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Risk Assessment Practices
The EPA staff paper titled An Examination of EPA Risk Assessment Principles and Practices (1.4MB, 192pp About PDF), is a product of an EPA staff review of how risk assessment is conducted at EPA. It also presents staff recommendations for EPA and interested parties to consider how EPA can strengthen and, where appropriate, improve its risk assessment practices. The EPA Science Advisor and other senior EPA officials requested this review to further the discussion and examination of some broad questions about risk assessment. The staff paper also discusses public comments relevant to EPA that were submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in response to OMB's request for public comment on risk assessment procedures in the Federal government (68 FR 5492-5527, February 3, 2003). EPA assembled a group of risk assessment professionals from across EPA to examine EPA's risk assessment principles and practices and to prepare this paper. This paper does not represent official EPA policy.
EPA Risk Assessment Principles and Practices memorandum (137KB, 3 pp About PDF) - Signed/Scanned
EPA Risk Assessment Principles and Practices memorandum (22KB, 3 pp About PDF - Unsigned/Text
Outeach Activities
The staff paper itself will not be revised further. EPA released the staff paper as the first step in a multi-step process in which EPA intends to engage interested parties in a dialogue about risk assessment principles and practices to improve the practice of risk assessment. Accordingly, EPA requested public comment on the risk assessment principles and practices described in the paper with the objective of identifying particular issues for future dialogue. The formal comment period closed on June 23, 2004. However, EPA will continue dialogue on particular issues, for example, in discussions under the auspices of EPA's Science Advisory Board, other consultative groups, and professional societies with a focus on risk assessment and with states, non-governmental organizations, and tribal groups. EPA is interested in suggestions for other avenues for dialogue as well.
Notice of Availability of and Opportunity To Provide Comment on Issues in the Staff Paper: An Examination of EPA Risk Assessment Principles and Practices Text Version | PDF Version (411KB, 3 pp About PDF) [Comment period closed June 23, 2004]
Federal Register: March 25, 2004 (Volume
69, Number 58)
Notices
Page 15326-15328
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [www.gpoaccess.gov/index.html]
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