Appendix B
Public Workshop Presentations to the Committee on Models in the Regulatory Decision Process
March 18, 2004, National Academy of Sciences Main Building, Washington, DC
U.S. EPA’s Council for Regulatory Environmental Modeling
Gary Foley, Office of Research and Development, Council on Regulatory Environmental Modeling, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Environmental Modeling—A Regional Perspective
Tom Voltaggio, Deputy Administrator, Region 3, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Environmental Economic Models
Albert McGartland, National Center for Environmental Economics, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Using Air Quality Models for Emissions Management Decisions—Making Decisions in the Face of Uncertainty
S.T. Rao, Atmospheric Sciences Modeling Division, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Model Use in the Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances
Joseph Merenda, Office of Prevention, Pesticides, and Toxic Substances, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Modeling Leaking Underground Storage Tanks
Jim Weaver, National Exposure Research Laboratory, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Presentation to the Committee on Environmental Decision Making Principles and Criteria for Models
David Burden, Groundwater Technical Support Center, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Overview of the TMDL Program & Modeling Approaches
Tim Wool, National Exposure Research Laboratory, Region 4, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Modeling and Decision Making Overview
Leslie Shoemaker, Tetra Tech, Inc.
State Perspectives on Modeling in Support of TMDL Development
Jim George, Maryland Department of the Environment
Estimating Motor Vehicle Emissions: A Tale of 2 Models
Cecilia Ho, Federal Highway Administration
Corps of Engineers Planning Models Improvement Program
Harry Kitch, Planning & Policy Division, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Models in the Regulatory Decision Process
Timothy Miller, National Water Quality Assessment Program, U.S. Geological Survey
Comments on Behalf of the Natural Resources Defense Council
Jennifer Sass, Natural Resources Defense Council
Comments on Behalf of the Center for Regulatory Effectiveness
Scott Slaughter, Center for Regulatory Effectiveness
Guidelines for Model Choice in a Regulatory Environment: Sound Science Reflecting Sound Values
Adam Finkel, Senior Safety and Health Adviser, Office of the Assistant Secretary, U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Decision Making with Mobile Source Models
Gene Tierney, Director, Center for Air Quality and Modeling, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
December 2, 2004, Keck Center of the National Academies, Washington, DC
Methods and Applications of Uncertainty and Sensitivity Analysis for Models Used in Regulatory Processes
H. Christopher Frey, Professor, Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, North Carolina State University
Office of Management and Budget Proposed Bulletin on Peer Review and Information Quality
Margo Schwab and John Graham, U.S. Office of Management and Budget
Building Model Confidence and Quality Considerations for Regulatory Decision Makers
Rob Howard, Bechtel-SAIC, LLC
Peer Review of Regulatory Models—The Hard Look and the Long View
Sheila Jasanoff, Centre for Population Health Risk Assessment, Harvard University
Uncertainties in Health Risk Projection Models: Implications for Risk Management
Daniel Krewski; Jan M. Zielinski; Tim Ramsay and Richard T. Burnett, McLaughlin Centre for Population Health Risk Assessment
Interagency Steering Committee on Multimedia Environmental Modeling: Uncertainty Analysis Issues
George Leavesley, Chair, Interagency Steering Committee on Multimedia Environmental Models, U.S. Geological Survey
EPA Use of ICF’s Integrated Planning Model
Sam Napolitano and Elliot Lieberman, Clean Air Markets Division, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Parameter and Model Uncertainty in Models for Regulatory Decision Making: Problems and Opportunities
M. Granger Morgan, Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
Wresting Regulatory Decisions from an Uncertain World
Pasky Pascual, Council for Regulatory Environmental Modeling, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Why Use Proprietary Software for Risk Assessment?
Barbara Petersen, Principal Scientist Practice Director, Exponent, Inc., and Durango Software, LLC
Expectations Regarding Peer Review of Especially Significant Regulatory Information
James D. Schaub, Office of Risk Assessment and Cost-Benefit Analysis, U.S. Department of Agriculture
December 2, 2005, National Academy of Sciences Main Building, Washington, DC
Dose-Response Modeling for Hazard Characterization of Environmental Contaminants
Woodrow Setzer, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
The Use of Physiologically Based Pharmacokinetic Modeling to Improve Chemical Dosimetry in Environmental Risk Assessments
Harvey Clewell, Centers for Health Research
Computational Systems Biology: The Integration of Data Across Multiple Levels of Biological Organization to Understand How Perturbations of Normal Biology Become Adverse Health Effects
Rory Conolly, Center for Computational Toxicology, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) and Environmental Regulatory Modeling
Gary Foley, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Making Regulatory Choices: What Does Uncertainty Have to Do With It
Richard Morgenstern, Resources for the Future
Use of Modeling in Decision-Making at EPA
Robert Perciasepe, Audubon Society
Integrating Modeling and Monitoring in Adaptive Strategies to Attain Water Quality Standards
Kenneth Reckhow, Duke University
Computation in the Regulatory Environment: Solution or the Problem
Paul Gilman, Oak Ridge Center for Advanced Studies