![About the NTP About the NTP](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090114140705im_/http://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/images/template/subMastHead_aboutTheNTP.gif)
Press Center
Press Center
Home » About the NTP » Federal Register Notices » Notice of Availability: The NTP Annual Plan for Fiscal Year 2002
[Federal Register: March 31, 2003 (Vol. 68, No. 61)]
[Notices]
[Pages 15471-15472]
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Public Health Service
National Toxicology Program
The NTP Annual Plan for Fiscal Year 2002; Notice of Availability
Summary
The NTP announces the availability of the NTP Annual Plan for Fiscal Year 2002. This report outlines the NTP research program for studying the toxicity of physical and chemical agents and for developing methods for toxicological evaluations. The report also provides information about efforts to develop and validate alternative and improved methods and identifies NTP resource allocations.
Background
The NTP was established within the Public Health Service of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) in November 1978. The NTP is an interagency program whose mission is to evaluate agents of public health concern by developing and applying the tools of modern toxicology and molecular biology. In carrying out its mission, the NTP has several goals to:
A balanced program was created that includes chronic exposure studies, short-term exposure studies, the collection and application of mechanistic information, model development, alternative methods, and human studies. Scientific activities are divided into several major program areas: carcinogenesis, risk assessment research, alternative test systems, and toxicology. Toxicology covers activities in immunotoxicology, neurobehavioral toxicology, reproductive and developmental toxicology, respiratory toxicology and phototoxicology. Program and project leaders along with contact information are provided in the plan.
The NTP is headquartered at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences of the National Institutes of Health (NIEHS/NIH). The NTP consists of the relevant toxicology activities of the NIEHS/NIH, the National Center for Toxicological Research of the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. The Director of the NIEHS is also the NTP Director.
Availability of the NTP Annual Plan
The NTP Annual Plan for Fiscal Year 2002 is available electronically on the NTP website (http://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/ntp). Hard copies are available from the NTP Central Data Management (NIEHS, P.O. Box 12233, MD EC-03, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709; telephone 919-541-3419; fax 919-541-3687; cdm@niehs.nih.gov).
Dated: March 7, 2003
Samuel Wilson, M.D.
Deputy Director, NIEHS
[Billing Code 4140-01-P]
Web page last updated on June 21, 2005
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences is one of the National Institutes of Health within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The National Toxicology Program is headquartered on the NIEHS campus in Research Triangle Park, NC.