NEIC Library Mission

To support EPA environmental enforcement and
compliance assurance activities through provision
of relevant information.
                Identify
                Locate
                Retrieve & Deliver
NEIC's Environmental  Forensic  Library is
the  only enforcement-specific library in EPA.
The  library partners  with  NEIC  scientists
and engineers to retrieve, validate, and  deliver
information  to  develop  methods,  defensible
regulations, and environmental measurements.
 About NEIC

NEIC is an environmental forensic center accredited
for environmental  data measurement activities.
NEIC is a division in the EPAs Office of Criminal
Enforcement Forensics and Training. NEIC works
closely with our enforcement partners on a variety
of criminal and civil enforcement investigations.
NEIC's main partner in criminal investigations is
the Criminal Investigations Division, and in civil
investigations we partner with various enforcement
components of the ten EPA regional offices.

NEIC is a Division of the Office of Enforcement and
Compliance Assurance (OECA), Office of Criminal
Enforcement, Forensics Training (OCEFT).

The library is available to the public on  a pre-
scheduled basis.
            U.S. EPA - OECA
Office of Criminal Enforcement, Forensics and Training
                                                                                                 National
                                                                                            Enforcement
                                                                                           Investigations
                                                                                                   Center
  Contact Us
  U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
           EPA310-F-12-001
  Phone: 303-462-9353
  Fax: 303-462-9354
  Email: neic-library@epamail.epa.gov
  Internet: http://www.epa.gov/libraries/neic.html

  U.S. EPA-NEIC
  Denver Federal Center, Building 25 - Box 25227
  Denver, Colorado 80225
        s&EPA
  U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

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The NEIC
Library has
accounts with
database pro-
viders Dialog
and STN.
To minimize
costs associ-
ated with use,
we search
these databas-
es only when
necessary.
STN provides
Chemical Abstracts for searching:
CAS Registry Numbers
CA Index names and commonly used chemical
names and trade names
Molecular formulas
Structure diagrams
Sequence data
Alloy composition tables
Experimental and predicted property data and tags
Spectra
Lists of  databases and regulatory listings contain-
ing information on substances
Chemical Abstracts is the authoritative source
for CAS Registry Numbers and must be searched
when Registry Numbers are questioned, or when a
substance needs to be identified for other reasons.
Usually the chemist and librarian work side-by-
side during the search of
Chemical Abstracts.

NEIC librar-
ians are skilled
in searching
scientific lit-
erature, com-
pany and people
information, and
many other areas.
We specialize in locat-
ing information that requires
advanced and unique search methodologies.

Journal Subscriptions Include:
Environmental Forenncs
Environmental Science & Technology
Hazardous Waste Consultant
BNA Environment Reporter
Scientific American
Science News
High  Country News

Encyclopedias Include:
Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry
Patty's Toxicology
Encyclopedia of Analytical Chemistry
Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology
Support of Investigations
The Library supports all of  the subjects listed
below with reference books,  circulating books,
journals, reports and specialized databases. Our
collection is highly technical and responsive to
the needs of the NEIC staff. We have books not
owned by any of the other EPA libraries.

Scientific and Engineering:
Analytical chemistry
Materials science
Atmospheric chemistry
Environmental fate and transport
Computer modeling
Geochemistry
Toxicology
Hydrogeology
Health risk assessment
Sampling of contaminated sites
Industrial  engineering

Environmental Forensics:
Chemical and physical properties of pure sub-
stances and mixtures
Potential sources of chemical contamination
Timing of releases to the environment
Spatial distribution of contamination
Potentially responsible parties

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