Office of Research and Development Environmental Protection Agency Independent

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• - Encourages the development and implementation of (1) innovative treatment technologies for hazardous waste site remediation and (2) monitoring and measurement.
  
• - Researches, develops, and demonstrates air pollution prevention and control technologies for manufacturing and processing industries, power plants, incinerators, indoor environments, and sources of greenhouse gases.
  
• - Data on the performance of innovative technologies intended to solve a wide range of pollution problems.
  
• - IRIS is an EPA database of human health effects that may result from exposure to various substances found in the environment.
  
• - NRMRL conducts research into ways to prevent and reduce risks from pollution that threaten human health and the environment.
  
• - NCEA is EPA's national resource center for the overall process of human health and ecological risk assessments; the integration of hazard, dose-response, and exposure data and models to produce risk characterizations.
  
• - Conducts and sponsors studies and provides information on stressor sources; pollutant transport, transformations and exposure; and source-to receptor predictive exposure models for environmental stressors.
  
• - An EPA catalog with thousands of science activities such as research, technical assistance and assessments, along with more than 750 peer-reviewed products.
  
• - Information on models including a knowledge base and documents related to the Council.
  
• - EPA's focal point for scientific research on the effects of contaminants and environmental stressors on human health and ecosystem integrity.