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1 The Committee's First Report and Its Impact
Pages 17-26

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... The committee's first report, Research Priorities for Airborne Particulate Matter: I Immediate Priorities and a JEong-Range Research Portfolio, was released in March 1 998.
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... Specifically, the committee was chargeci to assess research priorities, develop a conceptual research
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... Instead, the report identified uncertainties in the scientific information that should be addressed to strengthen the scientific founciation for future policy decisions. In response to the committee's first report, Congress and EPA made substantial changes in EPA's research program anti other technical activities related to particulate matter.
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... . Relationship between outdoor ambient and personal exposures for particulate matter and copollutants Exposure Dose Relationship between inhaled concentration and dose of particulate matter and constituents at the tissue level in susceptible subjects Asthma Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (CORD)
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... There is an overarching need for federal research programs, in collaboration with other research organizations, to begin actively planning and implementing such research. In its first report, the committee expressed concern about the lack of strong interactions with the scientific community in EPA's planning for major monitoring programs to measure PM mass anti airborne particle compositions on a routine basis, and the need for more detailed compositional anti time-resolveci measurements.
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... Once stopped, a research program ofthis scope could not easily be started again, and any significant disruption in the current anci planned research efforts might be very costly to the nation in economic anci public-health terms. In the following pages, this report discusses the committee's approach for monitoring and evaluating the progress ofthe PM research program anci, based on recent developments and new information, updates the research portfolio presenteci in the committee's 1998 re
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... 26 Research Prioritiesfor Airborne Particulate Matter port. This report does not attempt to assess the results of research conducted in response to the committee's first report, which was published last year.
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