United States	Information Resources January/February 1994
Environmental Protection	Management	EPA220-N-94-014
Agency	(3404)
<&EPA The Catalyst
Information for Environmental Action
An Information Seryice for EPA HQ Staff from the Headquarters Library
Plug In to the Library
On February 28, Agency staff in Waterside Mall with VABS access
from their LAN will be able to plug into the HQ Library's LAN and
CD-ROM tower from their offices. Access from remote sites in Northern
Virginia and other buildings in the DC area is planned and will be
phased in gradually. For more information on how to access, contact
the Library at 202-260-5921 or email Library-HQ. *
YOUR POWER SOURCE

Focus on the Internet
See for yourself...
The Internet is a loose confederation
of U.S. government, academic and research
networks, providing access points to many
domestic and foreign networks, housing
information on thousands of topics. Agency
personnel with an All-in-One account can
send and receive electronic mail messages
via the Internet to thousands of other users
with Internet addresses. Staff with
mainframe authorization can utilize the
anonymous file transfer protocol to retrieve
text of documents and reports (such as the
National Performance Review report), or
login to archive sites housing datasets as
esoteric as Aesop's fables or the CIA's World
Factbook.
Interest in the Internet and access has
grown at the Agency, and we're tasking this
opportunity to share a little of our expertise
with you. This issue will focus on the
Internet, including references to resources for
more information. ~
HQ Library staff will demonstrate
access to several gopher and archive sites in
an hour session on Thursday, March 17 at
9 am in the Library. To register, please call
202-260-5921 or email Library-HQ. We can
show you how it's done.
Note, however, that the Library is not a
gateway to these services. In order to
access them yourselves, you will need
mainframe authorization, or an All-in-One
address to send and receive email. ~
EPA Headquarters Library (3404) WSM2904 202-260-5922
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Read more about it...
The following items are available in the
HQ Library collection:
Whole Internet User's Guide &
Catalog. Ed Krol. 1992.
IRM TK5105.8.I58K76 1992
Crossing the Internet Threshold: An
Instructional Handbook. Roy Tennant.
REF IRM TK5105.875.I57T4 1993
The following are listings of gopher
sites and discussion lists of interest:
Not Just Cows: A Guide to Internet/
Bit net Resources in Agriculture and Related
Sciences. Release 2.0. Written and compiled
by Wilfred Drew. October 1993. Verticle file
Finding Information on the Internet: In
Search of Environmental Resources. A
project of the Washington, D.C. Environment
and Resources Management Group of the
Special Libraries Association. December
1993. Verticle file
Additional resources are available
through the EPA Library Network, and may be
borrowed for Agency staff upon request. ~
Author,
Author!
Agency employees
recently published books and articles. The
authors and titles of published works are listed
below:
Bell, Ruth Greenspan, Senior Attorney,
International Activities Division, Office of
General Counsel. (2399). "Exporting
Environmental Protection." Environmental
Law Reporter News and Analysis. December
1993, Vol. 23, No. 12, pp. 10701-10704.
The next authors have all contributed to the
same document. Environmental Toxicology
and Risk Assessment: 2nd Volume, ASTM
STP 1216, Joseph W. Gorsuch, F. James
Dwyer, Christopher G. Ingersoll, and Thomas
W. La Point, editors. Philadelphia, PA:
American Society for Testing and Materials,
1993. The page numbers of each chapter will
follow each title:
Zeeman, Maurice G., Branch Chief,
Nabholz, Joseph V., Senior Scientist, and
Clements, Richard G., Senior Environmental
Scientist, Environmental Effects Branch,
Health and Environmental Review Division,
Office Of Pollution Prevention and Toxics.
(7403) "The Development of SAR/QSAR for
Use Under EPA's Toxic Substances Control
Act (TSCA): An Introduction." pp. 523-539.
Boethling, Robert S., Chief, Environmental
Fate Section, Office of Pollution Prevention
and Toxics. (7507C) "Structure/Activity
Relationships for Evaluation of
Biodegradability in the EPA's Office of
Pollution Prevention and Toxics." pp. 540-
554.
Clements, Richard G., Senior Environmental
Scientist, Nabholz, Joseph V., Senior
Scientist, Johnson, David E., Chemist, and
Zeeman, Maurice G., Branch Chief,
Environmental Effects Branch, Health and
Environmental Review Division, Office Of
Pollution Prevention and Toxics. (7403) "The
Use of Quantitative Structure-Activity
Relationships (QSARs) as Screening Tools in
Environmental Assessment." pp. 555-570.
Nabholz, Joseph V., Senior Scientist,
Clements, Richard G., Senior Environmental
Scientist, Zeeman, Maurice G., Branch Chief,
et al. Environmental Effects Branch, Health
and Environmental Review Division, Office Of
Pollution Prevention and Toxics. (7403)
"Validation of Structure Activity Relationships
Used by the US EPA's Office of Pollution
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Prevention and Toxics for the Environmental
Hazard Assessment of Industrial Chemicals."
pp. 571-590.
Newsome, Larry D., Biologist, Johnson,
David E., Chemist, and Nabholz, Joseph V.,
Senior Scientist, Environmental Effects
Branch, Health and Environmental Review
Division, Office Of Pollution Prevention and
Toxics. (7403) "Quantitative Structure-Activity
Predictions for Amine Toxicity to Algae and
Daphnids." pp. 591-609.
Lipnick, Robert L., Leader, Structure Activity
Group, Environmental Effects Branch, Health
and Environmental Review Division, Office Of
Pollution Prevention and Toxics. (7403)
"Baseline Toxicity QSAR Models: A Means to
Assess Mechanism of Toxicity for Aquatic
Organisms and Mammals." pp. 610-619.
If you have written or edited a journal
article or book, please let us know by sending
the information to us at The Catalyst, 3404 or
email Library.HQ. ~
Conferences, Meetings,
Symposiums, Workshops
This is a selected list of meetings and
conferences chosen for their potential interest
to EPA staff. If EPA staff wish to have an •
EPA-sponsored event listed here, please
forward the information to The Catalyst, EPA
HQ Library, 401 M St., SW, 3404,
Washington, DC 20460 or email Library-HQ.
20th Annual RREL Research Symposium...
Environmental Technology for Pollution
Prevention, Remediation, and Control.
March 15-17,1994, Cincinnati, OH.
Sponsored by the Office of Research and
Development, US EPA. For more information
contact: SAIC (Technology Transfer Dept.),
501 Office Center Drive, Suite 420, Fort
Washington, PA 19034 or call 800-783-3870
or 215-628-9317 between 1 pm and 3 pm ET
Monday, Wednesday or Friday or
Fax 215-628-8916.
Tenth Annual Waste Testing and Quality
Assurance Symposium. July 11-15, 1994,
Arlington, VA. Call for papers due March 18,
1994. Cosponsored by Office of Solid Waste,
US EPA, Office of Emergency and Remedial
Response, US EPA, Office of Research and
Development, US EPA, and the American
Chemical Society. For more information
contact: Gail Hansen, Symposium Co-
Chairperson at 202-260-4797.
CFC Congress '94 and Environmental
Management Congress '94. April 6-7, 1994,
Anaheim, CA. The concurrent programs are
presented by the Environmental Engineers &
Managers Institute of AEE and the
Association of Energy Engineers® and
cosponsored by the US Environmental
Protection Agency. For more information
contact: The Association of Energy
Engineers®, 4025 Pleasantdale Road, Suite
420, Atlanta, GA 30340-4264 or call
404-447-5083 Extension 224 or
fax 404-446-3969. ~
Reference Inquiries	202-260-5921
Circulation Inquiries	202-260-5922
Interlibrary Loan	202-260-5060
Hazardous Waste-Reference 202-260-5934
INFOTERRA-Reference	202-260-5917
Water-Reference	202-260-8670
Email	Library-HQ
The Headquarters Library is
contractor operated and managed by the
Office of Information Resources
Management Information Access Branch.
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