Additional Resources

Superfund Basic Research Program

The following links are to web pages that provide additional resources for potential applicants to the Superfund Basic Research Program. The first is a list of Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) priority hazardous substances, i.e. a list, in order of priority, of substances that are most commonly found at facilities on the National Priorities List (NPL) and which are determined to pose the most significant potential threat to human health due to their known or suspected toxicity and potential for human exposure at these NPL sites. The second web site is the EPA Office of Research and Development (ORD) Multi-year Plans. ORD has initiated a multi-year planning effort to plan the direction of their research program in selected topic areas over five or more years. This approach promotes ORD's focus on the highest priority issues and provides coordination for achieving their research goals. The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry's (ATSDR) congressionally mandated Substance-Specific Applied Research Program (SSARP) consists of a research agenda for priority hazardous substances. In establishing the SSARP, ATSDR first identifies data needs in its Toxicological Profiles for these substances. It may be helpful to consider these web sites in preparing a SBRP P42 application.

• Priority Chemicals - CERCLA Priority List of Hazardous Substances (ATSDR) (http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/cercla/)
• Research Needs - EPA Office of Research and Development Multi-year Plans (http://www.epa.gov/OSP/myp.htm)
• Research Needs - ATSDR Unfilled Research Needs (http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/pdns/unfilled.html)