the
data obtained. Here, one determines whether the data
obtained are adequate to support data-dependent
regulatory decisions or research hypotheses.
The Quality Assurance Management Staff (QAMS) is
charged with overseeing the quality assurance activities of
the Agency. QAMS came into being in May 1979, when the
Agency recognized the need for formalizing an Agency-wide
quality assurance program for all environmental data
collection activities. More recently, with the issuance of
EPA Order 5360.1 in April 1984, the Agency’s quality
assurance program has been significantly strengthened and
broadened. The Order mandates that QA be an integral
part of all environmental data collection activities, from
planning through implementation and review.
The Order identifies the activities basic to the
implementation of a QA program. These include:
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• requiring QA in all Agency-supported environmental
data collection activities,
• defining Data Quality Objectives,
• developing quality assurance program and project plans,
• conducting audits,
• implementing corrective actions based on the audits,
• establishing achievable data quality limits for methods
cited in EPA regulations,
• developing and adopting technical guidelines for
assessing data quality, and
• providing for QA training.
In recent years, the Agency’s QA activities have focused
on identifying the basic elements that are essential to
effective quality assurance for environmental data. QAMS
has put considerable emphasis on issuing guidance defining
these key elements and describing their importance in the
efficient and effective expenditure of resources assigned to
environmental data collection. For FY 1987, the emphasis
of the QA program is to make a transition from the
guidance phase to full-scale program implementation and
oversight.
Office or Total Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds (Sk) In-House
ADEMQA/HQ Stanley Blacker 1,201.5 67
Manage Visiting Scientists Program
Exploratory The Visiting Scientists Program has two components: a
Research summer fellows program and a distinguished visiting
Core Program scientists program. The summer fellows program is carried
out in conjunction with the American Association for the
Advancement of Sciences and sponsors environmental
science and engineering fellows for the summer months. In
FY 1986 10 highly qualified fellows were sponsored to
conduct research at EPA. The distinguished visiting scientists
program attracts distinguished senior scientists into the
Agency for 1 to 3 years to assist in strengthening the Agency’s
science policy and research program. in FY 1986, five new
visiting scientists were sponsored to conduct research in ORD
laboratories.
Office or Total Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds (Sk) In-House
OER/ 13Q Roger Coriesi 900 0
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Interm edia
Manage Exploratory Research Grant and Centers
Program
Exploratory The Research Grants Program supports research initiated
Research by individual investigators in areas of priority interest to the
Core Program Agency which are published annually in a “Solicitation for
Research Grant Proposals” and published in special
solicitations called the “Request for Applications (RFA).”
For FY 1987, proposals are solicited in the areas of(1)
environmental biology, (2) environmental health, (3)
environmental engineering, and (4) environmental
chemistry, physics and measurements. Priority research
areas for FY 1987 include human health risk assessment,
ecological risk assessment, total exposure and risk
reduction. The Research Centers Program supports
multidisciplinary research which is conducted in a
university setting and focuses in areas of priority interest to
EPA. For FY 1987, the following eight university research
centers are sponsored:
Waste Elimination Research Center (Illinois Institute of
Technology): study innovative technology and process
modification to reduce industrial pollutants.
Intermedia Transport Research Center (University of
California): define chemical/physical processes governing
pollutant exchange at air-land and air-water boundaries.
Ecosystems Research Center (Cornell University):
identify and apply ecosystem principles to environmental
management problems.
Marine Sciences Research Center (University of Rhode
Island): assess marine ecosystems health, emphasizing
exposure of marine organisms to toxics.
Advanced Control Technology Research Center
(University of Illinois): study separation technology,
thermal destruction, biological separation, and chemical
detoxification.
Ground Water Research Center (University of
Oklahoma, Oklahoma State University, and Rice
University): study subsurface characterization, transport
and fate, and ground-water horizon modeling.
Epidemiology Research Center (University of
Pittsburgh): study basic epidemiology methods and
airborne particulate health effects.
Hazardous Waste Research Center (Louisiana State
University): study the design, construction, maintenance,
operation, and closure of hazardous waste landfills.
Office or Total Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds (Sk) In-House
OER/ HQ Roger Cortesi 15,042 4
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Integrated Risk Assessment
Scientific The scientific assessment program provides uniform Agency-
Assessment wide guidance on, and assures the consistency of, exposure
and risk assessments that support regulatory decision making
by EPA.
Final risk assessment guidelines were published in
September 1986 on carcinogenicity, mutagenicity,
developmental toxicity, complex mixtures, and exposure
assessment. Additional guidelines on both male and female
reproductive effects, systemic toxicity and pharmacokinetics
are under development or in planning. A new Agency-wide
Risk Assessment Forum provides a mechanism for inter-
office exchange on science issues in risk assessment, advises
the Agency on precedent-setting cases and important
environmental risk assessment issues, and recommends
revisions or updates to the risk assessment guidelines, as
appropriate.
Office or Total Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds (5k) In-House
OHEA/HQ William Farland 1,823 56
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Radiation
Off-Site Monitoring Program
Acid The overall goal of the research program is to provide the
Deposition scientifically credible data necessary to assess public exposure
Environmental to non-ionizing radiation and to man-made radtoactkve
materials and to allow decisions to be made regarding control
Monitoring of that exposure.
and In addition, this program provides quality assurance for
Quality the Agency’s programs for monitoring radiation in the
Assurance environment. These are supported by providing a common
source of radion uc l ides standards and reference materials and
through the conduct of laboratory intercomparison studies to
assure data of known quality from analyses of environmental
samples such as milk, water, air and food.
Office or Totul Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds (5k) In-House
EMSL 7 LV Charles Costa 159.3 100
ADEMQA/HQ Jim Shackelforc j 0.0 0
Scient(fic Support for Radon Program
Environmentaj The engineering program for radiation primarily supports the
Engineering Agency’s Radon Action Program. It is directed at developing
and arid testing cost-effective methods for reducing radon in
Technolo homes. The results o il these tests, along with analysis of the
gy findings of others, are provided to the States, private sector
organizations (such as builders and contractors), and to
homeowners. The research will continue to extend the
number of techniques, the housing substructure types and the
locations for testing. The research focuses primarily on
mitigation in existing homes, although techniques applicable
to prevention in new house construction will also be assessed.
Office or Total Percent
Laboratory Contact Funds ( 5k) In-House
AEERL/RTP Chick Craig 1,107.3 82
OEFT/HQ Paul Shapiro 84.7 96
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ORD Organization
The Office of Research and Development is responsible for
research, development, and demonstration programs in
pollution sources, fate, and health and welfare effects; waste
management and utilization technology; environmental
sciences; and monitoring systems. Please note, the list below
includes both commercial (CML) and Federal (FTS)
telephone numbers. Where only one number is listed, it
serves both purposes.
Assistant Administrator for Research and Development
Acting, Donald 3. Ehreth (202) 382-7676
Headquarters, Washington. DC (RD-672)
Deputy Assistant Administrator
Donald J. Ehreth (202) 382-7676
Senior ORD Official, Cincinnati
Francis T. Mayo (513) 569-7951
Cincinnati, OH 45268 FTS 8-684-7951
Support Services Office
Director. Robert N. Can (513) 569-7966
FTS 8-684-7966
Senior ORD Official, Research Triangle Park
F. Gordon Hueter CML (919) 541-2106
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711 FTS 8-629-2106
Support Services Office CML (919) 541-2613
Director, Paul Kenline (MD-SI) FTS 8-629-26 13
Office of Research Program Management
Director, Clarence E. Mahan (202) 382-7500
Headquarters, Washington. DC (RD-674)
Office of Eaploratory Research
Director, Roger Cortesi (202) 382-5750
Headquarters, Washington, DC (RD-675)
Research Grants Staff
Director, Clanice Gaylord (202) 382-7473
Research Centers Program
Director, Robert A. Papetti (202) 382-7473
Visiting Scientists Program
Coordinator, Robert A. Papetti (202) 382-7473
Office of Heakh Research
Acting Director, Hugh McKinnon (202)382-5900
Deputy Director, (Vacant)
Headquarters, Washington, DC (RD-683)
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Program Operations Staff
Director, Tom Veirs (202) 382-5891
Water and Toxics Division
Acting Director, John R. Fowle (202) 382-5895
Air, Noise and Radiation Division
Acting Director, John R. Fowle (202) 382-5893
Health Effects Research Laboratory
Director, F. Gordon Hueter (MD-Si) CML (919) 541-2281
Acting Deputy Director, Judith A , Graham FTS 8-629-2281
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
Office of Acid Deposition, Environmental Monitoring, and
Quality Assurance
Director, Courtney Riordan (202) 382-5767
Deputy Director, Matthew Bills
Headquarters, Washington, DC (R D-680)
Program Operations Staff
Director, Paul Palm (202) 382-5761
Quality Assurance Management Staff
Director, Stanley Blacker (202) 382-5763
Environmental Monitoring Systems Division
Director, Charles Brunot (202) 382-5776
Acid Deposition and Atmospheric Research Division
Director, Gary J. Foley (202) 475-8930
Environmental Monitoring Systems Laboratory
Director, Vacant (MD-75) CML (919) 541-2106
Deputy Director, John C. Puzak FTS 8-629-2106
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
Environmental Monitoring and Support Laboratory
Director, Robert L. Booth (513) 569-7301
Deputy Director, Thomas A.Clark FTS 8-684-7301
Cincinnati, OH 45268
Environmental Monitoring Systems Laboratory
Director, Erich W. Bretthauer CML (702) 798-2525
Deputy Director, (Vacant) FTS 8-545-2525
P.O. Box 15027
Las Vegas, NV 89114
Vint Hill Station
Acting Director, Phillips A. Arberg CML (703) 347-6224
P.O. Box 1587, Building 166 FTS 8-557-3110
Warrenton, VA 22186
Atmospheric Sciences Research Laboratory
Director, Alfred I -I. Ellison CML (919) 541-2191
Deputy Director, Jack H. Shreffler FTS 8-629-2191
Research Triangle Park, NC 21711
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Office of Health and Environmental Assessment
Director, Peter W. Preuss (202) 382-7317
Headquarters. Washington, DC (RD-689)
Program Operations Staff
Director, Barry Go ldfarb (202) 382-731!
Cancer Assessment Group
Director, William Farland (202) 382-5898
Exposure Assessment Group
Director, Michael Callahan (202) 475-8909
Reproductive Effects Assessment Group
Acting Director, William Far land (202) 382-7303
Environmental Criteria and Assessment Office
Director, Lester Grant (MD-52) CML (919) 541-4173
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711 FTS 8-629-4173
Environmental Criteria and Assessment Office
Director, Jerry F. Stara (513) 569-7531
Cincinnati, OH 45268 FTS 8-684-7531
Office of Environmental Engineering and Technology
Director John H. Skinner (202) 382-2600
Headquarters, Washington, DC (RD-68l)
Program Operations Staff
Director, Stephen Jackson (202) 382-2580
Technical Programs Division
Director. Darwin R. Wright (202) 382-5747
Air and Energy Engineering Research Laboratory
Director, Frank Princiotta (MD-60) CML (919) 541-2821
Deputy Director, Chick Craig FTS 8-629-2821
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
Hazardous Waste Engineering Research Laboratory
Director, Thomas ft. Hauser (513) 569-7418
Deputy Director, William Cawley ITS 8-684-7418
Cincinnati, OH 45268
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Release Control Branch
Director, Ira Wilder CML (201) 321-6600
Edison, NJ 08817 FTS 8-340-6600
Water Engineering Research Laboratory
Director, Francis Mayo (513) 569-7951
Deputy Director, Lou Lefke FTS 8-684-7951
Cincinnati, OH 45268
Office of Environmental Processes and Effects Research
Director, James W Fa lco (202) 382-5950
Deputy Director, (Vacant)
Headquarters, Washington, DC (RD-682)
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Program Operations Staff
Director. Patricia M, Neuschat , (202) 382-5962
Water and Land Division
Director. Herbert B. Quinn (202) 382-5940
Toxics and Pesticides Division
Acting Director, Fredrick W. Kutz (202) 382-5967
Field Laboratories
Robert S. Kerr Environmental Research Laboratory
Director, Clinton W. Hall CML (405) 332-8800
Deputy Director, Marvin L Wood FTS 8-743-2224
P .O. Box 1198
Ada, OK 74820
Environmental Research Laboratory
Director, Rosemarie C. Russo CML (404) 546-3134
College Station Road FTS 8-250-3134
Athens, GA 30613
Office of Research Operations CML (404) 546-3145
Director, Robert R. Swank FTS 8-250-3145
Office of Program Operations CML (404) 546-3127
Director, Roger K. NeeSmith FTS 8-250-3127
Environmental Research Laboratory
Director, Thomas A. Murphy CML (503) 757-4601
Deputy Director, James C. McCarty FTS 8-420-460 1
200 SW 35th Street
Corvallis OR 97333
Environmental Research Laboratory
Acting Director, Oilman D. Veith CML (218) 727-6692
Acting Associate Director for Research, FTS 8-780-5548
Nelson A. Thomas
6201 Congdon Boulevard
Duluth, MN 55804
Monticello Field Station CML only
Box 500 (612) 295-5145
Monticello, MN 55362
Large Lakes Research Station CML (313) 675-5000
9311 Groh Road FTS 8-226-7811
Grosse lie, MI 48138
Environmental Research Laboratory
Director, Norbert A. Jaworski CML (401) 789-1071
Depuiy Director, Richard L. Garnas FTS 8-838-5087
South Ferry Road
Narragansett, R i 02882
Hatfield Marine Science Center CML only
Newport, OR 97365 (503) 867-404 I
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Environmental Research Laboratory
Director, Henry F. Enos CML (904) 932-5333
Deputy Director, Andrew J. McErlean FTS 8-686-9011
Sabine Island
Gulf Breeze, FL. 32561
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ORD Organizational Descriptions
Office of The Office of Exploratory Research supports a number of
Exploratory program activities related to the Agency’s need to obtain
Research high quality, reliable scientific information to address
current and potential environmental problems. The
program has several components: (I) the Research Centers
Program, a university-based project, to support
multidisciplinary research on defined environmental
problems; (2) a Competitive Research Grants Program to
foster and support investigator-initiated, peer reviewed
research grants in priority program areas covering human
health risk assessment, ecological risk assessment, total
exposure and risk reduction; (3) the Distinguished Visiting
Scientists Program (DVSP) to bring eminent scientists into
ORD laboratories to broaden the scientific and technical
base of EPA’s research; (4) the Environmental Summer
Fellows Program, to bring from the academic and private
sector scientists, economists and engineers to EPA to work
on important environmental issues during the summer
months; (5) the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
Program to increase the opportunity for small high
technology firms to help solve major environmental
problems for EPA while contributing to the growth and
development of small business; (6) the Minority Institution
Assistance (MIA) Program to provide research grant and
fellowship assistance to faculty and students from
Historically Black Colleges and Universities; (7) the
Agency’s Senior Environmental Employment (SEE)
Program to utilize the skills and talents of retired older
Americans to meet the employment needs of environmental
programs; and (8) the Federal Workforce Training program
to coordinate ORD’s participation in workforce training
programs used by State and local governments.
Office of The Office of Environmental Engineering and Technology
Environmental is responsible for the assessment and the development of
Engineering methods for control of the environmental and• socio-
economic impacts of municipal and industrial operations
and of energy and mineral resource extraction, processing,
Technology conversion, and utilization systems.
The Hazardous Waste Engineering Research Laboratory
in Cincinnati, Ohio, investigates ways to prevent, control,
and treat hazardous wastes and Superfund related activities.
This includes defining and characterizing sources of
pollution, catalyzing advances in the state-of-the-art of
pollution control, providing engineering concepts for cost-
effective engineering solutions to difficult pollution
problems and early-warning of emerging sources of
pollution.
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The Water Engineering Research Laboratory in
Cincinnati, Ohio 1 investigates, develops and demonstrates
cost-effective methods for the treatment and management
of municipal wastewater and sludges and urban runoff; and
of industrial processing and manufacturing and toxic
discharges; and the development of technology and
management systems for the treatment, distribution and
presentation of public drinking water supplies.
The Air and Energy Engineering Research Laboratory in
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, catalyzes the
development of control technologies and process
modifications needed to establish and meet standards for
air emissions in a timely and cost-effective manner, and
supports EPA’s regulatory and enforcement programs. The
Laboratory also environmentally assesses the manufacture
of synthetic fuels and other current and emerging energy
sources.
Office of The Office of Health Research is responsible for developing
Health and evaluating toxicity test methods and for providing
Research toxicity data to enable the agency to accurately identify
hazards and determine human risk from environmental
exposure. Tb fulfill this mission, research is conducted in
three major areas:
— Toxicity test method development
— Generation of dose-response data
— Development of methods to use data from toxicity
testing and dose-response studies to estimate human
morbidity and mortality; including extrapolation from
animal data to human effects, from high to low doses,
and from acute toxicity to long-term effects.
The Health Effects Research Laboratory (HERL) with
divisions in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina and
Cincinnati, Ohio, conducts research, both intramurally and
extramurally, which is responsive to these goals. Physical,
biological and chemical agents are studied; and research is
conducted in the scientific disciplines of inhalation
toxicology, genetic toxicology, neurotoxicology,
-developmental and reproductive toxicology, microbiology,
and epidemiology and biometry.
Office of The Office of Environmental Processes and Effects
Envfronmental Research develops the scientific and technological methods
Processes and and data necessary to understand, predict, and manage the
entry, movement, and fate of pollutants in the environment
and the food chain, and to determine the effects of
Research pollutants upon nonhuman, organisms and ecosystems.
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The Robert S. Kerr Environmental Research Laboratory
in Ada, Oklahoma, conducts research on the chemical,
physical, and biological processes that affect contaminant
transport and transformation in subsurface environments.
The focus of the Laboratory’s research is on both ground-
water quality protection and utilization of the natural
assimilative capacity of the subsurface as a waste disposal
medium.
The Environmental Research Laboratory in Athens,
Georgia, conducts fundamental and applied research
required to predict and assess the human and
environmental exposures and risks associated with
conventional and toxic pollutants in water and soil
ecosystems. This research is focused on the identification
and characterization of the natural processes and
environmental or chemical properties that affect the fate
and effects of specific toxic substances, such as pesticides or
metals, and on the development of state-of-the-art
mathematical models for assessing and managing
environmental pollution problems. The laboratory’s Center
for Water Quality Modeling distributes computer programs
for selected models and provides training and assistance for
users in government, industry, and academia.
The Environmental Research Laboratory in Corvallis,
Oregon, conducts research on terrestrial and watershed
ecology and assesses the comprehensive ecological impact
of inland pollution and other environmental changes caused
by man. This includes the ecological effects of airborne
pollutants, such as acid deposition; the effects of toxic
chemicals on terrestrial plants, animals, and ecosystems; the
assessment and restoration of contaminated or degraded
environments; the characterization and assessment of the
vulnerability of ecological systems such as wetlands, to
human impacts; and the ecological risks from the terrestrial
release of bioengineered organisms and other biological
control agents.
The Environmental Research Laboratory in Duluth,
Minnesota, is responsible for developing national water
quality criteria for the freshwater environment and has the
primary research responsibility for describing the fate and
effects of pollutants in the Great Lakes. Located on Lake
Superior, the laboratory specializes in the toxicology of
pesticides, industrial chemicals, and other pollutants in
freshwater ecosystems. The Laboratory conducts major
research in the water quality criteria program which
develops the methodolbgy for deriving numerical limits for
industrial chemicals for the protection of aquatic life; the
complex effluent program which seeks to develop cost-
effective methods for managing the toxicity of wastewaters;
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the structure-activity program which seeks to develop
predictive technologies for estimating toxicity and fate of
new chemicals; and the surrogate species program which is
the EPA bridge between ecotoxicology and mammalian
toxicology studies.
The Environmental Research Labora:orj’ in
Narragansett, Rhode Island, studies the impacts of point
and indirect pollution on marine and estuarine ecosystems.
Emphasis is on determining physical, chemical, and
biological processes as they influence the fate, distribution,
and effects of complex effluents and contaminated
sediments or sludge. This research provides the scientific
support for Agency decisions on regulating ocean outfalls
and other point sources, nutrient management and near
coastal and offshore disposal of wastes by dumping or
incineration.
The Environmental Research Ltzboratorv in Gulf Breeze,
Florida 1 is responsible for the following research programs:
(1) development of principles and applications of
environmental toxicology, including toxic chemical
exposure and effects on marine organisms and ecosystem
processes; (2) development and evaluation of factors and
mechanisms that affect biodegradation rates and
bioaccumulation potential in food-webs; (3) development
and verification of methods and data that allow
extrapolation from laboratory observations to field
situations, and from chemical structure to potential toxicity
and biodegradation rates; (4) determination of effects of
carcinogens, mutagens, and teratogens in aquatic species
(individuals, populations); (5) development of aquatic
species and test systems as indicators of environmental and
human risk from exposure to chemicals; and (6)
development of methods to evaluate environmental risk due
to genetically altered microorganisms and other products of
biotechnology.
Office of Add The Office of Acid Deposition, Environmental Monitoring,
Deposition and Quality Assurance is responsible for: (a) monitoring the
Environmental cause and effects of acid deposition; (b) research and
development on the causes, effects and corrective steps for
svtonitoflflg the acid deposition phenomenon; (c) research with respect to
and Qua litY the transport and fate of pollutants which are released into
Assurance the atmosphere; (d) development and demonstration of
techniques and methods to measure exposure and to relate
ambient concentrations to exposure by critical receptors; (e)
research, development and demonstration of new monitoring
methods, systems, techniques, and equipment for detection,
identification and characterization of pollutants at the source
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and in the ambient environment and for use as reference or
standard monitoring methods: (0 establishment,
coordination, and review of agency-wide Quality Assurance
Program; and (g) development and provision of quality
assurance methods, techniques and material including
validation and standardization of analytical methods,
sampling techniques, quality control methods, standard
reference materials, and techniques for data collection,
evaluation and interpretation.
The Environmental Monitoring Systems Laboratory in
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, develops methods
to measure and monitor pollutants in ambient air and
emissions sources; operates the quality assurance program for
measurement of air pollutants; develops techniques to assess
population exposure to air pollutants including total human
exposure models and field surveys; conducts research on
indoor air pollution; and characterizes non-criteria pollutants
in air, including air toxics.
The Environmental Monitoring Systems Laboratory in Las
Vegas, Nevada, conducts research and development programs
related to monitoring of pollutants in the environment;
develops sampling strategies and techniques for monitoring
hazardous waste leachates in soil and groundwater; develops
remote sensing techniques; conducts human exposure
monitoring and modeling studies covering several
environmental media; evaluates analytical methods for the
characterization and quantification of hazardous wastes; and
provides quality assurance in support of the EPA’s hazardous
waste, “Superfund,” pesticides and ionizing radiation
programs.
The Environmental Monitoring and Support Laboratory
in Cincinnati, Ohio, standardizes analytical test procedures to
identify and measure major pollutants and microorganisms of
health significance in drinking water, ambient receiving
waters, and municipal and industrial effluents; operates the
quality assurance program for the monitoring data on water
pollutants; develops screening methods for use at hazardous
waste sites; and provides technical support to water and
waste monitoring programs.
The Atmospheric Sciences Research Laboratory in
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, conducts a research
program in the physical sciences to detect, define, and
quantify air pollution as it relates to urban, regional, and
global atmospheres and acid deposition. It is responsible for
the development of mathematical models in order to
quantitate the relationships between emissions of pollutants
from all types of sources, air quality, and atmospheric effects
and the characterization of air pollution problems including,
but not limited to, acid deposition.
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Office of The Office of Health and Environmental Assessment
Health and (OHEA) is responsible for assessing the effects of
Environmental environmental pollutants in varying exposure situations on
Ass ment human health and ecological systems and determining the
degree of risks from these exposures. The risk assessments
performed by OHEA are used by the Agency as the
scientific basis for regulatory and enforcement decisions.
OHEA’s responsibilities also include the development of
risk assessment guidelines and methodologies, and
recommendations for new research efforts that will better
support future EPA risk assessment activities.
Comprehensive methodologies are prepared for health
assessments of both single chemicals and complex mixtures.
Technical assistance to various agency programs and
Regional Offices concerning acceptable pollutant levels and
dose-response relations are also provided.
The Office includes five organizational groups:
The Environmental Criteria and Assessment Office in
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, is responsible for
preparing air quality criteria documents and air pollutant
health assessment documents for use in agency regulatory
activities, as well as legislatively required health-related
reports.
The Environmental Criteria and Assessment Office in
Cincinnati, Ohio, prepares health and hazard assessment
documents on water pollution and solid and hazardous
wastes and hazardous air pollutants.
The Carcinogen Assessment Group evaluates the health
risks associated with exposure to suspect carcinogens and
prepares carcinogen assessments for use in the Agency’s
regulatory and enforcement decision-making processes.
The 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 recommendations concerning
the exposure potential of specific agents.
The Reproductive Effects Assessment Group prepares
assessments on the risks associated with human exposure to
suspect mutagens, teratogens, and agents that cause adverse
reproductive effects; is involved in developing testing
methods and basic research designed to improve the
scientific basis for these assessments; and is active in
coordinating research in these interrelated end points.
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Abbreviations
CERI/CIN Center for Environmental Research Information
Cincinnati, OH 45268
CML (513) 569-7391
FTS 8-684-7391
ECAO/C IN Environmental Criteria and Assessment Office
Cincinnati, 011 45268
CML (513) 569-7532
FTS 8-684-7532
ECAO/RTP Environmental Criteria and Assessment Office
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
CML(919) 541-4173
FTS 8-629-4173
EMSL/CIN Environmental Monitoring and Support Laboratory
Cincinnati, OH 45268
CML (513)569-7301
FTS 8-684-7301
EMSL/LV Environmental Monitoring Systems Laboratory
P .O. Box 15027
Las Vegas, NV 89114
CML (702) 798-2100
FTS 8-545-2100
EMSL/RTP Environmental Monitoring Systems Laboratory
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
CML (919) 541-2106
FTS 8-629-2! 06
ASRL/RTP Atmospheric Sciences Research Laboratory
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
CML (919) 541-2191
FTS 8-629-2191
ERL/ ATH Environmental Research Laboratory
College Station Road
Athens, GA 30613
CML (404) 546-3154
FTS 8-250-3154
ERL/COR Environmental Research Laboratory
200 SW 35th Street
Corvallis, OR 97333
CML (503) 757-4601
ETS 8420-4601
ERL/DUL Environmental Research Laboratory
6201 Congdon Boulevard
Duluth, MN 55804
CML (218) 727-6692
FTS 8-780-5548
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ERL/CB Environmental Research Laboratory
Sabine Island
Gulf Breeze, FL 32561
CML (904)932-5311
FTS 8-686-90 I I
ERL/NARR Environmental Research Laboratory
South Ferry Road
Narragansett, Ri 02882
CML (401) 789-1071
FTS 8-838-5087
HERL/RTP Health Effects Research Laboratory
Research Triangle Park, NC 27711
CML (919) 541-2281
FTS 8-629-228 1
HWERL/ Hazardous Waste Engineering Research Laboratory
CIN Cincinnati, OH 45268
(513) 569-7418
FTS 8-684-7418
AEERL/ Air and Energy Engineering Research Laboratory
RTP Research Triangle Park, NC 2771 1
CML (919) 541-2821
FTS 8-629-2821
WERL/ Water Engineering Research Laboratory
CIN Cincinnati, OH 45268
CML (513) 569-7951
FTS 8-684-7951
OEET/HQ Office of Environmental Engineering and Technology
(RD-681)
Washington, DC 20460
(202) 382-2600
OEPER/HQ Office of Environmental Processes and Effects
Research
(RD-682)
Washington, DC 20460
(202) 382-5950
OER/HQ Office of Exploratory Research
(RD-675)
..Washington, DC 20460
(202) 382-5750
OHEA/HQ Office of Health and Environmental Assessment
(RD-689)
Washington, DC 20460
(202) 382-7317
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OHR/HQ Office of Health Research
(RD-683)
Washington, DC 20460
(202) 382-5900
OADEMQA/ Office of Acid Deposition, Environmental
HQ Monitoring, and Quality Assurance
(RD-680)
Washington, DC 20460
(202) 382-5767
RSKERL/ Robert S. Kerr Environmental Research Laboratory
ADA P.O. Box 1198
Ada, OK 74820
CML (405) 332-8800
FTS 8-743-2224
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ORD Key Contacts
Telephone Telephone
Abbott, Jim CML (919) 541-3443 Dellarco, Michael (202) 382-5777
FTS 8-629-3443 FTS 8-382-5777
Akin, Elmer W. CML (513) 569-7401 Dempsey, Clyde CML (513) 569-7504
FTS 8-684-7401 FTS 8-684-7504
Ak land, (3. CML (919) 541-2346 DeRosa, Christopher CML (513) 569-7531
FTS 8-629-2346 FTS 8-684-7531
Berg. David CML (202) 382-5747 DeRosiers, Paul (202) 382-5747
FTS 8-382-5 747
Dial, Clyde CML (513) 569-7528
Bishop, Fred CML (513)569-7629 FTS 8-684-7528
FTS 8-684-7629
Dick, Marshall (202) 382-5753
Black, Frank CML (919) 541-3037 Dickerson, Richard CML (919) 541-2909
FTS. 8-629-3037 FTS 8-629-2909
Blacker. Stanley CML (202) 382-5763 Dimitriades, Basil CML (919) 541-2706
FTS 8-382-5763 FTS 8-629-2706
Bloch, Wayne (202) 382-5772 Donaldson , William CML (404) 546-3184
FTS 8-382-5772 FTS 8-250-3184
Booth, Robert CML (513) 569-7301 Duke. Tom CML (904) 932-5311
FTS 8-684-7301 FTS 8-686-9011
Bradow, Ron CML(919)541-5 179 Durham,Jack CML (919) 541-2183
FTS 8-629-5179 FTS 8-629-2183
Bretthauer, Erich CML (702) 798-2525 Durham, William F. CML (919) 541-2909
FTS 8-545-2525 FTS 8-629-2909
Bromberg, Steve CML (919) 541-2919 Eaton, John CML (218) 720-5557
FTS 8-629-2919 FTS 8-780-5557
Brunner, Carl CML (513) 569-7655 Ellison, Alfred CML (919) 541-2191
FTS 8-684-7655 FTS 8-629-2191
Christianson, Alden CML (513) 569-7406 Enos, Henry F. CML (904) 932-5311
FTS 8-684-7406 FTS 8-686-9011
Clark, Robert CML (513) 569-7201 Ehr lich, Alan (202) 382-7323
FTS 8-684-7201
Erinoff, Lynda CML (202) 382-5895
FTS 8-629-2188 FTS 8-382-5895
Condie, Lyman CML (513) 569-72 I 1 Farland, William CML (202) 382-5898
FTS 8-684-7211 FTS 8-382-5898
Cook, Philip M. CML (218) 720-5523 Farrell, Joseph CML (513) 569-7645
FTS 8-780-5523 FTS 8-684-7645
Cordle, Steven (202) 382-5940 Graham. Judith CML (919) 541-2281
Cortesi, Roger (202) 382-5750 FTS 8-629-2281
Costa, Charles CML (702) 798-2305 Grant, Lester CML (919) 541-4173
FTS 8-545-2305 FTS 8-629-4173
Craig, Alfred B. CML (919) 541-2821 Hall, Robert E. CML (919) 541-2477
FTS 8-629-2821 FTS 8-629-2477
Cupitt, Larry CML (919) 541-2878 Hill, Ronald D. CML (513) 569-7861
FTS 8-629-2878 FTS 8-684-7861
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Telephone
Telephone
Hood , Ken
Jakobson. Kurt
janetos, Anthony
Jaworski. Norhert A.
Jones. Juiwn
Keeler, George
Keith. William
Kibby. Harold
Klee, Al
Kiefiman. David
Koutsandreas. John
Kreissl, James
Irishnan. Bala
Kuroda, Donna
Lutz. Frederick W.
Lackey, Robert A.
Laurie, Vernon
Laveile, Will C.
Lichtenberg, James
Lindsey, Alford
Linthurst, Rick A.
Lipka, Douglas
livingston, Richard A.
Malanchuk. John L.
Maxwell, Michael
(202) 382-5967
(202) 382-2583
CML (202) 382-5791
FTS 8-382-5791
CML (40!) 789-1071
FTS 8-838-5087
CML (919) 541-2489
FTS 8-629-2489
CML (405) 332-8800
FTS 8-743-22 12
(202) 382-5716
FTS 8-382-5716
CML (503) 57-4625
FTS 8-420-4625
CML (513) 569-7493
FTS 8-684-7493
(202) 382-5895
(202) 382-5789
FTS 8-382-5789
CML (513)569-7611
FTS 8-684-761 1
(202) 382-2613
(202) 382-5893
(202) 382-5967
CML (503) 757-4806
FTS 8-420-4806
(202) 382-5795
FTS 8-382-5 795
(202) 382-5990
CML (513) 569-7306
FTS 8-684-7306
CML (202) 382-4073
FTS 8-382-4073
CML (919) 541-4048
FTS 8-629-4048
CML (202) 382-5940
FTS 8-382-5940
CML (202) 382-5987
FTS 8-382-5987
CML (202) 382-5948
FTS 8-382-5948
CML (919) 541-3091
FTS 8-629-3091
McCart . .Iames C.
M cElro , ja meS 1,.
Mitchell. Charles
Mitchum. R. K.
MuIlin. Cynthia Sonich
Murphy. Thomas A.
Oppelt. F.
Ott. \Va ne
Pasha an. Deran
Peterson. Spencer
Phillips. Richard
Plost, Charles
Plyler. Everett
Puzak. John
Rhodes. William
Rossman. Lewis
Russo. Rosemarie C.
Schomaker. Norbert
Schonbrod, Robert
Shackelford. J. M.
Shapiro. Paul
Smith. Lowell
Spence. John
CML (503) 757-460!
ETS 8-420-460 !
CML (702) 798-236 !
FTS 8-545-236 I
(202) 382-5895
CML (702) 798-2 )03
FTS 8-545-2 103
CML (513) 569-7523
FTS 8-684-7523
CML (503) 757-4601
ETS 8-420-4601
CML (5 13) 569-7696
FTS 8-684-7696
(202) 382-5793
ETS 8-382-5 793
(202) 475-8936
FTS 8-382-8936
CML (503) 757-460!
FTS 8-420-460!
CML (919) 541-277 !
FTS 8-629-2771
(202) 382-5796
FTS 8-382-5796
CML (919) 541-2918
ETS 8-629-2918
CML (919) 541-2106
FTS 8-629-2106
CML (919) 541-2853
FTS 8-629-2853
CML (513) 569-7603
FTS 8-684-7603
CML (404) 546-3 134
FTS 8-250-3134
CML (513) 569-7871
FTS 8-684-787!
CML (702) 798-2100
ETS 545-2229
(202) 382-5798
FTS 8-382-5798
(202) 382-2583
CML (202) 382-5717
FTS 8-382-5717
CML (919) 541-2649
FTS 8-629-2649
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Telephone
Swank, Robert CML (404) 546-3134
FTS 8-250-3134
Talbot, W. Wade (202) 382-5895
Tang, Don (202) 382-2621
Thacker, Ray (202) 382-26 I I
Thomas, Nelson CML (218) 750-5572
FTS 8-780-5572
Trout, Denis CML (202) 382-5945
FTS 8-382-5945
Tucker, W. Gene CML (919) 541-2746
ETS 8-629-2746
lJlvedal, Frode CML (202) 382-5893
FTS 8-382-5893
Valcovic, Lawrence CML (202) 382-7303
FTS 8-382-7303
Veith, Gil CML (218) 720-5550
FTS 8-780-5550
Wallace, Lance CML (202) 382-5777
FTS 8-382-5777
Weber, Cornelius CML (513) 569-7337
FTS 8-684-7337
Wilder, Ira CML (201) 321-6635
FTS 8-340-663 5
Wilmoth, Roger CML (513) 569-7509
FTS 8-684-7509
Williams, Sam (202) 382-5940
Williamson, Shelly CML (702) 798-2208
FTS 8-545-2208
Winter, John CML (513) 569-7325
FTS 8-684-7325
Wu, Chieh (202) 382-5940
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ORD Regional Contacts
The Office of Research and Development’s Regional
Services Staff is responsible for planning, coordinating, and
reviewing a program to provide inter-communication and
assistance on all matters of mutual interest and/or
responsibility of the Agency’s Regional Offices and the
Office of Research and Development.
Finally, for further information regarding EPA technical
assistance, or for additional copies of this report, please
contact:
Director, Michael L. Mastracci (202) 382-7667
Regional Services Staff (R D-674)
Washington, DC 20460
Regional Liaison Officers Telephone
Gerald Rausa (202) 382-7667
Regional Services Staff
Washington, DC 20460
Morris Altschu!er (202) 382-7667
Regional Services Staff
Washington, DC 20460
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EPA Regional Offices
Region I En ironmentaI Protection Agenc Connecticut
Room 2203 Maine
John F. Kennedy Federal Building Massachusetts
Boston. Massachusetts 02203 Ne Hampshire
t61 ) 223-5752 Rhode Island
Vermont
Region 2 Environmental Protection Agency Ness Jersey
Room 900 New York
26 Federal Plaza Puerto Rico
Ne ; York. New York 10278 Virgin Islands
(212) 264-2515
Region 3 Environmental Protection Agency Delaware
841 Chestnut St. District of Columbia
Philadelphia. Pennsylsania 19107 Maryland
(2l5 597-9370 Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Virginia
Region 4 Environmental Protection Agency Alabama
345 Courtland Street. NE. Florida
Atlanta, Georgia 30365 Georgia
CML (404) 881-2013 Kentucky
FTS 8-257-2013 Mississippi
North Carolina
South Carolina
Tennessee
Region 5 Environmental Protection Agency Illinois
230 S. Dearborn Indiana
Chicago , Illinois 60604 Michigan
(312) 353-2072 Minnesota
Ohio
Wisconsin
Region 6 Environmental Protection Agency Arkansas
1201 Elm Street Louisiana
First lnternational Building New Mexico
Dallas, Texas 75270 Oklahoma
CML (214) 767-2630 Texas
FTS 8-729-2630
Region 7 Environmental Protection Agency Iowa
726 Minnesota Avenue Kansas
Kansas City, Kansas 66101 Missouri
CML (913) 236-2803 Nebraska
FTS 8-757-2803
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Region 8 F in iron mciii a Protect i on
Suite 9 ( 8)
860 Lincoln Street
Den cr. Colorado 80295
CML (303) 293-1692
FTS 8-564-1692
Region 10 En ironthenta1 Protection Agency
120() 6th Avenue
Seattle. Washington 98101
CML (206) 442-1465
FIS 8-399-1465
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NI ontana
North Dakota
South Dakota
1. La h
Wyoming
Alaska
Idaho
Wash I ngt on
Oregon
Region 9 Environmental Protection Agency
215 Fremont Street
San Francisco. California 94105
(415) 454-8083
A ri/On a
Ca Ii for n Ia
H a ii
Nevada
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