Research Priorities for Airborne Particulate Matter II. Evaluating Research Progress and Updating the Portfolio (1999) / Chapter Skim
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2 Evaluating Research Implementation and Progress
2 Evaluating Research Implementation and Progress
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. Monitoring of research progress is particularly necessary in view ofthe broad scope and multidisciplinary character of the research program presented in the committee's first report (NRC ~ 9981.
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Cost was also consiciered. Those criteria guicieci the development of the committee's research portfolio, including the recommended research topics, estimated budgets, and approximate time frames for conducting research.
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other information help to inform and assure stakeholclers about the research program. To achieve the overall objectives ofthe PM research portfolio recommended in the committee's first report, PM research must be viewed as a national effort, involving Congress ant!
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No effective planning process has existed within the federal government to integrate the interrelated aspects of atmospheric, exposure, and healtheffects research planning anci management. In the committee's view, it will be very difficult for the PM research program to achieve its most significant objectives in the absence of an effective structure or process to operate across the agencies and clisciplines to ensure common awareness of research activities, to engage in joint planning or funding 2CENR member departments anci agencies include the Department of Agriculture, Department of Energy, Department of Health and Human Services, DepartmentofHousing and Urban Development, Department ofthe Interior, Department of State, Department of Transportation, Environmental Protection Agency, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Science Foundation, Office of Management anci Budget, Office of Science ant]
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The committee was pleased to hear at its November 1998 meeting of a proposal to expanci the charter ofthe Air Quality Subcommittee of the CENR to more actively encompass all federally sponsored PM research, including health research. That expansion should be encouraged to promote greater coorciination of the resources of the federal government on PM research.
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32 Research Prioritiesfor Airborne Particulate Matter
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· Builciing specific planning mechanisms to design and coordinate research projects within EPA and between EPA and other institutions. This coordination should inclucie relevant activities from other research programs, such as those planneci for hazardous air pollutants.
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The committee supports recent statements by NARSTO that it will seek to reach out to the broacler health anti exposure-research communities to gain their perspectives in planning for upcoming atmospheric measurement anti research programs. The committee also encourages the expancled CENR Air Quality Subcommittee to enhance its efforts by · Formally incluciing the full range of research-funding organizations in the cievelopment and implementation of research strategies.
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EPA's PM research program cannot be fully successful without stimulating agency and extramural scientists to cross disciplinary boundaries and work as teams to achieve concrete research objectives. Team based research planning necessitates a new set of incentives that, where appropriate, motivates scientists to develop transdisciplinary proposals and teams, and in all cases, regularly provides opportunities for investigators to communicate and coordinate research across disciplines.
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Array the results of particulate research sponsored by EPA and other institutions against the committee's recommended research portfolio to obtain an ongoing assessment of research gaps that neec! to be acIdresseci.
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Without such an inventory, neither this committee, EPA, or other funding organizations will be able to monitor research progress aclequately. In aciciition, the ciata base can facilitate the development of new research to aciclress gaps anti avoici inappropriate ciuplication of work aireacly in progress.
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The committee urges EPA to obtain greater input from the atmospheric-modeling and health-science communities in the design of these monitoring programs, especially the supersites program. In the following pages, the committee refocuses and renames research topics 3 and 4 from its first report to reflect recent developments and additional information about EPA's revised plans for the PM2 s monitoring network.
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