NCEA and Its Organizational Structure

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As its name implies, the primary mission of the National Center for Environmental Assessment (NCEA) is to conduct risk assessments. Through risk assessments, NCEA scientists provide decision makers with comprehensive summaries of the most current information available concerning pollutants and their consequences for human and ecological health. Thus, NCEA occupies a critical position between scientists in its sister organizations within EPA's Office of Research and Development (ORD) and regulators in the EPA program offices and regions who make regulatory, enforcement, and remedial action decisions. In this position NCEA can exert strong influence over ORDs research agenda to assure that it addresses research needs identified by risk assessments.

In addition to conducting risk assessments, NCEA carries out research to improve the state-of-the-science of risk assessment and provides guidance and support to risk assessors. A major goal is to perform the research necessary to develop an accessible, seamless, common methodology for combined human health and ecological risk assessments, so that decision-makers at all levels will have the information requisite to take into account threats to both human and ecosystem health.

View NCEA's Organizational Chart or read more about NCEA's offices:

• Cincinnati, OH
• Research Triangle Park, NC
• Washington DC