[Federal Register: September 21, 2000 (Volume 65, Number 184)]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
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Workshop Report on Characterizing Ecological Risk at the
Watershed Scale
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of availability of final report.
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SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), National Center for
Environmental Assessment (NCEA), is announcing the availability of a
final report, Workshop Report on Characterizing Ecological Risk at the
Watershed Scale (EPA/600/R-99/111, February 2000). This workshop was
funded through an interagency agreement between EPA and the Tennessee
Valley Authority (TVA) and was held on July 7 and 8, 1999, at the
Crystal City Marriott in Arlington, VA. The workshop was organized to
address the application of ecological risk assessment to watershed
management and decision making--in particular the challenge of
characterizing risks that involve numerous stressors, interconnected
pathways, and multiple endpoints. Participants representing federal
agencies, academia, consulting firms, and environmental organizations
were invited to attend based on their experience in ecological risk
assessment, watershed management, or regional scale assessment.
Workshop participants were asked to focus on those aspects for
characterizing risk at the watershed scale deemed most in need of a
procedural framework. This report reflects the results of those
discussions and provides recommendations for estimating and describing
risks to valued ecological resources at the watershed scale.
ADDRESSES: The document is available primarily on the Internet at
http://www.epa.gov/ncea under the What's New and Publications menus. A
limited number of paper copies of the report are available from the
EPA's National Service Center for Environmental Publications (NSCEP),
P.O. Box 42419, Cincinnati, OH 45242; telephone: 1-800-490-9198 or 513-
489-8190; facsimile: 513-489-8695. Please provide your name and mailing
address and the title and EPA number of the requested publication.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Victor Serveiss, National Center for
Environmental Assessment--Washington Office (8623D), U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20460;
telephone: 202-564-3251; facsimile: 202-565-0076;
email:serveiss.victor@epa.gov.
Dated: September 5, 2000.
William H. Farland,
Director, National Center for Environmental Assessment.
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