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BACKGROUND
Pages 9-10

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... The research programs and overall scientific credibility of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have been assessed many times by independent expert groups since the agency was created in 1970.
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... , stressed the need for EPA and its research program to become more proactive. It argued that EPA and its research program, which have finite resources, must move beyond the agency's longstanding practice of fragmented regulatory program responses to individual statutory mandates, and move toward more cost-effectively addressing the greatest health and environmental risks and pursuing the greatest opportunities for reducing those risks.
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