Waste Research Strategy

[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 55 (Tuesday, March 23, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 13994-13995]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-7086]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

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Waste Research Strategy

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency.

ACTION: Notice of availability of the Office of Research and 
Development's ``Waste Research Strategy.''

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is today 
announcing the availability of a research strategy entitled, ``Waste 
Research Strategy.'' The ``Waste Research Strategy'' covers research 
necessary to support both the proper management of solid and hazardous 
wastes and the effective remediation of contaminated

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waste sites. This research includes improving the assessment of 
existing environmental risks, as well as developing more cost-effective 
ways to reduce those risks. Prepared by EPA's Office of Research and 
Development (ORD), the strategy responds to two major legislative 
mandates and large programs within the EPA, the Resource Conservation 
and Recovery Act (RCRA) and the Comprehensive Environmental Response, 
Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA, or ``Superfund'') and their 
amendments. This strategy identifies four research areas that 
correspond to the major waste-related environmental problems 
(contaminated ground water, contaminated soils and the vadose zone 
[subsurface region above the ground water table], emissions from waste 
combustion facilities, and active waste management facilities). The 
strategy prioritizes research activities that ORD should undertake 
through Fiscal Year 2000 (FY00).

ADDRESSES: An electronic version of the ``Waste Research Strategy'' is 
accessible via the Internet at www.epa.gov/ORD/WebPubs/final and 
is downloadable in Adobe Acrobat format. Interested parties can obtain 
a single copy of the report by contacting EPA's National Service Center 
for Environmental Publications (NSCEP) at (800) 490-9198. When 
contacting NSCEP, please provide your name and mailing address, and 
request publication number EPA/600/R-98/154 dated February 1999. There 
are a limited number of paper copies available from the above source, 
and requests will be filled on a first-come first-served basis. After 
the supply is exhausted, copies of the report can be purchased by 
contacting the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) at (703) 
605-6000, or by sending a facsimile to (703) 605-6900.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. Benjamin L. Blaney, National Risk 
Management Research Laboratory, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 
26 West Martin Luther King Drive, Cincinnati, Ohio 45268, telephone 
(513) 569-7852.

    Dated: March 16, 1999.
Calvin O. Lawrence,
Acting Director, National Risk Management Research Laboratory.
[FR Doc. 99-7086 Filed 3-22-99; 8:45 am]
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