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4 Research Programs on Other Agencies of Government
4 Research Programs on Other Agencies of Government
Pages 59-92
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The committee then conducted additional research on these and other programs through electronic searches,2 followed by contacts with selected program managers. The committee's initial plan was to summarize the information on other research programs using the organizing scheme shown in Figure ~AIthough the statement of task explicitly directs the committee to examine research in "other federal" agencies, the committee has interpreted its mandate to include research in other parts of DOE, especially the Office of Science.
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, which groups them by agency, and then by program within each agency. The table provides a short description of program scope and objectives;4 recent funding levels if available;5 a notation showing whether the program provides intramural or extramural funding;6 and a web address (if available)
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Department of Defense. The Army's Terrestrial Science Program sponsors extramural research on experimental, theoretical, and numerical studies on fluid flow and contaminant transport processes in heterogeneous porous media.
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There appear, however, to be at least two programs in the Office of Science that are directly relevant to the EM Science Program. The Office of Biological and Environmental Research's Natural and Accelerated Bioremediation Program sponsors extramural research to understand and apply natural processes to accelerate the biologically enhanced immobilization or degradation of contaminated soil and groundwater.
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Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Production Sequencing Facility,Joint Genome Institute, University of California Mouse Genetics Research Facility, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Office of Biological and Environmental Research conducts research at the following user facilities Advanced Light Source, Protein Crystallography Program, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Advanced Light Source, Soft X-ray Spectroscopy Program, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Brookhaven High Flux Beam Reactor (neutron crystallography and scattering) , Brookhaven National Laboratory Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (protein crystallography with neutrons)
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maintains a number of long-term research sites for the study of point source contaminants in the environment.The sites serve as natural laboratories at which scientists conduct experiments and long-term observation.They have proven to be ideal settings for the development of scientific knowledge about the fate and transport of contaminants. Examples of sites and contaminants studied include tritium from a low-level radioactive waste disposal site in Nevada; sewage effluent from ponds in Massachusetts; oil from a petroleum pipeline break in Minnesota; oxygenated gasoline from buried tanks in South Carolina; creosote effluent from a creosote facility in Florida; mining tailings pond leachate in Arizona; leachate from a landfill in Oklahoma; and organic contaminants from an arsenal in New Jersey.
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4. The Western Center sponsors research on groundwater cleanup and site remediation for organic solvents, hydrocarbons and derivatives, and heavy metals.
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The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences sponsors a joint program with the EPA on the Superfund Hazardous Substances Basic Research Program, which has an annual budget of about $37 million.This program supports research to understand hazardous waste exposure risks and to support the development of site remediation technologies. Nationa/ Science Foundation.
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There are several research programs in Table 4.1 that address various aspects of hazard and risk assessment: · The EPA's National Center for Environmental Assessment sponsors two research programs in this area, one on Superfund health risk assessment, with an annual budget of $2.1 million, and a second on Superfund ecological risk assessment, which has an annual budget of $1 .0 mi l l ion. · The EPA's National Center for Environmental Research and Qu al ity Assu rance, i n cooperation with the N ation al I nstitute of Environmental Health Sciences, sponsors a program on complex mixtures that focuses on the mechanistic basis for chemical interactions on biological systems.
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There are many good coordinating mechanisms that have been used elsewhere in the federal government that could be adapted to coordinate these m ission-d i rected envi ran mental research programs. These range from formal coordinating mechanisms like the Federal Remediation Tech nologies Rou ndtable~ ° to more i nformal mechan isms I i ke Writhe Federal Remediation Technologies Roundiable is an interagency coordinating group comprising representatives of federal agencies with hazardous waste cleanup responsibilities.
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exchange and joint action concerning the development and demonstration of innovative technologies for hazardous waste remediation. Additional information is available at http://www.frtr.gov.
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