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Appendix D: Relevant Findings and Recommendations From Previous Reports
Appendix D: Relevant Findings and Recommendations From Previous Reports
Pages 75-98
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. Recommendation: The committee recommends that the National Center for Environmental Re search, in concert with ORD's national laboratories, develop additional mechanisms to promote and facilitate research interactions among STAR grantees and ORD research staff (pp.
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. Recommendation: The committee recommends that ORD create the equivalent of endowed aca demic research chairs in the national laboratories (p.
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. Recommendation 1: To comply with PART, EPA and other agencies should only apply quantitative efficiency metrics to measure the process efficiency of research programs.
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Recommendation: EPA should increase its efforts to address issue evaluation and management in an integrated manner that recognizes the complexity of the world in which the problems occur. Finding: EPA has already begun to design a program to conduct integrated multidisciplinary research on complex environmental issues.
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. Recommendation: As more data from high-throughput assays and computer models become available, the NCCT should provide guidance on how to interpret this information in the context of more traditional testing and scientific examination so that risk assessment practitioners in the EPA program offices can apply these findings (p.
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. Recommendation: Establish performance metrics that track the development of tools and resources for informing chemical prioritization, toxicity testing, and risk assessment (p.
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6. ORD Strategic Research Directions and Integrated Transdisciplinary Research (EPASAB 2010)
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encourage systems approaches to research and, 2) support and provide leadership for integrated transdisciplinary research teams (pp.
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EPA Labs Management Process Recommendation: Develop an overarching issue-based planning process that reflects the collective goals, objectives, and priorities of the laboratories' scientific activities. Recommendation: Establish a top-level science official with the authority and responsibility to co ordinate, oversee, and make management decisions regarding major scientific activities throughout the agency, including the work of all program, regional, and ORD laboratories.
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. Extramural Research funded by EPA Recommendation: ORD should set defined goals to catalyze and complement environmental science programs outside EPA and seek BOSC review and assessment related to this topic every two years.
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. EPA Labs Ability to Meet Future Challenges Finding: ORD's involvement of stakeholders in EPA program and regional office and other federal partners in research planning provides a good mechanism to identify environmental issues and prior itize among them (p.
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The need for improving science integration is most acute in the regions and program offices on the front line for addressing environmental issues. Currently, the EPA does not have a single entity responsible for managing and strengthening the EPA's scientific workforce so that it functions as a resource for the agency as a whole (pp.7-8)
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11. Implementation of ORD Strategic Research Plans (EPASAB/BOSC 2012)
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EPA Labs Ability to Meet Future Challenges Recommendation: In future action plans, ORD should provide a comprehensive mapping of projects to goals, and not just provide examples [emphasis added]
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Recommendation: ORD should more explicitly map the long list of individual projects and project outputs in the Strategic Research Action Plans to strategic research themes and the overarching vision. Recommendation: The Strategic Research Action Plan should include a plan for energy research and indicate how this research will integrate with the plans for climate and air quality research.
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Recommendation: ORD leadership should elaborate a strategic vision that enhances linkages among the thematic areas of the HHRA and with the other research programs, particularly the CSS program, and that emphasizes the way that the HHRA program contributes to sustainability research. This vision will be needed for revising the HHRA strategic plan.
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29) Recommendation: ORD should include specific tasks and milestones in the SSWR Strategic Research Action Plan.
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The SAB and the BOSC recommend that the Strategic Research Action be edited to explain how each of these science questions will be answered given the research that will be undertaken. This task would help SHC bring its stated research objectives into sharper focus, especially in light of resource constraints.
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21-22) A clear and substantive mission, A critical mass of assigned work, A highly competent and dedicated workforce, An inspired, empowered, highly qualified leadership, State-of-the-art facilities and equipment, An effective two-way partnership with customers, A strong foundation in research, Management authority and flexibility, and A strong linkage to universities, industry, research institutes, and government organizations.
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Rethinking the Components, Coordination, and Management of US EPA Laboratories How much collaboration is there with outside organizations? How many staff exchanges are there?
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. Recommendation: The committee recommends that EPA substantially enhance the integration of systems thinking into its work and enhance its capacity to apply systems thinking to all aspects of how it approaches complex decisions (p.
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. Recommendation: The committee recommends that the EPA administrator continue to identify ways to substantially enhance the responsibilities of a person in an agency-wide science leadership position.
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2010. ORD Strategic Research Direc tions and Integrated Transdisciplinary Research.
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2012b. Science for Environmental Protection: The Road Ahead.
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