Contacts
- Technical Information Staff
- by phone at: 703-347-8561
- by fax at: 703-347-8691
- by email at: nceadc.comment@epa.gov
- by fax at: 703-347-8691
A major theme of the guidelines is the interaction among risk assessors, risk managers, and interested parties at the beginning (planning and problem formulation) and end (risk characterization) of the risk assessment process. In problem formulation, the guidelines emphasize the complementary roles of each in determining the scope and boundaries of the assessment, selecting ecological entities that will be the focus of the assessment, and ensuring that the product of the assessment will support environmental decision making. The risk characterization section discusses estimating, interpreting, and reporting risks and applies an ecological perspective to recent Agency policy encouraging clear, transparent, reasonable, and consistent risk characterizations. The Guidelines emphasize that the interface between risk assessors, risk managers, and interested parties is critical for ensuring that the results of the assessment can be used to support a management decision.
These Guidelines are not regulations and do not impose any new requirement on the regulated community. Rather, the Guidelines are internal guidance for EPA and inform the public and the regulated community regarding the Agency's approach to ecological risk assessment.
Downloads/Related Links
- Guidelines for Ecological Risk Assessment (PDF) (188 pp, 629 KB, about PDF)
Related Link(s)
- Proposed Guidelines for Ecological Risk Assessment
- Stressor Identification Guidance Document
- Framework for Ecological Risk Assessment
- Review of Ecological Assessment Case Studies from a Risk Assessment Perspective Volume II
- Peer Review Workshop Report on Ecological Risk Assessment Issue Papers
- Report on the Ecological Risk Assessment Guidelines Strategic Planning Workshop
- Review of Ecological Assessment Case Studies from a Risk Assessment Perspective
- Ecological Risk Assessment Issue Papers
- Summary Report on Issues in Ecological Risk Assessment
- Peer Review Workshop Report on a Framework for Ecological Risk Assessment
- Draft Proposed Guidelines for Ecological Risk Assessment
- Peer Review Workshop Report on Draft Proposed Guidelines for Ecological Risk Assessment
- Generic Ecological Assessment Endpoints (GEAE) for Ecological Risk Assessment
- Risk Assessment Guidelines
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