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Appendix B
Statement of Task
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Research and De -
velopment (ORD) has been working to create programs and has been examining
applications in a variety of areas to better incorporate sustainability. To further
strengthen the analytic and scientific basis for sustainability as it applies to human
health and environmental protection, an ad hoc committee under the Science and
Technology for Sustainability Program will conduct a study and prepare a report
that will answer the following questions.
• What should be the operational framework for sustainability for EPA?
• How can the EPA decision-making process rooted in the risk ssessment/
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risk management (RA/RM) paradigm be integrated into this new Sus-
tainability Framework?
• What scientific and analytical tools are needed to support the framework?
• What expertise is needed to support the framework?
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