Region 1 Library Services

National Services
for the Public:

Region 1 Library Links:

The mission of the Region 1 library is to support the information needs of the EPA Region 1 staff; other federal and state environmental agencies in New England; the people of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont and the NE Tribal Nations.

Contact Information

We are located at:
1 Congress Street
Suite 1100 LIB
Boston, MA

Visitors must register at the guard desk in the lobby before visiting the library.

We can be contacted at:
Phone: (617) 918-1990
Fax: (617) 918-1992
E-mail: nelson.peg@epa.gov or Library-Reg1@epa.gov

Mailing Address:
US EPA, Region 1
1 Congress St.
Boston, MA 02114-2023

Hours of Operation

The library is open Monday through Thursday from 9:30 AM – 3:30 PM, excluding federal holidays.

Borrowing Policy and Interlibrary Loans

Borrowing privileges are generally limited to EPA staff, other government staff and local businesses / organizations with established borrowing arrangements.

To locate EPA library and repository materials, you can search the Online Library System (OLS), EPA Libraries’ online catalog. If you have any questions, please call or e-mail the library.

Information For Other Libraries: We freely share materials with other libraries via the OCLC Interlibrary Loan system. Our OCLC symbol is EHA. For libraries that do not have OCLC access, please contact the Librarian at (617) 918-1990 for alternate methods.

EPA Library Services for the Public

The EPA National Library Network provides a variety of public services:

National Environmental Publications Internet Site (NEPIS), part of the National Service Center for Environmental Publications (NSCEP)
Online Library System (OLS)
EPA Library Services and Repositories