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A -- OCCURRENCE OF DRINKING WATER DISINFECTION BY-PRODUCTS SOL rfa9802 POC Annie Smith, 706-355-8030 E-MAIL: Click here to email the contact person, Smith-Annie@epamail.epa.gov. The Ecosystems Research Division of EPA's National Exposure Research Laboratory is planning to issue a Request for Application (RFA) for a competitive Cooperative Agreement (as authorized by the Federal Grant and Cooperative Agreement Act, as amended) to stimulate collaborative research to measure the occurrence of newly identified drinking water disinfection by-products and determine their fate and transport in the distribution system. Scientists at the Ecosystems Research Division, along with other scientists outside EPA, have identified drinking water disinfection by-products (DBPs) from a variety of different disinfectants, and there is currently little or no information on the concentrations of these DBPs, how often they occur, under which treatment conditions they occur, and whether they are stable in the distribution system. Most of these chemicals are not covered under EPA's Methods. The list of DBPs to be studied contains 49 chemicals, many of which give preliminary indication of possible adverse health effects, and therefore, may be important from an exposure standpoint. The successful applicant will have research credentials in drinking water research, with the ability to quantitatively measure chemicals not covered by a Standard Methods procedure. Formal evaluation criteria will be included in the final RFA. To receive a notification of the RFA release, please send an e-mail to rfa9802@epamail.epa.gov and provide the following information: Name, Organization/Institution, Address, City/State, Zip Code, Phone Number, and E-mail address. Information on this proposed RFA will also be available at the ERD-Athens Web Site (http://www.epa.gov/athens/rfa9802.htm). If you do not have access to the Internet, please submit your request along with five (5) self-addressed, self-adhesive mailing labels to the National Exposure Research Laboratory, Ecosystems Research Division, Attn: Mrs. Annie Smith, 960 College Station Road, Athens, GA 30605-2700. Requests that do not include the requested labels may not behonored. To help identify potential subcontractors, a list of all organizations requesting a copy of the solicitation will be sent with each solicitation document. By providing the list, ERD-Athens does not endorse the listed organizations as being capable of carrying out the activity, nor does ERD-Athens verify the claimed status of the organizations known prior to the issuance of the solicitation document. It is anticipated that the funding level will be $405,000 per year for 3 years, with a total funding level for this project not to exceed $1,215,000. The EPA intends to publish any edited, camera-ready proceedings documentation that may be generated. Authorization for this effort is the Safe Drinking Water Act and Amendments, Section 300j-l (b) (3) (c). Eligibility for this award is limited to NOT FOR PROFIT-MAKING ORGANIZATIONS only. Receipt of this RFA through INTERNET must be confirmed by written or faxed (706/355-8007) notification of the contact person noted above. It is the responsibility of the recipient of this solicitation document to ensure that it has been received from INTERNET in its entirety an ERD-Athens bears no responsibility for data errors resulting from transmission or conversion processes. The RFA will be issued NO EARLIER than fifteen (15) days from the date of publication of this notice. See Note 25. Additional Information about research conducted by NERL/ERD-Athens and sign-up information for electronic distribution of RFAs is available at http://www.epa.gov/athens/. Information about the USEPA Office of Research and Development Grants and Fellowship Programs is available at http://www.epa.gov/ncerqa/. (0071)

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