United States
Envi?*nn»mtal»ProtectK»n
Agsney
Chemical Coordination Staff
Office of Pesticides and Toxic Substances
Washington DC
EPA 950-R-83-005
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UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20460
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MEMORANDUM
TO: Assistant Administrators
Regional Administrators
AA Budget Officers
SUBJECT: Agency Extramural Activity Report (EAR) for
Toxics-Related Projects, Supplement to Volume II,
Issue 2
Attached is a supplement to Volume II, Issue 2 of the
Extramural Activity Report (EAR) prepared by the Chemical
Coordination Staff (CCS) of the Office of Pesticides and Toxic
Substances. It includes descriptions of toxics-related projects
being undertaken by the Office of Research and Development
which have been modified (including new tasks and work assign-
ments) under existing contracts, in addition to, any new grants,
cooperative agreements, or interagency agreements not included
in the two previous (January and May) issues of the EAR*
To facilitate use of the EAR, the projects have been
indexed, where possible,, by chemical, industry and environmental
media. These indices are listed at the end of the document.
CCS will continue to maintain a log of the names and phone
numbers for the project officers? or appropriate contacts for
each project to ensure that only legitimate EPA users are put
in touch with the project/program office as well as to track
the utilization of the EAR.
If you
the project
please call
In addition
Centers has
For information on
Richard Marland in
have any questions, suggestions, or want to contact
officer for any of the projects listed in the EAR,
Joanne LaBaw or Arnie Edelman of CCS at 382-3395.
to the EAR, the Office of Research Grants and
information available on FY '83 research grants.
these latter projects, contact
ORD (382-5737). •„<:.
)Howa-rd M. Messner
Assistant Administrator
for Administration
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Don R. Clay
Assistant Administrator
for Pesticides and
Toxic Substances
Attachment
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Acknowledgement
The Chemical Coordination Staff of the Office of Pesticides and Toxic Substances wishes to
express its appreciation to the EPA project managers, contract officers, and program
budget officials, the Grants Administration Division and the Office of Research Grants and
Centers, who assisted in the development of this document by providing contract and grant
information and the timely review of draft descriptions. Without their enthusiastic
cooperation, production of this document would not have been possible.
Walter W. Kovalick, Jr.
Information concerning the project officers names and phone number for these contract
efforts may be obtained from Joanne LaBaw (382-3395) or Arnie Edleman (382-2249) of the
Chemical Coordination staff.
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TARLF OF CONTENTS
Literature Searches 1
Fate and Transport/Materials Balances . .2
Health/Environmental Effects „ „ 6
Health. Effects 7
Environmental Effects 17
Exposure. 21
Risk 23
Industrial Studies 24
Economic Studies 26
o Cost-Benefit Studies 30
Treatment Technology /Development Evaluation „ 33
Waste Management/Resource Recovery 38
Emergency Response. „ 44
Policy Studies/Regulatory Control Options. .47
Methodology Development/Validation. „ .50
o Chemical Analyses. => .50
o Treatment Processes and Monitoring. 51
o Health and Environmental Studies .52
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Statistical Analyses. ......................53
Modeling. .54
Data Base Development. ................................55
Sampling Analysis and Monitoring. ...........................56
o General.,.,....»,.... .................................56
o Chemical Analyses - Special Topics, ..,.57
o Environmental Monitoring. ..............................58
Index ...................61
o Chemical. * .61
o Media. .............................. . ......63
o Industry. 64
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LITERATURE SEARCHES
Title
Office/Divis ion
Description
Data Collection
ORD/Office of Health and
Environmental Assessment
This incremental funding action will provide
literature searches and acquisitions of key
articles, summarization and evaluation of data.
In addition, this contract will prepare
assessments to substantiate reportable 'quantities
under the comprehensive Environmental Response
Corporation and Liability Act (CERCLA).
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FATE AMD TRANSPORT/MATERIALS BALANCES
Title
Office/Division
Potential for
Biotransformation of Toxic
Chemicals Defined by a
Molecular Probe
Grant
Sequential/Competitive
Reactions in Catalytic
Oxidation of
Model Chlorinated
Hydrocarbons
Grant
Mechanism of adsorption of
Organic Chemicals on Soils
During Groundwater
Pollutant Movement
Cooperative Agreement
Description
She purpose of this grant is to develop and test a
new method that can be used to predict the fate of
specific synthetic chemicals which enter the
environment. cloning genes which code for a
specific structural activity group of xenobiotics
will be used as a "reagent™ or probe for directly
enumerating bacteria which possess the synthetic
chemical metabolizing enzymes„
A recycle reactor will measure the rate of
oxidation of pairs of potentially interacting
model chlorinated hydrocarbons. Inlet and outlet
concentrations will be measured by gas
chromatography. Kinetic rate expressions will be
developed by standard regression techniques,
(Chemicals: Chlorinated hydrocarbons)
This cooperative agreement will provide for an
investigation of the two-step mechanism of
adsorption of non-ionic organic chemicals from
water on soils.
(Chemicals: Organics)
(Media: Groundwater)
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FATE AND TRANSPORT/MATERIALS BALANCES
Title
Office/Division
Potential for
Biotransformation of Toxic
Chemicals Defined by a
Molecular Probe
Grant
Sequential/Competitive
Reactions in Catalytic
Oxidation of
Model Chlorinated
Hydrocarbons
Grant
Mechanism of Adsorption of
Organic Chemicals on Soils
During Groundwater
Pollutant Movement
Cooperative Agreement
Description
The purpose of this grant is to develop and test a
new method that can be used to predict the fate of
specific synthetic chemicals which enter the
environment. Cloning genes which code for a
specific structural activity group of xenobiotics
will be used as a "reagent" or probe for directly
enumerating bacteria which possess the synthetic
chemical metabolizing enzymes.
A recycle reactor will measure the rate of
oxidation of pairs of potentially interacting
model chlorinated hydrocarbons. Inlet and outlet
concentrations will be measured by gas
chromatography. Kinetic rate expressions will be
developed by standard regression techniques,
(Chemicals; Chlorinated hydrocarbons)
This cooperative agreement will provide for an
investigation of the two-step mechanism of
adsorption of non-ionic organic chemicals from
water on soils.
(Chemicals: Organics)
(Media: Groundwater}
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FATE AND TRANSPORT/MATERIALS BALANCES
Title
Office/Division
Evaluation of Chemical
Reaction Mechanisms for
Photochemical Air
Pollution
Cooperative Agreement
Reactions of Ozone with
Organics in Aqueous
Solutions
Cooperative Agreement
Natural Hydrocarbons in
Photochemical Air
Pollution.
Assistance Amendment
Description
The objectives of this project are: (1) to
prepare a State-of-the-Science document on
available chemical mechanisms; (2) test the effect
of using different chemical mechanisms on the
predications of ozone/precursor concentrations and
on EKMA control requirement estimates; and (33 use
available aerometric air quality data to determine
the accuracy of predictions.
(Media: Air)
The .objective of this project is to provide
information on aqueous phase ozone/hydrocarbon
reactions (reaction rates and product
identification). The reactions studied are to
lead to information on organic aerosol formation
rates and lifetimes in the trophosphere.
(Chemicals: Organics)
The purpose of this study is to determine natural
hydrocarbon emission rates using a tracer release
dispersion procedure.
(Chemicals: Hydrocarbons)
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FATE AND TRANSPORT/MATERIALS BALANCES
Title
Office/Division
Pollutant Sorption to
Soils/Sediments in
Organic/Aqueous Solvent
Systems
Cooperative Agreement
Microbial Transport and
Pate of Synthetic Dyes
Cooperative Agreement
Experimental and
Theoretical Studies of
Contaminant Dispersion in
Ground Water
Cooperative Agreement
Description
The project seeks to develop procedures for
predicting sorption as a function of solvent
composition. A theoretical framework will be
developed for describing sorption in nonaqueous
media. Emphasis will be placed on a prior
prediction utilizing readily available physical
properties of system constitutents.
(Chemicals; Solvents)
(Media: Land)
For this project, field samples of microorganisms
will be brought into the laboratory for testing
sorption and transformation of ten synthetic dyes.
(Chemicals; Synthetic dyes)
The purpose of this project is to advance
understanding of contaminant dispersion in ground
water through performance of a large, detailed,
three-dimensional field study of hydrodynamic
dispersion coupled with extensive analysis of the
results.
(Media: Groundwater)
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FATE AND TRANSPORT/MATERIALS BALANCES
Title
Office/Division
Cooperative Agreement
Work on Long-Range
Transport Model
Uncertainty
Description
This project will examine current understanding of
the physical processes responsible for long-range
transport and deposition of atmospheric
pollutants.
(Media: Air)
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HEALTH/EMVIROHMENAL EFFECTS
Title
Of £ ice/Di vlgion
Description
.Geographic Integrated
Environmental Management
Study
'OPRM/Office of Policy Anaylsis
This project will involve the further development
and application of methodolgies designed to assist
in the understanding of potential health and
environmental impacts from multi-media exposure to
pollutants and potential-mechanisms for limiting
or controlling specified pollutants in a cost-
effective way. These- methodolgies will be applied
in a specified geographical context.
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HEALTH EFFECTS
Title
Office/Division
Neurotoxicity of Low Level
Prenatal Exposure to
Hypotoxic Agents
Grant
Evaluation of the
.Reproductive Effects of
Chlorine Dioxide,
Chloramine and Chlorine
Administration in the
Drinking Water of Rats
Cooperative Agreement
Pharmacokinetics and
Metabolism of
Chlorophenols in the Rat
Grant
Description
The purpose of this study is to obtain a better
understanding of the prenatal neurotoxic effects
of hypoxic agents such as carbon monoxide.
The major objective of this project is to evaluate
the reproductive effects of ingestion of drinking
water disinfectants in both males and females.
(Chemicals; Chlorine dioxide, chloramine,
chlorine)
(Media: Drinking water)
The purpose of this project is to investigate the
metabolism of 2- and 4- chlorophenol and 2,4-
dichlorophenol and also investigate
pharmacokinetic pathways.
(Chemicals; 2-Chlorophenol, 4-chlorophenol,
2,4-dichlorophenol)
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HEALTH EFFECTS
Title
Office/Division
Pharmacokinetics and
Chemical Toxicity of
Uranium-238 in Drinking
Water
Assistance Amendment
Effects of Toxic
Substances on Memory
Grant
Trihalomethanes in
Drinking Water and Colon
Cancer
Grant
Description
This project will evaluate the pharmacokinetics in
major organs and chemical toxicity to bone and
kidney.
(Chemical: Uranium-238)
(Media: Drinking water)
Using rats, this study will research the effects
of exposure to toxic substances and reference
drugs on memory, acquisition, and general
performance. In addition to providing useful data
on particular toxic substances, the research has
the more general objective of establishing the
feasibility and importance for behavioral
toxicology of determining effects of toxic
substances on memory and acquisition.
This grant will provide a case control study to
test the hypothesis that exposure to
trihalomethanes in drinking water confers a
significant risk of colon cancer.
(Chemicals: Trihalomethanes)
(Media: Drinking water)
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HEALTH EFFECTS
Title
Office/Division
Test of a Highly Sensitive
Drosophila Assay for
Chemical Induced
Chromosome Breakage
Grant
'Effect of Polychlorinated
Biphenyls (PCB's) on Early
Developmental Events
During Sea Urchin
Embryogenesis ' "
Grant
Development and
Application of an In vitro
Tumor Promoter Assay
Grant
Description
The purpose of this grant is to develop a quick
sensitive test to detect carcinogens in the total
environment.
The purpose of this grant is to determine effects
of PCB's on early- development of sea urchin egg
fertilization and to study post-fertilization
development through analysis of nucleic acid and
protein synthesis.
(Chemicals: Polychlorinated biphenyls)
This project will develop a quantitative assay to
detect chemicals that could be tumor promoters.
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HEALTH EFFECTS
Title
Off ice/Divi s i on
Description
Collaborative Research in
Health Effects of
Environmental Pollutants
Assistance Amendment
This project will establish a mechanism for
scientific exchange and interaction between the
research efforts at the Center for Environmental
Health and Medical Sciences and the clinical
research activities of the Health Effects Research
Laboratory to include mutual research projects and
training programs.
Flow Cytometry of Sperm as
a Dosimeter of Toxic
Chemical Health Hazards
Grant
In this project, sperm and lymphocyte cells will
be exposed to various toxic chemicals and their
effects measured by flow cytometry. Other
biochemical and morphological parameters will be
measured simultaneously to better explain the
overall processess involved.
The Central Nervous
System: Molecular and
Cellular Factors
Influencing Neural
Development
Grant
This grant will provide for a conference to
convene distinguished scientists from around the
world to study a variety of scientific topics.
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Title
Office/Division
Description
Metabolism of Chemical
Carcinogens in Human and
Animal Tissues
Cooperative Agreement
This project will investigate the feasibility of
using organ culture for assessment of human health
risk due to exposure to carcinogenic chemicals.
Texas Pesticides Hazard
Assessment Project
Cooperative Agreement
This project will develop scientific data on the
magnitude and effects of pesticides on the health
of the U.S. population.
(Chemicals: Pesticides)
Inhalation Toxicology of
Formaldehyde-Containing
Air Pollutants
Grant
This project will evaluate short-term toxic and
irritant effects of combined photochemical
pollutants including formaldehyde, particulates,
and ozone exposure during exercise.
(Chemical; Formaldehyde, ozone, photochemical
oxidants)
(Media: Air)
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Title
Office/Division
Description
Cohort Studies of Oxidant
Exposure
Cooperative Agreement
The purpose of this project is to determine if
long-term exposure to photochemical oxidants and
other secondary pollutants characteristic of the
Southern California Mr Basin is associated with
the initiation or promotion of respiratory
impairment or chronic respiratory disease.
(Chemicals; Photochemical oxidants)
(Media: Air)
An Evaluation of Neuron-
Specific Proteins as
Biochemical Indicators of
Neurotoxicity
Cooperative Agreement
This research will utilize radioimmunoassays of
neuron—specific proteins and assays of their
corresponding mRNAs as a measure of the effects of
known and suspected neurotoxicants on the neuronal
components of the developing and adult nervous
system.
Chemicals: Neuron—specific proteins)
Lead Emissions and Lead
Blood Levels
OPRM/Office of Policy Analysis
This work assignment will collect, critique, and
in some cases reestimate background information on
the relationship between lead emissions and the
measured levels of lead in the blood of sensitive
populations. This information will be used in the
development of a Regulatory Impact Analysis
(benefit/cost) of the ambient air standard for
lead emissions.
(Chemical: Lead)
(Media: Air)
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HEALTH EFFECTS
Title
Of fice/Pivision
Description
Estimation of Health
Impacts of Air Pollution:
Respiratory Disease in
Birmingham
OPRM/Office of Policy Analysis
This work assignment will provide three studies to
help estimate the benefits of reducing air
pollution. These include: 1} a time series
analysis -of the relationship between respiratory
disease and fine and total particulate matter in
Birmingham; 2) a time series analysis of mortality
and total partictiles; and 3} a cross-sectional
analysis relating certain health outcomes to
exposure to ozone using the 1979 Health Interview
Survey. ; . . ._-^
(Media): Air)
Assessment of Hazardous
Air Pollutants Not on
EPA's Candidate List
OPRM/Office of Policy Analysis.
This work assignment will provide for the review
of lists -of known air pollutants. From these
lists, potentially hazardous compounds not on
EPA's "candidate list" •will be chosen using
scientific• judgement, based on professional
experience. The potential health hazard and major
sources of each chosen compound will he evaluated.
(Media: Air)
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HEALTH EFFECTS
Title
Office/Division
Description
Development of Superfund
Health Assessment Guidance
OPRM/Office of Policy Analysis
This work assignment will provide for the
preparation of documents on the development of
health assessments mandated by the National
Contingency Plan. The major output of this task
will be a health assessment guidance manual that
will describe in detail the procedure by which
exposure and toxicological data should be used in
the evaluation of the effect of Superfund response
actions on the surrounding population. Guidance
specific to removal and remedial actions, and
preparation of case studies to demonstrate its
applicability will also be included.
S true tur e -Ac ti vi t y
Relationships
ORD/Office of Health and
Environmental Assessment
The purpose of this new contract is to develop
techniques for using structure-activity
relationships of chemicals to predict toxicity and
carcinogenic potential for use in rapid response
health hazard'assessments.
Technical Support for
Preparation of Criteria
and Health Assessment
Documents
ORD/Office of Health and
Environmental Assessment
This incremental funding action will support
preparation and production of air .quality criteria
documents and health assessments,
(Media): Air)
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HEALTH EFFECTS
Title
Office/Division
Description
Document Technical Support
ORD/Office of Health and
Environmental Assessment
This incremental funding action will give
technical support for preparation of lead air
quality criteria documents and health assessment
documents.
(Chemical; Le ad)
(Media: Air)
Health Effects Document
ORD/Office of Health and
Environmental Assessment
The purpose of this contract modification is to
prepare a document -regarding the health effects
associated with exposure to either criteria or
hazardous pollutants. This study will be used for
developing further regulatory strategy. "'"
(Chemicals; Hazardous pollutants)
Estimation of Gonadal Dose
Using Sister Chromatid'
Exchange and Alkylation
Studies in Germ Cells and
Somatic Cells of Male Mice-
ORD/Office of Health and
Environmental Assessment
This incremental funding action is to improve
EPA's understanding of the dosimetry approach for
mutagenicity risk assessments. Emphasis will be
-on the relationship between -alkylation to DNA and
genetic damage,
(Chemical'(s); Ethylene oxide)
Carcinogen Study
ORD/Office of Health and
Environmental Assessment
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The purpose of this incremental funding action is'
to give pathology support for pathologist consul-
tation and slide reviews on specific carcinogens.
This will aid regulatory decision evaluation.
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HEALTH EFFECTS
Title
Office/Division
Description
Effective Human Dose of
Toxicants
ORD/Office of Health and
Environmental Assessment
The purpose of this incremental funding action is
to conduct a workshop on estimation of effective
human dose of toxicants corresponding to dosage in
animal experiments.
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ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS
Title
Office/Division
Description
Effects Assessment of
Selected Chemicals on
Estuarine and Marine
Organisms
Assistance Amendment
Objectives are to complete a series of toxicity
tests with selected pesticides and certain non-
target estuarine or marine animals. The chemicals
to be used will include fenthion and maled.
Static and flow-through acute tests will be
completed with Mysiodopsis bohia.
(Chemicals: Fenthion, maled)
(Media: Water)
Mathematical Modeling of
Chemical-Structure
Relationships
Cooperative Agreement
The objectives of this project are to: (1)
compile an aquatic toxicity data base? (2) develop
computer software for analysis of factors
influencing aquatic toxicity; (3) establish
quantitative relationships with QSAR methods
between physical/chemical parameters and aquatic
toxicityj (4) develop mathematical models for
statistical analysis; (5) apply structure-activity
for predicting fate and transport model
parameters,
(Medias Water)
Impact of Ocean Waste
Disposal on the Physiology
of Two Benthic Species
Cooperative Agreement
The purpose of this project is to develop the
physiological effects indicators needed to assess
the health of benthic communities impacted by
ocean dumping operations,
(Media: Water)
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ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS
Title
Office/Division
Description
Aquatic Toxicity Testing
and Criteria Document
Development
Assistance Amendment
The objectives of this study are to extend and
further develop the acute and chronic toxicity
tests for solid waste extracts, the supporting
technical information for the ammonia criteria
document, and the comparative toxicology data base
to be used for determining the relationship of
species sensitivity to industrial chemicals,
{Chemical: Ammonia)
(Media: Water)
Aquatic Pollutant
Assessments and
Development of a Hazard
Prediction Technology by
Quantitative Structure-
Activity Relationships
Cooperative Agreement
The objectives
determine LCC
of this project are to (T)
'50 values for selected organic
chemicals; (2) determine "no effect" levels with
embryo-larval tests, (3) develop structure-
activity relationships {OSAR) for aquatic
toxicity, and" (4) determine blood/water partition
coefficients- of selected chemicals.
(Chemicals; Organic chemicals)
(Media:Water)
Ecological impact of
Selected Pollutants on the
Estuarine Ecosystem
Cooperative Agreement
The general objective of this agreement -is-- to
support the University of Rhode Island in carrying
out a cooperative- research program "with".;'E]S:^T33-
accelerate the development of ecological
assessment methodologies.
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ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS
Title
Office/Division
Description
Toxic and Sublethal
Effects of Waste Drilling
Muds and Certain Chromium
Compounds on Crustaceans
Assistance Amendment
This project will develop and use a variety of
toxicity tests for: critical life stages;
molting, growth and fecundity; ultrastructure; and
cytotoxic antimitotic, teratologic effects. Test
organisms arej Mysidopsis bahia, pa'laemone tes
pugip, Penaeus agtecus, Acartia tonsa.
(Chemical; Chromium compounds)
Development and Evaluation
'of Community and Ecosystem
Level Toxicity Test
Cooperative Agreement
The objectives of this project include: 1)
evaluation of the behavior of a naturally-derived
microcosm test system developed by Leffler, as
influenced by a wide range of toxic substances,
(2) participation in a interlaboratory comparision
of an artifically assembled microcosm test system
developed by Taub.
Development of Toxicity
Test Protocols Using the
Marine Red Alga Champia
Parvula
Cooperative Agreement
This project will verify an existing static
toxicity test using the marine red alga Champia
parvula to assess chronic effects of pollutants.
Organic compounds .will be used in verifying the
test, and a test protocol will be developed for
use by OTS,
(Chemical: Organics)
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ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS
Title
Office/Division
Description
Environmental- Persistence
Data
ORD/Office of Health and
Environmental Assessment
The purpose of this incremental funding is to
collect and evaluate environmental persistence
data for all media including air.
(Mediar Air)
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EXPOSURE
Title
Office/Division
Description
Man's Exposure to
Halogentated Organics from
His Drinking Water
Cooperative Agreement
This cooperative agreement wi-11 study the
relationship between ingestion of drinking water
from a municipal chlorinated supply and subsequent
blood levels of halogenated organics in man.
(Chemicals; Halogenated organics)
(Media; Drinking water)
South Carolina Pesticide
Hazard Assessment Program
Cooperative Agreement
This project will develop scientific data on the
magnitude and effects of exposure to pesticides on
the health of the U.S. population.
(Chemicals: Pesticides)
Exposure Assessments
ORD/Office of Health and
Environmental Assessment
The purpose of this incremental funding action is
to do a .survey of literature and perform
calculations to provide data and estimates for
exposure assessments related to listing of
hazardous wastes and permitting disposal.
(Chemicals:? Hazardous wastes)
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EXPOSURE
Title
Office/Division
Description
Exposure Profiles
ORD/Office of Health and
Environmental Assessment
This incremental funding action will do a survey
of literature and performance of calculations to
provide data and estimates for exposure profiles
for setting priorities among hazardous solid
wastes.
(Chemical(s): Hazardous solid wastes)
Survey Method for
Estimating Exposure to
Chemicals
ORD/Office of Health and
Environmental Assessment
This incremental funding action will perform a
survey of methods to estimate exposure to
chemicals from landfills by suspension of
contaminated dust particles in air.
(Media; Mr)
Exposure Assessment
Guidelines
ORD/Office of Health and
Environmental Assessment
The purpose of the incremental funding action is
to conduct a review and an evaluation of exposure
assessment guidelines.
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RISK
Title
Office/Division
Description
Evaluation of Ground Water
Contamination Risks
Resulting Prom Hazardous
Wastes Disposal
Cooperative Agreement
This cooperative agreement will provide methods
and data to predict concentrations of wastes that
escape into the environment from disposal of
hazardous wastes.
(Chemicalss Hazardous wastes)
(Media; Ground water)
Toxic Materials Support
Documentation
ORD/Office of Health and
Environmental Assessment
This incremental funding action will prepare
supporting documentation for hazard/risk
assessments and for regulations dealing with toxic
materials.
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STUDIES
Title
Office/Division
Description
Minor or Specialty Uses of
Pesticides for Commodity
Production
Cooperative Agreement
This cooperative agreement will provide data and
information exchanged on minor and specialty uses
of pesticides through the conducting of project
workshops. This date will provide a basis for
registration actions.
(Chemicals: Pesticides)
Chemical Industry's
Response to Prospective
Environmental Regulations
OPRM/Office of Policy Analysis
This work assignment will provide for
consultations with officials from industry and
environmental groups tc probe for actions likely
to be taken in response to changing regulatory
requirements. Emphasis will be given to end-of-
pipe controls, potential process changes or
production decisions, £K.d on trade-offs betweer
such possible alternatives.
Strategic Industry Review
for the Organic Chemicals,
Plastics Synthetic
Fibers Industry
OPRM/Policy Analysis Division
The purpose of this work assignment is to apply
modeling approaches to assessing the impact of EPA
regulations on the organics,, plastics, and
synthetics industries end to investigate possible
regulatory reform or regulatory efficiency
options.
(Chemicals;
(Industries:
Organics}
Organic chemical, plastics,
synthetics)
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INDUSTRIAL STUDIES
Title
Office/Division
Description
Chemical Engineering Cost
Support for the Chemicals
MBO Study
OPRM/Office of Policy Analysis
This work assignment will develop estimates of
chemical production process economics and
volume/composition of solid waste based on
chemical engineering data, calculation and
estimates, A brief overview of the international
competitiveness of the U.S. chemicals industry
will also be prepared.
(Industry? Chemical)
Summary of Hazardous Waste
Industry Market Forecast
'Studies
OPRM/Office of Policy analysis
The purpose of this work assignment is to examine
demand, pricing, and capacity studies of the
commercial hazardous wastes management industry.
(Industry; Hazardous waste management)
High Growth Industry
Pollution Characterization
ORD/Office of Exploratory
Research
The purpose of this contract modification is to do
a detailed analysis of pollution characteristics
of high growth industries.
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ECONOMIC STUDIES
Title
Office/Division
Description
Pollution Control Cost
Analysis
Cooperative Agreement
This cooperative agreement will: relate
engineering cost analysis and economic cost
analysis, assess suitability of current cost
analysis for use in environmental RIA's, and
provide two case studies.
Analysis of Economic
Benefits of Improved
Information
Cooperative Agreement
This project will develop methods for estimating
the economic benefits of information programs
(e.g., labeling) and methods for testing the
economic benefits of information on both the
health and non-health risks associated with
substances covered under Section 8 of the Toxic
Substances Control Act,
Economic Impact of
Defluoridation on Dental
Health
Assistance Amendment
The purpose of this project is to develop a data
base on the risk of contracting fluorosis by non-
life time residents in high fluoride areas. It is
an extension of earlier work conducted by EPA that
supports the analysis of cost-effective limits for
the installation of fluoride removal technology in
drinking water.
(Chemical; Fluoride)
(Media: Drinking water)
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ECONOMIC STUDIES
Title
Office/Division
Description
National Crop loss
Assessment Networks
Effects of Ozone in the
Mortheast
Cooperative Agreement
She primary objective of this research project is
to define the relationships between yield of major
agricultural crops and closes of ozone. This
information will partially fulfill the need for
data required to assess economic consequences in
the U.S* from crop exposure to gaseous air
pollutants,
(Chemical; Ozone)
(Hedia: Mr)
An Assessment of the
National Economic Effects
of Ozone on Agricultural
Crops
Cooperative Agreement
fhis project will assess the national economic
consequence of ozone damage to a set of annual
crops, using computer models. It will include
crops for which NCLAN dose-response data are
available; soybeans, wheat, cotton, barley and
hay.
(Chemical: Ozone)
Methods Development in
Measuring Benefits of
Environmental Improvement
Assistance Amendment
this project will develop improved methodologies
for determining the economic benefits of pollution
control and to make initial applications of these
methodologies.
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ECONOMIC STUDIES
Title
Office/Division
Description
Economic Benefits of
Reduced Heavy Duty Diesel
Emissions
OPRM/Policy Analysis Division
The purpose of this work assignment is to evaluate
the health (cancer and noncancer), soiling, and
visibility effects of diesel emissions from heavy
duty vehicles»
Macroeconomic Impacts of
EPA Regulations
OPRM/office of Policy Analysis
This work order will provide economic quantitative
estimates of historical and projected
macroeconomic impacts (e.g. investment
displacement, changes in employment and
productivity, price and output effects) of EPA
regulations on the so-called "smokestack"
industries.
(Industries: Iron and steel, chemical, pulp and
paper, automobile, nonferrous metals, foundries,
petroleum refining, utilities, municipal sludge,
solid waste)
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ECONOMIC STUDIES
Title
Office/Division
Description
Financial Analysis of
St. Louis
OPRM/Office of Policy Analysis
This work assignment will entail the following
tasks:
o Develop a methodology EPA can use to evaluate
the financial ability of a local government
to comply with environmental regulations.
o Analyze the financial ability of the City of
St, Louis to comply with environmental
requirements of the city operated
incinerators.
o Prepare a set of questions to be submitted to
city officials in St. Louis to elicit the
data necessary to complete the analysis
described in the second task.
o Prepare a written report on the findings of
the analysis and the methodology.
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ECONOMIC STUDIES (COST-BENEFIT STUDIES)
Title
Office/Division
Description
Costs and Benefits of
Pesticides Use
Assistance Amendment
This project will provide an analysis of costs and
benefits of the use of pesticides on agricultural
crops in Illinois and the U.S.
(Chemicals: Pesticides)
Research and Demonstration
of Improved Methods for
Carrying Out Benefit-Cost
Analysis of Individual
Regulations
Cooperative Agreement
The purpose of this project is to develop and
apply improved methods for preparing benefit-cost
analysis of individual proposed regulations.
Analysis of the Costs and
•anefits of the Use of
asticides on Crop and
?n-crop Sites in Virginia
id Other States.
Assistance Amendment
This project will provide the needed input to the
risk/benefit regulatory decisions on problem
pesticides which could affect the economy of
Virginia and other states. The project will also
provide analysis methodologies to be used by the
Agency in future risk/benefit reviews involving
pesticides.
(Chemicals: Pesticides)
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ECONOMIC STUDIES (COST-BENEFIT STUDIES)
Title
Office/Division
Description
Benefit Analysis Using
Indirect of Imputed Market
Methods
Cooperative Agreement
This project will carry out economic research to
develop solutions for the underidentification of
hedonic demand curves for environmental public
goods and demonstrate, using suitable pollution
problems. Also develop and demonstrate improved
methods for estimating the regional water-quality
benefits resulting from water pollution control
requirements.
(Medias Water)
The Use of Contingent
Valuation Data for
Benefit/Cost Analysis in
Water Pollution Control
Assistance Amendment
The purpose of this project is to develop and test
a contingent valuation instrument which will be
used for a national contingent valuation
experiment, and national benefit estimates will be
calculated.
(Media: Water)
The Representativeness of
Case Studies Used to
Evaluate the Benefits and
Costs of the Organics and
Plastics Effluent
Guidelines
OPRM/Office of Policy Analysis
This work assignment will characterize these
regulated industries, by type and volume of
production, treatment in place, expected
compliance costs, etc., and the environments its
effluents effects (e.g., type, size and uses of
receiving water body) and evaluate the case
studies within that framework.
(Industry: Organic Chemicals, Plastics)
(Media:Water)
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ECONOMIC STUDIES (COST-BENEFIT STUDIES)
Title
Office/Division
Description
Estimating the Net
Benefits of Combined Sewer
Overflow Controls for a
Non-Marine Site
OPRM/Office of Policy Analysis
This project is intended to generate the net
benefits of water quality improvements, such as
required for .major regulations under Executive -
Order 12291, that are proj e-ctecl to result from
various Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) control
alternatives for a non-marine site. The results
will be used to formulate and support a 1985
construction grants regulation amendment to
require benefit-cost analysis for CSO project
applications. -
-{Media-: ' Water) - . . - . • -
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TREATMENT TECHHOLOGY/DEVELOPMENT EVALUATIQS
Title
Office/Division
Description
Removal of Non-Volatile
Chloroorganic Compounds
and Their Precursors by
GAG Adsorption
Grant
The basic purpose of this study is to determine
the potential of activated carbon treatment for
removal of non-purgeable organic chlorine
compounds from drinking water.
(Chemicals; Nonvolatile chloroorganics)
{Media; Drinking water)
Iron Treatment by Sodium
Silicate & Chlorine
Grant
The purpose of this grant is to determine
fundamentals of a new drinking water treatment
process, pioneered in Canada, which is capable of
keeping .iron & manganese in solution, thus
preventing color, taste, & stain problems.
(Chemicals; Iron, manganese)
(Media; Drinking water)
Destruction of Poly-
chlorinated Biphenyls
{PCB's) - Environmental
Applications of Sodium
Polyethylene Glycolate
Complexes
Assistance Amendment
The objective here is to -develop and optimiiaize a
potentially useful chemical process for the
degradation of PCB's and other halogenated
compounds so as to minimize their impact in the
environment. The specific objectives is to
determine the effectiveness of the NaPEG reaction
in the treatment of PCB-contaminated soils.
(Chemical; Polychlorinated biphenyls)
(Media: Land)
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TREATMENT TECHNOLOGY/DEVELOPMENT EVALUATION
Title
Office/Division
Description
Recovery of Metal Values
from Metal Finishing
Sludges
Cooperative Agreement
This project will use a specific technology to
remove metals from sludges and oils. An operating
history will be developed and output streams
monitored to test the compatibility of this
process with incineration technology as well as
conventional sanitary landfill or landforming
systems.
(Chemicals: Metals)
Genetic Studies on a New
Anaerobe From Digester
Sludge Able to Metabolize
Aromatic Ring Structures
Grant
This work will determine if degradation is by a
curable and transmissible plasmid, compare it to
related strains, and characterize defective
mutants in the pathway.
(Chemicals; Aromatic hydrocarbons)
Trihalomethane Precursor
Removal by Coagulation
Techniques in Lime-
Softening Plant
Cooperative Agreement
This cooperative research agreement will evaluate
the practical and economic aspects of certain
polymeric coagulants for removing organic
precursor material before that material can react
with chlorine to produce unacceptably high
concentrations of trihalomethanes.
(Chemicals: Trihalomethanes)
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TREATMENT TECHNOLOGY/DEVELOPMENT EVALUATION
Title
Office/Division
Description
Venturi Scrubber
Performance and
Optimization
Grant
The objectives of this research are, through
carefully controlled experiments, to develop data
that will allow further refinement of venturi
performance and optimization theory, to
demonstrate the extent to which the theoretical
benefit from venturi optimization is achieved, and
to develop design criteria.
(Media: Air)
TTield Research on Radon
Removal with GAC
Grant
The purpose of this grant is to determine cost
effectiveness of using granular activated carbon
to remove Radon from private groundwater supplies.
(Chemical; Radon)
(Media: Groundwater)
Superfund—Assessing
Alternative Remedial
Actions
OPRM/Policy Analysis Division
The purpose of this work assignment is to evaluate
key issues in the Superfund program that relate to
determining the degree of cleanup required at the
hazardous waste sites and to conduct an analysis
of the cost-effectiveness of alternative remedial
actions at a particular site. This information
will be used in formulating an approach for
assessing the benfits associated with cleaning up
Superfund sites.
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TREATMENTTECHNOLOGY/DEVELOPMENT EVALUATION
Title
Office/Division
Description
Air Pollution Control
Handbook
ORD/Center for Environmental
Research Information
This incremental funding contract will provide for
an operation and maintenance handbook on air
pollution control technology. This handbook will
help assist State and local air pollution agency
personnel determine the compliance status of
stationary sources.
Water Treatment Data for
Pesticides
ORD/Municipal Environmental
Research Laboratory
This task will compile and develop data on water
treatment for pesticides. Data collected will
concern pesticides used in and around drinking
water sources.
(Chemicals; Pesticides)
(Media: Drinking water)
Evaluation of Reverse
Osmosis for Removal of
Inorganic Contaminants
ORD/Muncipal Environmental
Research Laboratory
This incremental funding action will provide
treatment data on use of reverse osmosis
technology to remove inorganic contaminants from
drinking water. information being used to help
State, local agencies, consultants, and utilities
in selecting proper treatment for small community
problems,
(Chemicals; Inorganics)
(Media: Drinking water)
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TREATMENT TECHNOLOGY/DEVELOPMENT EVALUATION
Title
Of fice/Pivision
Description
Evaluation of Treatment
Methods for Removal of
Inorganic Contaminants
ORD/Municipal Environmental
Research Laboratory
Cincinnati, OH
This contract modification will evaluate treatment
methods for removal of inorganic contaminants from
small community water supplies. Laboratory
studies and pilot studies using a mobile pilot
plant trailer are being conducted to develop
engineering data on methods to remove inorganic
contaminants from groundwater.
(Chemical(s); Inorganic s)
(Media: Ground water)
Field Testing/Techniques
.for Pilot Air, Water and
Solid Waste Pollution
ORD/Industrial Environmental
Research Laboratory
Cincinnati, OH
This incremental funding action will provide for
acquisition of field data in response to Regional
and Program Office needs. It will allow sampling
at development sites as targets of opportunity
present themselves. Sites to be studied include
oil shale processing facilities, other energy
development facilites and other selected
industrial facilites.
(Chemical(s) :
(Industryties): Oil Shale Processing
Evaluation of the Thermal
Reactor infra-red (IR)
Oven
ORD/Industrial Environmental
Research Laboratory
Cincinnati, OH
This cooperative agreement is an innovative pro-
cess which will evaluate how the thermal reactor
oven can be employed to control volatile organic
compound (VOC) emissions from paint processes.
(Chemical(s); VOCs
(Industry(ies): Paint Baking
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TREATMENT TECHNOLOGY/DEVELOPMENT EVALUATION
Title
Office/Division
Description
Hazardous Waste
Incineration Performance
Assessments and Support
ORD/Industrial Environmental
Reserach Laboratory
Cincinnati, OH
This interagency agreement will provide field
scale performance data and technical support for
Regulatory Impact Analysis. This study will
upgrade the Oak Ridge National Laboratory
incinerator engineering model as part of the
overall evaluation supportable and accurate
performance data to -assist OSW with permit
application decisions.
(Chemical(s ) ;
( Indus try (ies) :
Evaluation of New and
Emerging Technogies in the
Metal Finishing Industry
ORD/Industrial Environmental
Research Laboratory
Cincinnati, OH
This cooperative agreement will evaluate the most
promising emerging technologies for the metal
finishing industry. This will provide industry,
the Agency, and permit writers with data to
consider advances in pollution control at a lower
cost.
(Chemical(s):
(Industry(ies): Metal Finishing
Evaluation of Catalytic
Oxidation Technology for
Control of VOC Emissions
crom Industrial Sources
ORD/Industrial Environmental
Research Laboratory
Research Triangle Park, NC
This incremental funding action will do testing
and evaluation to provide documentation on the
performance of catalytic oxidation for
consideration as a viable control option to
support NSPS and NESHAP regulations
(Chemical(s):
(Industry(ies); Catalytic Oxidation Technology
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WASTE MANAGEMENT/RESOURCE RECOVERY
Title
Office/Division
Description
Screening Protocols for
Use in Predicting Land
Treatability of Wastes
Cooperative Agreement
This project will examine screening tools for
predicting when wastes can be safely applied to
hazardous waste land treatment facilities.
(Media: Land)
Use of Direct Freeze
Conditioning Techniques to
Improve Biological Sludge
Dewatering Characteristics
Grant
This project will examine direct freeze-thaw
conditioning techniques using hydrate forming
refrigerant gases as an alternative to -chemical
conditioning techniques.
.Dewatering Wastewater
Treatment .Sludge by
Clathrate Freezing
Preliminary Freon -11
Studies
Cooperative Agreement
The purpose of this project is to conduct a
preliminary investigation on the technical
feasibility >of a proposed sludge dewatering
process employing a liquid refrigerant to form a
complex with the water in sludge.
(Chemical; Preon)
(Media: Water)
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WASTE MANAGEMENT/RESOURCE RECOVERY
Title
Office/Division
Description
Chemical Resistance of
Flexible Membrane Liners
Cooperative Agreement
The purpose of this project is to develop guidance
to assist users in the broad selection of
materials for containment of hazardous wastes.
Concentration will be on the best flexible
membrane to use under specific waste
concentrations .
(Chemical: Hazardous Wastes)
Biological Monitoring
Systems for Hazardous
Waste Sites
Cooperative Agreement
In this project chlorinated hydrocarbons will be
administered to dairy cows. their excretary
pathways will be monitored. Data obtained will be
useful to apply to field conditions for monitoring
was te.
(Chemicals: Chlorinated hydrocarbons)
Limitations and Energetics
of Hydrophobia (nonpolar)
Sorption of Organic
Compounds by Soils and
Sediments
Grant
In this project the critical parameters of the
sorption of organics to soils and sediments will
be determined.
(Chemicals: Organics)
(Media: Land)
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WASTE MANAGEMENT/RESOURCE RECOVERY
Title
Office/Division
Description
Gene Engineering of Yeasts
for the Degradation of
Hazardous Waste
Cooperative Agreement
The purpose of this project is to develop yeast
via genetic engineering techniques that will
degrade highly chlorinated organic compounds.
(Chemicals; Chlorinated organics)
Critical Review and
Summary of Analytical
Methods for the
Determination of the
Hydraulic Integrity of
Synthetic Liners
Cooperative Agreement
This project will provide a review and summary of
methods available in literature and use this
information for determining hydraulic integrity of
synthetic liners. Recommendations to be made for
methods available or that can be modified for
determining hydraulic conductivity of synthetic
liners.
(Media; Land)
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WASTE MANAGEMENT/RESOURCE RECOVERY
Title
Office/Division
Description
The Effect of Industrial
Wastes on Soil Biota
Assistance Amendment
This project will investigate the effect of high
loading rates on the degradation and
transformation of organics and inorganics in the
applied wastes.
(Chemicalst Organicsr inorganics)
(Media: Land)
Downhole Sensing Methods
for Hazardous Waste Site
Monitoring
Cooperative Agreement
This project will provide testing and evaluation
of downhole sensing equipment and techniques for
hazardous waste monitoring and detection using
small diameter shallow boreholes.
(Media: Land)
Rapid Estimation of
Pollutant Concentration
ORD/Office of Health and
Environment Assessment
The purpose of this incremental funding action is
to develop multimedia methods for rapid estimation
of pollutant concentrations resulting from
releases of hazardous wastes.
(Chemicals: Hazardous Wastes)
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WASTE MANAGEMENT/RESOURCE RECOVERY
Title
Office/Division
Description
Impoundment/Waste Lagoon
ORD/Municipal Environmental
Research Laboratory
Cincinnati, OH
This work assignment will develop
impoundment/waste lagoon spillage controls. This
technology will be used by OERR to help State,
Federal, and private clean-up personnel.
Illinois Geological Survey
ORD/Municipal Environmental
Research Laboratory
Cincinnati, OH
This cooperative agreement will investigate the
failure mechanism and migration of industrial
chemicals at a hazardous waste landfill. In
addition, reasons will be sought for why the clay
soils are transmitting hazardous wastes much more
rapidly than predicted when the facility was
designed.
(Chemicalst Hazardous wastes)
(Media: Land)
Cover Design and
Infiltration Control
ORD/Municipal Environmental
Research Laboratory
Cincinnati, OH
This inter-agency agreement will develop and
compile various methods to control infiltration at
hazardous waste disposal facilities. Information
will also be provided to revise and update the
Technical Research Document. Improved design for
covers over the disposal area should result in
lower amounts of rainfall reaching the wastes and
less leachate production. Technical assistance
capabilities to the Agency are also included in
the overall work statement. This information will
be used by permitting officials in review and
approval of RCRA cover systems permits.
(Media: Land)
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RECOVERY
Title
Of fice/Divi sion
Description
Assessment of Tine
Settlements/Subsidence
Effects on Cover Systems
ORD/Municipal Envirormental
Research Laboratory
Cincinnati, OH
This inter-agency agreement will produce a final
research report which will document practical
field observations at existing sites on the
cause/effect relationship of subsidence on cover
system integrity. The theoretical approach will
utilize the classical consolidation theory and
projected contaminant scenarios (i.e. 90% full
drum) to determine the maxiimjn settling of the
cover system. Roth approaches will be used to
determine when it will be cost-effective to
construct the final cover (i.e., put cover on
first and repair or let it settle then construct
final cover).
Innovative Hazardous Waste
Control Technology
ORD/lndustrial Environmental
Reserach Laboratory
Cincinnati, OH
The purpose of this cooperative agreement is to
"study yeasts, photosynthetic plant and genetically
engineered organisms to destroy hazardous waste,
This technology is being evaluated to seek more
cost-effective techniques for control of highly
toxic waste.
(Chanical(s); Hazardous Wastes
(Industry(ies);
Performance and
Engineering Assessment of
Cincinnati Metropolitan
Sewage District
Incineration Facility
ORD/lndustrial Environmental
Research Laboratory
Cincinnati, OH
The purpose of this 'cooperative agreement is to
provide a full scale, continuous performance and
operating data on a commercial hazardous waste
incinerator facility and to provide data in sup-
port of incinerator scale-up criteria research
{Chemical(s): Hazardous Wastes
(Industry (ies);
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EMERGENCY RESPONSE
Title
Office/Division
Description
Poiychlorinated Biphenyl
(PCB) Transformer Fires
ORD/Waste Management Division
This contract modification will develop a report
on PCB transformer fires which will include
looking at nature, safety protocols, and remedial
measures.
(Chemical; Poiychlorinated Mphenyls)
Safety and Health
Reference Manual
ORD/Office of Research Program
Management
The purpose of this incremental funding action is
to develop safety and health references manuals
with standard operating precautions, procedures,
and plans to follow when dealing with unknown
hazardous materials.
(Chemicals Hazardous materials)
Oil Spill Clean-up
Equipment;and Techniques
OKD/Municipal Environmental
Research Laboratory
Cincinnati, OH
This work assignment will evaluate commercial, and
develop improved, oil spill clean-up equipment and
techniques. This information and equipment will
be used by the Office of Etaergency Remedial
Response to reduce State and Federal clean-up
cost.
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EMERGENCY RESPONSE
Title
Office/Division
Description
Upgrade Treatment of
Highly Viscous Oil/Water
Emulsions
ORD/Municipal Environmental
Research Laboratory
Cincinnati, OH
This work assignment will aide in the upgrading of
treatments of highly viscous oil/water
emulsions. These techniques and information will
be used by OERR to help State and Federal field
personnel clean-up spilled oil effectively.
Evaluate Effectiveness of
Oil Spill Dispersants
ORD/Municipal Environmental
Research Laboratory
Cincinnati, OH
This work assignment will evaluate the
effectiveness of oil spill dispersants.
Information and techniques will be used by OERR to
guide State and Federal personnel in dispersant
use for oil spill clean-up.
Clean-up Residuals
ORD/Municipal Environmental
Research Laboratory
Cincinnati, OH
This work assignment will develop new and
innovative techniques for on-site destruction and
disposal of clean-up residuals.
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EMERGENCY RESPONSE
Title
Office/Division
Description
Collection and Treatment
of Volatile and Gaseous
Materials
ORD/Municipal Environmental
Research Laboratory
Cincinnati, OH
for
This work assignment will
collection/treatment techniques f<
volatile and gaseous materials
(Chemicals; Volatile and gaseous materials)
develop
spilled
Hazardous Materials
Technical Handbooks
ORD/Municipal Environmental
Research Laboratory
Cincinnati, OH
This work assignment will develop hazardous
material spill prevention technial handbooks to
guide State and Federal field personnel and reduce
spill frequency.
(Chemicals: Hazardous materials)
Hazardous Spill Removal
Technical•Handbooks
ORD/Municipal Environmental
Research Laboratory
Cincinnati, OH
This work assignment in an ongoing contract will
develop a users manual on current equipment and
techniques for the prevention, control, cleanup,
removal, and disposal of spilled hazardous
materials.- This information will be used by OERR
to guide State and Federal field personnel in
cleanup activities and to reduce the associated
costs.
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POLICY STUDIES/REGUIATORY CONTROL OPTIONS
Title
Of fice/Divisi on
Description
Cooperative agreement for
Program in Environmental
Health and Public Policy
Cooperative Agreement
This will serve as a pilot program for a
cooperative inter-university program on the effect
of toxic chemicals on human health and the
environment. The program will link the natural
and the policy sciences through specific research
projects, individual policy assessments, and
analyses. This will, assure the relevance of
activities to practical problems.
Defining the Role of
Federal and Private Sector
Activities in Solving
Municipal Environmental
Problems
Cooperative Agreement
The purpose of the workshop would be to identify
environmental problems associated with drinking
water? municipal wastewater, and municipal solid
and hazardous wastes that have a potential for
solution through research and development.
(Chemical; Hazardous wastes)
(Media: Drinking water, water, land)
International Conference
for Safety Evaluation and
Regulation of Chemicals
Cooperative Agreement
This cooperative agreement will provide for the
organization and administration of the second
International Conference for Safety Evaluation and
Regulation of Chemicals to be held in Cambridge,
Massachusetts, October 24 - 28, 1983.
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POLICY STUDIES/REGULATORY CONTROL OPTIONS
Title
Office/Division
Description
Legal Analysis of Toxic
Torts Cases
OPRM/Office of Policy Analysis
The purpose of this work assignment is to
facilitate development of an Agency position of
legislative proposals regarding toxics victims
compensation. Information will be developed on
the efficiency and effectiveness of the legal
system in compensating persons injured by exposure
to toxic substances»
Analysis of the Cost of
Clean Air and Clean Water
Report
OPRM/Office of Policy Analysis
This work assignment will analyze the effects of
the changes in air and water pollution control
regulations for the following industries:
(Industries:
For Air: Lead acid batteries, surface coatings,
and mobile sources.
For Water: Petroleum refining,
enameling, and Pharmaceuticals *)
(Media: Air, water)
porcelain
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POLICY STUDIES/REGULATORY CONTROL OPTIONS
Title
Office/Division
Description
Analysis of Impacts of
Incinerator Regulations
OPRM/Office of Policy Analysis
This work assignment will provide for cost and
risk analysis for several alternative regulatory
options for incineration as specified by EPA under
the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. This
work will synthesize technology, engineering,
economic, and health risk data into a consistent
impacts framework.
Clues to the Domestic
Environmental Agenda for
the Next Three Decades
ORD/Office of Exploratory
Research
The purpose of this contract is to perform
research analysis designed to provide improved
information on future environmental trends and
problems. The report developed will identify
problems of declining importance and problems of
continuing and growing importance.
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METHODOLOGY DEVELOPMENT VALIDATION - CHEMICAL ANALYSES
Title
Office/Division
Description
Structure Activity Methods
for Estimating the Aquatic
Toxicity and Degradability
of Industrial Chemicals
Cooperative Agreement
The purpose of this project is to test the table-
driven feature and adjacency correction of the
MINTER system and test the graph isomorphism
enumerator by encoding available literature
reviews of qualitative hydrolysis data.
(Media: Water)
Prediction of Aqueous
Solubilities, Activity
Coefficients and Henry's
Law Constants of
Industrial Chemicals
Cooperative Agreement
The objectives of this project are to formalize
and refine the methods to calculate molecular
surface area and volume, to develop structure-
solubility relationships between molecular surface
area/volume and water solubility, formalize the
relationship between molecular surface area/volume
and activity coefficients.
Biomonitoring of Trace
Organic Compounds
Cooperative Agreement
This work will cover (1) validation of a
correlation between log P and reverse phase liquid
chromatographic retention time; (2) analysis of
fish from the Great Lakes; (3) determine the
feasibility of linking the quantitative structure
activity relationships (SWAR) data base with the
mass spectral data base; and (4) determine
metabolic products of selected organic chemicals.
(Chemicals; Organics)
(Media: Water)
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METHODOLOGY DEVELOPMENT - TREATMENT PROCESSES AND MONITORING
Title
Office/Pivision
Description
Methods Development and
Water Pollution Control
Analysis
Assistant Amendment
The purpose of this project is to determine
feasibility and validity of using equations for
one area to estimate benefits for another areai
and to improve the methodology and demonstrate a
more efficient approach to estimates of national
benefits from improved water quality.
(Media: Water)
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METHODOLOGY DEVELOPMENT - HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
Title
Office/Division
Description
Speciation of
Environmental Pollutants
and Biological Materials
Grant
This project entails the development of a method
for the identification and quantification of metal
species in a variety of environmental samples.
(Chemicals: Metals)
Earthworms as a
Bioassessment Tool
Cooperative Agreement
This project will provide an evaluation of
earthworms for bioassessment of hazardous
materials utilizing growth, reproduction and
neurophysiologieal measurements.
(Chemicals: Hazardous materials)
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STATISTICAL ANALYSES
Title
Office/Division
Description
SIMS Five Year Study on
Statistical and
Environmental Factors in
Health
Cooperative Agreement
This cooperative agreement will entail the
following activities: (1) methodology for
assessing the relationships between air pollution
exposure levels s effects on human populations,
(2) measurement of ambient air quality, (3)
meterological modeling and model verification, and
(4) statistical properties of the time and space
variability of air pollutant concentrations.
(Media: Air)
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MODELING
Title
Office/Division
Description
Persistence in Model
Ecosystems
Cooperative Agreement
In this project mathematical analyses of
environmental models will be performed. These
analyses will be global analyses of the
persistence of system components. The models
analyzed will be system models of multicomponent
systems that are of the kinds used in
environmental science.
Scientific Assessment of
Air Quality Modeling
Assistance Amendment
This project will provide for the organization and
oversight of scientific review of various types of
air quality models; planning and organizing
scientific workshops related to air quality
modeling; and response to specific scientific
questions on issues related to air quality models,
(Media: Mr)
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DATA BASE DEVELOPMENT
Title
Office/Division
Description
Management and Analysis of
Data of EPA-sponsored
Field Studies
Cooperative Agreement
This cooperative agreement will establish and
manage a data base from large EPA sponsored field
studies (MISTT, STATE/TPS, PEPE-NEROS and CWPS)
and quantify and parameterize physical and
chemical processes acting on plumes. Information
will be widely disseminated.
(Media: Air)
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SAMPLING & MONITORING — GENERAL
Title
Office/Division
Description
Evaluation of New and
Emerging Technologies in
the Metal Finishing
Indus try
Cooperative Agreement
This project will combine the efforts of ongoing
development projects with supplemental information
identifying and assessing "emerging
technologies". This will be accomplished by on-
site sampling and measurement studies to
characterize system performance and cost.
(Industry; Metal Finishing)
Groundwater Sampling for
Monitoring Purpose
Assistance Amendment
The purpose of this project is to determine the
most cost-effective, reliable methods for sampling
groundwater for organic pollutants and then
provide regulatory agencies with clear field-
testing guidelines for how routine monitoring
efforts should be undertaken.
(Chemicals; Organics)
(Media: Groundwater)
Handbook on Sampling and
Wasteload Allocation
ORD/Center for Environmental
Research Laboratory
This incrementally funded contract will develop a
handbook on sampling and wasteload allocation of
conventional pollutants and metals. This contract
will also provide for workshops on the methodology
developed.
(Chemicals: Metals)
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SAMPLING, ANALYSIS S MONITORING — CHEMICAL ANALYSIS - SPECIAL TOPICS
Title
Off ice/Pivi s ion
Description
Development of Biomembrane
Toxicity Electrodes
Grant
This grant entails the development of electrode
systems for detecting and characterizing toxic
substances in environmental samples.
A Project to Develop
Emission Spectroscopic
Methods for the
Determination of the
Halogen and other Non-
Metals Via Direct Current
Plasma Excitation
Grant
This project will develop emission spectroscopic
methods for the determination of halogens, boron,
carbon, phosphorous, silica, and sulfur in
environmental samples by using direct current
plasma excitation in combination with a high
resolution echelle spectrometer.
(Chemicals; Halogens, boron, carbon, phosphorus,
silica, sulfur)
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SAMPLING, ANALYSIS & MONITORING — ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING
Title
Office/Division
Description
Toxic Chemicals in the
Environment: A Program of
Field Measurement
Cooperative Agreement
The continuation of this Cooperative Agreement
will focus on the ambient air measurement of a
large number of selected hazardous organic
chemicals.
(Chemicals! Organics)
(Mediaz Air)
Water Quality Workshop
Cooperative Agreement
This workshop will enable scientists from EPA,
universities and the private sector to present and
critically examine new scientific approaches to
the measurement of complex toxic mixtures and
chemicals in aquatic systems.
(Media: Water)
Field Surveys of Dosages
and Exposures to Air
Pollution Using Personal
Dosimeters
Assistance Amendment
In this study a sample of the participants in
polluted cities will be equipped with personal
particulate monitors* Portable monitors will also
be placed in strategic indoor and outdoor
locations frequented by the participants.
Activity monitors will be maintained. Data will
be analyzed using multiple regression techniques.
(Media: Air)
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SAMPLING, ANALYSIS S MONITORING — ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING
Title
Office/Division
Description
Quality Assurance for
Environmental Monitoring
Methods (AQ-IV)
ORD/Environmental Monitoring
Systems Laboratory Research
Triangle Park, NC
The purpose of this incremental funding action is
to provide new or improved analytical and sampling
techniques for compounds in ambient air and
particulate matter.
(Chemicals; Formaldehyde
Acrylonitrile
Benzene
Chloroform
1,2-Dichloroethane
1,1,1-Trichloroethane
Chlorobenzenes
Carbon Tetrachloride
Dichloromethane
Trichloroeth bromodiehloromethane
Vinyl Chloride
Te trachloroe thylene
Arsenic Trioxide
Arsenates
Environmental Pollution
Monitoring
ORD/Environmental Monitoring
Systems Laboratory Research
Triangle Park, NC
This incremental funding action will provide
quality assurance for technical support on
Environmental Pollutant Monitoring*
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SAMPLING, ANALYSIS & MONITORING — ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING
Title
Office/Division
Description
Symposium of Air Pollutant
Measuring and Monitoring
ORD/Center for Environmental
Research Laboratory
This contract modification provides for
conferences on . advanced state-of-the-art
monitoring and measuring of air pollutants.
(Media; Air)
GEMS for Designated
AP-State-of-the-Art
Investigation
ORD/Enviromnental Monitoring •
Systems laboratory Research
Triangle Park, NC
This incrementally funded contract will develop,
evaluate, and validate a Chemical Environmental
Monitoring System (GEMS) for Designated air
pollutants (AP)-State-of-the-Art Investigation
into vinyl chloride CEMS and develop performance
specifications and quality assurance procedures.
(Chemical; Vinyl chloride)
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Acrylonitrile (107-13-1) 60
Amrronia (7664-41-7) .. 18
Aromatic hydrocarbons. 34
Arsenates (SEQ: 2) 60
Arsenic Trioxide (7440-38-2) 60
Benzene (71-43-2) 60
Boron (7440-42-8) 58
Carbon (7440-44-0) ............................. 58
Carbon Tetrachloride (56-23-5) 60
Chloranine (127-65-1).......................................... 7
Chlorinated hydrocarbons (SECh 11)..... 2, 40
Chlorinated organics 41
Chlorine (7782-50-5) 7
Chlorine dioxide (7790-93-4) 7
Chlorobenzenes (108-90-7)........... ... 60
Chloroform (67-66-3) ... 60
2-Chlorophenol (95-57-8)..« 7
4-Chlorophenol (106-48-9) ... 7
Chromium Compounds (744-47-3) 19
1,2-Dichloroethane (75-35-4) 60
Dichloromethane (75-09-2) 60
2?4-Dichlorophenol (120-83-2) ...... 7
Ethylene oxide (75-21-8) , 15
Fenthion (55-38-9) , .17
Fluoride (16984-48-8) 26
Formaldehyde (50-00-0) 11, 60
Ereon (SEQ: 9). 39
Halogenated organics. 21
Halogens. 58
Hazardous materials 45, 53
Hazardous pollutants 15
Hazardous solid wastes. 22
Hazardous wastes 21, 23, 40, 42? 43, 48
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Hydrocarbons (SEQs 11) 3
Inorganics. 36, 37, 42
Iron (7439-89-6) 33
Lead (7439-92-1) ., 12, 14
Maled 17
Manganese (7439-96-5) 33
Metals (SEX): 73). 34, 53, 57
Neuron Specific Proteins 12
Nonvolatile chloroorganics 33
Qrganics 2, 3, 18, 19, 24, 40, 42,
51, 57, 59
Ozone (10028-15-6) ........ 11, 27
Pesticides 11, 21, 24r 30, 36
Phosphorus (7723-14-0) ..... 58
Photochemical oxidants (SE0s 79) -. 11, 12
Polychlorinated Biphenyls (13336-36-3) 9, 33, 45
Radon (10043-92-2) , 35
Silica (7631-86-9) 58
Solvents 4
Sulfur (7704-39-4) ..... 58
Synthetic dyes. 4
Tetrachloroethylene (124-18-4) 60
1 ,lfl-Trichloroethane (71-55-6) 60
Tr ichloroeth brotnodichloromethane 60
Trihaloraethanes (SEO: 28) 8, 34
Uranium-238 (7440-61-1) 8
Vinyl Chloride (75-01-4) 60, 61
Volatile & gaseous materials. 47
Volitile Organic Compounds. 37
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MEDIA H4GE
Air 3, 5, 11, 12, 13, .14, 20, 22, 27,
35, 49, 53, 54, 56, 59, 61
Drinking water. 7, 8, 21, 26, 33, 36, 48
Groundwater. ..., 2, 4, 23, 35, 37, 57
Land 33, 39-43, 48
Metals 34
Water.. 17, 18, 31, 32, 39, 48, 49, 51, 52,
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INDEX
IMXBTRZ •
Automobile 28
Catalytic Oxidation Technology , 38
Chemical. i..,~........ , 25, 28
Foundries 28
Hazardous waste management „. 25, 44
Iron and steel , 28
Lead acid batteries. 49
Metal Finishing, 38, 57
Mobi le Sources 49
Municipal sludge. •. 28
Nonferrous metals 28
- Oi 1 Shade Processing 37
Organic Chemical 24, 31
.Paint Raking . 37
-Petroleum refining. 49
' Pharmaceuticals. 49
Elastics. 24, 31
•Porcelain enameling. 49
. Pulp and paper 28
So lid waste. 28
• Surface coatings 49
; Synthetics. 24
' Utilities. 28
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